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ways for a 13 year old to make money

  • 14-07-2014 12:35pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14


    Hey a guys im just wondering where or how a 13 year old could earn money. This has to be in ireland. I cant get a job as im only 13. I also live in the country side and all my neighbours are old or have holiday hones near us. Any at all suggestions would be greatly appreciated



    Thanks again


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Set up your own little business, if you can continue it and push sales while still in school all the better. Doesn't have to be anything serious now as I'm assuming you don't have any bills or rent to pay and just want a bit of disposable income. You can look into it on the rainy days of the summer holidays and maybe have something set up by September. The better days you should be getting your vitamin D outside of course :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    Fair play to you, what about a paper round or help with a milk or bread round.

    Good luck anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭The Dagda


    Cutting grass.
    Dog walking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Round our way, our young lads used to make a few bob in the summer by going round the neighbours with our lawnmower and offering to cut grass. They swept it up and removed it afterwards, etc.
    They got quite a bit of repeat business, from satisfied customers. Of course, they did it in pairs, and we gave them plenty of advice about very simple gardening (and also streetwise behaviour.)

    What are you good at? Can you play a musical instrument? (possibly teach, or perform at weddings, funerals, celebrations etc)

    You are too young to take a stall at a market but could you offer a few home made "somethings" to a stallholder to sell for you?

    What about mending things: bicycles, clothing or machines...you might be handy with mobile phones or laptops...

    Another of our sons had a holiday business with his friend - at age 10 - washing cars. They brought a bucket and sponge to your own driveway, charged a fiver for a thorough wash and rinse. More to pay for drying by hand and tidying interior, etc - they actually printed a price list!

    (It would be worth more now, with Water Charges on the way)

    Just a few ideas - think of safety, and play to your strengths!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Do you have a lawnmower? Most people hate cutting their grass


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Ya as a kid I was cutting grass, doing odd jobs for the neighbours, selling strawberrys on the side of the road,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭Chattastrophe!


    It could be worth offering a free "first session" of cleaning, ironing, lawn-mowing, odd jobs, whatever you're willing to do.

    There's no reason a thirteen year old couldn't iron a basket of clothes or mow a lawn every bit as well as an adult. And many adults would be very willing to pay a decent rate to get that sort of thing done. However if you do it free the first time, you're proving that you can do it and that you can do it well.

    One thing I would say - if you're going to go door-to-door offering services, I know that - personally - if I were to get someone so young to do work for me, it would be good if they had a signed letter from their parents consenting to it, along with contact details for the parents in case of an emergency. Something to keep in mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    And nothing dangerous. I've have lads your age around my way offering to clean windows with a ladder they've got. I'm not letting them near the windows. Imagine the bloody insurance and legal issues if one of them fell off. (Two storey house).
    I did hire one of them to clean the kitchen and living room. It was a mess after a party. At €10 per hour. €20 later I had a presentable house.
    OP, do bear in mind, that you're open to being exploited - so don't say yes to something you're unsure of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    Saving turf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    cormie wrote: »
    Set up your own little business, if you can continue it and push sales while still in school all the better. Doesn't have to be anything serious now as I'm assuming you don't have any bills or rent to pay and just want a bit of disposable income. You can look into it on the rainy days of the summer holidays and maybe have something set up by September. The better days you should be getting your vitamin D outside of course :D

    Bit late for this year but if you have a patch of land you could grow some veg and sell it to your neighbours.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭blinkey 101




    What about this ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    You could call into the nearest farmer and ask.Back when I was your age,spud picking was all the rage.Now its all automated but there are plenty other things that they might need you for.You would have a good chance at grass cutting,the more houses nearby,better the chance.
    You could also get yourself a few hens and sell the eggs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,912 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    katemarch wrote: »
    Round our way, our young lads used to make a few bob in the summer by going round the neighbours with our lawnmower and offering to cut grass. They swept it up and removed it afterwards, etc.
    They got quite a bit of repeat business, from satisfied customers.
    katemarch wrote: »
    Another of our sons had a holiday business with his friend - at age 10 - washing cars. They brought a bucket and sponge to your own driveway, charged a fiver for a thorough wash and rinse. More to pay for drying by hand and tidying interior, etc - they actually printed a price list!

    These 2, I did both as a kid.
    In the Summer grass grows like mad, so you can visit the houses again in 2-3 weeks time.
    You can knock out a fair few houses in 1 day....easily make up to 100 a day.

    The cars is also great, and you can ask for a lend of their hoover if they'd like the inside thoroughly cleaned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭SterlingArcher


    First make some money doing odd jobs. Then you go on donedeal adverts. Look for good deals ideally computer games for cheap. Ps3 Xbox. Buy for 10 Euro sell for 20 around the area rinse and repeat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭wandererz


    Ask yourself what you are good at?

    For example:
      are you artistic,
      1. can you draw,
      2. do you like stuff
      3. what stuff do you like
      4. what kind of stuff that YOU like can you bring to the modern world

      For example, the toys that kids play with. Can they be made on a 3D printer?
      What else can be made on one?

      There are now loads of modern day examples.

      Perhaps start looking at what we used to do in one way and now start to think about how we can do things with modern technology such as 3D printing and other technologies.

      It could be as simple as a toy that everyone can print in their home, or that YOU could print and paint for themselves.
      Indeed, it could be MUCH more complex than that.

      For example, do you have an XBOX Kinect sensor?

      You could become the first one in your area or indeed this country to offer 3D portraits for people......


    • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 AnonEmos99


      You could go dog-walking. Or make a YouTube vlog.


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