First money

Tony in SD · Nov 16, 2023

Speaking of money, I am reminded of the phrase; He still has the first money he ever made. The first off our farm job I had paid $1.25 / hour driving a Versatile 175 tractor in 1970 at the age of 14. I bought a Savings Bond with that money. Since I still have that Savings Bond, I still do have the first money I ever made. Who else has the first money they ever made?

KL in Wi · Nov 16, 2023

Not the first money I made but, I was given a savings bond when I was less than a year old, 1952. Still have it

tim s · Nov 16, 2023

I started out with nothing,,,I still have most of it left...

showcrop · Nov 16, 2023

The way I look at it is that I didn't get a lot of money from my parents to help me go to school and get started, but they did pay my way completely for food housing clothing etc. so I was able to bank everything that I made from when I started working at age 14.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 16, 2023

Grandfather gave each us kids a cow when we were born,the sale of the calf money was put our own bank account each year. Added up pretty good over time. Started raising game chickens and peafowl when I was 10 to make money.

Bruce from Can. · Nov 16, 2023

I certainly dont have the first money I ever made. I spent the money I earned on cars, trucks, snowmobiles, boats until I was 18. Then I started spending money on sows and feed, and turned that into cows and dairy equipment, tractors etc. So I spent my money on things that would ether bring me pleasure or make money. Somewhere along the way I mustve started setting money aside, but I really cant point to a date.

teddy52food · Nov 16, 2023

I am working on my 2nd million. I gave up on the 1st one! I spent myself down to almost nothing & am still there.

Tgrasher · Nov 16, 2023

Spent all my money on booze, dates, and cars. Good thing I did because my wife wouldn't let me now.

dhermesc · Nov 16, 2023

Spent all my money on booze, dates, and cars, the rest I just wasted.

Janicholson · Nov 16, 2023

I don't count picking dandelions for mom for a penny a piece, I Worked for a neighbor for $1.25 cleaning matted chicken manure from a barn. That money paid for a lesson in avoiding ultra old Chicken Manure. So I have the value, if not the cold hard cash. Jim

DMP62 · Nov 16, 2023

My first off farm job was when I turned 16, making deliveries for an auto parts store that was owned by some family friends. I continued to work there as time allowed through high school. I don't have the money I made there but one of the first things I did with my earnings was bought a very nice set of tools and tool chest. I still have most of those tools and the chest. The tools were lifetime warranty and I'm still able to get them replaced 40+ years later. A very good investment for a kid at the time.

chcase · Nov 16, 2023

I don't have my first money I used it to buy heifer calves from Neighbors. Raised them to start my own herd.Had full herd by time I was in high school. Alot of work but was the most rewarding. Just wish I still had all that energy that I had at age 18

MSD · Nov 16, 2023

We used to get .50 for each pocket gopher tail we collected from Dad. Untill we got really good at catching them and then we are still waiting to get paid for them.

sotxbill · Nov 16, 2023

Mowed grass so I could buy a '65 honda 50 supersport. I dont have it anymore, but I have one just like it in the garage. Second job was .50 an hour after lying about my age. After two years I got bumped up to .65 an hour and bought a used '56 ford pickup. Sold it in High School years later to get a 63 galaxie 500 xl. I remember in '73 getting 1.65 an hour working for ma bell and thought I was rich. Bought a wife and a house with that money.

redforlife · Nov 16, 2023

I joined 4-H when I was a youngster so I could show a hog at the county fair. When the hog was sold at the premium auction, a banker bought it. But it wasn't the banker from the bank where I had a small savings account. In dis-appointmemt that my bank didn't buy my hog, I opened a savings account at the bank that did with the entire hog check. I still have that same savings account, and have never spent the original money that went in it to open the account.
But I don't really recall if that was the first money that I actually made.

I only showed a hog at the fair that one time. I seen how political it was to show livestock at the county fair. If your dad or grandpa wasn't on the fair board, or your dad wasn't a good friend of the livestock judge selected by the fair board, your livestock didn't have a chance no matter how good. That didn't interest me much, so I didn't continue with it.

David from Kansas · Nov 16, 2023

Not exactly money made, but dad bought a 1K life insurance policy on me when I was about 3-4 years old and I still have it. Haven't paid any premiums for many years, just let the accumulated dividends and interest pay it. Don't remember what it is worth now, more than 75 years later. After high school I was just helping dad on the farm and I had bought a new JD square baler and was doing custom work using dad's tractor on the baler. Then a neighbor hired me to help him on his farm/ranch at
$1 an hour, but paid me $1.50 an hour for running a combine at harvest time. This went on for a couple of years. He was great to work for and during the time I worked for him he took me to the Denver stock show, took me along with him (I did some of the driving) to Wyoming on a cattle buying trip, all expenses paid.

Hoofer B · Nov 16, 2023

I started working for area dairy farmers when I was probably 8 or so. Picking rocks, baling hay then tractor driving, milking, etc. I started investing money when I was 19 even though I was usually broke because I spent my money on Case tractors and equipment and livestock. I think it was 500 a month or so. 34 years later, I still have the same investment guy. He featured me on his blog a few weeks ago. I have not heard the final production of it yet, but it is titled Garage to Growth. Bill

37 chief · Nov 16, 2023

You did better than I did. I only got .25 for each one from Dad. Stan

Keith-OR · Nov 16, 2023

I plowed for friend of my dads with 2 big, and I mean big work horses when I was in the 3rd grade, anyway they looked awful big to me. At the end of each day Walt would pay me with couple of paper dollars and one silver dollar. When I got home I always gave my mom my silver dollar. I still remember the very first one, it was an 1885, don't know the mint and did not really care.
Over the years I had forgotten all about those silver dollars.
Well when my mom passed in 2000 my 2 sisters and I was going through my mom personal night stand, in the draw was a leather pooch with my name on it, I empty it on her bed it had all the silver dollars that I had earned that long ago summer. I stll have all those silver d0llars!!!!

So I still have the first dollar that I earned.

stevieb49829 · Nov 16, 2023

The County paid a $.20 bounty on pocket gophers in the '60s. I don't have the money anymore (or any less) but I still have a couple of the gopher traps and I use them every year. I'm the neighborhood gopher killer, and have a couple of 60-something apprentices. They go by titles like: Locomotive Engineer, Tug Boat Mate, FBI Agent, and Almond Rancher. Catching gophers is catching!! steve

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