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