I mowed 4 lawns and had a paper route at 12. Beer and cigarettes weren’t cheep.
My son had his own lawn biz at 10. Then took shop class and learned he could make more $$$ repairing small engines.
He flipped many push and riding mowers for a LOT of money.
LOL, I like your style!
Paper route at nine (Mom lied to them, told them I was 12)
Also, stock boy on Sat and Sun (days), Dishwasher at a crazy Greek restaurant at night.
When I hit 12, man, I owned the neighborhood.
At 13, bought my Mom her first car, ‘67 Chevy Impala. Even taught her to drive it. By 14, well, that’s for a later post. Great stories there.
Times they are a changing!
Oh yeah, Dad would send me out for cigs and beer at the local store. (when I was 10) Never happen today.
“I mowed 4 lawns and had a paper route at 12. Beer and cigarettes weren’t cheep.”
Two lawns and a paper route for me when I was 12. Back in those days every 12-year old boy mowed a lawn or two. And these were manual push mowers; no one had a gas mower. And we edged with those rolling spike edgers; weedwackers were still many years away. Leaf Blowers? No such thing back in those days: We used rakes and brooms and shovels.
I made more money than I knew what to with in my early teens mowing yards in the early 80s. I mainly used the lawnmowers of the homes I was mowing to boot. Single mothers were a pushover, and once the houses with fathers saw me mowing, they were just too tempted by having me mow instead of themselves. In the summer, I was turning away business there was so much.
Plus the cost of the fake ID!