Amelia Cruz

A coffee mug or a book.

I think we have plenty.

So I'm drinking glitter right now?

Is that too expensive or too low? No.

Like individual, like, items?

The glitter's probably, like, two bucks. And then, like, the lemons are probably, like, three. Five, maybe.

Okay.

Or, like...

$2 each lemon, so the lemons all together would be four. Okay, so how many lemons are in there? And the glitter would be two, so that's six.

Wow.

Oh, okay. That made me scared. It's a flower.

Yeah, I did.

After I gave her the pogo stick, I'm like, let's buy another one. Like an easier one. Because there's like this one where you pull up something and then you like hold it up and then you bounce on it. Oh, it doesn't want to be before you. Yeah, and it squeaks. It's so annoying. Charles likes to do it. He's like, I do it all around the house. But it's hard to go down the stairs.

I'll think about it.

I've had different like, I don't know, like different things that I've regretted. Not like by buying something.

I don't think I need that much to like buy something.

Something that you need.

For now, yeah.

Yeah.

I'm pretty much 10, technically nine.

I can try.

I'm not a very good swimmer. Yes.

With floaties, yes. So they wouldn't.

Like dad.

I'd say yes.

They are a gift, yes.

Remember debt?

The bank or like your account. Yeah.

The government? No.

She's not wrong. It could.

Working. She's working. So she earns money so she can pay it to, like, you know. Put it in the bank.

There you go.

No, I don't think so.

Kind of. If I need one. If I need one, yeah.

In my room.

I have like a special little box that I have.

on the top of my shelf, so Charles, my little brother, can't get it.

No, he steals our, like, quins and steals our money. Yes, very much.

Uh, no, he does not deserve it.

He needs to work and earn his own money.

Gotta find another spot. Gotta find another spot. No, he doesn't.

Do y'all ever lose money? Not usually, unless I forget to put it somewhere.

Uh, like 200 bucks.

Sort of. It's like this show. It's called Mr. Beast Games. Oh, yeah, that. Yeah.

Uh, I forget. It was like 5,000. No, 5,000. No, $5 million. $5 million. Yeah, that's probably 5,100 I think if you spread out the zeros. Okay. Yeah. That's amazing.

If it's homeless people.

And like people who like need it the most. Kind of like donating toys or something that you don't use anymore for other kids who don't have that much stuff, you know what I mean?

Kind of makes me feel better sometimes. But like sometimes like I accidentally donate a toy. Like you could do that and like not want to.

I'll try.

A coffee mug or a book?

I think we have plenty. Okay.

Or like new clothes.

Yeah, I'd say.

Maybe like some new tools or like... Some bricks or something? No, no, no, like... Like a new, like, I don't know, like, like, wrench or, like, hammer.

Yeah, he does that a lot. So far he's been looking at, like, bird feeders or something.

Oh, yeah, he's into rocks. Or, like, doing a garden.

Probably. Like a bag of rocks.

Oh, Old Navy.

Yeah, that's a good point. Target's shopping there sometimes.

Normally you just order it online, like groceries and stuff. Like you never go to the store. Yeah, she never goes.

So lazy.

Kind of. Yeah.

She does that every morning, every Saturday. Instacart.

She orders it online.

Sometimes.

Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A.

Eight-count nugget. Yeah, eight-count nugget.

With like fruit. No, Caroline, you don't always eat. It depends how hungry I am.

No.

Eight.

Because it's an eight count meal, so eight dollars. Because there's eight nuggets.

Yes.

That's pretty good.

Either by earning it or like, yeah, normally by working.

Doing chores. I like doing chores. When Mom and Dad go out of town, I take care of June sometimes.

Taking care of June. I get $10 for that. Cleaning the whole playroom.

That's only like $5, Caroline.

I don't know. Mom doesn't always pay us for like doing, unloading the dishwashers.

No, it depends though. I'm serious.

Nope.

Yes. Part of the family.

Doing the dishwasher. I love doing that. It's actually kind of fun. I don't always like cleaning the playroom because it depends on how messy it is. I don't mind cleaning my room because I know where stuff goes. Let me say she loves doing the dishes. It's like mixed up and I'm like, does this go here? Yeah, you do.

Sure. You wouldn't do it for $10? No, I'd do it for $20. Because when I was a baby, Mom said she could do everything except dog poop.

Because I gag. You gagged at the fish when you were cooking.

I hate math.

Just throwing that out.

I don't want to do it. Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

I have no clue. He's just the funniest in the class. He doesn't deserve it.

That's what I mean.

I have no clue. Wait, can you say that again?

I do not do money. I'm learning decimals in school, so like, well, I just moved on from that.

A dollar. Well, no.

Sorry, four quarters is a dollar, but one quarter is 25 cents.

I'll go to mom, can I spend this on this?

Yeah. Dad's always like, why don't you save it for something? Like, why don't we like just save it for something that you need?

Yeah.

A car, like to put, I don't know. Why a car? We're so young. But, like, if you save and keep, like, saving, you might add up to, like, get a car. You're still little.

You're nine.

$15,100 million.

Maybe like half of me and then like half of like my parents or like a quarter of my parents.

Probably. I don't know.

I really don't know. I don't know the future.

Yeah. Or a gray van. Depends on how much it costs. Good girl. Any kind of van.

I love doing this. I want to do it every day now.