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BASS4LIFEE
I am 14 years old and I live in Kansas City, Kansas and I really need a new guitar like really bad!! I have no clue how to get money though other than im goiong to have a garage sale and lemonade stand next week? Could someone please tell me something i could do to get money?
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I live in Australia so I don't know what your laws are there, here it's illegal for you to work until you're fifteen! so, some ideas...
Ask your neighbours if they have any odd jobs they need doing EXPLAIN THAT YOURE WORKING TO SAVE MONEY TO BUY SOMETHING THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO YOU: "I really need a new guitar and I cant afford it." Believe me,if adults can see you doing the right thing the right way, they really want to help. Just make sure your parents KNOW where you are at all times. I don't want to see your face on the news as the missingkid that never gets found.
Anyway, ask your neighbours if they need their weeds pulled or lawns mowed or their cars washed.] You could offer to walk their dog, or if they know you really well, to take their kids to the park to play for an hour, or even to walk their kids home from school or the bustop every day to save them doing it. You could help the neighbours younger kids do their school homework. If you're a good cook, you could offer to cook dinner for one of the neighbours once a week, so that a hot meal is ready for them when they come home, like a family sized lasagne or spaghetti. You arrange a time that they want it delivered and they pay you when it arrives, the same as the pizza guy.
You could do this seven nights a week: Smiths on Monday, Browns on Tuesday. Most Mums hate cooking when they get home from work.
Window washing is another. Cheap to set up. A bucket, a chamois, a window slide, water. Practice on your own home windows first and make sure you get it CLEAN and your Mum says it's clean before you go offering your services. This job pays eight dollars each window and ten dollars for larger than normal. And you only do the outside glass NEVER GO INSIDE!!! If you do, make sure YOUR PARENTS KNOW EXACTLY where you are and that they APPROVE of you going inside. If you do the inside as well, charge them $8.00+$5.00= $13 for inside and out cleaning.
you could also offer to wash the outside walls of their house, or shovel snow, or dig out a new garden bed.
If you see a neighbour doing any work, you could walk over and say: "Hi Mrs Davies, I'm John, from number ###, I'm working to save money for a new guitar, could I help you with anything today?"
Also, people hate taking their garbage out, or putting their bins away before they go to work. You could offer all your neighbours to push their bins back inside their driveway after collection each week, just say "I'll do that for you for .50cents a week" It's not much but because it's cheap, a lot of them will get you to do it because they hate doing it.
Hope I've helped.
I bet you buy the new guitar and keep working and then buy an amp and some road gear and some drums and some ................................
Best of luck,
Cat.
I live in Australia so I don't know what your laws are there, here it's illegal for you to work until you're fifteen! so, some ideas...
Ask your neighbours if they have any odd jobs they need doing EXPLAIN THAT YOURE WORKING TO SAVE MONEY TO BUY SOMETHING THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO YOU: "I really need a new guitar and I cant afford it." Believe me,if adults can see you doing the right thing the right way, they really want to help. Just make sure your parents KNOW where you are at all times. I don't want to see your face on the news as the missingkid that never gets found.
Anyway, ask your neighbours if they need their weeds pulled or lawns mowed or their cars washed.] You could offer to walk their dog, or if they know you really well, to take their kids to the park to play for an hour, or even to walk their kids home from school or the bustop every day to save them doing it. You could help the neighbours younger kids do their school homework. If you're a good cook, you could offer to cook dinner for one of the neighbours once a week, so that a hot meal is ready for them when they come home, like a family sized lasagne or spaghetti. You arrange a time that they want it delivered and they pay you when it arrives, the same as the pizza guy.
You could do this seven nights a week: Smiths on Monday, Browns on Tuesday. Most Mums hate cooking when they get home from work.
Window washing is another. Cheap to set up. A bucket, a chamois, a window slide, water. Practice on your own home windows first and make sure you get it CLEAN and your Mum says it's clean before you go offering your services. This job pays eight dollars each window and ten dollars for larger than normal. And you only do the outside glass NEVER GO INSIDE!!! If you do, make sure YOUR PARENTS KNOW EXACTLY where you are and that they APPROVE of you going inside. If you do the inside as well, charge them $8.00+$5.00= $13 for inside and out cleaning.
you could also offer to wash the outside walls of their house, or shovel snow, or dig out a new garden bed.
If you see a neighbour doing any work, you could walk over and say: "Hi Mrs Davies, I'm John, from number ###, I'm working to save money for a new guitar, could I help you with anything today?"
Also, people hate taking their garbage out, or putting their bins away before they go to work. You could offer all your neighbours to push their bins back inside their driveway after collection each week, just say "I'll do that for you for .50cents a week" It's not much but because it's cheap, a lot of them will get you to do it because they hate doing it.
Hope I've helped.
I bet you buy the new guitar and keep working and then buy an amp and some road gear and some drums and some ................................
Best of luck,
Cat.
4-H - Any ideas for youth service projects?
ewema
I've recently taken over a 4-H club and would like to incorporate more community type service. We have made valentines for Veterans, and collected canned food for the food bank. Any other out of the box ideas? Thanks!
Sorry, I posted twice under different title.
Answer
Finally, a question that is right up my alley!
First have the kids brainstorm. They must have a buy in for the activity to be meaningful. Where do they see needs? Spead a newspaper on the floor and have the kids stand around looking at it to get ideas of things which need to be done. Have them write to local organizations ( a template letter is fine) and explain your group and ages, ask if they have any projects coming up in the next 2 years which could use their services. Once your club has selected the projects it wants to work on , forward the other responses to your County club or office so other clubs can get involved to. Also, we look at the pledge and try to do at least one service project in each area: club, community, country, world.
Examples: collect aluminum cans and donate to Humane Society
Help shelve book, work summer reading program, medn books, unpack and inventory at the local library, we have also donated glass display cases on wheels and a bulletin board and physically moved every book in the children's section when they built the new library.
We have a 4- H building which the clubs share. Our club has swept, cleaned, washed floors, bathrooms, painted inside of the building, cleaned drawers, refrigerator and freezer in kitchen, voluteered at the concession stand during fair, volunteered for display set up team at the state fair etc.
Nursing homes are always open to kids. we have arranged visits from the wolf refuge, brought in our pets for petting day ( including llama, shetland pony, guinea pig, pygmy hedgehog, rabbits, seeing eye dog etc.). One year we did monthly crafts with the residents. This year we are making two dozen table centerpieces each month for nursing homes. We have also helped decorate and delivered poinsettias to nursing homes.
We have adopted a local animal refuge which we visit a few times a year, donating food, items, picnic table and labor.
We also keep an eye on the local paper, donating money to local families whose homes have burned, who have exceptional medical expenses etc. Once, after the death of a favorite school bus driver, we helped the visually impaired widow close up her house, sort clothes and items, run a garage sale,and pack her items for the moving van.
Cleaning cemeteries, parks, and sections of roadside are popular.
Our homeschooling members are part of volunteer programs in the pre schools such as Buckle Bear, and reading stories.
Our local schools had their art budgets cut. We collected paper, fabric, buttons, glitter etc. to donate to schools.
We liason with other groups in the community, so we do not have to do the whole load such as making quilts to donate to the Warm the World project, or collecting items to mail to our service people overseas.
We collected children's clothing, washed, repaired them. The smaller items we donated to pre schools such as Headstart. The larger clothes we donated to local food and clothing banks.
The kids really enjoy adopting a family for Christmas, buying gifts for the kids and parents. We do something similar at Easter.
Several times we have helped serve for charity dinners and community events. We also collect and dump trash at the local outdoor art fairs.
Ther are many charities who raise money with walks, runs,and bike rides. Our kids either volunteer to do the walk etc. or else help serve food, drinks, unload luggage etc.
I have to say that one of their all time favorites was dismantling an old beaver dam across the creek at a local youth camp. They got absolutely filthy, carried fish by hand to the lower stream, and had the time of their life.
Well... we have done many more over the years, but I hope this gives you some ideas. Next, ask about fundraising activities. LOL
Finally, a question that is right up my alley!
First have the kids brainstorm. They must have a buy in for the activity to be meaningful. Where do they see needs? Spead a newspaper on the floor and have the kids stand around looking at it to get ideas of things which need to be done. Have them write to local organizations ( a template letter is fine) and explain your group and ages, ask if they have any projects coming up in the next 2 years which could use their services. Once your club has selected the projects it wants to work on , forward the other responses to your County club or office so other clubs can get involved to. Also, we look at the pledge and try to do at least one service project in each area: club, community, country, world.
Examples: collect aluminum cans and donate to Humane Society
Help shelve book, work summer reading program, medn books, unpack and inventory at the local library, we have also donated glass display cases on wheels and a bulletin board and physically moved every book in the children's section when they built the new library.
We have a 4- H building which the clubs share. Our club has swept, cleaned, washed floors, bathrooms, painted inside of the building, cleaned drawers, refrigerator and freezer in kitchen, voluteered at the concession stand during fair, volunteered for display set up team at the state fair etc.
Nursing homes are always open to kids. we have arranged visits from the wolf refuge, brought in our pets for petting day ( including llama, shetland pony, guinea pig, pygmy hedgehog, rabbits, seeing eye dog etc.). One year we did monthly crafts with the residents. This year we are making two dozen table centerpieces each month for nursing homes. We have also helped decorate and delivered poinsettias to nursing homes.
We have adopted a local animal refuge which we visit a few times a year, donating food, items, picnic table and labor.
We also keep an eye on the local paper, donating money to local families whose homes have burned, who have exceptional medical expenses etc. Once, after the death of a favorite school bus driver, we helped the visually impaired widow close up her house, sort clothes and items, run a garage sale,and pack her items for the moving van.
Cleaning cemeteries, parks, and sections of roadside are popular.
Our homeschooling members are part of volunteer programs in the pre schools such as Buckle Bear, and reading stories.
Our local schools had their art budgets cut. We collected paper, fabric, buttons, glitter etc. to donate to schools.
We liason with other groups in the community, so we do not have to do the whole load such as making quilts to donate to the Warm the World project, or collecting items to mail to our service people overseas.
We collected children's clothing, washed, repaired them. The smaller items we donated to pre schools such as Headstart. The larger clothes we donated to local food and clothing banks.
The kids really enjoy adopting a family for Christmas, buying gifts for the kids and parents. We do something similar at Easter.
Several times we have helped serve for charity dinners and community events. We also collect and dump trash at the local outdoor art fairs.
Ther are many charities who raise money with walks, runs,and bike rides. Our kids either volunteer to do the walk etc. or else help serve food, drinks, unload luggage etc.
I have to say that one of their all time favorites was dismantling an old beaver dam across the creek at a local youth camp. They got absolutely filthy, carried fish by hand to the lower stream, and had the time of their life.
Well... we have done many more over the years, but I hope this gives you some ideas. Next, ask about fundraising activities. LOL
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