Yep. I sure did. I ran that Grit paper route for about 4 years.
I think I ended up with a peak of about 130 subscribers at one point.
I thought I was in tall cotton those days...LOL
When I got a job as a stock boy at a local grocery store, I passed my paper route on to my younger brother.
That’s great.
I always saw the ads for selling Grit in Boy’s Life or other Kid’s publications.
But I never even saw a Grit in my life and knew no one who had.
It was almost mythical to me. I couldn’t imagine what it was like as a paper.
I did deliver Oakland Tribune, an afternoon paper, for a while.
It was great money.
I think my cousin is still wealthy (relatively speaking) to this day because of his diligence in his paper route and stinginess - ie he saved everything.