I'd like to take just a quick minute to remind everyone that if you have elderly or home-bound neighbors to please, at minimum, check in on them. See if they need anything. Shovel a walk or steps. It doesn't take much time and can be a true life-saver to them.
Hubby and my 9 year old went out last night and cleared the sidewalks and steps (we live on a hill) and as always they did the neighbor ladies as well. they are 87 and 62 and neither one of them has any business using a snow shovel. It only take a few minutes.
There's my PSA for the day!
We are behind because of finishing up the semester so we are working really hard to get things in order to get the tree up. My son found some change on the floor under a side table. He knows that "found money goes in Fred" so he put it there.
This is "Fred"
Fred is a circa 1970's ish piggy bank. I have absolutely no idea where it came from buy my kids have had it since my oldest (now 26) was little. Fred's been around a while! LOL
So found money...if I find money in the washer and it's under $20, I put it in Fred. I know a lot of people who do the laundry keep it for themselves but this is an old habit from when we were really poor! Any found money around the house is put in Fred too. If you put it all in one place, you'd be amazed at how much loose change you find in a year. In the past, we would wait until vacation time and count what was in Fred and we'd figure out what we could do for vacation on the amount of money that was in Fred.
Now that things are a little easier and we can do real vacations, we still put money in Fred. Now though, we wait until vacation planning and see what is in Fred. We let the kids decide on what we are going to do with that money while we are on vacation. One year, they decided that on our way home from camping in the Smokey Mountains that we would stop at Santa Claus Land. I know, I know, it's called Holiday World now but to me, it will ALWAYS be Santa Claus Land. There was enough money in Fred to pay entrance for everyone and to have snacks and meals in the park and buy a couple of souvenirs. That's a LOT of lost dimes and quarters!
So find yourself a fun and quirky bank, the cheesier the better, and put it somewhere out of the way but yet somewhere where you can see it. That way it is a reminder to put found money in it. Then when your vacation plans are made, see what's in there and find something fun and frivolous to do with it! My kids love Googling the area we are going too and finding something fun to do there or on the way there. It's an adventure! We've had some really fun times doing this.
Oh and please remember, check on your neighbors!
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