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How many times has this happened to you: you're in the check out line at the grocery with the kids, just tyring to get your food paid for so you can get home already, when the kids spot the rack of impulse buy stuff--you know the candy and gum and Hot Wheels cars and Pokemon cards. And they start begging for something, anything, come on PLEEEEEAAASE! And you say no and they keep whining and the woman in front of you is writing a check for her groceries and you're not sure you can stand it one more second.
Sound familiar?
Now imagine that you get everyone home and you unload the groceries and find . . . POKEMON CARDS! The ones you said you would not buy for the kids! What do you do then?
One mom, faced with that exact situation, auctioned the cards on eBay. She made $142.51, but that's not the best part. The BEST part is the story about how exactly the cards wound up in the shopping basket and why she's auctioning them and not her six kids.
Go. Read. Laugh. And remember the next time your kids toss a bunch of extra crap into your cart: there's always eBay.
Sound familiar?
Now imagine that you get everyone home and you unload the groceries and find . . . POKEMON CARDS! The ones you said you would not buy for the kids! What do you do then?
One mom, faced with that exact situation, auctioned the cards on eBay. She made $142.51, but that's not the best part. The BEST part is the story about how exactly the cards wound up in the shopping basket and why she's auctioning them and not her six kids.
Go. Read. Laugh. And remember the next time your kids toss a bunch of extra crap into your cart: there's always eBay.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
8-24-2007 @ 11:09AM
Marcia said...I don't see a link to the article.
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8-24-2007 @ 11:12AM
Anji said...I want to go and look but you haven't included a link... :o(
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8-24-2007 @ 11:13AM
Susan said...Thanks, you all--apparently I am rusty from my summer off. Link is in the post now.
(Off to check pending posts for proper linkage . . . )
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8-24-2007 @ 11:25AM
Amanda said...READERS...when you click on the link in susan's article it pops up a picture of the cards...scrollup to read the story. its a good one. this lady has an excellent story.
enjoy :)
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8-24-2007 @ 11:38AM
Anna V. said...That story brought tears and laughter! And I thought I had it bad with 3 kids! : )
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8-24-2007 @ 2:23PM
Gregory said...The auctioneer has a blog:
mom2my6pack.blogspot.com
She is pretty funny, and getting quite a bit of attention because of the auction.
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9-21-2007 @ 9:36AM
keeth101 said...Pokemon Huge Lot 100+ trading cards
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280151153634&sspagename=ADME:X:AAQ:CA:11
Wow, that’s really funny. A similar thing happened to me, expect I was shopping and my kids put this one box of pokemon cards and it had 100 cards in it. Ya I know, how did my kids get away with 100 cards, well I guess its because I was shopping for a family of 12, gradparents included. so I always spend more then 300 dollars at the store. Well if any body is also interested I am now selling these pokemon cards on ebay as punishment.
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