O.K. who had what chore to do as a kid and what was your allowance for it?

1. Rake the leaves (freaking seagrape trees in Fla.) we had two too many.
2. Clean bathrooms

allowance $5.00 a week that my dad deposited into a bank book and I had to have a good reason for withdrawing it even though as I explained on numerous occassions "I worked my butt off for it and it's my money." today as a result I still am pretty good at saving.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

It seems to me the only chore I really had to do was keeping my room clean and mowing the lawn. Of course the lawn was probably 3/4 of an acre. I think I got three or four bucks for that. I liked mowning the lawn, though. I mowed some of the neighbors' lawns, too, for extra money.

Nobody made me save my allowance. I just saved it because I liked accumulating money. Still do.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

and there are those who have to suffer when you part with it...

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

My grandmother's house had a coal furnace. Guess who had to manually fill the hopper and remove the ashes every damn day?

It's a SOB to have Black Lung in the sixth grade.

Nobody more than me, baby!

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Cutting the lawn, with hay fever. That sucked. Found a construction job when I was 14. Made my sister ride the damn tractor. Worked in dirt and got some muscles. Still hate cutting the lawn. Would live on the woods if I could. No lawn.

Astro turf?

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Naw, how about marrying a gal that LIKEs to do the lawn!

Sometimes I get it right. Sometimes.

Gather, feed and sometimes milk the cows. Clean out the resulting mess from the barns. Mow the 10 acre lawn. Fix any failed equipment when outside help wasn't necessary.

No allowance.

Okay, I think Matt is leading the pack for childhood-chore suffering so far. . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Hand spading mom's flower gardens every spring.

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Mike Murrell
1991 300-SEL - Model 126
M103 - SOHC
"Fräulein"

Grew up as a typical middle-class suburban kid (abeit military brat), so no "Walton-like" chores per se.

Did the yard, vacuumed and dusted the house, and washed and waxed cars...didn't accumulate any allowance for those jobs, but I honed each task to perfection in the manner the Japanese perfected the "metal folding" technique that allowed them to craft those incredible Samurai swords!

Today, friends and colleagues marvel at my masterful lawn efforts, spotless household, and of course, the ever-gleaming machines in the garage...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Wash the aircraft....
but don't get water in there....don't use soap on that...don't spray anything here....never use a sponge on this....use this cleaner here, but not there...

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

I had to feed the child they kept in the attic small animals. I always wondered why we didn`t have pets until I got older. For doing that, I got to live.

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99 ML320
94 SL600
92 SL500
95 E320 Cabriolet
87 560SEC
86 300SDL Grease Car
80 380SLC Euro

13 Fiat Abarth
02 Maserati Spyder Cambiocorsa
00 BMW Z3
90 Rolls Royce Silver Spur
80 Ferrari 308 GTSI
88 Jaguar XJS12 H&E Edition
99 Land Rover Discovery

Me too. I still cut my parents' lawn though, as my dad is getting up there and they can't really afford to pay someone to do it.

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1984 300TD