by
Nathaniel
nce upon a time there was a child named Sam who really wanted to get a bike for his birthday. He really wanted it, but his family was too poor to afford any presents worthy of a birthday gift. So six weeks before his tenth birthday, he was walking to school trying to think of ways that he could get the money for his present. Suddenly it hit him. He would set up a lemonade stand at school on hot days and sell lemonade to the kids.Sam was very lucky, since his birthday was in early June and the children would be very thirsty. The only problem was that the snack bar was already selling lemonade at a very low price, so the only way he make any money was to sell lemonade at an even lower price to compete with the snack bar.
Sam set the stand up, but nobody came. He waited for hours and hours, spending his recess time at his little stand. He knew his stand needed something to attract customers. He thought of everything, and finally he decided to spend even more of his time to create posters to put up on the school walls. It worked. Sam's advertising attracted most of the school, and by the end of the day, he sold 100 cups of lemonade and made $10.00, charging 10 cents per cup.
He said, "This might work, for I my bike is only $100.00." He did this for the next five days, until he had $50 dollars.
He had vigorously worked for his head off for these six days, and he took a break the next week. But then he remembered that he was spending some of his money just to buy the lemonade products and the disposable cups. He also spent some of his money on posters. After accounting for all of his revenues, he found out that he only had made $20.00. Then Sam started charging more admission for his lemonade. He needed to make money quicker, now that his birthday was only a couple weeks away, so he now charged 50 cents for each cup. He could charge more now for his lemonade, for the snack bar had stopped selling it because of Sam's low prices had attracted all of the school and the snack bar ran out of buisness in the drink category.
After four more weeks of pure hard work for Sam, he finally made enough for his bike, and got the bike that he wanted so badly for his birthday after all, and he lived happily ever after.
The End
Story by: Nathaniel, age 9
