Gary, that is quite neat there what you do
It reminded of my mother telling us back in the day. the 30's, that when her mother went to work and she had the job of cleaning, Granny placed pennies in strategic places to make sure my mother did not miss anything.
The only problem with that is she made my mother HATE cleaning because if my mother did not find all the pennies she got an ass whipping. My Great Grandmother sort of confirmed that.
How much better to have made a fun game out of it where my mother got to keep the pennies that were hidden and see how much she could have saved up for something to buy.
Back in the day, many times they used negative motivation. Not bad sometimes, but not so good others.
In those days though, life was real hard because of the depression, so they lived in fear all the time about where the next nickel would come from to put food on the table. My parents grew up in the City of New York
My Dad from Brooklyn and my mother from Maspeth. My dad many times talked about the bread lines.
My granny was a book binder and Grandpa worked in a bar.
Hard times. Young folks today cannot relate to that because they do not have parents who were taught to make everything you have into something you could use, people made everything stretch and put to good use.
When my Dad and my Uncle were teaching us to clean, they always gave the reward for good work. If anything needed to be done over again, you had the opportunity to work at it to get it right and then still got the reward for work first, play second. They were both military fellas.
Your story just reminded me of that. It was a good one Gary.
Hard times teach you actually to strive, think, create just to name a few.
I know this is off subject somewhat, but your story brought back those memories "Of the good ole Days" Which some of them actually were.
