If you read my about me page you will read that I grew up in Florida and I absolutely loved it. I absolutely love the sun and can’t stand the cold rain and snow. As you know I lived up north for a while but could not stand it so that is why I moved permanently back to Florida. I am never going to move back up north again unless I find someway to become a billionaire that can just fly back to the sun every weekend. I have my fingers crossed. It will happen.
Anyway my first venture was a lot of fun. I was one of those kids that always had a lemonade stand at the end of my driveway.
We had a carnival that would come to town every year. My parents would let us go on the first day because it was kids get in for free day and they would give us $20 for rides and after that they would not spend any more for us to go on rides.
So I had to get creative and find ways to make money so I could keep going on rides. My favorite ride was the zipper and I needed to keep finding ways of going on that ride. You could say I was addicted to the ride. And their was an entrance fee each day to the carnival but we were luck enough to live so close to it that they would let give us free passes for the whole week. That was awesome. So all we had to do was earn enough money just for the rides and food.
Yes we did the old fashioned lemonade stand. My mom would buy the Country Time lemonade powder for us and that was it. Actually she also would buy the cups and help us make the lemonade. Other than that we did the rest all by ourselves.
The people we would to sell to was amazing. You had the cranky old people that would complain we are selling it for too much but still buy. Then you had the people that would just plain say no and then their were the people that would stop their car in the middle of the street and buy a couple of cups because they remember doing a lemonade stand as a kid. But every now and then you would get the awesome person that would just come buy and give us twenty or thirty dollars because they loved that we were earning money to go on rides. They were the best ones and some day I want to be like that.
But those lemonade stands were my first exposure to making money for myself. It was fun and I learned a lot from it. Now i work for Seattle Water Damage. Thanks for reading this post!
