Fun Ways Teens Can Earn Money this Summer

Get Started With a Pet Setting Service

Communication is key to cornering the market as the best pet sitter in town and doing so may cause the pet's family to add bonus tips or gifts to your fee.  Provide those you are sitting for with your cell phone number.  Offer to share Snapchat users and let them know you will provide them with videos of their beloved pet(s) while they are away. Videos are a big plus. This alone is priceless as it takes away the stress and worry of the pet owner.  If they do not have Snapchat offer to show them how. 

1. Pet owners have to pay kennels a lot of money to keep their pets in a cage for days with other loud upset pets missing their owners and the comforts of home. Any pet owner will tell you they'd much rather take their pets with them when they travel or leave them at home.  
2. It is hard for adults to work up the nerve to ask a family member or friend to watch over their pet one more time while their away.  You can remove this stress by offering a pet sitting service this summer.  
3. Make up a flyer or card to hand out to your neighbors.  Go door to door explaining to them about the service you're offering, asking them if they have a pet. This gives you the opportunity to know who your client is by eliminating people who don't have pets.  
4. If they do ask to meet their pet. This gives you the chance to show the pet owner you love animals and that their pet bonds with you.
5. Keeping a pet at home is less stressful for the pet owner and pet. Plus it saves them money as boarding costs are high.  
6. Do your homework. Have a safety plan and outline your awareness of pet safety and that keeping their pet safe in their home is of the utmost importance to you.
7. Most pet owners will tell you their biggest fear is that a pet sitter may let their pet out and get lost. Take every precaution to eliminate any possibility of this.

The Services to Offer - Be careful to take note of the pet owner's instructions, each pet is unique and requires the care outlined by the pet owner.

The Variety of Pets 

• Fish Feeding - People with fish tanks need their fish fed and looked after.
• Dogs, Cats, Hamsters, Birds, Rabbits, Turtles all need care, food, and water.

Building your reputation as a great pet caretaker will spread like wildfire and soon you will be enjoying a very fun and rewarding summer making a good flow of money.

Be careful to save your money. You no doubt will enjoy spending it and yet you will do well to develop a habit of saving. This makes certain you always have money saved and stocked up earning you interest and allowing you to pay for anything that comes up.

Regardless if you're a parent or teen reading this there's one quick way to start a fight between you, that's your room!  Am I right?  

Do your parent's veins pop out their neck and head when they walk into your room?  Or do they avoid it at all costs?  This is not good because it could mean they have given up on you. This is something you don't want to happen and yet if it has far too many times, so let's end the madness.  I'm going to teach you one killer way to work it to your advantage.

You can score some major points with your parents redeeming yourself and your wallet. Let's move on to learn how your messy bedroom can earn you pocket money for fun in the summer! But first, we take a look at the best way to earn money this summer by providing an age-old service every adult will love.

Clean your room, organize the items that no longer spark joy, and drop them off at places like Plato's Closet, they buy used clothes. Half-Priced books will buy your books. Old childhood toys can be sold to Once Upon a Child or other consignment stores in your area. Or donate items to charity.

Taking charge of your life and showing independence feels good, it as after all that you want right, your freedom and independence?  You want to do what you want to do am I right?  The reality of this is it takes money!  Learning to earn money is hands down one of the most vital skills you will ever learn.  It's really hard for parents because they know as long as they keep handing money and things over to you, you won't learn to provide for yourself and succeed in life.  They want you to succeed and have what it takes to earn the money you need.

Let's devise our plan to do just that!  You have the entire summer off and unless you want the parents putting you to work you might want to come up with your own plan.  I have a plan to make you both happy.  

Oh yea, you heard me both you and your parents will be happy about this little project.  You can get it over during the beginning of you're summer vaca and be on the way to enjoying one sweet summer with your parent's blessing.  This really is a fun way to earn money, you get a lot of bang for your buck with this money-making venture.

It's called overhaul your life, makes some cash doing it, and makes your pad sweet in the process.  Getting rid of a lot of junk in your room is half the battle, no really more like 75%. Think about it, are you cool with having you and your friends hang out in there?  Listen, your room is the pre-tune to your life.  However, your room looks right now speaks volumes as to what kind of person you're going to be. If you're a dude, ladies will not be into you if you're a bum in the bedroom department. The same thing goes for you chicks, guys will be thinking you're gross if your room is gross.  This doesn't just apply to the opposite sex, you gain credit from your friends by stepping up and owning your life, being a boss.  This may go viral, hey you may want to enlist the help of your friends as they too will want to do this. Start a podcast about the value of owning your life, your future and create youtube videos. 

Let's face it you have a reputation to create and uphold.  The money your parents earn is in no way yours.  Your job is to learn to make your own money. The sooner you do that the more empowered you will be and the more impressive you will be to those who matter.

You may not be able to control what type of house you live in yet, but you can control what type of a room you live in now, and what you do about your room sets the foundation for what you do in life.

Being a slacker is contagious and something you don't want to take hold of in your life, slacker does not equal success. Enough of the pep talk let's get down to the plan of action.

Open your mind and let your free-spirited thinker out as we're about to move into the action plan for lining your pockets with some cash to provide for summer fun and activities you love. Plus overhauling your image.

Your parents have no doubt mentioned the tons of stuff around the house they'd like to get rid of.  Is your house a mess, do you have that secret room, basement, or place no one is allowed in as far as company?  Maybe it's your bedroom, regardless there's a gold mine in those rooms messy or not. Almost everyone has too much stuff. The reason parents don't clean it up is they don't have time.  They would if they just had the time, well guess what, you have the time. Come up with a plan for them to get rid of all the clutter in the house, that's a win-win.

Tell your parents you will go through the house gathering and cleaning up the things they no longer want, putting a price sticker on them and organizing them in a designated place for a big yard sale early this spring. Or sell it using an online app. The deal is for every item you clean up, and tag, you get the money. You will organize, manage and supervise the sale, cleaning up after by taking anything left to those donation boxes. This will make your parents very happy as they can imagine the benefits. The biggest thing getting in the way of a great-looking home is having it packed with too much stuff!

Lets face it people have stuff or junk they want to get rid of and time is of the utmost importance. As we've discussed adults and home owners just don't have enough time in each day to get done what they want.  If you have access to a truck you could utilize it to haul things off people either don't have the time to do or the truck to do it with. Make a flier letting people know you are providing this service, deliver them to areas you are interested in working.  Find out where the local yard waste and materials collection location is in your community.  This is a place allowing you to dump yard waste, concrete, bricks and other building materials for recycling.  There is usually no fee to do so.  Call to learn about all the types of items they accept and the times they are open for dumping.  Then create your services and schedule around this resource. Always be respectful to the coordinators or workers of these facilities, ask them where things go and let them know your there to learn from them and respect them.  Now put your plan into action with your flier.

For Example Add;

The youth in our community is currently offering removal services of unwanted items you need to get rid of, people love supporting inspiring and hard working youth.

What We Do

Remove furniture or appliances from your home and place them at the curb for trash pick up.

Remove yard debris, tree branches, old fencing, bricks, paves or other material you have stacked up around your home and would like to have it removed. Only include materials your local facility accepts.

Special Note:The easy truck unloader below is an item you will want to invest in for this type of service as it will cut your work load drastically making this type of job very manageable and easy.  Check it out!