Birthday Bliss - Real Mum story on MoM

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My eldest daughter just turned 11! She wanted a huge party with everyone from school invited but we just couldn’t afford it. We decided to give her $200 and told her whatever was left over after buying everything for the party she could keep. The only thing I bought was the cake. She cracked me up, quite quickly most of the kids were stripped from the list and she decided on a sleepover with 7 girls instead, she bought food, pool toys & things for games and ended up with $45 change and was very impressed with herself. Watching her shop for bargains was very funny and it gave her a good idea of how much things really cost!

Posted by beksmum, 23rd March 2015

15 Comments

- - mom165081 said
  - 25 Jan 2016
    3:58 am
Love the concept here – so many lessons simply taught – including deciding what is a want and problem solving. Thanks for sharing this fantastic idea.

- - mom113055 said
  - 17 Oct 2015
    12:45 pm
huge party with everyone love parties

- - Meghannn said
  - 29 Jun 2015
    11:59 am
I 100% agree with how you dealt with that.
What a great idea, sounds like she was even happy with the left over money at the end.
Great story!

- - mom57522 said
  - 11 Jun 2015
    10:29 pm
What an awesome idea! I love it!

- - mom113055 said
  - 13 Apr 2015
    12:48 pm
the story is exellent

- - smiles said
  - 08 Apr 2015
    12:41 pm
What a great idea and a great learning experience for her!

- - pakeko said
  - 31 Mar 2015
    5:26 pm
What a great idea and some great life lesson in it

- - cherz said
  - 28 Mar 2015
    9:09 pm
GREAT IDEA !!! Finance , budgeting, lifeskills ..wonderful ..thanx.

- - beksmum said
  - 24 Mar 2015
    11:43 pm
I actually read it on facebook and thought it would be a great idea, would definitely recommend it

- - mom94125 said
  - 24 Mar 2015
    5:05 pm
oh yeah that sounds like a really good idea! well done for coming up with that one!

- - mom93821 said
  - 24 Mar 2015
    1:25 pm
Good on you! A perfect opportunity in learning about finance and budgeting. Always good to start kids on financial literacy at a young age.

- - jenniw said
  - 24 Mar 2015
    11:43 am
What a great idea… kids just don’t realize how much things cost until they have to pay for it themselves.

- - BellaB said
  - 23 Mar 2015
    4:11 pm
This is a great idea actually – I might steal it when my kids are a bit bigger!

- - mom113712 said
  - 23 Mar 2015
    1:41 pm
that is a great way to get her involved well done to you. Knowing that she got to organise it as well and shop for it herself is fantastic would have been a great time for all of them.

- - mom90758 said
  - 23 Mar 2015
    1:22 pm
That’s a great idea. She now knows even better the value of money! To have a nice time you don’t need indeed much money. Well done! And happy birthday to your daughter!!