1 — Luv Ryder $70
My son, like all children, wants a pony. But unlike most kids, my 7-year-old boy has an IQ of 150, which makes it difficult to dismiss him with easily disputed “alternative facts” about how expensive it is to feed and stable a pony.

“My research shows that horses eat roughly $100 to $300 worth of hay a month,” he recently explained. “That number drops significantly if we let him eat the grass in the backyard. That would save you time cutting the lawn, which you hate, and we spend more than $100 every time we go out to dinner. If we ate out one less time a month we could more than afford a pony.”

Once I wrapped my head around how much cheaper my life would be if I was a horse, I attempted to explain our housing problem, but he wasn’t having... Read More