Monday This week our Penny Wars at all the elementary started and it's off to a shaky start. I don't think Sugar Creek was really in it to win it because the teachers didn't even know that it was supposed to happen this week. Sugar Creek's principle emailed me today saying that they'd like to start next week. So that's a relief but now we're faced with a new problem; they want us to provide containers. Doesn't sound like much but when you need 35-40 plastic buckets, preferably for free, the pickings get slim. Tuesday The kids at NPE are finally getting more into the Penny Wars. We had a lot more money today than we did Monday. We made the signs better and put some flyers around for parents to read. Sugar Creek has agreed to start their Penny Wars next week and we're still thinking about ideas for buckets. Wednesday We drove out to Brandywine today just to check up and see how their Penny Wars were going. We hadn't really heard from them all week so I was expecting a situation like Sugar Creek but when we got there they had buckets lined up and they were very full. It took us almost an hour and a half to count all of them. Later that day, after school, we went over to count at NPE. It was a lot. Like stay there for almost two hours a lot. Our fingers had actually turned a blackish brownish color from handling so many coins. Half way through counting I found a coin sorter that counted everything for us and it was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. After that things went pretty quickly and NPE's principle let us take the coin sorter to use at Brandywine bless her heart. Also, Sugar Creek got back with us saying they could use the same buckets they use for Riley Hat Days for the Penny Wars. So that's another problem solved. Thursday Grace left early today, during her study hall, to go to Brandywine and count there. She's been there for almost an hour now and even with the coin counter it's taking a while. Brandywine is really going all out for this. Each of their buckets is fuller than most of the buckets have been at NPE. It might just seem like that because they have smaller buckets. I'm going after school to NPE to count and then we only have one more day. We really need to contact the trophy people because on Monday we'll be announcing the winners and that's also when Sugar Creek will start their Penny Wars. Hopefully NPE will let us use their counter. Fingers crossed. I went to Grace's after work because she was still counting pennies. We finally finished them a little after 10:30 which was crazy. It was our biggest day yet. NPE had a huge haul and so did Brandywine. Friday
This morning was rough. We had to try to carry these huge bins of pennies inside and up the stairs. We stopped a couple of guys and they ended up carrying them for us. Maybe chivalry isn't dead. We have the money from each school separate so we'll be able to know how much money each school raised. We're thinking about calling some of our local banks to see if they'll waive the fee of counting up the pennies since it is for a charity. We've been counting but we don't have exact amounts. We went after school and got the pennies from both Brandywine and NPE. Since it's their last day we're taking the jugs home to count and will have the winners. Some people from our class are volunteering to help count in order to get service hours. Next week Sugar Creek will start their penny wars and we'll be a little bit more prepared for it. Oh, and the trophy place? We still need to call them. Until next week...
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