New TOYS for the BOYS

It all started last Sunday... August and Seth informed John and I that they were going to sell ALL of their *stuff* to buy Nintendo DS Lite's... now, what I mean by "stuff" is: their Gameboys, games, the XBOX, all the games and some of the Nintendo 64 games... Now DS Lite's are about $130 so they needed quite a bit of cash! Their first plan of action was -- to go trade in everything at Game Crazy and purchase used DS's (not the LITE's -- just the original versions...) Anyway... so we go to Game Crazy and they run into a few stumbling blocks... (I won't go into all the details -- just becasue I'm too lazy to type it all - LOL) but bottom line was they were only going to get $130 for EVERYTHING! Not enough $$ for what they were wanting to do.... SO....I spent the rest of the afternoon putting up several auctions on eBay. Who knew Mario games for a Nintendo 64 were soooooo popular?!! We had one lot that had Super Mario, Mario Kart & Mario Party 2 and it sold for (get this....) $61!!! All the auctions closed yesterday afternoon and within 2 hours we had been paid for all but 1 auction. Oh, I forgot to mention how much they ended up getting... they made $293.61! They were soooooo thrilled! It was enough for them both to get the newest DS versions (the LITES) and both get a game. So, when John got home they couldn't hardly wait to go get their new toys :) So even though they had to wait a few extra days to get the DS, it all ended better. Now... comes the FUN part - I've got to haul all 4 boys to the Post Office to mail all the goods! Wish me luck - LOL