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To: ifinnegan

I had 2 lawn mowing jobs because of my paper route.


12 posted on 05/16/2015 4:20:22 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

Me too. Also, I shoveled driveways of some of my newspaper customers on snowy morning. They loved that - waking up to a newspaper and a shoveled walkway. I had so much energy back then!


14 posted on 05/16/2015 4:23:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: mountn man
c 1954 - Bro and myself had a few businesses. We did newspapers, picked worms, found golf balls and made potholders.

Worms were the easiest. A penny a piece. Only took a few minutes to pick 300 to take to the bait shop.

The potholders were made on a loom. Early on, we found out that people (women) picked by color. So we took orders. We were practically mass producing them.

24 posted on 05/16/2015 4:29:38 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: mountn man

5 of my paper customers hired me to mow their lawns...once I delivered my paper on my wheel horse riding lawnmower... I was going from a lawn mowing job to another lawn mowing job.


37 posted on 05/16/2015 4:42:19 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: mountn man

“I had 2 lawn mowing jobs because of my paper route.”

My son started his lawn mowing business at 13. Also cleaned out people’s garages, sold their items on eBay and took a piece of the action. He then learned that if he reffed a sport, he could make more money per hour than other jobs.

He is now 19. Refs college hockey for 300 a weekend, and teaches kids hockey at 40 per hour per kid. During the summer he goes around the country coaching with a hockey camp.


51 posted on 05/16/2015 5:26:16 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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