Previous savings – $1 dollar and 25 cents
Vacuuming the living room rug – 25 cents
Scrubbing down the back door – 50 cents
Doing a load of laundry (start to finish) – 2 dollars
Putting away all the dishes – 1 dollar
Hosing down the back windows – 25 cents
Dusting the baseboards – 50 cents
Clearing fridge of artwork and other miscellany – 25 cents
Cleaning up the whole den (even though most of it was your brother’s mess) – 50 cents
Watering the garden – 25 cents
Buying your very own fish and food with your very own money –
Bloggityville, meet Sparky … and Ghosty (He looks vaguely like a stain on that bit o’ white near the bottom and he’s a ghost shrimp …. which explains why he’s so hard to see and explains why he’s called “Ghosty”. We are nothing if not creative around here.)
Awesome!
My sister had a fish named Silky once because she thought he looked, um, silky.
Cool! May Sparky and Ghosty enjoy a long and healthy life.
Yay for Sister!
As for pet names – my cousin had a gerbil named Snowball. He got out of his cage an took up residence in the furnace ductwork. Then, it got colder. I’ll never forget my uncle saying, “Guess we shoulda called him Fireball, eh?”
I’m not sure why I shared that, but there you go.