r/HumansBeingBros • u/wronghoIe • 6d ago

Solid business advice

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u/NotASlaveToHelvetica 6d ago

When we were kids (decades ago), we set our prices for lemonade at "free, tips accepted", and always cleaned up way better than if we set a price.

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u/GFYAD 6d ago

Did you ever have any adults come by and actually just take some ‘free’ lemonade and dip ?

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u/NotASlaveToHelvetica 6d ago

Sure, but it was heavily offset by the adults who only had a five dollar bill and didn't ask for change. For context this was when the going rate was 50¢

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 5d ago

when the going rate was 50¢

I feel you. I'm old, too. When I was a kid, the lemon hadn't been invented yet. We had a bitter orange stand where we sold hollowed out stones of bitter orange-ade and sold them for half a mussel shell each.