There are many things I want to ask people “Why would you do that?” Like why do you ride a motorcycle without a helmet? If you get seriously hurt, and not killed, then your family has to take care of you. To me that is selfish. How about those who blast their music in their cars where you can hear them coming a block away? Again a bit on the selfish side, not to mention the damage to their ears. But then there are people who love to jump out of perfectly good airplanes or those who climb to the top of rock cliffs. Not selfish…but why??

This week our church is having a fundraiser for missions. We have a group going to Honduras at the end of the summer to help build housing. So we decided to be one of the groups selling fireworks for the fourth of July. The fund raiser will really help with all of the missions we do at our church. Loud noises and playing with fire has never interested me, but I like helping missions so I volunteered to help. The tent was bigger than I thought, and the various ways to blow yourself up were somewhat shocking.

And let’s not forget the crazy names of these entertaining explosives – The Ten Gun Salute, The Grave Maker, The Demolition Derby, The Master Class…etc. And then the size of some of those boxes…why?

And for heaven’s sake, let us not forget the costs…

This was the most expensive item but seriously, I was still amazed at the money people would pay to watch an item get blown away or burned up in a matter of minutes.

There were plenty of items that were under $10.00 but I counted the number of items that were over $20.00 – 564 items. WOW. There were 155 items over $50.00 and 38 items over $100.00. Amazing. With these prices and the love people have for fireworks, we could make a nice profit, we just need people to help us get them sold and that is a challenge in itself.

Now I know each person has their fun hobby and some are more expensive than others but I have a hard time understanding this one. I probably spend $200.00 every spring and summer on flowers and plants for the yard but at least they last longer than 5 minutes.

Regardless of your summer hobby, please be safe while you are having fun, and always remember to be kind.