To all the Young fellas in here: We did have a "Go Fund Me" back in the 60s...

[OttoMan]

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No joke. My older brother and I, we built some sort of a box and on Fridays and Saturdays, we used to hit the good spot where the older fellas hung out going after the ladies, to clean and shy their shoes. Something like this picture here (The box fit our supplies and was our seat to work on the shoe)

 

[MuleShoe]

Started mowing yards for $5 a yard when I was 10 and at 13 was cultivating watermelon fields and helping move irrigation pipes then helping haul watermelons up and loading on truck for farming market. Made $25. A week and lunch. Also had to take care of livestock at home and work in garden when got home from work. Raised up to work and appreciate a dollar. The 60s were good years to this ole country boy.

 

[Just Plain Bill]

Dug a lot of post holes when I was growing up. Bought my first rifle with posthole money!

 

[Rambler]

Mowed grass and dug graves at the cemetery for $15.00 an hour, 1985. Great job, customers never complained.

 

[basstracker89]

Hard work, but good times

 

[Bulldog Man]

Use to get 75 cent a bushel basket to pick cucumbers and other veggies that I used to spend wisely on candy and cokes

 

[41mag]

Mowed yards like every other kid, picked up coke bottles, washed cars and cycles (mom and dad both rode so we constantly had bikes at the house from family friends) ……we did what it took or we did not have money. We got allowance but it was only a little and did not last long during summertime movies or extra activities that cost.
All in all, we were never really broke for long, we were resourceful little hellions ! Lol.
(This being paid to do chores around our house was non existent. That was normal duties.)

 

[John Moses Browning]

No joke. My older brother and I, we built some sort of a box and on Fridays and Saturdays, we used to hit the good spot where the older fellas hung out going after the ladies, to clean and shy their shoes. Something like this picture here (The box fit our supplies and was our seat to work on the shoe)
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[sami weinbergstein]

This is how some parents teach their kids to get money these days

 

[OttoMan]

This is how some parents teach their kids to get money these days
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Sad to say, but I saw this same scenario yesterday in Sandy Springs. A lady with three kids; they look like to be “refugees”, I don’t know.