When Miss A (who will be 7 in July) wanted to save for a digital camera and calculated that with pocket money and her normal expenses she'd take a while to save up the required dollars, she hit on having a flower stall. Selling the "seconds" - those flowers deemed not good enough for our florists, and destined to be given away, or thrown out.
She decided to sell them for $3 a bunch. Within a couple of weeks she had her camera, so had no need to continue her flower sales. When I announced I was going to Adelaide at the end of May, she wished to come with me, so her mother suggested that she earn her fare.
The flower stall is back in action. After her first foray into the flower selling, it was decided that she should have to pay the farm $1 a bunch for her flowers, since she did little to prepare them. She baulked at that but in the end reluctantly paid it to the farm.
But she reasoned that she could increase the price, so her flower stall sign now says "$4", and her customers have paid up without a quibble. They'd be paying $30 for the equivalent size bunch in a normal retail outlet.
So she has almost all the fare to Adelaide ($220) and is also working for spending money for her trip.
She is quite a little entrepreneur - but only while she has a goal. After she bought the camera she could not think of anything worth saving for, and even to get her to put money in the bank did not enthuse her. She already has a lot of money in the bank. (Proabably only a couple of hundred dollars.)
Still, she is still only 6 years old.
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At least little Miss A is being shown how to look after herself, by being able to earn what she needs. In my growing up days, this was not encouraged, more's the pity! Well done little Miss A!
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