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Tom_Diane
Feb 07, 2016Explorer
Just a couple more thoughts from those years. I do recall the paper routes and some less pleasing times like as baby up to a toddler, we had an out house that a drag to get to in the winter but it had to be done!
Not knocking the next generation but the work ethic was stonger. I used to get a gallon of lawn mower gas in the can and fill the tank, I would go door to door asking to mow a persons lawn for 50 to 75 cents. In the winter I hit up those same houses for removing snow for the same fee I for mowing! That work ethic kept me in pocket change and in a lot of cases, the people had me work odd jobs for them in the summer, raking, pulling weeds etc.
It seems like the responses to this thread goes back to the music! I thought I was the only one! I'm in poor health and it lets me reminice and go back to my youth!
This is a neat thread! The gen x'ers are going to create some great memories going back to their childhood and no doubt they will be tied to the music
Not knocking the next generation but the work ethic was stonger. I used to get a gallon of lawn mower gas in the can and fill the tank, I would go door to door asking to mow a persons lawn for 50 to 75 cents. In the winter I hit up those same houses for removing snow for the same fee I for mowing! That work ethic kept me in pocket change and in a lot of cases, the people had me work odd jobs for them in the summer, raking, pulling weeds etc.
It seems like the responses to this thread goes back to the music! I thought I was the only one! I'm in poor health and it lets me reminice and go back to my youth!
This is a neat thread! The gen x'ers are going to create some great memories going back to their childhood and no doubt they will be tied to the music
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