- Let’s see how long I can go without going to the grocery store (usually until I run out of coffee or nonfat milk).
- Let’s see if getting free samples has any impact whatsoever on my budget. (It doesn’t, but it does help me more successfully play game number one. A free coffee sample? Great, I don’t have to go to the grocery store today.)
- Let’s see how long I can make a garbage bag last before I have to change it. (Nine days is the record.)
- Let’s see how many people I can get to eat a piece of strawberry cake before it goes bad. (So far, four.)
- Instead of hanging up my clothes, let’s do it slowly by hanging up one piece of clothing every time I go into the bedroom.
- If I root a potato and put it in the ground, will it really grow? Even if it is a weird purple hybrid potato?
- If I take a dollar out of Kyle’s wallet every time I see it, will I squirrel away a big store of cash that we can suddenly use to do something fabulous? (The answer is no. This is a stupid game when you are an adult with a savings account.)
- If I leave the junk mail in the mailbox with the flag up, will the mailman get confused and take it back with him? (No! Alas.)
- Will I like an audiobook of the Hardy Boys mystery The Case of the Missing Chums simply because I like the word “chum”? Let’s see!