They excitedly put up a table, made a sign, and stirred up some Kool-Aid, only to realize that they didn't have paper cups. So, Joseph got creative and in one of our art books he found instructions on how to make origami paper cups. He made himself a cup out of printer paper and tested it out. He calculated that the cup could last about thirty seconds before it soaked through and started leaking. The boys got to work and made about 15 paper cups.
They were going to charge 25 cents, but Uncle Jeff told them it's better to let people pick their price, because some people will pay a lot more. Luckily they followed Jeff's advice. The few customers they had on our "not so busy" street paid about a dollar each and they made $5 on Thursday. I occasionally looked out the window and heard them tell the customers that they had to drink fast so it wouldn't leak. The customers looked warily down at the paper cups as the kids poured in the Kool-Aid and it was hilarious to see them chug it down as fast as they could.
The next day, Uncle Jeff came over and gave them some good business tips. He set them up in a safe place on the street around the corner that gets more traffic. He bought some real disposable cups for them to use and bought them some more Kool-Aid. He also made box signs for two of the kids to wear to catch the attention of cars driving buy.
Here are the results:
Cost of 5 gallons of Kool-Aid and paper cups: $3.00
Amount of money the boys earned on Friday: $62.00
Austin wearing a box and yelling "Kool-Aid--Pick Your Price!": Priceless!
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If we were in the neighborhood, we would have stopped. It sounds like I should go into the Koo-Aid business.
I personally HATE cool aid, but would have stopped for them. How can you resist?! How cute. Let me know when they do it again. My kids would love to come by.
Way to go boys!! Taking after grandpa in entrepreneurship I see.
One of the girls in my bunco group wasn't allowed to sell lemonade as a kid because her mom didn't want to raise capitalists. She had to be a humanitarian and give it away for free. I think its great that the kids figured out how to do both by letting people pay what they could afford.
Wow!! that is pretty amazing.
WE are staring our fun journey home today. We should be back in town on Sunday night.
Just thought I would let you know so we can set up our VT appointment.
OH MY! I NEVER made that much money from our lemonade/kool-aid stands growning up!!! :) What a great uncle they have to help!
I love my nephews! What did they decided to do with the money?
Lauren, they actually decided to give it to a family that lives on our street. They have a little boy Austin's age that is battling cancer.
wow that is awesome!!! I think we need to do a kool aide stand.
Those guys made more than we did at our garage sale! Send them our way, we could use some extra bucks. :) Congrats on having some fine business men on your hands.
62 bucks! WHoa! I think I am going to set up a stand! haha!
Who Knew $2. and cuteness would buy you 62 smackaroonEz!! Tell me what stuff they buy. LOL.
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