Originally Posted by kane

I was a kid when Mr. St. Helens erupted and remember how it looked like it was snowing as the ash came down. About a week later we went to Los Angeles to visit some relatives. My cousin is a teacher and wanted us to bring some ash so she could take it in and show it to her kids. We collected a big jar of it and took it with us. My aunt thought we should sell it at the local flea market so we separated it into a bunch of small jars and got a table. We sold them for $10 a jar and sold out within a few hours. My mom was very happy because the ash ended up paying for the entire trip.