Posted by Mike (WA) on January 14, 2011 at 08:45:43 from (69.10.196.7):
In Reply to: Re: Snow shovelers posted by VernMI on January 13, 2011 at 09:24:11:
When my oldest was 12, he noticed that strawberries were $24 a flat in the supermarket, but only $12 a flat "U-Pick"- so he started picking berries and selling them around the neighborhood, until he had enough to buy a Nintendo.
To his credit, he played with the Nintendo for a couple of weeks, got tired of it, and put it away. But he never got tired of working.
BTW- The old Filipino who owned the berry patch found out what he was doing, and made him an offer- instead of paying $12 a flat, give me half the berries, and you can have the other half for free. So he earned the same money by selling only half as many berries.
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