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Zig Ziglar is apparently fifth grade curriculum these days. Yet another school year begins with the female child bringing home a catalog of useless/overpriced items. Her heart has been set upon the glory of taking home the biggest prize and warding off the effects of a stale economy that is attacking her school's media department. REDEMPTION!!! I can order a subscription of Time magazine! Not so bad after all. But she requires so many other items to be purchased and this is the only one I can purchase in good conscience.

This leads to a heart to heart. She really, like super, really wants to earn enough points for a gift certificate. After much probing the gift certificate is worth only ten dollars. To win that elusive prize I would have to spend in excess of one hundred dollars. She receives my watered down lecture on cost/benefit analysis. We both decide that she would rather clean the garage for twenty dollars and forget the rest of the fund raising stuff for this week, for this round.