This is the classic example. Last night we opened the "store" for the boys to purchase something from the prize box. They had all done well earning tickets for the week and each had enough to buy a $1 toy. All of them wanted to buy these faux Power Rangers. I stupidly had only bought 2 of them instead of 3, but that is another story. Within half a day one leg had broken off of 2 out of the 3 Power Rangers. A design flaw perhaps? No, just cheap as you can get. I think these toys were literally falling apart as they were taking them out of the box. So I spent a half an hour trying to fix the stupid legs. They were of course disappointed that the toy they spent their hard earned tickets on was a piece of crap. The only way I could figure out how to fix the legs was to wrap a rubber band around them. Plus, the sword surprisingly wouldn't stay in the hand, so Bennett had taped it in place.
I guess the upside of it all is that I talked to Taylor about the concept of delayed gratification. You save up more tickets = you get something nicer. I think it pretty much went over his head, but I'm just trying to plant the seed at this point.
2 comments:
Yes, those same little men we had at our house from a primary teacher. Not sure what they had to do with church... but we did have the same outcome.
Yep, I have had the same experience with dollar store items. You just can't get much with a dollar anymore.
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