-=> Quoting Mark Hofmann to Nancy Backus on 13 Feb 14  18:23:48 <=-   
      
    NB>> Our son did a fairly good business, shoveling in the winter, mowing   
    NB>> lawns in the summer... used his own mower, his own shovel... that   
    NB>> was over twenty years ago now, though... :)   
      
    MH> I did the same thing when I was in my teens.  I was the local   
    MH> paperboy, started my own lawn service, snow removal, and even   
    MH> painted apartments a few summers to top that off.    
    MH> I made more money when I was a teen than anyone I knew.   
      
   You worked for it, after all... :)  Rob had a paper route for a while,   
   too... and did some door-to-door sales, cards and wrapping paper, etc, I    
   think...  Go-getters were somewhat rare even then...  I suppose that a   
   lot of factors go into that, like overly generous allowances, laziness,   
   no encouragement...   
      
   ttyl      neb   
      
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