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That mower is actually way too new for what I used.
Ours was recycling old soda pop bottles. search around for a couple hours and have money for the rest of the day!
Remembering picking up bottles and taking them to the grocery store for money, That bought the rocket engines for the model rockets..
Actually I did more snow shoveling, work on farms and a paper route than mowing.
I mowed lawns around my hometown to make a few bucks back when I was around 13 years old. I followed my dads advise as to what to charge a customer for my work. I will accept whatever payment customer deems fair for the job done.
I made more money that way than if I had an hourly rate. Well! Most of the time. I did have one rich guy who had roughly 5 acres of lawn with a lot of slopes to cut. I tried to use his mower and it would not start. Made a trip home and brought mine. Went to put his gas in my machine and he was out of gas. Another trip home. Finished the work which took up most of my Saturday and gave the guy my fair pay for the job line. The three dollars he gave me felt like a bee sting! 😓
Mowed yards, baled hay, worked on the back of a garbage truck on Saturdays, even shot ground hogs for farmers for work.
FIL owned a nine hole course, made me use a push reel mower until we finally proved to him the powered reel mower was just as good, finally he approved a rider with three reels for doing the greens but I never got the hang of operating it so I stuck to tractor and gang mowers and let the Greens Keeper tend greens
Yep as i got a little older, maybe around 11ish I got the paper route, so no more pop bottles. Then I actually moved out of the house and started supporting myself at 15 working in fast food joints and as a pump jockey/lube mechanic at gas station. It actually embarrasses me when I see friends or family post GoFundMe requests, I was taught to take care of myself and to help others, but I just can't believe people put their dirty laundry out there to request other to fund them... With that said not all fund requests are bad, just the ones that have no shame, I've donated to help a kids school or if a family/friend needed help with health issue/death expense, etc. But other request like "help me afford a trip/vacation etc." realty pushes my buttons... OK sorry about the rant.
Utter luxury! I had to use toenail clippers to mow the lawn, and it was uphill both ways. In the dark, snowing.
My mower was not as sharp as that one. That bagger would be the first thing off of it. I did mowing route at 12, biking for road soda bottles, 2 cents each, delivered Grit newspaper once a week for a nickel profit, route of twenty in the country,😥. Ohh geez, what happened to the time.
Pop bottles 2 cents up to a nickel by the time i Gave it up
All the neighbor kids we pooled our cash to buy caps for the cap guns or a new baseball or basket ball
A old fellow about a block away worked on and sold old bicycles he may have been retired or its what he done for a living any way if we needed a tire a tube or ? 25 cents to maybe a dollar for parts to keep our bikes working
Poor but fun times I guess
We did have one neighbor there kids had the best toys bikes even Honda mini bikes . Envy of every kid around
6 pop bottles would get a nickel pack of BBs for the Daisey and a piece of Bazooka gum.
As did I, mow,edge (by hand) and sweep up, my best friend and I split the $1.50 and off to buy a soda and a candy bar and still had .50 cents left over for a box of .22 ammo.