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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So wait... we can't charge the elderly for anything now? I get that they may be on fixed incomes, etc but if someone does a physically demanding job, they should be paid. PP who is saying that the elderly shouldn't pay because you want someone to help your grandparents, really? They should pay as well. Now, if I shovel walks and I charge $50 per, I would probably give elderly neighbors a *discount* and only charge like $20, but free? How is a kid (or adult) in a neighborhood of elderly people supposed to make a buck?[/quote]

My MIL has less than $1000 a month (plus food stamps).  I would be pissed if someone charged her when every dollar counts.  We aren't interested in making a buck if it means taking away from someone else who needs it more.  Karma - you do for them and hopefully someone will do for you.  We always shovel out one neighbor.  She'll leave cookies or something else but there is no way we'd take money or allow her to give our child money.[/quote]

No one is required to have someone else shovel them out at a set price. Your MIL is welcome to wait around for someone to do it for free.

If you are a senior and can't afford to shovel yourself out and no one is offering, call 311. There are organizations that help out LOW INCOME seniors and disabled. Well-off seniors and disabled (and yes, our area has both those) should be willing to pay the market rate and be grateful if they are offered a discount, but not expect one.

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You are teaching your kids great values.  [b]Hope someone treats you better than you treat people if you ever need help.[/b]  Most of those organizations could not get to  anyone who needs the help. [b] Its sad that we live in a world where people have your attitude. [/b][b] Its not that hard to be decent and help.  They shouldn't even have to ask.[/quote][/b]

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Same people protesting charging the middle class seniors in their neighborhood for a service they can turn down likely voted to reduce federal and state spending on higher education so that teen boys don't have to shovel snow all day to make college even a possibility. No one forces you to purchase snow shoveling PERIOD, let alone from a pair of boys that you think are rude for trying to fund their educations. Just decline the discounted rate and wait for all the free assistance from the teen sons that all these DCUMers are raising right.[/quote]

No one owes you an education after high school.  You are either blessed with family who pays, take out loans or work your way through it.  No one gave my husband anything and instead of begging and taking advantage of people, he joined the military and eventually got his degree through their tuition benefits.  It was a lot of hard work on his part.  Its sad we do not teach our kids to look after others, but instead take advantage of them in a desperate time.  Teach your boys to be men and be a part of the community.  If my young child can pitch in and help, so you teen boys who are physically able.  If you cannot tell your son (or daughter) to help your 80 year old neighbor, there is something wrong with you, your parenting or your child (and at that age they should know without being told).[/quote]

You honestly sound like a mooch who thinks people have kids just to be their little servants. Btw when you talk about kids working through college, it's huge snow storms like this that count as that type of work. [/quote]

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