A local pest control company was hiring flyer runners and we jumped at the chance! It wasn't difficult work, unless you consider trying to motivate 8 kids to walk 2.5 miles for every 100 flyers--but at $10/hour/person we really couldn't walk away from the chance.
So I ripped countless layers of skin off my fingertips as I taped thousands of flyers together--just to make it easier for the little kids to deliver them. We got up early in the morning so we'd have the rest of the day to play and do 'summer stuff'. And every two weeks we'd deposit a nice check into our Australia account.
By the end of flyer season 2013, we'd collectively walked half way to Australia. We're also within 2 months of reaching our $10,000 goal!
We started walking again last week and we'll keep walking up until 2 weeks before we leave.
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| X1 and X2 stopped at a yard sale and found these great costumes for .50 each. They didn't have any money with them, but π2 did. They thank him every time they wear them! Running flyers with/as Darth Vader and a Storm Trooper is infinitely more exciting than running them as normal kids. |
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| X1 handing the flyer to the owner of the house. |
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| Even i got in on the action. He LOVES running flyers. |
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| To say flyers aren't X2's favorite things in the world would be grossly understating the facts. This morning he was feeling particularly fragile so he told me he needed his 'car jedi' to help him run. |
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| For me there's nothing cuter than watching 3 year old i earn money for his exciting trip. |
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| Flyers are boring! So to spruce it up, we had a competition to see what we could do to make it more fun. X2's 'flyer beard' was a big hit! |
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