Funny Story

So, the lego building around here is really on the upswing (and it is pretty intense to begin with) but Ethan got a Lego idea book  for Christmas and so he is on a lego mission. They were working on something today and were talking at lunch about all of the stuff they would build if they just had MORE legos! I was incredulous and Ethan said, "Mom, I know we have a lot of kits but not so many just regular legos to build new stuff". So I suggested they look for bulk legos for sale on ebay. Everyone scurried upstairs to see how much money that they  had in their "spend" container. I showed them how to search for bulk legos and then how to organize the results so that the cheapest came up first. Sure enough, there was an auction for 300 legos for $.99. They were so excited! So, I showed them how to make a bid. And then they would periodically check back and found out that they had been outbid. If I was a really, really effective mom, I would have kept my mouth shut and let them learn on their own but before I could help myself, I advised that they wait until tomorrow in the last few minutes of the auction and then bid to avoid driving up the price prematurely. Caleb understood that this would take patience but the other two did not understand waiting at all yet they decided to wait until tomorrow to increase their bid. After all of this, I went in their room and there is this HUGE pile of legos in the floor. And I said, "I thought you said you didn't have any legos to build with?" And one of them said, "They are just not the kind that we need..."
Hmmmm. I think the value may be in the economics of situation and not necessarily getting something that they NEED but it's their money. We'll see how it goes.....