My E-bay sales are not going well at all. I have one watch on the Reds wallpaper border, and that's about it. And I think I have created a monster with my oldest grandson.

Andrew is 9. He's the one who gave me the nickname of Gramcracker, while we were playing pool in the basement one Sunday afternoon. And since he's 9, he wants all the new electronics, and is always looking for ways to make money. He swiped on the labels off my Maxwell house coffee cans so he could check to see if we won. (Of course, we did not.)

So when the family was over yesterday for our weekly meal time together, I made the mistake of telling Andrew about the E-bay sales. That perked up his interest real quick, and we looked in the storage area for treasures to sell. The biggest problem was that the other four grandkids, Joey, Matthew, Maddie and Jacob, joined in the search. They were all up in our storage area going through everything! Andrew is trying a ceramic Nativity scene that hasn't been used in years, Matthew found an old hat, and Maddie, Joey, and Jacob lost interest and went to do something else.

I let Andrew take the photos for the ad, since he's been using my digital camera since he was about 4 and is pretty good. The problem was he took so many "to get it just right" that it took 2 hours to get the photo, and another 15 minutes or so to post it, not counting the hour it took for him to find the exact thing he wanted. So far we've got 2 hours or so in this project, and, at an hourly rate, we've already probably lost money.

But it's another memory I hope he'll remember.