Kids making money

My friends and I tried a number of ways to make money in our teens, especially before we were legally able to work.
Several things we did included:

1. Forget drive up lemonade stands. Get permission for a drive up car wash. Get a house along a major thorough fare with your friends, put up a sign, and ask for $3 or $5. The only cost is water, soap, and the effort. Just make certain you don’t do it near a major business where they do charity carwashes.

2. When someone has a table at a convention to sell items, they do not want to leave the table unattended while they go to presentations, to get lunch, or even the bathroom. If you know someone attending a trade show or convention, offer to assist in sales. It could be supervising the sale of low end, high volume merchandise. It could be handing out business cards and fliers. Offer to work for an hourly rate or on commission.

3. Babysitting at peak demand periods brings in spectacular rates. Spend the night at someone’s home and watch their children while they go off to enjoy New Year’s Eve. You’re there until the parents come back even if it is early in the morning, and the parents know that there children are not unattended. Since the younger kids go to bed between 7 and 9 PM, you basically can stay up late or even sleep on the couch yourself, and thus get paid $50 or more for a low stress evening.

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.

Kids and money

I have always encouraged my children to earn their income. Initially by doing chores at home in exchange for pocket money and later as they were old enough outside the home .
I myself was brought up to earn my own money and feel that it gave me a head start in life .
Two of my boys stated up their own car cleaning operation in our local area with only a squeegee and a couple of shammy leathers and buckets . Another is a car boot sale fan and at the tender age of fourteen is a common sight at our local auction house where he purchases job lots which he sorts and lists on e-bay , the residue he sells at car boot sales .
Our neighbors always know where to come when they need a dog walked , a lawn mowed or babysitting done .
We are lucky as living in a rural area there is always fruit picking in the summer , to be done after they have finished their paper rounds .
My youngest even amazed me with his ingenuity when on his way home he picked a large quantity of wild blackberries which he sold from a table outside our house that evening , the remainder he put into our local produce auction the following day .