Put up a mojio stand and I'll do a few walk thrus

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I’ve interacted with 3 lemonade stands at all 3 different price points one in the city $2 a cup(favorite), gated suburban area at $4 on a hot summer day we ended up buying 4!, and one with no price listed in suburban lower income area. The last one struggled but the parent posted on social media and that picked up some steam(not a very walkable area.)

I love lemonade stands (though I agree with PP, I rarely have cash; accepting app payments isn't a bad idea). I work in finance so I like the financial literacy part, but I think the most important skill it teaches is interacting with strangers! So many digital-native kids are not good at this.

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Anonymous wrote:The kids in our neighborhood do this all the time. Going rate is $1.50 for a solo cup of lemonade. Offerings have ranged from fresh squeezed, to Simply Lemonade, to Country Time. The most successful one was the kid who had a variety of Simply Juice offerings that the kids could mix.

How many ounces in cup? $1.50 is better than the $5.00 we were conned into but $1.50 is still too high. It's supposed to be fun not neighborhood sidewalk robbery!

They usually have good sized Solo cups, so maybe 10-14 oz depending on the pour. It seemed steep to me at first but it’s mainly kids buying from each other so they are all just exchanging the same $1.50 all summer long depending on who’s got a lemonade stand going that week.

My kids charge 50 cents. They made $50 in 30 minutes the last time they set up a stand. Generous neighbors overpay.

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t.

Fortunately you don't have to buy a thing. Just keep passing by. Your business isn't needed with an attitude as sour as, well, you know what fruit.

We live right next to a park that holds a 4th of July event (small-ish suburban town) so got a lot of foot traffic on July 4. DD did a lemonade stand for several years on the 4th and made decent money. Donated all the proceeds to an animal charity she supports. Not everyone has the advantage of living near a popular event etc. but I can say that if kids want to, doing it for a charity does draw people. And no, DD didn't use powdered mix and didn't charge $5 a cup like some grumpy PP above was snarking about....

Please don’t.

I buy from lemonade stands in our neighborhood every time I see them. Don’t drink the lemonade, but the girls are always so thrilled to get a customer that it’s totally worth $5.

Teaches them money skills, baking skills, customer service skills, ways to make money on their own, and the kids love it!

Yep! Super fun. I live in the south and have 6 lemon trees, so ours is fresh squeezed and we bake chocolate chip cookies to go with it. We get 3 days of fun out of it.

Day 1: make signs and grocery shop for ingredients
Day 2: bake cookies, pick the good lemons (Meyer lemons are the best)
Day 3: set up signs and sell.

We are near a large urban park so we put signs at the end of our street. When we have the sale on Saturday we end the sale at about $100, when we run out of cookies or lemonade ($1 lemonade; $1 cookie), normally after an hour or two. It's probably not legal, but no one will turn in a 5 and 7 year old in their own driveway being super cute. We live in a very well-to-do area in a large city.

Yes. Our neighbor just did a straw ball stand. Lol.

Anonymous wrote:The kids in our neighborhood do this all the time. Going rate is $1.50 for a solo cup of lemonade. Offerings have ranged from fresh squeezed, to Simply Lemonade, to Country Time. The most successful one was the kid who had a variety of Simply Juice offerings that the kids could mix.

How many ounces in cup? $1.50 is better than the $5.00 we were conned into but $1.50 is still too high. It's supposed to be fun not neighborhood sidewalk robbery!

I never have cash on me anymore and feel so bad. Maybe lemonade stands should accept Venmo