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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Good Cents, post: 5392844, member: 100720&quot;]1 - I&#039;m just curious, you wrote that you don&#039;t want to pay for the coins. Does that mean that you don&#039;t want to pay for the face value of the coins either? What about the shipping costs?</p><p><br /></p><p>2 - There are other jobs you can do for people, it just requires some creativity and a willingness to work on the weekends. </p><p><br /></p><p>a - Some people would be very happy to have the INSIDE of their car cleaned out by a neighborhood kid. Bring a vacuum cleaner from home with a long extension cord and charge less than what the local car washes charge for inside cleaning. Post a flyer on a local bulletin board, grocery store, utility pole, advertise in a church or school newsletter, etc. It&#039;s hard work but you&#039;ll make some money. You can ride your bike over to a customer and put the vacuum in a large backpack. </p><p><br /></p><p>b - Is there anything you&#039;re good at - either academically or in sports? You can work as a Tutor - a sports tutor if you&#039;re good at sports, or an academic tutor if you&#039;re good at the books. Academic tutoring can be done over Zoom at night or on weekends if the travel is too far and your parents can&#039;t drive you. For Academic tutoring parents will even drive their kid over to your home. For sports tutoring you can ride your bike over. There are kids who are really lousy at sports who want to get better at it and who either don&#039;t have a father who can help them or their fathers or brothers are just as lousy as they are. If their parents can afford it they would be happy to pay you for an hour of practicing with their kid.</p><p><br /></p><p>c - Do you swim? Are you decent at it? You don&#039;t have to be a pro to take a lifeguarding class at a local Community Center. It will cost a few dollars, but will pay off in spades if you give &quot;Swimming Tutoring&quot; to little kids whose parents are trying to get them to not be afraid of whatever part of swimming they are struggling with. Or you can just give swimming lessons, or just work as a lifeguard. </p><p><br /></p><p>d - Offer to do yardwork for neighbors. There may be things their gardeners don&#039;t do that someone wants done, or something they don&#039;t want to pay their gardeners for because they charge too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>e - Look around the neighborhood for outdoor things that could use a paint job and leave a flyer in the person&#039;s mailbox offering to paint it for them. For example if someone has a banister that looks like it could use a fresh coat of paint, or a shed. DO NOT go walking around their property unless they invite you to, but there are plenty of things you can see from the street.</p><p><br /></p><p>f - If you live in an area that gets snow in the winter, offer to shovel snow for your neighbors. Be the FIRST one to ring their doorbell, be friendly and courteous and charge fairly. When you&#039;re done, have a paper prepared to give to them with your first name and contact info on it and the words &quot;Snow Removal&quot; and hand it to them while telling them that if they were happy with the job you did, they can feel free to call you next time it snows and you will give them top priority. A few regular customers will bring in some nice money. It may even pay to invest in a used snowblower which can pay off in spades.</p><p><br /></p><p>g - Are you good with computers? Lots of older people aren&#039;t. Advertise to help older people with their computer questions over the phone. There are lots of questions and problems that you can solve by phone. Or remotely. I know a few elderly ladies who would love to find someone like this to help them with their various technology challenges. Charge by the hour, charge reasonably and be VERY patient with them. If you are able to solve their problems or help them with their questions and are courteous and kind, ask them to recommend you to their friends. Lots of older people don&#039;t want to bother their children and/or grandchildren with their technology issues. Having a &quot;Technology Help Line&quot; would be a great thing for them. So often it&#039;s &quot;Why can&#039;t I open this thing my daughter emailed me?&quot; Ask them to right click on it and when you realize it is a PDF file and that they don&#039;t have Adobe Reader on their computer, send them a link, walk them through downloading the app, and there you go - you&#039;ve saved their day! They will spread the word far and wide and before you know it, you&#039;ll have a whole client list!</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the above things can be done on weekends and/or for an hour or so in the evening on school nights. You can ride your bike wherever you need to travel to as long as it is not through a dangerous neighborhood or too far to reach by bike (not in the snow of course).</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said - get creative! You will not just make money but you&#039;ll feel really good about yourself and how much you can accomplish with some hard work and a little ingenuity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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