Lesson to Sell

I and my husband agree, we have to teach the children not only how to spend money efficiently but also how to earn money. In 1999 when my daughter Lia collected many kinds of letter paper (a piece of paper where the letter used to be written on), she insisted me more often to buy her many sets of letter paper. Knew this, her daddy suggested, ‘There are 12 to 30 pieces of paper in each set, and you just keep one piece in every set as your collection. So what are you going to do with the other pieces? Why don’t you exchange them with your friends’s collection? So you don’t have to buy new sets to add your collection, dear’. Lia said, ‘I did, daddy, but sometimes my friends didn’t want their collection to be exchanged’. ‘So why don’t you sell the other pieces to your friend? Maybe your friends don’t want to exchange their collection because like you, in each type of paper they just keep one piece. Exchange the collection means that they don’t add their collection. If you sell the rest of the paper to them they can add their collection without losing one. Try to sell dear’. Lia, was 8, said, ‘OK daddy, I’ll try’. A few days later she reported to her daddy. ‘Look daddy, I got 9200 rupiahs. In average I sold each piece of paper 250 rupiahs, if the type is my favourite I sold it 500 rupiahs. And when Regita said this one is very pretty, I raised the price for her, any price won’t be a problem for her. But daddy, you know Rully, everyday she brings only 250 rupiahs to school. So I sold 6 pieces of paper for only 100 rupiahs. I said thye’re a gift but she insisted to pay 100 rupiahs’. I and my husband smiled. My husband huged her, ‘Very good dear, mommy gives you only 1000 rupiahs each day, and in a few days you can collect 9200 rupiahs. That’s very good. Now you’ve learnt how to earn money. You also have to learn how to spend them efficiently. Keep selling dear….’