Summer Update

The Moonjar Project has been an interesting one for my family. We just returned from a family vacation where it was the highlight of discussion. My parents have 15 grandchildren ranging from 25 to 6 months and all want a Moonjar - my sister wants one for the 6 month old to start early! My 25 year old nephew said how challenging it is to plan saving, sharing and spending. We all referred to the old "What I Learned in Kindergarten" referring to the basic things we learn stick with us forever. But, money and how to deal with it is not something that I ever learned in school and everyone agreed. We told everyone about our Vision Board that we list things that we want to accomplish including what we will do with our Moonjars. We told them about the Lacrosse sticks that we "had to have" but now that they are sitting in the garage untouched, maybe we realize that we didn't have to have them! We talk about what we could have done with that money from our Spend bank. We are matching the dollars that the kids put in their Save bank, so we are now talking about what impact we want to have with it. This is almost as hard as actually buying something! The Moonjar challenges us to not only to Save, but to be thoughtful about how we Spend and Share.