The thing that I am talking about for my childhood memory is when I saved up money to get something I wanted.  I wanted this toy that you ride called a green machine it costs about one hundred and fifty dollars.  My father told me that if I wanted one that I would have to pay for it myself but whatever I saved up he would match so I only had to save half.  The reason behind me wanting this is because when I was younger I used to race and at the race track all the kids had green machines except a few of us but we could usually borrow someones but sometimes not and if not we felt left out because we weren't able to have fun with the rest of the kids.  So I saved up money to get this but it wasn't easy because I had to win races to save up the money to get the green machine.

    The deal was I had to come up with seventy five dollars plus the shipping and tax for the green machine.  The main way I got money at the time was winning races because me and my grandpa had a deal that every time I won a race I got ten dollars.  That was the only way I got money because in the racing I did you didn't get much for prize money and if you got some it pretty much went back into our cars for repairs, tires, fuel, or about anything else you may need to race.  In one weekend I won one heat race and to main events getting thirty dollars from my grandfather.  The next weekend I won two heat races and two main events and the following weekend I won two heat races and one main event so I had one hundred dollars and then my parents said that would be about right because it was a large item and was heavy so it was about twenty dollars shipping.  So I got the green machine and i had a ton of fun with it and got to go have fun with the rest of the kids.

    This is very reliable because I remember it specifically and my family can testify that it is the
truth.  This was a good memory in my mind because it taught me the value of money and that i had to work for things I want.