roydan
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- Dec 17, 2013
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So, there's an activity in my older girl's (6 yo) kindergarten where they collect empty drink bottles for recycling.
It's a very common thing and it exists in most kindergartens around here.
It teaches kids about recycling, it's semi-competitive because the kid who brings the most gets a medal, and it raises some extra money because each empty bottle is worth the equivalent of 7-8 cents.
We started collecting bottles since the beginning of the year, and being the over-exaggerated, too-competitive and stupidly-obsessive person that I am, I don't allow anyone of our wider family to throw any bottle they have.
We collected about 360 bottles since september 1st, and I felt we have a good lead, so I asked the kindergarten teacher's assistant to a have a look at the scores.
Not only we weren't at the top, but the kid in the 1st place had more than 300 bottles more than we had. My daughter didn't care and nor did my wife, but it killed me knowing that that kid would get the medal and not my daughter.
So I went to another kindergarten and told them this:
You sell the bottles you collect, right? I'll buy them at 1 cent more than you sell it to the company that buys them. So I promised I'll buy the next batch they sell.
They were happy, I was happy, my kid didn't care and my wife looked at me with an expression that showed how much she regretted marrying me. but I had the bottles.
There was one little thing that I didn't know at the time that would change the scope of this idea: they can only sell their bottles every time they get to 1000.
How bad can it be? 1000 bottles can't be that much. 20 minutes and I'm done. The kindergartens are not that far from each other. I bought the bottles and started moving them from one kindergarten to the other.
2.5 hours later, I finished.
This is, by the way, how much space 1000 bottles take. More than I though, I must admit. My wife was right again.
It's a very common thing and it exists in most kindergartens around here.
It teaches kids about recycling, it's semi-competitive because the kid who brings the most gets a medal, and it raises some extra money because each empty bottle is worth the equivalent of 7-8 cents.
We started collecting bottles since the beginning of the year, and being the over-exaggerated, too-competitive and stupidly-obsessive person that I am, I don't allow anyone of our wider family to throw any bottle they have.
We collected about 360 bottles since september 1st, and I felt we have a good lead, so I asked the kindergarten teacher's assistant to a have a look at the scores.
Not only we weren't at the top, but the kid in the 1st place had more than 300 bottles more than we had. My daughter didn't care and nor did my wife, but it killed me knowing that that kid would get the medal and not my daughter.
So I went to another kindergarten and told them this:
You sell the bottles you collect, right? I'll buy them at 1 cent more than you sell it to the company that buys them. So I promised I'll buy the next batch they sell.
They were happy, I was happy, my kid didn't care and my wife looked at me with an expression that showed how much she regretted marrying me. but I had the bottles.
There was one little thing that I didn't know at the time that would change the scope of this idea: they can only sell their bottles every time they get to 1000.
How bad can it be? 1000 bottles can't be that much. 20 minutes and I'm done. The kindergartens are not that far from each other. I bought the bottles and started moving them from one kindergarten to the other.
2.5 hours later, I finished.
This is, by the way, how much space 1000 bottles take. More than I though, I must admit. My wife was right again.
