Jean is in Business! (by sarah)
Jean has repeatedly been coming up with business ideas which though sweet aren't really workable for a five year old. Like collecting stones to sell to concrete makers etc...
So when she asked about making candles and selling them we thought we'd encourage this business venture as she has agreed that they would also make nice presants for people (sorry guys!).
It turned out we had two candle making kits in the house already and we have been collecting candle ends and stuff for far too long meaning to turn them into candles!
Jean and Daddy made four candles and did a little prep for a future funky candle or three! In the process we found that two of the moulds do not work as they are too big to be made out of a flexible plastic and the wax stuck and collapsed the molds inward as the wax contracted on cooling.
Daddy has bought one candle from Jean already to be his office candle 🙂 He says he only did most of the work and it's only made out of his candle ends - I pointed out Jean designed it as she had decided what colour to use etc... The two smaller candles she's made she wants to use for halloween as they are black (made with candles ends again).
Anyway I have agreed she can sell her candles at the village craft fair and we took her £2 savings and the pound from her first sale and went to buy some more candle things today. Hobby Craft was a bit of a disappointment but we got a beeswax kit and two lots of dye to use on the candle ends etc... we already have. We were going to pick up a mold only but they where so expensive there it was unbelievable!
(I am wondering how this will work out tax wise - as Jean's too young to work isn't she? I suppose it will just get added to mine or Daddy's?).
We are having to work a bit on costings with Jean as she wanted to sell the candles for 5p each 🙂 And maybe some customer care is needed as she is tending to insist that people buy the candles!
Jean has to pay back the £9 I have lent her and stall rental before she gets to keep any of the money, though we will probably 'buy' any we use for gifts. She is unbelievable excited about this whole thing :/
We will see how long it lasts!
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Thu 14th Oct 2010 6:33 pm
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By Ella Gale, Fri 15th Oct 2010 @ 10:09 am
Why am I not surprised that the offspring of you and Alaric is an entrepreneur!
Hoiwever, I will buy some pretty candles.
And you can declare her to be a sole trader, so long as she earns under the minimum taxable allowance then she need not pay anything at all!
By David Cantrell, Fri 15th Oct 2010 @ 3:27 pm
Perhaps lesson one in being a small business could be How To Make Sure The Taxman Doesn't Know About All Your Income
By sarah, Sun 17th Oct 2010 @ 6:19 pm
hmmm with mine and Al's luck that is a no go!
By sarah, Sun 17th Oct 2010 @ 6:23 pm
Yay for Ella! When are you coming to visit? There's an open reading (for prose as well as poetry) on Tuesday the 26th of October with like nibbles and the like - if you wanted to visit around then we could go to it and leave the guys with Jeany? It's free but we'd have to get a taxi home :/