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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: FL cracker in AK]
#8635900
14 hours ago
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My brother and I got an weekly "allowance" as kids as long as we did the expected chores; fed and watered the dogs, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, etc. If the chores didn't get done there was no pay out. I forget how much it was but it wasn't much.
That is what motivated us to earn better money in different ways. at 8 and 9 years old we started wading in a nearby golf course's ponds to recover golf balls. we'd clean them a sell them back to the golfers at a little stand we had along the T-off at one of the holes. It was actually pretty lucrative, less work and lots more money than earning the allowance.
I worked as a trap boy and later a scorekeeper at the local gun club for 25 and 50 cents a squad. We shot groundhogs for a local farmer for a quarter a tail.
Trapping at that time (late 60's/early 70's) was by far our most lucrative enterprise. A single muskrat would pay double our weekly allowance.
BB & YT's posts got me thinking about whether or not we would have gotten into those jobs and endeavors had we just been given a sum of money each week with nothing expected in return.
Eh...wot?
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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: Lugnut]
#8635987
10 hours ago
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Joined: Dec 2006
Oregon
beaverpeeler
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My brother and I got an weekly "allowance" as kids as long as we did the expected chores; fed and watered the dogs, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, etc. If the chores didn't get done there was no pay out. I forget how much it was but it wasn't much.
That is what motivated us to earn better money in different ways. at 8 and 9 years old we started wading in a nearby golf course's ponds to recover golf balls. we'd clean them a sell them back to the golfers at a little stand we had along the T-off at one of the holes. It was actually pretty lucrative, less work and lots more money than earning the allowance.
I worked as a trap boy and later a scorekeeper at the local gun club for 25 and 50 cents a squad. We shot groundhogs for a local farmer for a quarter a tail.
Trapping at that time (late 60's/early 70's) was by far our most lucrative enterprise. A single muskrat would pay double our weekly allowance.
BB & YT's posts got me thinking about whether or not we would have gotten into those jobs and endeavors had we just been given a sum of money each week with nothing expected in return.
It's human nature to be lazy if we can get away with it. Probably why Indians of the Caribbean didn't make good slaves for the Spaniards. Food was easy to collect, weather wonderful so shelters easy, so they had lots of free time to be ...lazy.
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My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: Lugnut]
#8636013
10 hours ago
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Joined: Dec 2010
Armpit, ak
Dirt
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My brother and I got an weekly "allowance" as kids as long as we did the expected chores; fed and watered the dogs, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, etc. If the chores didn't get done there was no pay out. I forget how much it was but it wasn't much.
That is what motivated us to earn better money in different ways. at 8 and 9 years old we started wading in a nearby golf course's ponds to recover golf balls. we'd clean them a sell them back to the golfers at a little stand we had along the T-off at one of the holes. It was actually pretty lucrative, less work and lots more money than earning the allowance.
I worked as a trap boy and later a scorekeeper at the local gun club for 25 and 50 cents a squad. We shot groundhogs for a local farmer for a quarter a tail.
Trapping at that time (late 60's/early 70's) was by far our most lucrative enterprise. A single muskrat would pay double our weekly allowance.
BB & YT's posts got me thinking about whether or not we would have gotten into those jobs and endeavors had we just been given a sum of money each week with nothing expected in return.
I'm running grampa boot camp currently. These grandkids are spoiled rotten. I got one worker ( QC is not so good ) and two" hope they find a good husbands". 
Who is John Galt?
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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: FL cracker in AK]
#8636014
10 hours ago
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Good luck with that Dirt. My one and only grandson (9 year old) is a holy terror.
I do barter with him occasionally. I had him stack a cord of firewood in exchange for me building him a bike ramp.
He has tons of energy but apparently the attention span of a goldfish. LOL
Eh...wot?
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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: Coyote Clayton]
#8636207
1 hour ago
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Joined: Jun 2022
Manitoba
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Energy drink from scooters. FHA, never again. What you send em from Florida? Prime beaver? Actually, I seen Swamps GFW receipt from the beaver craze a few years ago and it was decent. $38 average or something like that?
Wind Blew, crap flew, out came the line crew
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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: beaverpeeler]
#8636214
1 hour ago
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My brother and I got an weekly "allowance" as kids as long as we did the expected chores; fed and watered the dogs, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, etc. If the chores didn't get done there was no pay out. I forget how much it was but it wasn't much.
That is what motivated us to earn better money in different ways. at 8 and 9 years old we started wading in a nearby golf course's ponds to recover golf balls. we'd clean them a sell them back to the golfers at a little stand we had along the T-off at one of the holes. It was actually pretty lucrative, less work and lots more money than earning the allowance.
I worked as a trap boy and later a scorekeeper at the local gun club for 25 and 50 cents a squad. We shot groundhogs for a local farmer for a quarter a tail.
Trapping at that time (late 60's/early 70's) was by far our most lucrative enterprise. A single muskrat would pay double our weekly allowance.
BB & YT's posts got me thinking about whether or not we would have gotten into those jobs and endeavors had we just been given a sum of money each week with nothing expected in return.
It's human nature to be lazy if we can get away with it. Probably why Indians of the Caribbean didn't make good slaves for the Spaniards. Food was easy to collect, weather wonderful so shelters easy, so they had lots of free time to be ...lazy. I agree, it's human nature to be lazy. That's why it's never a good idea to throw money at people or things like free health care, housing and food. In the absence of motivating factors like hunger or homelessness, most people will be content to let someone else take care of them and never strive to better themselves.
Eh...wot?
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Re: What did you buy with your fur money?
[Re: FL cracker in AK]
#8636240
22 minutes ago
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Joined: Dec 2006
Oregon
beaverpeeler
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Oregon
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^^^100% brother.
....btw, spare a quarter?
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