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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College age kids went out with a group of friends (6 in total) and shoveled Sunday/Monday. They each made over $250/day.

There weren't many other offering so they had to decline several jobs due to time/cold/difficulty.

If your kid wanted to, the money was sitting there.[/quote]

BS - the money is on the easy snow removal. This is hard work and maybe they were actually paid an appropriate wage by some homeowners, but the people complaining want to pay well below the market rate for some random "local kids". I know because I shoveled my long driveway myself over the course of 2 days. [/quote]

Lol. Ok, you can call BS all you want. It WAS hard work (DH and I did our house while they were making money.) They came home exhausted both nights. But $500 is a lot to college kids. They got rave reviews on our neighborhood listserve and their phone was blowing up with people wanting to hire them since they could walk to homes. Our neighborhood is big on hiring 'local kids' and supporting kids who have grown up in the neighborhood. [/quote]

Your teen is capable of more than prom, homecoming and beach week. Let them surprise you.

You live in a rich community that is actually paying a fair wage. Most of the people complaining want the neighbor next door to do it for $20[/quote]

This x1000. If they are boomers, they will pay even less if the kid is younger. My aunt was complaining that the boy Nextdoor she hired to water her outdoor plants, sweep their porch, bring in mail, take trash cans to the curb etc was not reliable and she was paying him a full dollar! A dollar, a cold buck! [/quote]

My poor kid had an elderly neighbor who asked him last year to shovel, and for an hour's work for a fairly large house/driveway, he was paid 10$.  I told my kid not to complain and paid him an extra 20$.  But he didn't shovel for that neighbor this year again.[/quote]

A decent teen would do an elderly neighbor for free.  Mine did.  One day you will need the help.  [/quote]

Actually, a decent family would shovel an elderly neighbors walk together. A decent family is not sending their teen out by themselves to do charity work to feel good about themselves. They take a few hours off of work and they do it with them. [/quote][/quote]

+1 Why would you send a teen alone on these icy days to work for free to do work you have deemed charity? If you are so rich that it’s beneath your dignity for your child to accept pay, you’re probably in a wealthy neighborhood.  I wouldn’t send my kid out to work for free for a neighbor who probably has a million dollars of equity in their home.  [/quote]

Our homes are about 1000 square feet and not wealthy.  Our homes are not worth millions. Of course one of us was out there too.  We just teach our kids to do the right thing.  Are you so poor you have to have your kids work?   Probably not, just lazy and selfish. It’s about helping out others, not a money grab. One day we may need the help.  What goes around comes around.  [/quote]

If its an elderly neighbor, sure, do it as a kindness. But not wanting to do charity work for everyone else you don't know is okay too.

I offered to do it for my neighbor if no one showed up on Monday but they declined - I am not that healthy either and it was tiring shoveling out our own driveway multiple times on Sunday.
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Neighbors help each other out.  We don’t ask, we just do it.  [/quote]

You really need to get off your high horse.

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+1. With the amount of judgmental smug emanating from the PP, you could melt all the ice in the DC area. [/quote]

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