It’s SUMMER!
Kids are out of school and home for three months.
No homework. No set time to wake up. No-thing productive for them to do for three long, long, l-o-n-g months.
If your kids are not into sports, dance, or take any type of class, what do you do to keep them off the couch playing video games all day?
Buy a storage unit online as a family!
Think about it. You want your kids to LEARN the value of a DOLLAR.
But you can’t seem to squeeze that information into their heads.
They have to experience it!
Your children are too young to legally work so they expect hand-outs. Lemon-aid stands are a thing of the past. Time to get those young ones to understand hard work without letting them know they are working.
Get everyone involved, each child including the parents. The whole family can surf through VirtualStorageAuction.com for a storage unit together.
Find a storage unit everyone likes and one you can afford. Bid. Win.
Go as a family to CLEAN OUT that locker. That’s right. Give every child a broom or dustpan and as a family clean the unit. Everyone helps load the merchandise onto a truck. Kids can do the small stuff.
Bring the stuff home and get everyone involved in sorting through the merchandise.
So, what’s in it for the kids?
A share in the profits. Don’t grimace. This isn’t about a side business or a supplement to your income. This is about teaching your children the process of work and reward.
Now it’s possible and probable your kids might find items inside that locker they want to keep for themselves. You may allow each of them to keep “one” item. The rest of the merchandise is up for sale.
Host a YARD SALE!
Each child, under supervision of course, must help with the yard sale. If your children like flea markets, that’s a venue you may use as well. Depends on the age of your kids and what they can handle or are willing to handle.
The kids can help put signs up throughout the neighborhood while you post the yard sale on Craigslist.
This is a fun family project for the summer.
What if you don’t make a profit? Then split what you do make with the kids just the same. Let them know there wasn’t a profit, but each may take an equal share in what you did earn in reselling the merchandise.
If you can’t afford a summer vacation trip, then create your own summer vacation fun.
Your children will learn a life lesson, the value of a dollar and that it takes time and effort to make a buck.
This cannot be taught, only experienced. You want your kids to have fun this summer? You want to teach them that money does not grow on trees? (I can’t believe I just used that old tired phrase, but it works here.)
Have your own summer vacation trip by buying a storage unit online. Your kids will have something unique to talk about when they go back to school in the fall.
“How I spent my summer — my family bought a storage unit, like on Storage Wars!”
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John T.
November 18, 2014 at 2:17 PM
I will have to pass this tip on to my mother in law for next summer. She is always looking for things to do in the warmer months since her husband went into a care center. She likes having garage sales and it gives her extra money to do things she enjoys with the grand-kids.