Charlie’s “Emergency” Dollar

I have to share…

When I bought Charlie’s backpack for school this year, it came with this nifty wallet too. He asked me if I had a dollar so he could keep it in it. I told him if I gave him a dollar he would have to keep it in there all the time and use it only for emergencies. So, he has done very well with this. Every so often he reminds me and shows me he still has his emergency dollar. I told him what kind of things would be an emergency use for his dollar when I gave it to him but that was months ago already so I don’t remember and I have a feeling he doesn’t either, LOL.

Well, he received $15 in birthday money and wanted to put it in his wallet too. I promised to take him shopping with his $15. He found something he wanted to spend it on and it turned out he was short a little as the total was $16.73. So, Charlie tells the clerk that he can’t use his “emergency” dollar and he looked at his dad as to what he should do and dad offers him the extra money so he can keep his “emergency” dollar. I thought that maybe this would have been one of those “emergency” times but the dollar was still not enough anyway but I thought it was funny how he told the clerk he couldn’t spend his emergency dollar. I guess mom and dad should have helped him better with the total on the item he wanted to buy but they had a sale price on it and we thought it was within his budget but apparently it wasn’t.

I have to give him credit for hanging on to that emergency dollar. It is still in his wallet today…