Lake Earning
Find some work…in the rough.

You’ve probably heard the news: Money doesn’t grow on trees or cacti, or fall from the sky. You have to work for it.

Most likely, your life isn’t that extravagant spending-wise. But you probably like to eat pizza or buy new CDs once in a while, and still have something left over to spend at your friend’s Save the Spiders fundraiser. Chances are, you want to save up some money for bigger purchases, too, like those awesome sand skis you saw at the bazaar last month.

For instance, last Friday, Malik spent $15 eating pizza with his friends and watching the camel spitting competition. On Saturday he spent $10 renting a sand sled, and on Sunday he spent another $5 on a yak milk smoothie. That’s $30 in three days! But he still had $10 left over to put in his college savings account, and another $5 to save toward the dune buggy he plans to buy when he turns 18.

How does he manage? You may have heard that you have to be at least 14 to get most jobs. But that doesn’t mean you can’t earn money in other ways. Malik receives an allowance from his parents for watering the cacti and shoveling sand off the driveway. For extra cash, he walks his neighbors’ camels.

There are a lot of things you can do that will provide you with some spending — and saving — money. You just need to take a look around you.