The kid version

[PrincessPerky]

Well I mainly want to help DS learn the concepts of exchange, money for product for now, he is a little young for abstract pictures on the computer, and I am short on inventivness, so we are going to do a version of the lemonade stand. (I hope that is ok) On the computer if you do a good job you get rich I doubt that will happen but DS will get lots of practice with work ethic, talking to people, please and thankyous, oh yeah and money stuff.

He decided he wanted to make flower shaped sugar cookies. And sell lemonade, actually he wanted to sell milk since that is the perfect drink with cookies, but I didn't think we could keep it cold!

So far he wants to sell 2 cookies for 80 cents, I am not sure how he came up with that number but I do want him to learn more about money so I may not make him change it to an even number like 50 cents, but I will help him figure out ingredient cost before the official decision. (store tonight hopefully)

We have a clubhouse at the pool in our community so I wont have to entertain a 1.5 year old in this heat, I just have to get permission for the space (if he was older I would make him do it himself). Hopefully I will also get free advertising, but if not Sundays are fairly full at the pool.

[miclason]

Alejandra won her first $0.65 last weekend at the flea market. She took the left-over party favor bags from her b-day...She used $0.35 to buy a soda (she originally wanted a $0.25 soda, but they were sold out!) and gave me the remaining $0.30 to save!...next flea market is Sept 4th, and she wants to take any "toys not used anymore"!
I made $13 (profit) from selling sandwiches and hot dogs...next time I'll bring more...they were gone in a flash!!

[PrincessPerky]

Awesome, love when kids get into it

[DivaJen]

Originally Posted by miclason

Alejandra won her first $0.65 last weekend at the flea market. She took the left-over party favor bags from her b-day...She used $0.35 to buy a soda (she originally wanted a $0.25 soda, but they were sold out!) and gave me the remaining $0.30 to save!...next flea market is Sept 4th, and she wants to take any "toys not used anymore"!
I made $13 (profit) from selling sandwiches and hot dogs...next time I'll bring more...they were gone in a flash!!

Good for both of you.

[PrincessPerky]

Well aparently the clubhouse has a no selling rule, seems to me it is only used as a convenient place for lifguards to get in out of the heat when it thunders, 'insert HOA rant here'.

So we will be doing it in our front yard, oh well not like a kid his age can handle that much people anyway. (well not the polite forced manners and all that stuff.)

We are doing it next saturday cause we can't go to the pool anyway we are having company that night (and the company can buy some .)

We also have no folding table nor any high table other than the kitchen one, and I am not sure I can carry it out to the garage! ugh, oh well, Dude is excited (though now he wants to make 'Wookie cookies' too.)

[PrincessPerky]

Kid side = Do you have any idea how hard it is to make money when you are a kid! I have been trying to come up with more ideas, with little help from him of course. I hope this will help him think out ways a bit earlier than stuck in debt like mom,

We decided to do an officail date of Saturday, after naptime (DD takes one) and I have only odne word of mouth advertising, he hasn't suggested anything else and I figure I can mention it afterwords for the whole get more people comming thing.

Grown up side= I am counting the google earnings torwards the goal, cause I never would have gotten around to looking into doing it if it wern't for Jefferys challenge. So total expense 0$, course there is no revenue...yet .

[PrincessPerky]

Kid side= We made the cookies, I usually buy my stuff in bulk to bake, and we had everything we needed, so I still think my expense = zero. Course so does the income .

Grown up side = Google ads has made loot! but I wont get a check till it is 50. so I don't know that it counts. I am bugging the community to do another fundraiser, partly for the challenge and partly cause after doing the round of friends last year I earned free stuff, which I would like OUT of my house!.

Total = 20$ but working on it!

[mom-from-missouri]

An easy money maker for my kids when I had my garage sale, was popcicle sticks-bought a box of 100 at aldies for $3. (3 cents each) Resold them for a quarter each ($25). If they melt, no biggie, just refreeze them. (They are those tubes of koolide like stuff). Also sold generic soda from aldies at 60 cents a can (bought for 24 cents a can). just kept it all on ice in the cooler, and added to it as needed, or if the tubes melted, switched them out with ones in the freezer in the house.

[PrincessPerky]

Kid = 7.50, not to bad from only two customers! but not so great, you know when you make cookies to sell you have to factor in the cost of everyone eating them! They are quite good BTW .

Grown up = going to send out a link to the toys for a friend of mine who is pregnant, she wants to include the link in her shower invitations, if so that should be good for a bit of loot, also I am going to do a garage sale with my inventory, I have decided that the HOA around here isn't worth any more of my time, so even though I would earn more thru them, I give up on pestering them.

total = 27.50

[PrincessPerky]

kid = 12.75 got rid of the rest of the cookies, coruse friends pay more than strangers . Oh and he is using the money to go to Washington DC next year, he has been asking ot go there for quite some time, and having a goal beyond just saving loot is helpful, piles of loot is a bit hard to care about for a small kid!

Grown up = Actually I am going to let him sell the toys, somehow people care more about kids going to Washington DC than grownups amassing loot (though we can't really amass it till we get rid of the CC)

total = 32.75

[catlover15]

Hope it works.

[PrincessPerky]

Me too For DS's sake if nothign else, he really wants that trip!

Totals are still the same, though my misc efforts to increase revenue from the toys and from the website are going up, the actual loot wont be seen for a time.

[PrincessPerky]

Kid version= he is excited about selling the toys for DC, and we are planning on it as soon as I find out when we are going ot pgh, can't do both on the same weekend.

Grown up= We actually have a plan, ok 3 of them, one requires space and startup, DH wants to do a tutorial on one of those miniature games, with photos and such, I don't wnat the junk in my house! We also have a offer of getting I think 25 for switching a perscription to CVS, which is weird since we have no regular scripts, but we happen to have a motrin script from my wisdom teeth coming out last month that we can refil for 97cents . Oh and the third plan is for DH to do his own website in his own nitch, which I have wanted for sometime, but maybe with this challenge DH will actually get it going.

totals same .

[PrincessPerky]

grown up = sold a belk gift card for 13.50 and a sandwich . It was a reward from work but we never shop at belk, come to think of it we don't shop much period . Anyway Dh traded it for the loot on the condition he splurge for a sandwhich. Wonder if I should count it as 20 or 13.50? I think 13.50, since he wouldn't have bought the sandwhich without the offer. maybe since he has a lunch for tommorow I should count the extra buck saved there .

Prev. total = 32.75
Nw total = 46.25

[PrincessPerky]

kid side= sold half the toys for 50$ . Still have half of them to get rid of, I don't think what is left will make as much as the first half though.

Prev. total = 46.25
Nw total = 96.25

[PrincessPerky]

grown up side= We used the CVS thing to get a 25$ gift cert for a script finally, it was store cred of course, but we bought what we needed, some medicine and a toothbrush and umm can't remember, but I traded my loot for the stuff so we can put the loot in the challenge fund.

On the one hand I am going depressingly slow, on the other hand I am saving/earning more than I would if I hadn't started.

Oh and on the toy sale, DS started getting sick, so no way I was going to let him stay outside and all that , not to mention share hsi germs. Maybe next month .

Prev Total = 96.25
New Total = 121.25

[PrincessPerky]

Been awhile aint it!

DH has been trying to talk me into getting a box of cards to a game he likes so that he can sell them at a profit, and keep a couple to boot. I finally agreed if he presells some, which he did so we will be buying them, prolly today. but we are still debating amounts and such (since most of the players we know are freinds and we arn't going to be making a profit on them) will prolly finalize tonight and post tommorrow the cost.

Also I got the meat check in it was a rebate that I didn't believe would come in, well it did!
20$ I never would have wasted the time on if it wern't for the challenge, sheesh sounds a bit silly now with 20$ in my hands and less than 5 minutes of time spent on it!

Prev Total = 121.25
New Total = 141.25

[niki_the_tiger]

Good job, keep it up! $20 to over $140 is a good start.

[PrincessPerky]

Oops all gone! but some should come back.. I hope.

We bought the cards to a sum total of 146.25 (ok like 17 but I am a lazy book keeper)
so we are at -5$.

I am not sure how to record the fact that we needed some of the cards for Christmas presents, more than will leave us with a profit, but it is making christmas cheaper. Anyway as the 'real money' from other people comes in to hopefully bring us back up to posotive (and hopefully make back all the loot we spent) I will keep debating that part.

DH also wants to hold a tournament, closed pack, whch would end up with an afternoon of fun for him a couple packs and some loot. Only trouble is he can't do it here (can't concentrate with a couple kids running around!) so we have to figure out where he can do it, if he can do it..... If I even want to give up my DH for an afternoon the month I am due!

Prev Total = 141.25
New Total = [color=red]5[/red]

Anyone know why that isn't red?

[niki_the_tiger]

Maybe don't count the cards you are going to use as gifts as part of the money you spent, only the ones you are going to resell?