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37 chief

02-03-2007 22:26:55

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Growing up on the farm in the 50's there wasen't many ways to make a little spending money. One thing I did was tap gophers, dad payed 25 cents for everyone I trapped. When the lima beans were trashed the beans were brought to the stationary trasher. When they were finished us kids would pick up beans that had fallen to the ground. Dad payed 10 cents a pound for all the beans we would find. Dad did pay us some times for working in the fields. When I got older I got a 48 cushman scoter, and would ride it to town and do gardening work for 60 cents an hour. I thought I was really raking the money then. Time for bed. Stan

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jonathan s

02-05-2007 17:04:43

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

im 14 and i started mowing our local cemetary this past summer. parents bought a zero turn and i bought a push mower and used our old weed wackers. pay rent on zero turn. worked on local farms for a while. worked for my dad running construction equipment. made pretty good money this year. hopeing that i will have enough soon to buy a truck and my first big tractor. i m really itching to get into farming.(its on both sides of farming and my oldest brothers farms also.) i just love it. lots of work though. just thought i would put in my two cents. c,ya bye jonathan s

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mike a. tenn.

02-05-2007 17:14:27

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to jonathan s, 02-05-2007 17:04:43

jonathan...i'm really glad i read your post. i was beginning to think kids your age didn't even want to do much more than play around on their computers. there are more rewards in working than just the money and what you can buy with it, and i think you know what those rewards are already...good for you son, and thanks for letting me know that there are still kids around like you. good luck in all you ever do...

-mike

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David Kronwall

02-05-2007 03:40:52

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Had a paper route when I was about 10--The Beloit Daily News. Beloit, WI is about 35 miles west of me. I lived out here in the country, so I had only 33 customers and was paid $.11 per paper per week. Six days a week I rode my bike three miles to make the deliveries. I taught myself how to fold the papers so they could be thrown onto people's porches and doorways. Once you learn something like that, you never forget how! David

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Hal/WA

02-04-2007 21:39:39

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

In grade school, I kept about 2 miles of roadside clean of pop and beer bottles, which I would turn it to the local store for the deposit. When I started doing this, most of the bottles were returnable, but by the time I was in junior high, lots of them were no deposit/no return. I hated to see this happen, because then nobody picked up the bottles anymore. I don't think I ever had a dollar's worth of bottles at one time, but in those days, candy was pretty cheap. The best time to hunt for bottles was right when the snow melted in the spring. One time I even found a FULL SIX PACK OF BUDWEISER!, but that is another story.

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in-too-deep

02-04-2007 12:26:38

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Well, I'm still growing up, but I've had lots of different jobs. Let's see...
Two summers mowing a cemetery
Warehouse for a fruit distribution company
One fall at a state park
One summer at a Pepsi warehouse
Countless farm jobs for neighbors
Helped build a teacher's house
Right now I work spring and fall for a grain farm, started there in fall '04 and full-time Maintenance Manager for a Campground/Retreat Center, started there part-time summer '04.
I'm probably forgetting something though. Jeez, looking at that list I've had a lot of work experience for a 19 yr. old!

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Roy Suomi

02-04-2007 12:03:45

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

I started out working for a bachelor that had his own floor sanding business in Willoughby Ohio..He had 91 acres in Concord..You notice I mentioned "bachelor"..A key word here...On his acreage were trails throughout that Simplicity walk behind tractors with carts moved dirt , brush , cord wood...At 9 years old I would shovel till I had standing blisters on my hands..I worked for the tidy sum of 25 cents a day and the privilage to drive one of those 7 horsepower marvels...I'd kinda like to find one of those walk behind tractors today..It had a 3 speed tranny and a 2 speed transaxle to boot....

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Dougin IL

02-04-2007 09:30:39

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

In 1966 or so, I had a job washing and cleaning up used cars for the local Chrysler dealer. I was a sophmore in high school. Worked Saturdays and evenings after school. I made 75 cents per hour. Kinda bad when they divide, when calculating your check, rather than multiplying! After a while, I got a big raise to 90 cents per hour. Those were good times for me though. I appreciated every dime I made!

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Mike (WA)

02-04-2007 09:21:38

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Gotta tell a story on my son, from not that long ago (1988 or so)- he was 10 or 11, wanted a Nintendo. We told him he'd have to make his own money for that- we lived in a rural but affluent area, and we figured he could do enough odd jobs to make the $75 he needed over the summer. He went with Mom to the supermarket, noticed new crop strawberries were selling for $20 a flat. He asked Mom to stop by the berry field near our house on the way home. He found out he could "bucket pick" for $10 a flat, so he asked to borrow some seed money, and started picking berries. Mom would take him to the field in the morning, pick him up before noon and he'd have picked 3 flats or so. Then around the neighborhood to sell the berries door to door, for the store price. I don't think anyone ever turned him down. He had his Nintendo in short order. He even got a little lesson in Capitalism, when he discovered he'd overcharged someone by a couple bucks on a flat. They refused his refund, saying, "No, you didn't overcharge us- you set the price, and we paid it. If it had been more than we wanted to pay, we would not have bought, and you might have had to lower your prices to sell all your goods. But we were happy with the price, so a deal's a deal, and no refund due."

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jwal10

02-04-2007 09:03:49

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

My first paying job was moving irrigation pipe. 10 cents a pipe,56 pipe twice a day.I was 10. Took on 2nd job at 11 shearing sheep 75 cents each, got to where I could shear 100 a day. At twelve also worked on a 123-SP combine filling and sewing sacks. Left home summer I turned twelve with my 60 ewes and 20 2 yr old 1/2 holstein 1/2 hereford cows I had raised from calves I got from a dairy that bred 1st calf heifers to hereford bull. Had a Farmall B, 7'mower, hay rake, and IHC 27 baler. Went to high school 1/2 time, Senior year graduated early so I could shear sheep in the spring. That fall I traded the B and a M I had bought for a 4020 JD and plow, farmed 20 yrs.

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1936

02-04-2007 08:51:12

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Twenty five cent per ground hog. No pay for a skunk.
Best story was told by a college PHD. His Dad would pay him 5 cent per rat shot. Had to be eye shot only for the 5 cents. Great guy we would shoot targets in his basment with a 22 in town.

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sammy the RED

02-04-2007 07:51:12

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Mow Grass.
Pitch Sheet.
Bale Hay.
Shape Christmas Trees on a Christmas Tree Farm.

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Jim in N M

02-04-2007 07:34:31

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

When I grew up back in Ohio, I started working when I was eight,sweeping the floor in a body shop three days a week, than pumped gas when I was twalve,made enough to buy my "Wizzer" motor bike, Dad always said "If you want something you have to make your own money" Back than he only made $47.00 a week. It made me appreshate?? what I had. Jim in N M

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Jim in N M

02-04-2007 08:00:54

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to Jim in N M , 02-04-2007 07:34:31

Made me think of another little tid-bit, When my folks had there twenty fifth ann.(1953),Mom got a doll with twenty five silver dollars on it, I asked if I could have three of,em. and I still have them to this day,but when I was short of money for gas (20 cent a gal)when I was just a kid I'd make the station guy save those silver dollars,and I'd come back and give him paper dollars when I got it. But I've always kept those silvers.also the're from the 18 hundreds..... ...Jim in N M

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Mike (WA)

02-04-2007 11:45:43

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to Jim in N M , 02-04-2007 08:00:54

One guy I berry picked for in the late 50's paid in silver dollars- thought it would be a gimmick that would attract pickers. We hated it- those things are heavy and weighted down our pants pockets. Couldn't wait to get them changed into "regular money." Another "Oh, if we had only known" story.

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John M

02-04-2007 05:51:28

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

You mean I was supposed to get paid for doing my chores,geez I think I need to have a talk with my Mom. Naw we didnt get paid for doing things around the house/farm.It was just expected of us to help out.Until I got to be 12 or 13 did I start making money for helping.By the time I was 16 I owned my own equipment, making money cutting hay for the locals who worked during the day.Even had my own bank account.

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kyhayman

02-04-2007 06:41:51

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to John M, 02-04-2007 05:51:28

Thats the way I did it, though dad did rent me his equipment for 50% of the gross. I had to pay my own twine, fuel, hired labor, and repairs.

It was a good deal for both of us. There's no way at 15 I could have gotten the credit to buy all that stuff, and for him, I paid for brand new equipment for him in 2 years.

I remember my junior year of high school, I bought a used pickup, a new NH haybine, a flatbed trailer, and a cattle trailer. Paid cash for all of them. Senior year, got a brand new truck, a rake, a new round baler, and 50 momma cows. All my friends were too busy out playing and partying. Most of them still dont have a pot to p$$ in or a window to throw it out of.

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John M

02-04-2007 06:56:44

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to kyhayman, 02-04-2007 06:41:51

I hear ya! I quit High School 4 months from graduation, I know dumba$$, butI finished night school before the rest of my class graduated. My best "friends" are working at Burger King or McDonalds, with exception to one who owns his own construction business and raises buffalo, man does he have money to blow.Me, I work for the nations #1 supplier of medical plastics films.Im not making the most money there but I am very happy and know Im making more than my best "friends" serving fries!

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oldcraneguy

02-04-2007 05:50:26

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Back in the late 50s I worked for my dad on wknds and sometimes after school, paid 50 cents an hour. On the wknds I would go with him to work and get in a full day while during the week I would run the crane that was in the adopted yard next door(vacant corner lot next door that we used for years as our equiptment and precast yard) stripping and loading T-pile and slabs for seawalls that he built. I was the envy of all the kids cause I could run a crane (sorta) and when dad would come with the lowboy instead of his workers me and a buddy would hook and unhook the pieces it was great fun cause when you were loading piling you put a hook in the eye on each end of the pile and then stand on the pile, hold onto the cable and get a ride to the truck, we would take turns hanging on the hooks going back to the stack doing our famous Tarzan yell. When his workers came to get pile&slabs I would run the crane and they would walk back and forth. Two weeks every summer we would go back to Indiana and stay at my grandpa's farm, he was always doing hay it seemed, He taught me to drive tractor on an old Co-op, dunno what model and I would pull hay wagons from the field to the barnyard (beware the ruts by the gate, no way an 8 year old can get 2 bales back on the very top of the load)Grandpa only paid in Dentyne dollars which amounted to a half a dozen sticks of gum during the day and one more after supper. But I was lucky, both my dad,grandpa,and uncle were constantly explaining things to me every waking moment and taught me stuff that has served me well all my life...

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williamf

02-04-2007 05:39:33

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

I grew up in Walterboro, S.C., a town small enough that at ten I could walk to the edge of town in any direction. I was the luckiest ten year old in the world, although being born lazy I would have disputed that at the time. I began my working career that summer for a dollar a day, four hours a day, five days a week, at W.C. Pearcy Farm Equipment Co., my grandfather's Farmall dealership. I just wish I had had the sense to learn something instead of just doing what I was told, if I couldn't get out of it.
Wm

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RAW in IA

02-04-2007 04:46:49

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

I grew up on a small farm, and my oldest brother (two years younger than me) and I raised chickens for a couple of years to sell to neighbors and friends. I thnk we did a couple hundred a year for a couple of years. Lot of dressing & cleaning as I remember. Also, after I turned 16 Imowed the local cemetery for a couple of summers. Bought a Lawn boy Loafer rider and 21" mower.

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Way Up Here

02-04-2007 04:18:42

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Growing up in town, my first job was for a neighbor who was adding an extension onto his house. Every day after supper, I would go over there and pick up all the garbage that was left behind. Short pieces of 2 X 4's, wire, nails, swept up the sawdust, straightened out the piles of lumber, etc. Fifty cents every night, I was the envy of the neighborhood guys. My dad used to complain that for some reason he couldn't get me to do any cleaning up at home. Mind you, the 50 cents wasn't offered either at home.

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TGIN

02-04-2007 03:34:04

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

Me and Dad was partners on a small flock of sheep [34-40 ewes] . I was in 4-H and FFA and showed them at the fair . Never seen much money out of the sheep because Dad said we had to put the money back into the sheep . I could see it on paper but could`nt spend it , never could figger that one out . Used to go intown and mow yards and we were always riding bikes on the back roads looking for someone bailing hay . Whens the last time you was bailing and sombody came in and asked if they could help you !! When I was about 13-14 I talked dad into letting me trade the AC WD for a 454 IH and I went to town and plowed gardens and then started custom bailing with my uncle . Seemed alot easyer back then .

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mike a. tenn.

02-04-2007 03:31:49

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

when i was a kid we had a "gang". not the kind we have today, it was just three or four of us pals that hung together all the time. we would make money several ways. one of them was during haying season we'd find out who was haying and go there to see if we could get "hired on" a few of the farmers would hire us to pick up and stack bales on the wagon. it would take four of us...two to a bale, we were pretty small. two on the ground loading, two on the wagon stacking. it made us feel "grown up" having a job.
we especially liked working for one farmer who at the end of the day would give us each fifty cents and a 16 oz. bottle of RC Cola. we would "sneak" off with the bottles and turn them in for deposit which made our daily take 52 cents!

later, i worked for the grade school janitor, after school and in the summers. then when i got in high school, i had a job as a stockboy in the five and dime in town, made pizzas for a while, and then got my best job of all i've ever had....i worked in a SERVICE station, ed nowak's texico. not a gas station like today. i pumped gas, checked oil, cleaned the windshield, fixed flat tires, changed oil, and we even washed cars there. i loved that job and ed and his wife hilda, may they rest in peace.

-mike

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Jimmy King

02-04-2007 01:52:53

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

I aways had chores to do, and when Mom and Dad could afford it I would get an allowance $.50 a week for a long time when I got one. We always had a few chickens for a time once I got the extra egg money it might take 2 or 3 weeks to ge a case full, and they wouldn't sell until it was. Some times it was a couple of $. My first real money was when my Granddad gave me a couple of lambs that had lost their mameys to raise on a bottle. If I remember right I got about $40 for them. Seventh grade I got a sow and started showing hogs in high school I also raised fat calves and showed them. My Dad and Uncle farmed togather we had Jersey Cows and Duroc Hogs. My Uncle knew hogs like people, he could look at one in a herd of several and 2 weeks later pick it out again, he grew to national fame in the Duroc circles, had a couple of State Champs and a couple of national Champs. Dad was a good mechinic, carpenter, and just about could do anything he set his mind to. His hobby for years was working on watches, and he made enought doing that to buy out first TV. I made $10 a week working on the farm would save $5 and use the other $5 for spending money. For you young guys, remember in the 50's you could take a date to a movie get something to eat later and have some money left on $5 ( try that today LOL ) When I got out of School I went to Missouri State ( then Southwest Missouri State ) for a while then worked on the farm for a couple of years I got %10 of the milk check which would normally be about $2000 so I got $200. I was 22 when I left the farm tried selling INS for 6 months HEY HEY a guy could starve to death doing that got a job in a factory started at $1.75 an Hr got about 20 hrs over time a week man I was rolling in money. Bought a new 1965 Impalla Chev. list price was $3300 allowed me $1100 trade. payed it off in 13 months.

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37 chief

02-04-2007 08:37:14

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to Jimmy King, 02-04-2007 01:52:53

My first new car was also a 65 chevy. Stan

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Jimmy King

02-04-2007 16:33:14

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-04-2007 08:37:14

Stan, mine had the 327 250 hp what did you have.Jim

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farmerjohninpa

02-03-2007 23:13:19

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

things were tight for use also back then, remember many a cold night walking down to the railroad siding with a burlap feed bag to bring coal home to heat the house,,,didn`t do it cause it was there, did it for there was no money to buy coal and thats the only time as far as money, used to walk down the tracks a miles or so to a alloy foundry with a bag and a wire mesh sieve, and shovel and shake for hours to get cut-offs and splinters of brass or aluminum from thier dump pile of casting sand that heaped up like a small hill near the tracks. pop would split it with me cause he hauled to town, always had him to get me 22 bullets with my share,,had to have my plinking ammo.

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Eldon (WA)

02-03-2007 22:42:08

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to 37 chief, 02-03-2007 22:26:55

In the 60's dad paid 10 cents per hundred to pull milk weeds....then we got a local Gedney cucumber buying station so we grew a couple acres of cucumbers. When in high school I moved up to raising hogs and made pretty good money....never got paid for doing chores, or milking for 8 years tho!

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2x4

02-03-2007 23:41:58

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to Eldon (WA), 02-03-2007 22:42:08

brings back memories! I got paid 50 cents an hour for chopping milkweeds on steep hillsides. A new RedRyder BB gun was $5.50, way more than what I could save out of my earnings so I got a bright idea. Told Grampa I'd pay the 50 cents if he'd pay the $5.00. He about fell down laughing, and retold the story for weeks afterward. I couldn't understand where there was any humor in it.

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BigMarv1085

02-03-2007 23:17:23

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to Eldon (WA), 02-03-2007 22:42:08

I can remember working for the neighbor who paid a $1 a hour and paid once a year.

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BillD1

02-04-2007 06:36:54

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Re: O/TMaking money growing up in reply to BigMarv1085, 02-03-2007 23:17:23

We moved from a farm to a small town in 1942. Delivered news papers for a penny a copy profit, paper cost was 3cents a copy. Helped farmers stack wheat, set tobacco and put up hay ,loose or baled. Also shoveled walks, mowed lawns and raked leaves depending on the season

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