Well, you really should be counting all that stuff. Trading is just another way of paying for stuff. It’s totally legal. In the olden days when there were pirates and Vikings and stuff, that’s exactly how people bought things. If you wanted to buy a hat and you didn’t have any money, you would trade something else, like an electric eel or a box of gunpowder, stuff like that. So if you count up what we REALLY made from our sugar-free, lemon-free lemonade stand, it’s actually heaps:
3 dollars
1 large ball of glue-tack
4 sparkle hairclips
2 yoghurt squeezies
5 ants (I think they got away)
1 real cocoon (probably containing a giant spotted moth)
6 marbles
1 coffee cup with eyes drawn on it
2 really good sticks
3 cute erasers in the shape of cupcakes
So if you don’t think that’s a success, then you don’t know what success is! This is literally the first time I’ve been happy since the ghost was imprisoned!
Yours successfully,
Captain Jimmy Cook