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Montana Boy Skipped Pop For a Year to Win $500
As people across the United States struggle to stick to their New Year's Resolutions, an 11-year-old Montana boy is offering lessons in self-discipline and delayed gratification after winning a $500 prize from his parents for skipping sugary drinks for a year.
A year ago at Christmas time, Jon Sarisky's parents offered him and his older brother Andrew a choice — a guaranteed $100 then or $500 in a year if they avoid pop, milkshakes, hot chocolate and sugary beverages.
Andrew took the $100. Jon took the challenge.
He tells the Livingston Enterprise (http://bit.ly/1xAMjLv) that it wasn't that difficult, with the exception of remembering not to accept a pop at a friend's house.
He says he stuck to the challenge by thinking about ways he could spend the money.
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