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Post by anzuhana on Oct 27, 2021 17:28:29 GMT -5
^ Perhaps the Pikes could be using points from their credit cards to pay for their vacation (they could earn points in their day to day lives and pay off their credit cards before interest strikes).
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Oct 28, 2021 9:54:47 GMT -5
All of this makes sense! My other theory is since the parents take a day trip to Atlantic City during Boy-Crazy Stacey, they're really good at gambling
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 23, 2021 23:05:01 GMT -5
Karen had $14.65 to buy Hannie and Nancy Christmas presents in Karen's Big Weekend. That equals roughly $27 in today's time, or around $13.50 each. That sounds cheap, but it's not a bad amount to buy a small Secret Santa type gift. She spent 50 cents on two I Heart NY pins and gave the rest to a bell ringing Santa, so it was a moot point anyway. But, it was a dollar amount that actually made some sense once I thought about it.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Dec 28, 2021 11:08:23 GMT -5
Karen had $14.65 to buy Hannie and Nancy Christmas presents in Karen's Big Weekend. That equals roughly $27 in today's time, or around $13.50 each. That sounds cheap, but it's not a bad amount to buy a small Secret Santa type gift. She spent 50 cents on two I Heart NY pins and gave the rest to a bell ringing Santa, so it was a moot point anyway. But, it was a dollar amount that actually made some sense once I thought about it. It did make sense that a 7-year-old would have that amount from allowance and stuff. And I think she finds a quarter on the sidewalk XD Too bad NYC is so expensive!
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 9, 2022 20:41:37 GMT -5
Karen's Secret Valentine had some money in it. Bill Korman's mom was going to pay him $2 to shovel their sidewalk. He lived in a mansion, they must have had a big yard and therefore lots of sidewalk. Bad deal, Bill.
Later they decided to sell tickets to their backyard skate show for $3 each. (Bill was doing hard manual labor for $1 less.) There were 10 kids in the skate group. They each paid $3 to buy refreshments for like 40 people. After all was said and done they each made $8.25. (Times 10, about $82 total.) 40x3=120 120-30=90 90/10=9 The math is close, give or take a few tickets.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 18, 2022 14:13:07 GMT -5
Karen's Big Sister. The class held a surprise baby shower for Ms. Colman. The class had 18 kids. "We decided that everyone in class who could afford it would donate five dollars by the end of the week to the party fund. The money in the fund would pay for decorations, plates, cups, napkins, and things like that." If all of the kids gave $5 then that was $90 for stuff that sells at dollar stores. (They also wanted everyone to bring their own gift, so it wasn't a gift pool, either. I wonder who pocketed the extra money.)
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 20, 2022 20:28:05 GMT -5
Karen's Cooking Contest. Nannie's prize for the first level contest (the local crowd) was a $50 gift certificate for Cocoa-Best Chocolate products. Her grand prize at the final regional competition was $3000 plus a $200 gift certificate for more Cocoa-Best products. Hey, if your prize is big enough that you have to pay taxes on it then it's a pretty good prize! (She also won "a gift certificate for you and your entire family to have dinner at the restaurant of your choice". What is that randomness and how does it work?)
The class charged $10 for the cookbooks.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 4, 2022 17:39:34 GMT -5
Karen's Lucky Penny is all about money. Some guy who had 7 kids and looked like Ty Pennington lost a wallet full of $800 cash. Karen found it and gave Nancy and Bobby $5 each as hush money. She later turned the wallet into the police station and got $100 reward from Ty.
Funland amusement park cost $40 for adults and $25 for kids under 12. This seems reasonable to me.
Karen told Andrew to door chores to earn Funland spending money. "Dust living room, 25 cents. Empty wastebaskets, 10 cents." Lisa paid him 50 cents to dust the room, so Karen decided that he didn't need her help anymore. He also charged 25 cents for lemonade.
Nancy and Bobby had a gardening business. They got paid $2 to pull weeds from the cracks of a neighbor's sidewalk, 50 cents to water a garden, and $4 (working for 2 hours) for pulling dandelions.
Karen spent almost $90 without realizing. She bought movie tickets and snacks for the Three Musketeers (that would be like half of the money these days), ice cream treats for all of her friends, lemonade for all of her friends, paid Nancy and Bobby for some yard work, and bought two bubble blower guns, dress up slippers, markers, glow in the dark bugs and dinosaur bones, stickers, an embroidery kit, and other "art supplies" at the toy store. She did quite well for herself, but she was very disappointed that she didn't have more "stuff" at the end.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 15, 2022 11:25:43 GMT -5
I'm doing Mary Anne and Camp BSC for my blog and one thing I noticed about this book when I originally did it for the snark community on LJ.
They're discussing what supplies to get for their summer camp. Claudia says art supplies and Logan suggests sports equipment. I get buying art supplies new but sports equipment? There's no way the BSC budget could pay for brand new stuff! Like, Logan and Kristy don't have some soccer balls and wiffle balls at home? Admittedly, I don't have the book so I can't check if they were talking about buying new stuff but I just feel like that's so wasteful.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 15, 2022 12:38:12 GMT -5
I would love for the BSC to go thrifting! You know how many weird crafty art supplies people get rid of? They could have asked kids to donate their sporting equipment for the event. Or would that be tacky? I don’t think kids would care, but maybe parents would.
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 16, 2022 10:36:12 GMT -5
They could have asked to borrow the equipment instead of keeping it. If the Pikes or whoever are all at the camp, their stuff would just be sitting at home not being used.
Camp BSC is the 86th book in the regular series, so I can't imagine how they don't already have leftover equipment from all the other events. I'm sure the Krushers equipment alone would have been enough. You only need one T-ball stand and four bases, no matter how many kids are playing per side.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 16, 2022 12:38:18 GMT -5
Oh, I meant just for the camp. I wouldn’t expect kids to give their stuff up permanently. Now I can imagine Kristy wanting donations to fill the kid kits, too. She’d be out curb diving at Stoneybrook’s spring clean up.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 16, 2022 12:42:49 GMT -5
Then they decided the camp would be circus-themed so they didn't need sports equipment after all LOL
Claudia doesn't have construction paper and crayons for the kids to draw with? Like it felt for all these activities they were always buying stuff new. There's no way they had the budget for that! I think when Ann wrote these books, she envisioned the prices for everything as they were when she was growing up in the 60s!
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Mar 24, 2022 8:48:44 GMT -5
There was a conversation earlier about inherited wealth and I was thinking of Kristy and the missing fortune. If Christina’s family were related to them, then Patrick had some inheritance. It would have been Patrick’s great grandpa assuming his parents/grandparents hadn’t squandered their money.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 24, 2022 10:24:46 GMT -5
There was a conversation earlier about inherited wealth and I was thinking of Kristy and the missing fortune. If Christina’s family were related to them, then Patrick had some inheritance. It would have been Patrick’s great grandpa assuming his parents/grandparents hadn’t squandered their money. That could have helped explain how the Thomases could afford a house in their early 20s with Patrick as a sportswriter and Elizabeth as a SAHM. Watson is totally Old Money too
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