The school holidays are showing #SliceofGasant columnist Gasant Abarder flames and has his wallet opening more times than he’d like.Our kids generally occupy themselves during the school holidays
Back when I was in school, the street outside in Mitchells Plain and then later Woodstock was our playground. Because the Euros are on now, we would have probably organised a football tournament of our own. If it’s Wimbledon season, we’d be playing tennis in the street and arguments ensued about how high or low the invisible net was. Or we’d be playing our own version of the T20 Cricket World Cup.
So, as a family, we decided to treat the kids to a movie on Saturday. Four tickets cost R625. After the popcorn, drinks and other treats the bill in total came to more than R1 000. Then supper in the food court was another R600. This is despite them having all the comforts at home like unlimited wi-fi, Disney Plus, Netflix, PlayStations, X-Box and Nintendo Switch.
I remember sleepovers at my gran’s place with all the cousins in those days that stretched out and seemed to go on forever. If it was a rainy day, we’d entertain ourselves with movies rented from the video store that we’d club together to get and pray that it wasn’t an awful copy. Snacks were homemade popcorn and Oros.
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