Reply #128: Wow,I'd forgotten, till now, about some: Splitting firewood, raised mice for

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a family that had a snake(!) lawn mowing, yard work, snow shoveling, window washing, paper route (ugh!) house painting, census taker, warehouse monkey stacking and mailing phonebooks (remember them?) even tried golf caddy one week (and hated it!)
and of course we brothers all had (unpaid) chores around the house. Maybe the best money making endeavor was several winters a couple of neighborhood kids and I would wait near the bottom of the slight hill in front of our house waiting for the big cars from the rich town next to ours and when the car got stuck, we'd kindly offer to help push... for $5, $10, or $20 bucks. (We only thought of collecting the money FIRST after the first several drove off without stopping to pay what they'd promised!)

Fond as those memories MAY have become, I still think Gingrinch's "idea" is idiotic!

Thanks, MindPilot, for the thread.