What would you do with $7,500? Probably something pretty stinkin’ cool, right? Take a vacation, maybe? Buy a new car? Well guess what I did with $7,500 today? Yep, I said ‘today’… I spent that much in one day. And it wasn’t on a car or a vacation. It was on braces. BOTH the boys needed braces at the same time – lucky me. I know that in a year-and-a-half, their perfect teeth will be worth the small fortune it cost to make them that way. But for now, I need to not think about the numerous other things that $7,500 could be spent on. Like what, you want to know? Well, let’s see… $7,500 could buy:
– 11 55” LED HD TVs
– 15 round-trip plane tickets from Charleston, SC to St. Croix, USVI
– 37.5 Xbox 360s
– 62 24” bicycles
– 83 pairs of Nike Free Run sneakers
– 833 movie tickets
– 937 months of unlimited movies on Netflix
– 1,875 Double Chocolaty Chip Frappucchinos from Starbucks
– 5,000 bottles of 20 oz. Coke
– 30,000 packs of Juicy Fruit
Or… $7,500 could buy 2 kids braces. I chose to go with that option. Please remind me that my kids having amazingly perfect teeth someday will make me happier than any trip to St. Croix or 1,875 Starbucks Frappucchinos. Mmm… Starbucks. Oh wait. I’m getting sidetracked. Yes, these braces will make us all happy, and they’re the best thing I could have spent $7,500 on. Right? [Confirmation, please.]
April 1st, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Been there done that… yes! Worth it! 🙂
April 8th, 2013 at 8:48 am
Thank you thank you thank you for your words of encouragement!!!
April 1st, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Cute kids!!!
April 8th, 2013 at 8:49 am
Thank you!! 🙂
April 5th, 2013 at 8:36 am
I have four kids. Three braces done. I keep telling the fourth I love her quirky teeth!! Its not working!
April 8th, 2013 at 8:50 am
Haha! When I read this, I laughed out loud! I can imagine her “What the heck, Mom?!” face when you try to jip her out of her braces! Lol! Three with them already? You, my dear, are a saint!
April 9th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Glad my mom did the same!
April 10th, 2013 at 8:50 am
Good! So maybe one day they’ll be thankful and realize how awesome their mom was?! 😉
April 16th, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Wow, that blows! My wife’s cousin is an orthodontist so we got a “discount” on number one’s braces. Were we to have to pay that kind of jack, they’d all be snaggletoothed!
April 16th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Yeah – It was tempting. I won’t lie.