Comments on: When Life Gives You Synchronicity…

By: Detcord

Detcord — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:26:30 +0000

CIDU Bill (12)

There are only 2 ways to get to Jersey, boat or small plane.

OH! I’ll bet you mean NEW Jersey, and not the much older British island just off the coast of France - from which I presume New Jersey gets its name…

By: bAT L.

bAT L. — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:26:47 +0000

When I was a kid, my friend from across the hall and I set up a Koolaid stand in a neighbor’s yard, but I always saved my money, so it was more of just setting up a stand for the experience. We even made signs for it, but nobody believed that us kids drew the pictures on it for some reason. We made enough to cover the materials, even after drinking most of the product for ourselves, but it wasn’t a whole lot of money. I think we spent it all on candy anyway.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:16:07 +0000

Nate @6… The dads do that because the kids are bored and tend to stay indoors. They want their kids out of the house. Also because they want their kids to understand the value of hard work… but mainly, they just want them out of the house.

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:43:34 +0000

There’s a huge weekend air show in central Jersey, with almost 200,000 showing up each year, and everybody gets there by way of rural roads designed for the tiniest fraction of this number. Needless to say, the traffic situation is well beyond nightmare status.

Kids who set up lemonade (and food) stands in their front yards along these roads make money hand over fist.

By: Molly J

Molly J — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:32:37 +0000

Our town used to host the local Gus Macker basketball tournaments one weekend every year in the park right behind our house. The usual food stands were there charging $3 for a bottle of water.

We went to WalMart and bought several cases of water which we put in our ice cooler and my son set up a stand on our sidewalk *just* outside the Macker and sold them at the far more reasonable cost of $1 each. He made more than $50.

By: Kilby

Kilby — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:43:12 +0000

Rebecca (3) - I vaguely recall setting up a stand once or twice as a kid, but the take was never that impressive (and probably would not have covered the actual costs of the raw materials). On the other hand, a few years ago I saw a stand in a particular Washington suburb on a very warm spring day during cherry blossom season (with lots of tourists taking pictures), and the kids seemed to be doing very brisk business.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:10:19 +0000

Mark, there is a difference between selling a legal substance and an illegal one, isn’t there? And the occasional kid does get busted for running a lemonade stand — but it’s rare enough that when it happens, it gets written up in the newspaper and mockery ensues.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:06:12 +0000

In most places, to sell food you need a permit and inspections by the board of health and maybe the USDA. This would apply to an adult setting up a lemonade stand. They’d bust the adult. So should they bust the kid?

If they DON’T shut down the kid setting up a lemonade stand, what about the kid selling marijuana on the next block?

By: AaronB

AaronB — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:56:39 +0000

There’s this more recent story too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20012899-504083.html

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:00:54 +0000

One thing I never get…why are comic strip dads always after their pre-teen kids to “get a job”? How many 11-year-olds are bringing home a paycheck?