Mom puts kids’ Pokemon cards on eBay; finds fame
Imagine you have to go grocery shopping and you have six young children at home. You have to take them with you and the resulting trip is about what you would imagine it would be. You survive the trip, however, and pay the enormous shopping bill only to get home and realize the kids had snuck a purchase into your card that you were unaware of. What would you do? Most parents would confiscate the offending purchase, throw it away, give it away, or sell it at a garage sale. Well, in this day and age, eBay is basically just a giant garage sale so that is what what one desperate mom did.
It sounds like your normal “kids will be kids” sort of story, but the best part is her description of the shopping trip. This woman can write and her account of exactly why she missed these cards going into her cart is what makes this auction so fun and so worthy of the scads of attention it has received over the last week.
She made $142.51 on the auction, but admits that it was her friend under an anonymous username that placed the winning bid. Her friend wanted to help her out, apparently and invest in someone who she thought would be a successful writer one day. According to the woman who placed the auction in the first place, she will not cash the check her friend sent her because she doesn’t want to take her friend’s money. Very kind, I’m sure, but with six kids I’d think that money would come in VERY handy!
This gal has a blog too, of course. If you’d like to check it out, you can find it at mom2my6pack.blogspot.com. There she talks more about her family and recently, more about the auction that has launched her into super-blog-stardom. She really is worth a read so go check her out!
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