Sunday, September 18, 2011

Car Wash for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Relay

AS posted before, we regularly wash our cars out on the driveway together with the kids (and neighbor friend Emma) in our swimsuits, so we can spray eachother. Well, I usually get the full load many times over, which is worth the laughter adn the help I get washing the cars! Well, on Wednesday, we were done, adn the kids were still full of energy, so I suggested to them to do a car wash. They were very excited, and started making a sign. We talked about how much they could ask, and then we discussed if they wanted to donate to a charity. They said they wanted to help my friend, who has had breast cancer, and is walking 60 miles next month in the Susan G. Komen 3-day walk for breast cancer, for which each participant has to raise (I believe) $2300! They did want to earn some money themselves too, so they decided to donate 50% of all the money to my friend. Their first customer was..... a police officer!!! Hahaha, we were all a little scared, so his car was superclean! :) They had a neighbor friend, and one more car, so by the time we were done, they had washed 5 cars (incl. ours) and raised $22 for my friend. They were very proud of themselves, earned some money, donated to charity, learned a little about advertising, how much money you can ask for certain services, how to add it all up, and how to take 50% for the donation. Not bad for a few hours work!

Here a picture of the girls w. the police car, it was just too funny to resist. (COMING)

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