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My stepson just turned 10 and we have been trying to instill some work ethic in him as well as get him some of his own spending money so that he can learn the power of the dollar and hopefully how to manage it. In the past we had just bought things for him and asked him to do things for us around the house as kind of a general good will for us buying him things.

Recently that all changed has we gave him a defined list of jobs/chores that he is to do if he is to get paid. When he completes those chores for the week he gets a defined amount of money at the end of the week. We haven't been doing it very long but so far it hasn't gone quite as we would have liked.

The thing we didn't quite anticipate was this:

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Pokemon cards! So far much of his money has been spent on Pokemon cards, which isn't the worst thing in the world per-say...

Things escalated a bit as we went to Walmart yesterday to do our grocery shopping though. He asked if he could go look at the Pokemon cards when we were just about done shopping. We said "sure", knowing that he wouldn't be too far away. However, we were a bit surprised by what we saw when we approached.

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We found our stepson camped out on the middle of the aisle with Pokemon cards in his lap and a big grin on his face.

You know you are addicted when you need to sit down in the store aisle in order to get your full "fix" in... ;)

Live well my friends!

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