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I've been letting one of my friends kids ride our bikes for a couple years. I've got 2 XR50s that I bought for $500 each. Those little bikes have been ridden so much, they owe us nothing! He's been saving money collecting cans.
He just turned 7 and wants a KX65. I have a de-tuned kx65 for my 5 year old. The poor kid can handle it just fine. My friend is one of those poor/broke/cheap as hell small farmers. They don't make much. It's not worth saving cans, but there's at least 6 households collecting cans for him so it does add up. GoFundMe is bs and not an option to actually EARN it. Basically we are looking for ways a 7 year old can earn money.
I've pretty much done everything I can besides buying the kid a bike to take home.
I have extra gear that I bought for my 5 yr old nephew, so that helps.
He's not ready to mow grass.
Any ideas for a kid that young to earn it? He probably needs another $700 plus future income for parts. Nothing needed for labor.
He just turned 7 and wants a KX65. I have a de-tuned kx65 for my 5 year old. The poor kid can handle it just fine. My friend is one of those poor/broke/cheap as hell small farmers. They don't make much. It's not worth saving cans, but there's at least 6 households collecting cans for him so it does add up. GoFundMe is bs and not an option to actually EARN it. Basically we are looking for ways a 7 year old can earn money.
I've pretty much done everything I can besides buying the kid a bike to take home.
I have extra gear that I bought for my 5 yr old nephew, so that helps.
He's not ready to mow grass.
Any ideas for a kid that young to earn it? He probably needs another $700 plus future income for parts. Nothing needed for labor.
It was a lot of work on my end also to help them be successful.
The Shop
https://youtu.be/FGS5TllmBDQ
People will pay a cute kid to do anything they dont want to do. And theres lots of shit us adults dont wanna do
At about his age, I raised quail on our small farm. I sold quail eggs, pickled quail eggs and then the birds themselves for food. Quail eggs have great nutritional value. And are sold for a great profit.
They don't take up much space, are pretty hardy birds and relatively cheap to feed/raise. I got to the point where I had an incubator and raised birds from eggs. You can also buy them as chicks if you don't want to mess with incubators and brooders. I was a bored farm kid, no cable tv. internet or video games in the 70's so I did it all along with normal chores for the cows and horses.
When I got to be about 10-11 I started raising pigs and selling them as well.
OK, kidding.
Do they pay the flaggers at your local track? Can he sell candy bars?
At the moment they only milk 2 cows and have 28 head total. That's it for livestock currently, unless you count dogs and Barn cats.
They used to make thier own cheese, and sell raw milk by the gallon until it got over- regulated cutting profits big time. Selling bulk milk is a joke for small farms these days because there's no money in it.
Pit Row
If you took him to a local nursery or garden center, they would likely donate the plastic flats needed to start. It's possible they may even donate some of the seeds he needs to start. Tell them the story and I would be hard pressed to think they wouldn't help however possible with some startup donations.
If he planted the seeds and grew them out for a few weeks, he could easily sell those for $2-$5 each (depending on what it is). could sell by knocking on neighbors doors, local garden center, etc. One step further might be to offer planting services for additional cost if he can sell directly to the end users.
If he needs $700, a dozen or so flats of started plants would easily cover that.
that needs a complete engine rebuild, chain, sprockets, and a couple odds and ends for $400. The suspension was recently re-built, and it came with a nice set of spare plastic. Cylinder is good. It stopped running because of a poorly rigged air filter set up and too much up and down play in the bottom end. I got the engine disassembled. Waiting on $300 worth of parts. For $700 total it'll be a really nice yellow bike for a kid named Eli with a big number 3 on it.
I'll add a couple pics later. It looks rough, but will clean up nice.
Just don't teach him to use those silly asian racist terms and he should learn a lot of great things riding with you and your family!
When you work on the bike, show Eli what your doing!
It will help him to learn to take care of his bike & teach him some skills!
To many of the kids today couldn't even put oil in own car, God forbid they have to change a tire or a belt.
I installed the nice plates to surprise him when the kids were in the pool out back. The kid was happy as could be with the bike. Put a washer in the exhaust to tame it down for now.
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