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re: How much did you get paid to cut the grass as a kid?
Posted on 7/10/20 at 9:53 pm to DaleGribble
Posted on 7/10/20 at 9:53 pm to DaleGribble
Not one red cent.
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Posted on 7/10/20 at 9:53 pm to DaleGribble
$10 a yard in the 80’s
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:17 pm to DaleGribble
3.50
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:18 pm to DaleGribble
350
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:21 pm to HeadSlash
350
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:22 pm to DaleGribble
in 1950s, $2. neighbors.
home, i didnt get an allowance. i got food and clothes.
home, i didnt get an allowance. i got food and clothes.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:23 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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It was part of the cost of room and board growing up for me.
This. Free rent plus food
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:24 pm to DaleGribble
My parents fed me
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:24 pm to DaleGribble
I didn't get my arse beat. Fair deal
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:26 pm to DaleGribble
$2.50 for a regular yard, $5.00 for a large yard. Brother and I split it.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:28 pm to TheDeathValley
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My parents fed me
Yep. But we cut several of the neighbors yards. Parents didn't pay me anything.
Used to get 4-5 cents a bale hauling hay. That was hellacious work.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:30 pm to Mainieri Fan
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White people problems
Half white people problems, byeong-shin
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:31 pm to DaleGribble
Mowing the yard and taking out the garbage were my chores.
No pay expected or given.
No pay expected or given.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:37 pm to DaleGribble
$20, I had a old guy that paid me $5/hr. It took me 4 hours on his riding mower and I had to provide the gas. I did it for about 2 months and he refused to negotiate, so since I had committed to I did it for as long as I could tolerate. I finally got fed up when he decided that I had to cut a smaller patio yard that wasn’t part of the original deal. He couldn’t understand that I got i tired of shoveling his 2 German Shepard dog shite as well.
I did better cutting multiple yards than cutting his one damn 4 acre lot.
I did better cutting multiple yards than cutting his one damn 4 acre lot.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:39 pm to DaleGribble
Room and board at Home and at pawpaws house. I had no neighbors to exploit.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 10:40 pm to BuckyCheese
My dad had me cutting the lawn at 5. He disabled the safety features of the lawn mower and I cut my finger tips off when I tried to lift it off a root. Got a year off from cutting the lawn after that.
I was the first generation not to live on a farm and went to a family reunion a couple of years later, all of my great uncles showed me the finger tips and thumbs they lost in farming accidents.
I was the first generation not to live on a farm and went to a family reunion a couple of years later, all of my great uncles showed me the finger tips and thumbs they lost in farming accidents.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:07 pm to DaleGribble
In the 90s about $35 to mow & weedeat...I think.
This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:14 pm to SeaBass23
My grandfather had about a 3 acre yard, and a John Deere 68 rear engine rider to mow it, and at one time the mower had a pair of vice grips for a steering wheel And no reverse. 
This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:15 pm to DaleGribble
I got to eat dinner when I cut my grass. It was glorious.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:17 pm to DaleGribble
I was paid in not getting an arse whipping.
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