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Kids making money

It is essential that kids learn to make money honestly long before they have to face the rigors of the adult world.
When I was a kid, I learned to be somewhat self sufficient by simply having a lawn care business. I started with a single lawn mower, worked many long hours as I built a business.
I eventually built a business with five mowers and several crews which produced an income of over $250 a day/ seven days a week. I eventually got out of the business, due to my family moving out of the neighborhood. In today’s society, the lawn care business is so competitive that a child or even an adult doesn’t have the same opportunity.
I have always encouraged my own children to build something that they can easily sustain; they have turned to the internet.

I have three sons; they simply collect various points from different corporations. They go for daily walks, picking up points and picking up trash in the neighborhood, they also collect cans and bottles to be redeemed at the local recycling center.
They then go about the task of submitting the points through various websites. Once they have sufficient points they redeem for prizes, which they then sell on an online auction site.
The last collectibles that they sold included a set of bottles, which sold for several hundred dollars. Between the online auctions, and the recycling of good last year they were able to make and save over $500 each.