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Each summer, my kids go to the trading post at Thanksgiving Point.  They usually just find some rock or dead bug to trade that is outside of the post.  But this year, they were actually prepared with some crystals and shells.
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So for some reason, instead of trading for something cool, like an arrowhead, or a geode…Scout wanted to wipe them out of every pencil they had.
So 100 pencils later….Scout felt like it was a fair trade!
Uh…I didn’t.  I felt like a fair trade would be for the trading post people to take the crystals and shells…and send him out because he was too old.  But Scout worked the system…and got every pencil we will need for many school years to come.