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Message:: [QUOTE="tommyc03, post: 3987581, member: 17665"][USER=74863]@Collecting Nut[/USER] They were fun days to be sure. A quarter went a long ways. nickel candy bars, penny candy that was actually big. A 12 ounce soda in a bottle for 8 cents if you drank it there, 10 cents if you took it with you but you got your deposit back later. My paper route was not a local paper. It was the "Grit" out of Pa. Back then it was more like Mother Earth News. In the spring I would sell garden seeds from the American Seed Company. In the fall I would sell Christmas cards, tags, etc. When I was 15 I helped deliver 100 pound Canadian alfalfa bales of hay. ($15.00 per trip) We delivered mostly to Equestrian schools and I got to meet a lot of pretty rich girls. When I was 16 I was the youngest ever Avon distributor and sold from my bike door to door. Long story short, when you come from a family of 10 you earned everything you got. No allowances, no loans from Mom & Pop. And you learned the value of a dollar early on.[/QUOTE]