The Kool-Aid stand

My sister was always a budding entrepreneur, and we spent several summers trying to sell cool drinks. We would drag the coffee table outside and set the drink of the day on it, along with a homemade sign and an assortment of whatever plastic cups were clean. Our customers had to enjoy their drinks at our "stand", so we could re-use the cups. Yes, we washed them.
Most days it was off-brand kool-aid, but we tried snow cones a few times. It was really a pain in the butt to chip all that frost out of the freezer, though. Our customers never really cared for the freezer frost snow cones. We tried breaking up ice cubes with a hammer. That would result in dirty smaller ice cubes. Someone gave Mom an old blender, and that worked better, but all in all, snow cones were a dismal failure. Our most successful creation was kool-aid ice cubes with a toothpick stuck in it. We sold those for a nickel a piece.
The front of our house was not exactly a high traffic area. On a good day we'd make a dollar or two. We would always proudly give the money to our mom, and she would send us to the store with that same handful of change to buy milk or real butter. Whenever we had real butter, mom would bake peanut butter cookies.
Ahhh. Peanut butter cookies.