Do people pay kids to do lawn work anymore?

[Salty RI]

I had 4 sons and my oldest loved doing yard work, if he saw someone doing yard work he would ask them if they needed help and he didnt want any money, my other 3 sons didnt know what a lawn mower looked like.[emoji1]

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[G-Mac]

In my experience, those kind of kids are few and far between today. They don't need to go out and shovel snow, rake leaves, mow lawns, or stack wood for money. The parents hand them everything. I'm not saying they don't exist, but they are few and far between. If you find one, send me his phone number.

 

[rwsmith]

I have too many kids.....

I've had too many kids get started then decide they don't want to do all that work or want more money.

Not all, but a vast majority.

Trouble is, I've had 'professionals' that just do what they want to, also. They aren't reliable and some have to borrow something from me. Even they will cut the grass and maybe whack weeds, but anything beyond that, like trimming bushes. is beyond their scope. They call themselves, 'landscapers', not 'mowers and weed whackers'.

 

[notsofast]

Haven’t seen youngsters paid for cutting grass in my neighborhood in quite a while. All professionals now, oversized cube vans towing trailers with more equipment. They do a good job on a big front and back yard usually in under 20 minutes.

 

[gman51]

My mother in law called the church and high school about finding someone to mow her yard. No response from anyone.
When I was maybe 10 years old I mowed the neighbors yard for $1.75 with my dad's push rotary mower.
It seems now parents give their kids money for doing nothing so why work.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have no need for lawn services as I have indentured grandkids.

 

[Rivoak01]

My lawyer ended that for me.

Not a good idea to employ a child and give him power tools to do it nowadays. I used to mow yards when I was a kid. When I was 16 and in high school, I worked on weekends driving a bread truck so other drivers could have a day off. Now any company that hired a 16 year old kid to drive a bread truck would probably get criminally charged. I didn’t work by choice at that age, but by necessity. I pretty much didn’t have money unless I earned it.

A lot of kids now are in the same situation, but nobody will give them a job because of the risk. Nearly every job carries some risk, and a lot of children have got hurt or killed doing the kind of work I did, so hiring kids has become taboo. Now the ones that have no money, and no way to earn money, find other things besides work to do, many of which have a long term negative impact on our society.


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[mike from st pete]

Parents do not let their precious do stuff like that anymore, even if kicking them off the couch was involved.
I see so many Slow Children and Drive Like Your Kids Live Here signs but never any children

 

[vonn]

Still some young people around here that work but almost all of the yard work is done by crews of non English speaking workers. I still cut my house yard with a push mower for the exercise but use a tractor for everything else.

 

[joe44va]

WOW! Am I ever getting old. I used to mow lawns in the late 50s for $1.00. Ran a trap line in cold weather and sold the pelts to Sears.

 

[jlrhiner]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I pay dearly to get my yard work done. (Grandson and Granddaughter)

And I'm the one that mows all the neighbors lawns. You know, with all them being like, employed and stuff.

 

[Rivoak01]

Does your lawyer cut your grass?

Most will for $600 an hour.


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[Hamster65]

I live kind of "in the sticks" and have just under 3 acres of "mowable" area. The rest is thick with trees. We mow our own lawn but, we do get the occasional old man on a riding mower that shows up offering to mow our lawn for a hefty price. In the 9 plus years I've lived here, I've never seen a kid offering to mow lawns.

 

[Narragansett]

In my area there are no kids that do lawns, shovel snow, or do yard work. I did all 3. Aside from the physical work, kids do not know how to use yard tools. Both of my boys can dig a hole, plant a tree, swing an axe or set sections of split rail fence. I saw to it