El Cheapo Birthday Present

Last Friday, our second son Justus turned eight. 

When asked what he wanted for his birthday he had two requests:

Wool Socks and a SwitchFoot CD that is all his own.

Okay first - wool socks?  Are we raising this kid to be practical or what?  (How cute is HE?)

And second…we already have a SwitchFoot CD…and we just didn’t like the idea of spending $15 for him to have his very own.

SO, I bought a pack of five blank CDs…for $5! and wrapped them up.

When he opened them, we told him that not only could Daddy make him a Switchfoot CD by using our computer to burn it onto one of these blank discs…he could choose four more of his favorite CDs for Daddy to burn.  Then he’d have FIVE of his very own CD’s (for way less than the price of one NEW CD).

Justus has had SO much fun with his birthday gift…and Daddy is even teaching him how to “rip” and “burn” the CDs.  (Of course, everyone here thinks it’s so cool that these procedures have such awesome names…who wouldn’t want permission to rip and burn things!?)

While I (the lone female of the house) didn’t get into the ripping and burning…I got to do the fun cutesy part of printing out labels for the CDs and covers for the cases.  Justus LOVES them!

Ah, I love working together with my family to make inexpensive and SUPER fun gifts! 

And I love that my kids are so thrilled with these gifts! 

And I LOVE that we created 5 CDs for $5!!

(P.S.  You know it’s only legal to copy CDs if you bought and own them…right?  Hey, we’ve got pirates around here aplenty….but we never pirate anything!  Okay, just wanted to clear that up.)

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