Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:39     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:It's the parents.
The same parents who think their little darling deserves to be paid like a professional nanny for babysitting but complain about actually paying a nanny a proper rate.

Spoiled.


Box of donuts says this clown is the type to complain about tipping at a restaurant.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:36     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.



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.


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


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!
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:31     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
I always pay DOUBLE what the kids are asking, and they are always here!
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:30     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
You need to pay enough. A friend's kid made 700 bucks in a day shoveling.

My neighbor in a townhome paid 100 bucks to shovel out her small walkway and sidewalk.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:28     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.



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.


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


Correct...just go to the thread asking what the going rate is for hiring teens to shovel. People are claiming they will pay $20 or $30 an hour...which is chump change for the amount of work needed for this shoveling.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:27     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
You live in the wrong neighborhood. We have a bunch of kids going door to door in our Bethesda neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:24     Subject: Re:what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Kids still do this in our neighborhood in MoCo. They also go around in the summer and offer to wash your car.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 16:06     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Shoveling snow isn't like a lot of jobs and it's so cold today. My teen got stopped by a neighbor while shoveling another house who asked him to do their house today. That house hasn't been shoveled at all, not Sunday, not Monday, and they gave him a crappy plastic shovel and no salt/de-icing agent and gave him 30$ to do a fairly large sidewalk, driveway and stairs. I can see him from our house chipping away slowly at the ice.

He came back to our house to get our metal shovel and our de-icing agent, and it's ok to me because they're neighbors (even if they're not very near neighbors), but some people just don't understand what is involved in getting rid of snow. 30$ isn't enough for a big house where they don't even have their own salt to de-ice in weather like this.


I would not let my kid do this, sorry. Return that $30 and save your back, kid.


You are wise. My kid returned sore and unhappy and our good metal shovel's handle is now broken from chipping away at that ice. They gave him $40 rather than $30 because they felt bad about the shovel, but basically we have to go out this weekend and buy a new shovel and probably some more de-icing agent to get through the next storms. Sigh.

Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:50     Subject: Re:what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Even when our neighborhood had competing groups of kids that would shovel for money - we still had a lot of houses that never shoveled the sidewalk. The same people who are too lazy or irresponsible to shovel themself are not going to pay someone to do it. And certainly not be willing to pay enough to handle this kind of storm. Do not blame the kids for irresponsible adults.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:50     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.



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.


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
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:42     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.



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.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:41     Subject: Re:what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
My kid has been socking earned money (part-time job) away in his Roth since several years. He will not be going to be shoveling snow for $20.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:41     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Sunday and part of Monday was ok to shovel. Today is impossible with the ice crust. Whatever we shoveled Sunday made Monday worse with the late night sleet.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:39     Subject: what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:My teen was doing homework. And it’s too physically taxing for them anyway. It’s really not safe for anyone to do it for risk of heart attacks.


I was the last poster who shoveled my own driveway over 2 days. My watch said I burned about 1900 calories over the course of 8 hours (could be nonsense, but you get the idea). It's taxing, but it's by no means "not safe" for younger/generally healthy individuals.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 15:35     Subject: Re:what is wrong with modern kids and no motivation to shovel?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine would rather go sledding and hang out with their friends. It's still a snow day for them and they are still kids. They want to enjoy it. 20 years from now, those are the memories they will remember, not earning $40-50 for two hours of hard manual labor.


this


Same here with my early teenager. Gone sledding with friends.