Oh, look. It’s snowing… again.

by jolyn on February 16, 2010

in Home Repair

Excuse me while I dig up the dead horse to beat it yet again, but snow has thrust itself into the Common Theme category around here and I just can’t escape it.

The driveway is buried in there, somewhere. At least the city plowed the street overnight…

Live Update:

  • Number of School Snow Days: 3
  • Number of Times Shoveling the Driveway: 4
  • Number of Dollars Divvied Out to Teenage Labor: 40
  • Number of pinkies injured while shoveling: 1

Conner and his fellow eighth-grade friend had this Grand Plan to go around with a snow plow and really rake in the bucks shoveling neighbors’ driveways. That is, until they discovered they couldn’t push the plow through the deep, dense, impacted snow.

They’re still making some Snow Day bucks, just not so quickly.

The going rate?

Seems to be $20 a driveway, or $10 a piece. Halve that if you’re me.

Hey, I got a budget here, people. And I didn’t factor any of these entrepreneurial spirits into it.

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Forest February 17, 2010 at 4:35 am

Ha ha, let’s hope he takes the entrepreneurial spirit into adulthood..

Thanks,
Forest.
http://frugalzeitgeist.com

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Emily February 16, 2010 at 9:49 pm

I shoveled about a foot and a half off our driveway last week. It took me an hour and a half. It was awful…I would’ve been obliged to pay those two stinkers $20 to get it done in half the time! ha

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jaime February 16, 2010 at 3:51 pm

My son is only 6….I can’t wait until he’s old enough to shovel….

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