Joy has wanted to set up a shop of some sort for a while now. A few months ago she tried selling her drawings and some boxes of cereal in her room, but since no one knew the shop was there no one bought anything. I explained the importance of a good location, and when school let out last week she started making plans to sell things in front of our building. She even made a sign that read, "Joy's Shop."
This morning she decided that she wanted to sell an unused eraser left over from first grade. I dubiously wished her luck, and she went out front to set up shop. A few minutes later, Daniel came back in and requested 25 cents so HE could buy the eraser, but before he got back out front Joy sold it to one of the workers moving a neighbor's furniture. Flush with success, Joy came back inside to get more wares to peddle.
She gathered some unused pencils, sold Daniel two boxes of crayons for 30 cents each, then headed back out front. Before I knew it, she returned saying that an elderly couple wanted to buy a pencil, but they didn't have a quarter so they gave her a dollar for all four of them. Considering that she paid nothing for any of the things she sold, that's a profit margin of infinity. Not bad.
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