Webkinz

The people who invented Webkinz are super geniuses. The girls begged for them for Christmas and I got them each one. The website had crashed on Christmas and we couldn't log them on. Then, it wouldn't work on one laptop, I have a feeling that it had to do with the evil that is Windows Vista. We managed to finally get the girls logged on and then Fiona wasn't reading enough to be able to play by herself, causing her to call me every 30 seconds to let her know what was going on. (Like I cared, huh?)

Fiona finally got the hang of it and has been spending a lot of her quiet time on the internet playing her games. I went to log her out yesterday and I realized that she had blown through most of her money that she started out with. Of course her kitty needed a dishwasher in her room, what cat doesn't? The food levels were starting to sink and I knew that I would be required to come in and fix things. So, I took it upon myself to check out the labyrinth of webkinz and figure out how to help her. I learned that if you played games, you could earn more money, allowing you to spend more. When she came home today I showed her I had taken her 22 dollars and made it into 394 dollars. She was surprised and very pleased. 30 minutes later, she had blown through a good portion of it again!! I told Hubby about the scam and he said, so basically you are logging our child onto the internet and teaching her how to spend money.... Like I said genius!!

Also, the code that you get when you spend $13 on a stuffed animal only lasts for 12 months. So, not only do you have to pay to get logged onto the website, you have to keep buying them in order to keep playing ! Genius...

Do your kids play with webkinz?