Okay.. while I don't consider myself "wealthy", I do know I have what is called "disposable income", and personally I think it's just crazy to spend $90 on a wallet.
While we're on the topic of wallets, where do you guys keep yours, front pocket, back pocket, or fanny pack? I've been keeping mine in my fanny pack for the longest time but I'm considering moving it to my front pocket to make room for other stuff.
No duct tape wallet here. I just stuff the cash (somewhat folded) into the pocket. I throw the loose change into a pot near the bed which I take to Raley's that will pay you cash if you pour the change into the machine they have. I leave all the ignition keys in the cars. I don't lock the house. I don't have any beepers or cellphones.
I have a lighter for the next pile of brush in my pocket. I do have some credit cards and the driver's license in a leather wallet in my left front pocket. I have a Swiss Army knife and the lighter in the other one.
I've decided to stop the parade rain. I'll stop being the overly religious soothsayer.
I don't remember what I made on my Southtown Economist paper route on Wednesdays and Sundays. It was around that time. I was in grammar school and playing piano with a Lithuanian Dance Band on rare weekends. I'd make $10-$15 per night for 4 one hour sets. I learned a lot of songs.
I can see both sides about the issue of working youth. On one hand, it does teach the kid the responsibility of working steadily and seeing the money pile up. It does require help from the parents and it does put another load on them. But, the accumulation of money allows the spending dreams to motivate the search for a job that could make more money. It makes the kid look at the want ads at the time that he can choose some courses in school. The selection of the career only happens if the kid thinks of what he'd like to do after he's been in the work force and has to get up early each morning. Most kids put off that thinking until they are in college and decided to take the liberal arts approach. The dead-end jobs also get these kids. There is the other hand which says let kids stay kids until they have had time to mature. Some of those kids just don't mature because they never have to concern themselves with bills and the decisions to be made until they really leave home. Sometimes it never happens at all.
I also think that kids should be kids... at the same time, I also think that we need to rethink current child labor and compulsory education laws, which unfairly affect the poor, and in turn the rest of society (tax dollars, etc).
Often times a lot of these kids could be helping their families out by working instead of being forced to be a part of our terrible public (and often even private) schooling system.
Kids should not be pressured into early work. But, parents should always have enough money to keep from defaulting on the mortgage. Sometimes the decisions to buy the house are made under unforeseen circumstances. The kids could certainly do some work to help the family stay afloat. Cutting grass, shoveling snow and baby sitting could make the difference in today's economy.
The kids should be able to test out of school. Much of school is baby sitting them while both parents work. So, if the kid wants to apprentice at a machine shop with an uncle, or learn actuarial probabilities with the aunt, or learn carpentry by helping Dad put up roofs (rooves?), I think the school could step aside and even give credit for the kid building his career.
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I have a lighter for the next pile of brush in my pocket. I do have some credit cards and the driver's license in a leather wallet in my left front pocket. I have a Swiss Army knife and the lighter in the other one.
I've decided to stop the parade rain. I'll stop being the overly religious soothsayer.
I'd make $10-$15 per night for 4 one hour sets. I learned a lot of songs.
Often times a lot of these kids could be helping their families out by working instead of being forced to be a part of our terrible public (and often even private) schooling system.
The kids should be able to test out of school. Much of school is baby sitting them while both parents work. So, if the kid wants to apprentice at a machine shop with an uncle, or learn actuarial probabilities with the aunt, or learn carpentry by helping Dad put up roofs (rooves?), I think the school could step aside and even give credit for the kid building his career.