Craft Budget

I am working the Lone Star Girl hard this summer.  She has a lot of activities of her own to do, but I am also making her help me a whole lot with her sister and the house.  The plethora of Girl Scout things she is doing will probably prevent anyone from actually wanting to hire her to do anything - few jobs that teens can get want you to be gone every weekend and most of July, especially when you are a lifeguard - so she has no real money of her own.  She is very involved in making some really Large (think, the size of your bathroom and the height of an eight-year-old) art projects, some of which she is trying to get into galleries and shows.  And paint and such does cost money.  I decided to give her a summer craft budget of $50 on a gift card to Michael's, her favorite craft store for painting stuff.  Fifty dollars is not much for the amount of work I am asking her to do at home, but it is a lot for us to spare right now.  She will need more cash when she goes to Chicago this summer and for various swimming things, school things and school clothes and stuff so it is not all she is getting for all her work at home - but it is all of the craft portion.

I like the way giving it all to her and making her work out how to spend it with the knowledge that she would not be getting more craft money until her birthday is working, though.  She really stressed over the paint she needed but she found the best deal.

I may do the same sort of thing for school clothes and supplies this year.  Maybe.