Bottles..often lifted off someone’s back porch. Lawn mowing for others, leaf racking, babysitting,,,anything to make money. Allowance? Net of room and board that was pretty much zero. From 13 on they never gave me a cent..and I didn’t need it.
I had a major road close to the house, and the drainage ditches along it yielded a steady flow of bottle income even in winter. There was also a lot of house construction in the neighborhood, but the young men who did much of the construction back then tended to throw bricks at bottles for amusement so the yield there was problematic.