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To: Terriergal

I picked potatoes as a kid. A team of two was paid a total of $.07 per hundredweight of potatoes picked and bagged. That $0.45 sounds pretty good to me. No, I’m not THAT old. ;o)


10 posted on 12/14/2007 11:32:12 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint

Yeah — kids these days ... my hubby and his whole FAMILY used to detassel corn in the summer. Hard hot work. But you know... americans won’t DO that kind of work.. (rolling eyes)


18 posted on 12/14/2007 3:01:47 PM PST by Terriergal ("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
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