Thursday, June 12, 2014

Lemonade Stand Fun

This past weekend was the annual community garage sale.  In past years I have taken the few items I have to my in-laws house and added it to the sale she was having.  This year my mother-in-law was not doing it, so I decided to hold one on my own.

I didn't have that much stuff to sell, but figured it was worth it to put out anyways.  The boys thought it would be fun to run a lemonade stand, and then when we found out about the fundraiser for Lauren King, (she goes to their school) they wanted to donate the money from their stand to the fundraiser (proud mommy moment).

We were out bright and early Saturday morning to get everything set up.  I found some Lemonade Stand printables on Moms and Munchkins, and they also made their own sign using cardboard and crayons.

In addition to the lemonade that Mr. J made, Mr. K helped me make rice krispies squares and M&M cookies.

They charged $0.50 for a glass of lemonade and $0.25 each for the treats.  It was a long morning (they were outside with me setting up the sale around 630am) and it was really hot.  We had busy times and slow times (I had them asking every.single.person they saw on the street.  I event sent them up the street if there were people washing vehicles or cutting grass).

Many people paid with a loonie or twonie and told them to keep the change; we even had some pay with $10 and $20 and tell them to keep the change. Their hard work was worth it they raised $97.20 for the fundraiser, and we added in the extra to make it $100.00

I was so proud of my boys.  They were hot, they got bored at times and wanted to close up (which I told them was fine, it was their stand). Then they would get a burst of energy and decide to keep going.

After we had packed up, Mr. J and I biked over to the house of the family that organized the fundraiser to drop off the money.  He was so happy to hand over the bag of change/bills.

We finished off the day with a family water fight!

13 comments:

  1. Definitely a proud mommy moment - way to go boys! (Judy Cowan)

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  2. What an awesome sign! Looks like fun.

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    1. Thanks - they were quite proud of their hard work!

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  3. Great lesson for the boys - and I love that people overpaid!!! Way to go mama

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    1. It was so nice to see them WANTING to do it. I didn't make them, it was on their own!

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  4. That's so wonderful and thoughtful of your boys do donate the money to such a great cause! You must be so proud of them!! Way to go, boys!

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  5. as I child I can remember having a lemonade stand, we lived in the country so there wasn't any customers

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  6. It's wonderful that your boys wanted to help out and have a lemonade stand, they did an awesome job and made a lot of money to donate as well, way to go guys!!!!

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  7. WTG!! Our neighbours were always doing a Lemonade stand (or freshie..different flavours) . Not sure what they did with the money they collected, but they were having so much fun. Thank You for your story :)

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  8. Wow don't see a lot of lemonade stands anymore. Wonderfully done boys! They are so awesome for having a lemonade stand and raising money.

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  9. That's really impressive work! Good for them!

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