I never got an allowance. By 12 I was mowing three lawns all summer. So that was $15 a week. This was in addition to ours.
I hate mowing lawns.
My dream house sits on a big cement pad without any lawn.
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s sucked.
Since I was almost 20 by then, I’m sorry for your loss ...
No boys in our family. My Dad had to travel a lot for a few years when we were kids. When he left on Monday morning he would tell me “when I get back on Friday I want to see a mowed lawn”. That was my main chore. Jax, FL in the summer is a hot humid mess. I got $1 per week.
My main cash flow came from my worm farm which I kept in a 5 gallon bucket. I had fantastic red wrigglers that I sold on Saturdays down at the boat launch by our subdivision. I had steady customers that would wait on me every week.
Kids nowadays have no understanding of the value of a dollar.