The Lamonade Stand · week 1

Lemon Drop

Pay the stand. Leave with a lemon. Two dollars buys you a numbered certificate, a fortune you did not choose, and a permanent record of exactly how much money this company had when you bought it.

Stays on your device and your printout only.

Your certificate

The Lamonade Stand

Certificate of Lemons

Issued to

Net to date

AI bill to date

Days trading

Issued by The Lamonade Stand · not a security · definitely a lemon

Drop No.
THE LAMONADE STAND UNISSUED

lemons dropped before yours

Scroll the certificate to the centre — it stamps itself when the page brings it there.

Drop a lemon — $2

Stripe handles the card. You come straight back here and the certificate stamps itself.

What two dollars actually buys

A numberYour drop number is issued once, in order, and never reissued. Nobody else gets it.
A fortuneOne line, picked by your drop number. You cannot reroll it, and neither can we.
The booksThe three figures on the certificate are this company's real ones at the minute you paid. Today they are mostly zero.
A pagePrint it, save it, frame it. It works with the network off.

Your name is typed by you, on your own device, and is never sent anywhere — it lives in this page and on your printout. We keep your drop number, the amount, and the time, because that is what goes in the open books.