*E*P*P*S*: ICE COLD LEMONADE

Monday, June 16, 2008

ICE COLD LEMONADE

Tika, Carsun & the Naylor Girls all decided to set up a Lemonade Stand today. The "big" girls wanted to sell lemonade and the "little" girls decided to be different and sell fruit punch. We got big plastic cups, tables chairs & ice and what do you know...they were in business!

The little girls set up their fruit punch stand at the end of our cul-de-sac and immediately the neighborhood kids came running with quarters in hand. The big girls set up on the sidewalk behind our house on the corner to the subdivision. We were hoping that ny splitting them up they'd each get some business.

Tika & Alyssa were hilarious. They'd shout "LEMONADE!!" as the cars went zooming past. I told them if the business started to slow they could change their slogan to, "COLD Lemonade from HOT babes!" They were not impressed by my creativity! Who knows...It might have worked!

After selling the cold cupfuls for 50 cents (about an hour) The girls lowered their price and sold it for a quarter a cup. Business did pick up a bit!

Carsy and Meg were bored after about an hour and reduced their price to 10 cents a cup to try to get "more paying customers". What do you know, a couple of yard maintenance guys came up and bought 2 cups for $3.00! Wowza!! They were so proud of that, they up & quit...just like that! As you can tell by Carsy's expression, I waited too long to take the picture. She was "done" by this point!

All in all I think it was a good experience for all of them and who knows...we might be crazy enough to do it another time this summer!! Funny thing about it...Each of them took home $4.50 - not too bad for their first time!

1 comment:

Jenny said...: I could use a drink right now actually. My boys want to sell ice cream to the people in the park or otter pops. I love these little business men/women.; June 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM

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