Just call her Ponzi

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About a month ago, M got a letter inviting her to join a “Sticker Club”.  Basically, stickers club is nothing but a glorified chain letter.  M was asked to send a Sticker Club invitation to six of her friends and to send one pack of stickers to the first person on the enclosed list of two names.   Then, M was supposed to add her name to the list.  When her six friends sent Sticker Club invitations to six friends, M would theoretically receive 36 packs of stickers in the mail.

When I saw the Sticker Club invitatation, I groaned.  But M loves, loves, LOVES mail, so I dutifully helped her copy the letter and send it to six friends (Whose parents were, I imagine, as unthrilled as I was to be invited.)  Before we sent out our six letters, I warned M that she was unlikely to receive 36 packs of stickers because the whole thing was such a hassle.

So far, M has received one pack of stickers.

While it might sound like that is a disappointing return on our efforts, M was thrilled.  The day she got them, she spend the day carrying them around, making plans about where exactly she would stick them and protecting them from L’s greedy little hands.

That evening, she was examining her stickers when she said: “Hey Mama!  We should start a money club!” 

I didn’t get what she was talking about, so I asked her to explain.

“You know, we send letters and ask people to send us DOLLARS instead of STICKERS! It would be amazing! I would be rich!”

I had to explain to her that someone already thought of Money Club and it is illegal.  

But good for her for taking some initiative to hustle for the dough. 

Maybe next week, she will re-invent Amway.