I will sell old silver dollar coins to my kids like they are million dollar prizes for exchange for their chores and they know it. I made this deal with them and they all like it very much. It does take them eight hours of chores to earn the right to buy the silver with their hard labor but they never complain. For every hour of chores, they are given a fake mommy buck and when they get eight, I sell old silver dollar coins to them for the mommy bucks back.

My oldest daughter has looked online to figure out that if she holds on to the silver dollars for a long time, that she can actually sell silver dollars to pay for real things in the real world. I am sure that when she was younger she thought that the silver dollars were pretty and shiny but realizing what they are actually worth, has made her work even harder and longer doing her chores.

My husband has credited our kid’s willingness to help out around the house to the fact that they can sell silver dollars to their friends at school for ten times the amount that they would be getting from the mommy bucks. I enjoy teaching them that hard work and dedication pays off in many ways.