Comments on: Kerrying On: My Two-Bits' Worth https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Renato S. https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1206 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:31:46 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1206 I think that the funny thing about “cobblestone” is that it sounds like “có bostão”. “Có” has no meaning it just sounds like that, but the “bblestone” part sounds like “bostão”, which means “big crap”, that could explain why the children found it so funny.

]]> By: sufia https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1205 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:50:38 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1205 To me , the story means people have different frame of references and the same thing can mean something different to different people..

We would be more comfortable if we accepted that and enjoyed the diversity rather than lable people who are different from us. Mr. Kerry, an 8 year old boy who works out the cost/benfit is sure to be mindful of opportunities to earn and wise in spending. the only thing he needs is to tap into the 6 sources of influence.

This story also opens another big doorway.. we love and enjoy different things… so the joy does not reside in any particular thing but in us.. what value we attach it to..the core of [LOVE WHAT YOU HATE]

… How much your mom must have loved you..to cherish that little note. Thank you for sharing the story Mr Kerry.

]]> By: Anne https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1204 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:19:30 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1204 Hi Kerry:
Knowing you are a fellow Seattle-ite, I tried to recall if you got the “Beefy” at Dag’s or Herfy’s on Rainier Avenue! Do you recall getting the $5 Christmas trees at Chubby & Tubby’s?!! Not to mention the Ked’s tennis shoes they had, although they were out of most of our range…

]]> By: Rocco https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1203 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:22:44 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1203 your story about the quarter struck a cord. I received $1.00 per week to ride the bus to school (ten cents each way) and 50 cents a week for a soda at lunch. I hitchhiked and drank water and thus could save $1.50 per week. this i used for Christmas presents and the Saturday night dance (75 cents).This was in the sixties. So like you I understood early the value of a quarter and to this day i will pick up a penny on the street. there were no cerdit cards so you only spent what you could pay cash for. Maybe in some ways this recesssion will help restore those values.

]]> By: Lou https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1202 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:51:29 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1202 My Grandpa McNeilly told me how he had once asked his father for some money one December to take out this pretty girl and Great-grandpa gave him 50 cents. Grandpa was upset and insulted. He decided to go through all of the farm’s records for the entire year to see how much money there was and so he could see “What kind of man my father really was”.

After several hours of looking at receipts and records he finally determined how much income there was . . . 50 cents. Grandpa turned to me with a crack in his voice and said “I found out what kind of man my Dad really was and had my first date with your Grandmother because of it”.

]]> By: CCARSON https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1201 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:28:37 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1201 Fun, inspiring article! Having lived in Brazil for four years I can relate to your story. Thanks for the wonderful insight.

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]]> By: jenith https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1199 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:58:23 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1199 Kerry–

Delightfully enlightening!

]]> By: Terri https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1198 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:16:51 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1198 Love your heart warming story. I will enjoy sharing your story with my family and friends. This story gives the new meaning to being humble at any age and always carry a quarter to give to someone that might need one. I admire your unselfishness and overwhelming kindness to your mother by giving up your meals to purchase earrings for her birthday. Please put me on the list when your new book is published, it would be an honor to read more. Thank you for being you.

]]> By: Mark Kline https://cruciallearning.com/blog/kerrying-on-my-two-bits-worth/#comment-1197 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:04:09 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=773#comment-1197 Kerry

I thoroughly enjoyed your article “My Two-bits worth”. Having grown up on hand-me-downs, the Salvation Army, and yes, Food Stamps, I too understand the value of a quarter. I had three paper routes as a boy to pay for my first pair of new jeans, Wranglers! I lament some now that my sons haven’t yet learned this and teaching them in the age of affluence is rather difficult.
I am printing your article to share with my sons, hoping that they will at least have the seeds planted that all is not the same for everyone.
Thank you for this opportunity and the trip down memory lane.

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