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Post by melodyesch on Jul 18, 2017 21:20:26 GMT
My niece is coming to stay with me next week and is trying to save money for Disney. She is 12.5. She will be with me all week but I'll be working from home all day. I thought I would make a list of things she can do to help me around the house with a dollar value attached. She can choose to do some, all, or none. But I have no idea how much to attach to different things like:
load the dishwasher
vacuum our tiny living room
sweep dining room
mop dining room
fold and put away towels
clean the bathroom tub
dust the living room
make the beds
any suggestions? I was thinking maybe 2 dollars per small item (say 15 min or less chore) and 3 dollars per chore that's a little longer.
BTW, I'm going to give her $100 from us to spend at Disney but she won't know that until the end of the week. So I want the chores to kind of be more in line to what they are worth and not just to give her money. I don't have kids so don't know anything really about this kind of stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 22:16:00 GMT
$2 is more than generous for those little chores. I would be getting some serious deep cleaning done.
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 18, 2017 22:26:49 GMT
Ibtils my older boy if he wanted to do the working a house cleaner, I would pay him as such. $120 for 3 hours, but he had a list and all of it had to be complete to get paid.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 18, 2017 22:38:42 GMT
I think I might do a little less for the smaller chores that take almost no time, but a little more for the things that take more time or effort and try to find more of those jobs for her to do. I would figure out a rough hourly wage and base the value on how much time each task should take. So if you wanted to give her $8 an hour and a task takes 15 minutes it would be worth $2, a task that normally takes 45 minutes would be worth $6. I would also make sure she knows that everything needs to be done well so she's not just rushing through doing a sloppy job to get a bigger payday.
Around here we would add:
pick up sticks in the yard, pull weeds or deadhead plants
clean the dog nose art from the patio door/windows w/water and a Norwex cloth
clean bathroom mirrors and shower doors
help prep dinner
collect and take out trash and recycling
dust or vacuum lampshades
shake out kitchen or area rugs
sweep out the garage
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Post by kels99 on Jul 19, 2017 0:12:35 GMT
I say you're the auntie, so you're allowed to spoil her a bit and pay more than someone would pay their own kid.  |
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jul 19, 2017 1:37:56 GMT
I say you're the auntie, so you're allowed to spoil her a bit and pay more than someone would pay their own kid.  I also think that the chores you hate the most are worth more than the chores you don't mind. I actually don't mind loading the dishwasher but I hate unloading it. Cleaning the bathroom tub would be an automatic twenty bucks from me, I hate it that much. (But I did buy that supposed magic cleaner from Amazon so we'll see.) I've got an extra $10 for you if you scrub the floor near the toilet while you're down there. And I don't know what your living room looks like, but I have a ton of knick knacks around, so while dusting's an easy chore, it'd be kind of labor intensive in my place. |
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