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When your 12 year old submits you an invoice…

08:50 pm on Jan 30th 2008 BethTN

When my 12 year old submitted me an invoice yesterday, I smiled cautiously and read his bill. It was a bill for chicken eggs that he had worked up on the computer billing me for the eggs his chickens had laid over the last week. I think I mentioned before that these boys were business minded. I mean really business minded!

5 dozen brown eggs are $2 a dozen for a total of $10. Not a bad deal for organic farm raised chicken eggs I think. The funny part is that at the bottom of the invoice it states:

Total due: $10.00

TERMS: 2 days

Thank You

I have until tomorrow. Good thing tomorrow is grocery shopping day where I focus on settling my debts and gathering the groceries for this next month.

Economics, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping, Boys, Chicken, Home Schooling

5 Responses to “When your 12 year old submits you an invoice…”

Candace Jan 31st 2008 at 07:24 am 1

Too funny!!! I love it!

BTW, thanks for the CVS tips!
Carmen Jan 31st 2008 at 12:44 pm 2

Very funny! I just read your post out loud to my husband and mom…our 10 year old (the chicken dude in our house) was listening. I hope he doesn’t get any ideas! : )

Hugs,
Carmen
Dene Jan 31st 2008 at 01:02 pm 3

Hi! I’m a new reader and love hearing about your farm life. My boys are fascinated and perhaps a wee bit jealous of your critters. I wish you were closer by, we’d love to have some farm-fresh eggs!
Vaughnshire Farm » Joel Salatin Would Be Proud Jan 31st 2008 at 10:18 pm 4

[…] Tonight, I paid my debt on 5 dozen chicken eggs to the 12 year old after he asked the question over supper, “Do I get to charge a late fee to someone that doesn’t pay their bills?” I got the hint. Remember he submitted me a bill for his chicken eggs 2 days ago! […]
BethTN Jan 31st 2008 at 10:29 pm 5

Debt paid in full to a very happy chicken farmer

Dene—in time…we spent many years longing for critters and land to take dominion over. Now we long for many of those critters to get lost in the woods or eaten by something — the annoying, useless, unproductive, inexpensive ones of course.

We have a special attachment to those critters that are working for us and those we have paid money for — its the roosters and the prolific barn cats that we are about to downsize.