[Ralph Brunt]

So I'm doing my yard work today as I do every weekend and i look over at my neighbors yard and it's a mess. I think damn,  i do better work than his illegal gardener. Then i sat back and wondered what happened to the days like when i was young and would go around the neighborhood and ask the folks if i could cut their grass for some extra money???

you know if their was a neighborhood kid that needed some extra cash i would even let him use my tools. I just dont know  wtf has happened

i talked to the wife about this and she doesn't know either but, was sure to tell me that i would keep mowing the lawn if it came down to hiring one of our border brothers.

sorry guys just thinking out loud

[GT Jets]

I couldn't agree more to your thinking out loud....

I made enough money mowing lawns and doing odd jobs as a kid to support both bycicle racing and Motocross racing...Then literally restored my first car to better than showroom condition before I even had a drivers license...

Kids nowadays only want to play videogames and watch Youtube vids.

Had a young neighbor the other day trying to start his lawnmower when I was on a walk, on my way back down the hill i asked if he needed some help....The lawnmower had not one drop of gas in it...

GT

[jet boat performance]

Would have loved to mow neighbors lawns and such when I was a Kid but I was an "indentured slave to my Old man" , too busy doing all the Sh*t he had lined out for me If "pops' had let me use the mower It prolly would have been a "pusher"  . Re kids today its all about looking in the right places , I put up an ad at the local christian school and got a great kid who came regularly after school last season to work raking the enormous amounts of leaves I deal with every fall I was happy to pay him and he did a better job than the "day workers" I used in the past Tom

[Nordie]

yeah out here in vegas they paid everyone to get rid of their lawns cause of water conservation...this reminds me of me...i had 3 neighbors and mowed all their lawns made me about 100 bucks a month...hell i even weedwacked and everything...i think these days are over sad but true....also the days of kids outside playing are over...sad to see it go!

[HDriderTH]

yeah out here in vegas they paid everyone to get rid of their lawns cause of water conservation...this reminds me of me...i had 3 neighbors and mowed all their lawns made me about 100 bucks a month...hell i even weedwacked and everything...i think these days are over sad but true....also the days of kids outside playing are over...sad to see it go!

You can come mow my lawn(s). And you know I gotta grip O kids that hang out on my street, Hell I think yer on a first name basis with half of 'em NORDIE!

[Nordie]

haha yeah when i pull into terrys hood the kids yell nordie funny crap

[Ralph Brunt]

anybody have a paper route as a kid?  (i did)
how about collecting bottles and returning them  (yup did that too)

[76NORDIC]

Yup good ole paperroute, I had one. Thats how I was buying my school clothes, then was able to buy a dirt bike, a Rickman, then sold that to buy my first car a 70 Firebird

[OC2Vegas]

anybody have a paper route as a kid?  (i did)
how about collecting bottles and returning them  (yup did that too)

Me and a friend had an awesome thing going as kids, he lived in a pretty decent neighborhood in Granada Hills. Every weekend we would go around and do yardwork for a bunch of the houses! Some of the yards were pretty big so we were making $40-$50 bucks a yard.

We were also washing cars in the same neighborhood. His mom kept track of all the money we made over 2 summers and even factored out costs like supplys, etc. Amazing how much a couple of kids can make!

Those days are gone!

[crewchief22]

I had a paper route for several years, along with doing yards around the neighborhood. 

Then started at a local auto parts store at 16.  Bought my first '69 Camaro at 16 (damn, I wish I hadn't sold that car).

[Marcsrollin]

I grew up in a apartment so we never had a lawn , and the whole neighborhood was apartment buildings so my neighbors did not have lawns either.

[Brad @ SCJB]

my dad worked for a residential construction company. My sister and I would mow the lawns of all the model homes at the various subdivisions they were building in apple valley.

before that i started mowing a neighbors lawn...undercut his scheduled illegal landscaper....i remember when he found out, i was hiding in my yard watching when he showed up to mow his lawn....he was pissed! 

[HDriderTH]

I kinda passed up the lawn mowing, went straight to work for the cement contractor nieghbor at fourteen. I did however work for two of the local tree services growing up in the OC.

[honda1]

Times have changed i was nine i washed cars at a local car lot for 50 cents an hour and was happy i think it was 69 subaru just came to states  HELL MY KIDS WONT EVEN PULL WEEDS FOR A 10 SPOT 

[Tio Pancho]

Ahhh yardwork memories.... 6:00 am wake up calls, me and my little bro pulling weeds on a saturday morning. And we better be using two hands. And we had a big back yard!

[GlassCutter]

Paper route bought me my CZ 250 at 14, a Yamaha DT250 at 15, and an RM250 at 16.   At 15 I started as a busboy at the bowling alley and bought my first car a 70 Roadrunner 440 with that hoodscoop that opened with the flick of a switch.   Mowed lawns before all that.   And from 14 to 17 I was on a bad ass swim team that required 2 a day practices.   My days went from5a.m. to 10 pm.

My grades really suffered during the second half of high school though.