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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 570617, member: 13650&quot;]Joe,</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Your post brings back memories that I sometimes forget about.&nbsp; I&#039;m 28 so I did most of my growing up in the late 80s, early 90s.&nbsp; &nbsp; I remember mowing for an old lady down the street.&nbsp; It took me about 2 1/2 hours to finish that yard and I was paid $7 to do it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Those were the most valuable $7 I&#039;ve ever owned.&nbsp;&nbsp; Probably got spent mostly on baseball cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I too went door to door selling stuff out of magazines and actually did pretty well.&nbsp; Money&#039;s so tight these days, I don&#039;t think a kid could sell a quarter of the stuff I did if they even wanted to try.&nbsp; &nbsp; I had a paper route too and was always tipped well around Christmas.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I remember being into coins as a kid.&nbsp; Around 9-14 years old.&nbsp; There was no computer, no internet.&nbsp; The best info I had was from a guy I knew that lived up the street.&nbsp; I found out he collected coins and he showed me some of the stuff he had.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes he&#039;d give me an old issue of Coinworld and I&#039;d take it home and sit on our screened in porch during thunderstorms and read it and read it.&nbsp; I&#039;d about wear the pages out.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I remember having a lot of trouble reading them because I didn&#039;t know what all the terms were.&nbsp; I had no idea what 90% of the abbreviations meant.&nbsp; I rarely talked to the guy to ask him.&nbsp; He was always gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I dreamed of saving up enough money some day to buy some of those expensive coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Meaning anything over $50. lol&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d get stuff for birthdays, and the holidays.&nbsp; Would occasionally go to a local coin shop (long gone now) with a family member.&nbsp;&nbsp; That was all the exposure I had.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; We rode bikes everywhere we wanted to go as kids.&nbsp;&nbsp; Blew a lot more money at the baseball card shop than I did on coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; My friends werent into coins like I was.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I remember in about 4th or 5th grade messing around with the old Commodore 64 computers.&nbsp; Absolutely insane how far we&#039;ve come now.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; There&#039;s 1000x the competition for people&#039;s money now than there used to be, just since I was a kid.&nbsp; Now everybody has expensive cell phone plans to pay for.&nbsp; Computers to buy and upgrade.&nbsp; Internet service to pay for.&nbsp; Sky high insurance premiums.&nbsp; $100 tanks of gas.&nbsp; &nbsp; All the advertising, the pressure to have this or that, a computer sitting there that you can pretty much find and buy anything on. Available 24/7.&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#039;s no wonder there&#039;s so much debt.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Yeah, it was a simpler time even back in my day. lol&nbsp;&nbsp; All the technology we&#039;ve got now is a double edged sword.&nbsp; &nbsp; My kid will never know the world I grew up in.&nbsp;&nbsp; We had fun being kids and I&#039;d say the ignorance probably was bliss.&nbsp; lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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