Posts Tagged ‘earning’

You can’t out-frugal your way to being rich!

August 5th, 2010

One of the reasons my kids get their pocket money only every now and then is that there isn’t always enough money to go around. I have always maintained a very tight grip on my wallet, which is great – as far as it goes. Once more I refer to the great Ramit, here he is guest posting on the Man vs Debt blog :

to make 2010 the Year of Earning More. The past 7 months have been dedicated to helping people earn more money by earning more on the side, and the response so far has been massive. Hundreds of thousands of people read, commented, and Tweeted and otherwise chimed in on earning more. Everyone wants to make more money.

Great enthusiasm — but there’s just one thing wrong with this…

Most people who say they WANT to earn more… never will.

I have been as guilty of this as the next person. Take a look at this blog – it has been almost six months since my last post! This is a project to earn and learn (as my daughter would say – that’s a programme she is doing at school this term!) However I have managed to spend six months waffling about a new webhost, which plugins should I run and even questioning the very name of this project! All well and good points to consider for an hour or two, but this is silly.

My challenge to you, to all of us, is to get started on earning those extra dollars that mean our children can have regular pocket money! What are you going to try first?

A billion dollars in pocket money and no chores?

November 27th, 2009

Last week’s papers carried a story that estimated Australian children are being paid one billion dollars in pocket money (allowance) each year – and they have to do very little to get it.

Kids clean up in a billion-dollar industry [SMH]: AUSTRALIAN parents are spending more than $1 billion on pocket money a year but children are expected to do far less around the house in return … experts say [chores] are important in developing life skills

This story illustrates the problems when parents don’t consider the philosophy of pocket money. Take the time to think and discuss your own philosophy to handing over the cash.
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Only $10 for the non-venomous ones

October 23rd, 2009

To celebrate my first two paid posts over at @neerav’s Rambling Thoughts Blog, a very interesting friend of ours took us to yum-cha lunch today. Yes, he went all out and ordered the crab.

As we talked briefly about developing my blog, the conversation turned to how (let’s call him ‘Barry’) Barry used to earn money as a kid. He spoke of interminable summers of being dragged along to regional test cricket games (which take, literally, days) – which gave Barry a healthy dislike for all things cricket.

To get away from the very slow pace of test cricket, Barry and his mates would catch snakes for Eric Worrell. They would get paid twenty dollars for each snake, but only ten dollars for the non-venomous ones!

My jaw just about hit the table when I heard Barry talk about this. So it made me wonder – what is the craziest way you ever earned money as a kid?