Paid labor

My oldest granddaughter, age 11, has become very interested in money.  She was explaining to me all about credit and debit cards the other day, and now she is trying to earn money to buy an i-pod.  She explained to me that by only saving her allowance ($5 a week) she would have enough to buy her i-pod by January of 2015, so, needless to say she's trying to earn some more money so she can buy it sooner.  I love to encourage initiative, especially if I get some labor out of the deal, so today we spent a lovely few hours together trimming bushes and hauling many loads of branches down the hill to the brush pile.  I did most of the trimming and she did most of the hauling and that was a tremendous help to me.  I paid, she trudged willingly up and down the hill and we had fun.  A true win win situation.