Shoveling

[Anonymous]

What happened to the teenagers who used to go door to door asking to shovel driveways? I bet that it has been ten years since the last kid knocked at my door.

Our neighborhood Facebook group is filled with adults offering good money to shovel their walks and driveways.

[Anonymous]

I saw a bunch walking today. A little late in my neighborhood. Everyone had shoveled out.

[Anonymous]

Mine are helping the neighbors they know..for free.

Also, they have to do all their homework assignments and watch video lectures sent to them by their teachers.

[Anonymous]

We had at least 6 different sets of teenagers offer their shoveling services on our list serves - McLean area. A couple groups even offered it for free to elderly residents in the area on Friday before the snow even hit to line up help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine are helping the neighbors they know..for free.

Also, they have to do all their homework assignments and watch video lectures sent to them by their teachers.

Hmmm ... I wondered about this, too, though we only a few teenagers on my street and most are girls. But this is actually a good point. I'm guessing today's teenagers have a lot less free time, given how little free time my early elementary schoolers have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine are helping the neighbors they know..for free.

Also, they have to do all their homework assignments and watch video lectures sent to them by their teachers.

Hmmm ... I wondered about this, too, though we only a few teenagers on my street and most are girls. But this is actually a good point. I'm guessing today's teenagers have a lot less free time, given how little free time my early elementary schoolers have.

It's more about manual labor being beneath them. Most kids in the area do not even thing about doing this type of work.

[Anonymous]

Plenty in our neighborhood shoveling. I think it depends on the neighborhood you live in. They are making good money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty in our neighborhood shoveling. I think it depends on the neighborhood you live in. They are making good money.

Most likely so. I would not expect the Whitman/Churchill/Landon/Bullis types to be caught dead with a snow shovel in their hands. Their fathers never shoveled an inch of snow as teenagers so why would they?

[Anonymous]

We wondered this too but then figured they were shoveling their own houses on the first day. There was so much. By day 2 the adults had done their own houses in our neighborhood. Usually we see kids with shovels walking around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty in our neighborhood shoveling. I think it depends on the neighborhood you live in. They are making good money.

Most likely so. I would not expect the Whitman/Churchill/Landon/Bullis types to be caught dead with a snow shovel in their hands. Their fathers never shoveled an inch of snow as teenagers so why would they?

My 14 year old Whitman kids and his friends shoveled at homes all day Saturday and Sunday, and so did his school friends in other neighborhoods. Not sure why you'd think kids from those schools would be less likely to help and/or be enterprising.

[Anonymous]

They are on the neighborhood list serve lining up appointments so they do not have to waste time going door to door.

[Anonymous]

No one came by in our neighborhood and we have a ton of teens. I had even gotten cash out and was willing to pay good money to dig us out.

[Anonymous]

We had teenagers coming by as early as last Thursday, making a list of addresses to shovel. We declined the service but applauded the efforts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty in our neighborhood shoveling. I think it depends on the neighborhood you live in. They are making good money.

Most likely so. I would not expect the Whitman/Churchill/Landon/Bullis types to be caught dead with a snow shovel in their hands. Their fathers never shoveled an inch of snow as teenagers so why would they?

My 14 year old Whitman kids and his friends shoveled at homes all day Saturday and Sunday, and so did his school friends in other neighborhoods. Not sure why you'd think kids from those schools would be less likely to help and/or be enterprising.

Agree, I live in the Whitman cluster and our listserv had Whitman, St Johns, and other kids offering shoveling services, even a few college kids who hadn't gone back to school yet. Many people in the neighborhood hired them. And there were several kids walking the street with shovels while I was out shoveling. Not sure what school they attended but likely Whitman or one of the local private schools. My DH, parent of a Whitman grad, certainly shoveled snow as a teen, and of course since.

[Anonymous]

They're lazy.