gofish Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 My wonderful Son who is a senior in High School. Yesterday he came to me and told he was tired of me wasting the grocery money and HE was going to take the grocery money this week and HE was going to get REAL groceries. OK. Challenge accepted.Good luck my son . Quote Link to comment
Annarchy Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Wow, you must really trust him. Quote Link to comment
Suncat Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Oh I would so do that.. ummm actually out of necessity.. my dd at 14.5 yrs did that. (I was in the hospital 2hrs away on bed rest with my last pregnancy). She did good. Maybe I should at least be taking my son (he wants to drive anyway) and having him deciding what to get (even if off the list of what we need). Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 So....does this include him MAKING the meals he's purchased ingredients for? MtRider Quote Link to comment
gofish Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yes I think he can cook the meals too. Grocery money is not going as far as it used to so I'll be very interested in what he thinks are REAL groceries are and how he is going to pay for everything he wants to get. I keep telling them that we can not afford meat as the main course at every meal anymore. This will give him a taste of being on his own, Quote Link to comment
The WE2's Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Is he volunteering to "make up the difference" at the cash register? LOL Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I can't wait for updates on this!! Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Seriously, it sounds like an excellent learning experience. A bit of homeschooling in economics and such! MtRider Quote Link to comment
kyles mom Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 My thoughts exactly - great real life learning experience! Quote Link to comment
sassenach Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Sounds like a good experience and I do not think he will do anything truly foolish if he made this kind of gesture. My son has enjoyed knowing a few things to cook and how to read and prepare stuff since he was a teen, and often cooked up decent dinners. He has expanded on that now with his wife and they both cook and clean and such in their household. He doesn't just depend on her to do it all, and really, she often has had much longer work hours consistently than he has had, so thats fair. My dad cooked too and we all grew up learning how to fix stuff. It is simply a life skill and it's fun to start learning new stuff and adding it to enrich menu's and such when we are on our own. I wish my parents had actually taught me to do more with budgeting before I was on my own and food shopping for a family is important , as part of the whole. I am glad he is showing initiative about it. I even taught DS, to do laundry, when he was 12. He just wouldn't fold it! ( The marines cured him of that though, lol.) Quote Link to comment
mommato3boys Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Oh I am so waiting for updates. This should be interesting. LOL Quote Link to comment
mommato3boys Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 When is grocery shopping day? Quote Link to comment
gofish Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Unfortunately my strep baby "Feels like butt" and doesn't look much better so the challenge will have to wait until next week. Quote Link to comment
Cat Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Awwww, I'm sorry. Give him a hug and tell him all of your friends here are waiting for his success... Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 AW! Is he feeling better? Quote Link to comment
gofish Posted November 2, 2014 Author Share Posted November 2, 2014 (edited) My son is now back to health, He is on fall break so he went out the help farmer friend Friday . 1st thing they did was pick up the grass feed beef from the processing place and then he had to help get the cows/ farm ready for winter. It was very windy cold and we had rain/snow Friday He came home frozen.Instead of farmer friend paying him he asked if they would give him some of the beef. Framer friend's wife was very generous and gave him about 10 lb of beef.Shopping went well, he got ingredients to make cookies, chicken Alfredo, pizza and some other things. Plus we have to save enough money to get brussel sprouts at the farmers market.He did well and didn't get a lot of convenience/junk food.I still thinks he need a few more shopping trips to get a feel of what real things cost and the price of stocking up for later. Edited November 2, 2014 by gofish Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 ...great on the beef! MtRider Quote Link to comment
mommato3boys Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Smart kid, barter work for fresh beef. Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Very good! Quote Link to comment
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