Walnut Grove, Minn.- A decision Charles Ingalls recently made has relegated his family to eating lightly for the foreseeable future with impacts possibly extending to the Christmas season.
The Ingalls family, no stranger to times of poverty, is forced to tighten their belts for an unusual reason this time: Charles’s impulse purchase of a snow globe for daughter Mary.
“I saw the snow globe and I just had to get it for her,” Charles claims. “I wasn’t really thinking at the time about how my family really can’t afford anything, and we struggle to even get the paper tablets for school. I just needed to do it for Mary, because it’s kind of a once in a lifetime thing that she might be getting her sight back.”
The Ingalls family usually falls on hard times because of reasons that aren’t directly caused by the family’s patriarch, such as the loss of a crop to a storm, bankruptcy causing a company to not pay out, and other such scenarios. However, this time Charles is directly responsible for the family’s financial blow.
“This certainly isn’t the first time Charles has acted impulsively,” Caroline Ingalls confirms. “How many times have we moved now because he didn’t have the patience to make it work or see if the economy turned around? Only to just keep moving back here after a short time? I guess it’s sort of small compared to some of those times…still, I can’t wait to bring this up next time Charles tries to get out of the dishes.”
The effects of this purchase are forecast to last months.
“I’m starting to worry we won’t get any Christmas presents,” daughter Laura moans. “For once I was hoping for a break from handmade presents, but I guess not this year.”
At press time, Charles was wondering if any area wagon wrecks had some wheels he could refurbish to get a little cash while Mary was glad she ate on the blind school’s dime now.
