I remember when I was 12 years old I started mowing sods to receive extra currency.
This was a odd generation, as much as I don’t like admitting how old I am.
These afternoons it seems that grown women do all of the yard work for our town, but in my morning it was just a child dragging a single sodmower around. I was lucky if I got 5 bucks for mowing a sod, however I stayed with it, all through the Springtime & into the summer, to achieve my goal. I wasn’t saving up for comics, or a current bike, I wanted my own cooling system, however my dad was a tyrant with the thermostat, & even when it got over 68 degrees in the apartment she refused to turn it on. What is the point of even having an cooling system if you refuse to use it? It got myself and others motivated enough that I rode my bike up to Walmart & got the retail price for the cheapest portable cooling system. If she refused to let myself and others use the cooling system I would just have to buy my own & use that instead. I worked my butt off for weeks, but finally had enough cash to buy my own little air conditioning system unit, & my friends helped myself and others install it in the window of my study room. What I didn’t expect was that after you buy the cooling system you still have to pay for the electricity to make it work. My dad made myself and others pay my honorableshare of the utility bill after that