Tag Archive: saving

posted a blog on June 3, 2016
When The Toy is Too Expensive and The Kid is Too Young

Shortly after winter break I volunteered in my younger kid’s kindergarten classroom and overheard a classmate of his telling the friends around her and the teacher that she got a Hoverboard for Christmas. She’s six. The Hoverboard is $400. It is a toy that has had, literally, a number of flare-ups as the faulty battery...