How can a 10-year old make money in a short time?

Question

My friend's sis is desperate-she's 10 years old and she NEEDS to earn $100 in exactly 2 weeks. She has a friend to help her-anyone... anything... please! she's bugging me! (Remember, she's only 10 years old, and she can't babysit and someone else took the place to be the paper delivery girl!)

Her parents know about it, but her mom and dad said "you have to learn to stop borrowing money from us and learn to earn your own!"
*I asked her what she wanted to do and she told me she didn't want anyone to know*

Answer 1

Tell her to set up a table on her front lawn (if she doesn't live in an apartment) and have a yard sale to sell some of her old toys that she doesn't want anymore. If she doesn't have old toys, there's always the good old lemonade stand.

Answer 2

There is no age requirement for holding a sale or temporary business. Lemonade stands, garage sales, yard sales, buy-and-sell (limited profit) businesses, etc. Another outlet is privately run odd jobs like a house-cleaning service, a pet care service, a general assisting service, etc. There are lots of ways to earn money even when you don't qualify for employment. If you break it down, $100 in 2 weeks means $50 in one week, and about $7.15 a day so all she would need to pull in is $0.30 an hour. Not exactly a hard job to do considering that most people can make that amount of money in 5 minutes. Tell her about these tips. It will help.

Answer 3

well it depends where you live whitch i live in a place where there is a lot of elderly people so they cant get out a lot it is harder for them so if it is in the winter on a snowey day you can see if you can shovel the snow off of the sidewalk or you can do a lot of things in the summer like you can do a bake sale lemonade stand you can even sell some vegies you can only if you have enough money already you can make some rainbow loom braclets then sale them i would not do baby sitting because a lot of children dont listen to ten year olds so that is out of my question you can see if you can do a car wash a garage sale a yard sale put stuff in pond do work on peoples compurter/apple divice if you can see i fyou can take a hat and sing/play instrament out in the middle, of somewhere with a lot of people and try to get people to give you money you can even mow the lawn if you can tell me some ways to get money please help me saving up 500 dollars need help only got 3 dollars 496 dollars to go hope it helped

Answer 4

Mowing the grass. It doesn't sound fun, but believe me in the summer time if you tell someone you'll mow their lawn for $10, chances are they'll let you. Also, bake sales work well if you can find a good place since the batter is so cheap and she can have her parents help her bake them.
Another thing would be a car-wash. You would need an initial investment of about $5 to $10 for soap and sponges, but you can make about $10 per car. Put up signs and have people come to you so you can use your own water hose. Good luck.

Answer 5

You would not Believe how much Stuff People have in Their Garages......
She can Offer to clean their Garages Straighten it out & in Return (Take the Stuff that they do not want)
Hold a Garage Sale / Supervised of Course...
Even on Trash Day (People throw away good items that she can Sale therei as well & they are Free)
At the same time at the Gargae Sale (depeninding on the Weather) Sale water, Lemomade, Cookies Etc.....
No one can say no to a 10-little Girl

She can also offer to walk the Neighbors Dogs (For a Small Fee)

Help an Elderly Woman in her Home to Clean House (Minor Stuff) Supervised

Take out the Neighbores Trash cans once aweek (Small Fee)

Help pull out weeds on Front Yard if they do not have a Gardner.....for a Small Fee
Also she can water their Plants once a week.....

Beleive me I know from Expericences (My Daughter is now 18 & works at a Clothing Store & Local Jamba Juice as well)
She Loves to work & earn her own Money...
She also goes to College as well & Lives @ Home...

Hope that this will Help out in someway....
Good Luck {:

Answer 6

Make some posters advertising jobs your sister can do, such as mowing lawns, walking dogs, etc and pass out to trusted neighbors or relatives. I'd press little sis a bit harder about why she is so desperate to earn $100, hopefully she is not in any kind of trouble.

Answer 7

Here are some helpful tips:
*If she's good at stories: Have her write books or make newspapers about what's going on in her street or a magazine. Magazines and books are easy! Simply take out paper and start brainstorming and write! Recommened cost per magazine: 50 cents or more.
*If she's excellent in math or other school stuff: Even though she's a kid, she can still tutor.
*Take the trash to her local recycling and trash center and gain money that way! (Cash!)
*If she is good at baking or cooking: Have an outside "restuarant", or offer to sell goodies or food to others.
*If she's good at making shirts: Have her create neat tees and sell them for about $2.67 or more ea.
I hope my helpful tips could help others, too!

Answer 8

If you have a consignment shop near you (i.e. Plato's Closet) have her take all of her old clothes items there. Make sure she brings a lot though. Shoes, purses, pants, tops, anything. It's a great way to make fast cash and clean out the closet.

Answer 9

i'm not sure what a 10 year old should be spending that much money on without a parent knowing. and if the parent knew that the kid needed the money then the parent would either give it to them or say that it's not needed to get by.


well now knowing that her parents knwo about it then they obviously dont' think she needs it. unless they're just saying that to get her to do normal kid stuff, chores to earn money. But you worded it weird......10 year old kids don't borrow money from their parents, they get it. This is what's sketchy

Answer 10

newspaper delivering mowing the lawns in the neighborhood , selling lemonade , fixing bicycles for your neighbors walking Dogs in the neighborhood cleaning your neighbors swimming pools etc. you get the idea