To let the kids setup a lemonade stand?

[Thenonstopcleaner]

DS and DD 9 & 7 are begging me to allow them to set up a lemonade stand this weekend. Some little kids on our street were selling their toys the other day just for pocket money and we bought some bits from them. So I am guessing this is where the idea has came from! I have said the only way I will let them do it is if the money goes to charity.
Both not happy about that at all! But that’s the only way.

Im not 100% keen on the idea and I know DH will flat out say no. Is it a bit cruel to say no?They aren’t very confident kids so I think it would be great for them.

(I remember painting nails for 20p out the front at a kid but everyone seemed much kinder back then).

For me the ‘grabby’ aspect lies in it being potentially people you know (neighbours) walking past and feeling obliged.

Why not? Why would you teach your children not to either? I don’t get it.

You bought toys from the other kids. They will probably buy a lemonade from your’s.
Maybe a few other people will out of kindness. They would where I live.
Kids love this sort of thing. It will keep them busy.
MN is such a downer sometimes.
And give the money to charity? Why?

I think it’s cute and would buy something just to support them, but it’s probably because I’m old 😂

As said above, it’s only something I’ve seen in Snoopy cartoons.

Aw don’t quash their entrepreneurial spirit!

Have you got any grapes?

My kids did this, with a sign saying they wanted sweets money 😂they were always successful. Let them crack on.

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I always buy a small cup of luke warm lemonade with a bit of twig or leaf in it if I see kids selling it from a stand

Best one was last summer, it was very hot, on Lindisfarne.

Nooooo I wanted to be the first one to say this hahaha

Forgot to say I used to do this with my friends when I was little in the 70s, in South London. So this isnt new for people seemingly baffled by it.

And also selling 'perfume' which was some water, in an old jam jar with squashed up rose petals.

Yes let them!
It sounds a lot of fun for them.

Most people don’t have cash so I doubt they’ll get any customers which will be a shame.

If you’re really friendly with your neighbours then I’d personally give them some change and ask that they use it to buy the lemonade.

I was replying to @XDownwiththissortofthingX who seemed to think OP's children would need to register with HMRC otherwise they would be tax dodgers
My point was that they wouldn't be making enough to tip them over their personal allowance - if they were, that would be a much bigger business than what the OP's young children are suggesting!

Some kids near us did this last summer. It was very sweet and I bought some lemonade. That was also for charity.

No tax if it’s for charity!

Who the hell is going to buy a drink from random kids on the street?! I wouldn't be encouraging this.

I’d buy it off the sweet little girl next door. But I also bbq with them and trade fruit and veg for eggs and juice…

Some children have had a lemonade stand next to the shops along our road over the last few weeks and have been a real menace. There is a group of about five children aged from about 7-15, and they accost everyone who walks past, as they go into the shops and when they come out again, and are quite rude to people when they don’t buy a drink. The stall is at a crossroads by a mini roundabout so cars tend to be slowing down when they get to the stall. They have a big sign by the side of the road and at least one of the older children jumps out at every car as it slows down, holding a sign - it’s a wonder that they haven’t been injured. From what I’ve seen sticking out of the bags by the side of their stall, it looks like they're buying the really cheap bottles of lemonade for 85p from Sainsbury’s and selling it in little paper cups for £1 a time. Not surprisingly they don’t seem to get many customers! 😆

Apologies for misreading 💐

Yes I've bought lemonade from a kids stand before.

When i was young my younger friend (a lad) and I used to do loads of jigsaws so we set them all up completed in his Mums dining room and charged kids 5p to come in and view them. We called it our Jigsaw Exhibition.

A bit of proactive entrepreneurial thinking by young kids should be encouraged.

Making 'rose perfume' by dead heading his long suffering Mums best red roses and mixing them with water to make rose perfume to sell was a stretch too far though......

I wouldn't do this idea especially these days but people can just walk past they dont have to feel obliged this need to think or say no seems harder each year

Highly unlikely but what if someone got sick what are the plans then?

Our neighbour has
started
posting on the street WhatsApp group - DD has set up a lemonade stall. But unclear if it is for charity or herself. Why anyone would buy homemade lemonade from a young child is beyond
me.

Aww rose petal perfume. I remember fondly making this. It smelt like vomit after a few days. I suspect you’re supposed to suspend it in something oil based, but we only had lukewarm tap water.

Yes YABU let them forget it and move on the next fad