To think dd1 is a bit of a con artist?

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I started Avon, well, it was dd1 who was more interested in it. She begged me to let her do it.

In the end I agreed she could drop off the books, collect them from people we know, I will help her collect the rest and I will take the orders out with her. We will halve the money.

She got her books today. As soon as she put them in the bag she says "Dd2, you carry the bag and post them through the doors. I will write in this book, that's the important bit you see, for carrying the bag I will give you a quarter of the money, unless that is more than £5 then I will give you £5, so you might get 5 whole pounds just for carrying the bag, that's a paper money you know, the blue one, your favourite one"

you just wish you had thought of it dont you? dont quell that, she will keep you in your old age!o

No, that is what I call wise delegation skills!

Haha, my elder sister used to do similar to me with tidying her room! It was absolutely awful but I wanted money that I didn't get!

Just think of it as enterprising skills

She's going to be rich when she grows up.

''she will keep you in your old age!''

She won't! She'll tell you off and give you budgeting advice from her yacht.

Move over Lord Sugar and Richard Branson

That's the kind of thing my brother used to do to me.
He is loaded now, I am not

Oh dear. Dd2 has been fired for refusing to carry the bag.

She's gone back with our wheely shopping bag thingy to ask if she can have her job back if she wheels the books instead of carrying them.

That is brilliant. She'll be a shrewd businessman when she grows up.

How old are your girls OP, they sound so cute and so much fun!

Dd1 will be 10 in December, dd2 is 6.

Dd1 is very pennywise and always coming up with new ways to make money. Not long ago she was trying to train our terrier to do somersaults on command, she was going to charge her friends 50p each to watch her 'circus dog'

Dd2 does love a fiver. I often have to swap her higher value notes to stop her selling a £20 note to dd1 for a fiver

"Dd2 does love a fiver. I often have to swap her higher value notes to stop her selling a £20 note to dd1 for a fiver."

Bless her! DD2, not DD1.

Not quite as enterprising but a long time ago I managed to sever the top of my finger in my granny's attic window. Amazingly enough (early 70's) they sewed it back on very neatly. The dressings had to be changed twice daily and as my friends were all desperate to have a look I charged them 2p a viewing! Pretty good going aged 8 I'd say!

DS1 aged 5, at the time, made cakes one Saturday afternoon whilst at Nanny's.....then sold them back to her!!
Then aged 14 and at boarding school used to go to a 'pound' type shop, spend his pocket money on 3 for £1 pot noodles/chocolate/crisps then sell them at a mark-up in the boarding house!! The Housemaster said that if the others were too lazy to walk the 10 minutes to the shop they deserved to lose out!!
Unfortunately he peaked too soon in the entrepreneurial stakes

Get your daughter signed up for the apprentice!