sidcharles Posted yesterday at 01:10 PM Posted yesterday at 01:10 PM there was a time when i would buy comic books after all, he was the King of the Road Knights Clint Curtis (Character) - Comic Vine
Ace-Garageguy Posted yesterday at 01:34 PM Posted yesterday at 01:34 PM (edited) Model Railroader, Popular Science, Hot Rod and Rod & Custom magazines, model and electronics stuff...mostly...not that there was all that much to spend, but I did make money washing cars and mowing lawns. Edited 19 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy 1
drodg Posted yesterday at 01:34 PM Posted yesterday at 01:34 PM Mine as a kid definitely model cars. I remember once maybe 1965 I went to the store and instead of getting something for my mom for her birthday I bought a new AMT Stingray kit. Still haunts me how hurt she was. 1
Calb56 Posted yesterday at 01:46 PM Posted yesterday at 01:46 PM Hot Rod Magazine, Motor Trend, Marvel comics and definitely Hot Wheels which I wish I still had... 1
John M. Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago Model cars. When I was a teen years ago, I'd hop the bus to Woolworth's after Christmas and buy model kits that were part of the store's after holiday clearance sale for $2 each. Mostly it was MPCs 1
1930fordpickup Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago That was a curse word in my house. Being one of 11 children we did not get one or birthday presents. My parents also did not expect birthday presents as adults when we got jobs and told us we did not have to do that. Maybe that is why my stash is so large. LOL 4
JollySipper Posted 19 hours ago Posted 19 hours ago I never really got an allowance........ I learned early that working made money, so that's what I did in order to have spending money. It usually went to clothes and such, and models of course...... 3
Calb56 Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 39 minutes ago, JollySipper said: I never really got an allowance........ I learned early that working made money, so that's what I did in order to have spending money. It usually went to clothes and such, and models of course...... My "allowance" came from chores. 5
iamsuperdan Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago I never got an allowance. But there was a direct correlation between the amount of housework I assisted with and how much resistance my parents gave when I asked them to buy me things. And that's how we did it with our kids. The more they helped out around the house, the more we helped them when they wanted something. Anyway, my parents bought me a lot of Hot Wheels and Matchbox back in the day. And then I discovered models. 1
ksnow Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago Hair band cassettes. Dad bought me all the models I wanted, but wouldn't spend a dime on that "jungle music." 4
TonyK Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago What I can remember as an allowance was 15 or 25 cents a week. Long time ago and very young. The real money came when I was old enough to go berry pickin' in the summer and that was spent on models; and save a bunch to last through the year. 1
Volzfan59 Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 51 minutes ago, Calb56 said: My "allowance" came from chores. Mine too! My pops worked me like a rented mule, but if he was home he’d be right there beside me. Guess that’s I’ve always had a great work ethic. 1
Volzfan59 Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 5 hours ago, John M. said: Model cars. When I was a teen years ago, I'd hop the bus to Woolworth's after Christmas and buy model kits that were part of the store's after holiday clearance sale for $2 each. Mostly it was MPCs Been there, done that! 2
stitchdup Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago allowance? i was allowed food and had to be home before dark. my nearest shop when i was little was an airplane ride away so money meant nothing to me 2
Can-Con Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago Liquor and ho , ,, OH, wait, you mean when I was a kid, right? 🤨 5
meechum68 Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago No allowance here, but grew up on a farm, so when I worked in the hayfield, or loaded hay in the winter for our landlord, or cut firewood and stacked it for my uncle, I spent it on 3 things all the time: Models and supplies Crochet stuff, yarn and needles Books Now the "allowance" is model stuff, painting stuff, video games, stuff for my pick up, fishing bits and bobs, books .. lots of books. 1
Tim W. SoCal Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago I was another that never got an allowance, but had a BUNCH of chores to do every day after school. I got an afternoon newspaper route when I was 12 and worked it 7 days a week by myself until I was 16. I also bussed tables, washed 50 lbs. of Pinto Beans, peeled and cored 40 lbs. of Brown Onions, washed dished and did closing clean-ups at a Mexican style fast food restaurant when I was 14. (my Social Security statements show me starting to pay into that program when I was 14) Anyway, with the money I saved, I bought my first motorcycle, a Kawasaki G5 100, model car kits (which retailed at 2 bucks a pop back then) and supplies, Hot Wheels cars (still have all of the first three year's editions stashed away) CarToons magazine, Car Craft Magazine ('cause it sold for 35 cents and Hot Rod was 50 cents) Dirt Bike and Motocross Action magazines and, occasionally, Mad Magazine. 2
johnyrotten Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago Not really an allowance, I'd get handed small jobs in the shop and get a few bucks for it. That morphed into me becoming the "pull this or that out" guy, and more money. That money went towards models,clothes, bicycles and eventually my first two cars. Taught me the value of working towards something 5
NOBLNG Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago (edited) I think I got a dollar a week? Then on Saturday, I would go pester mom while she was grocery shopping and she would pay me to go away. When that was done she would go join dad in the pub for a bit and I would go peer at them through the window in the vendor till they paid me off again. I spent that mostly on pop and comic books…Superman, Batman, Spiderman, RichieRich, Two Gun Kid are some that I recall. Later when I started working at 13 and earning my own money, I started buying models, a cassette player, Hot Rod and Popular Hot Rodding magazines, and I don’t recall what all else….Then a ‘67 Falcon. Edit:There were chores that needed to be done to earn the initial dollar. My first paying job at 13 was cleaning the barn and driving tractor for a nearby farmer. Some of that money I spent on bicycles and parts. I asked for something odd, like a spoke threader maybe? at the local hardware store, and the owner offered me a job assembling bikes. I worked there part time after school and full time in summer, plus evenings as a projectionist at the theatre until I graduated high school. Edited 14 hours ago by NOBLNG 3
bobss396 Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago I got 10 cents a week, I was 1 of 5 kids and we were poor folk. So we generally blew it on candy or balsa wood gliders. Models I had to wait for my birthday or Xmas. If I got money, of course it went for models. We did work for neighbors at 50 cents per hour all summer. My mom would give us "contract" work, like weeding or painting. No joke, with a contract we had to sign. Winter, we shoveled snow. I'd give up around the $9 mark. My younger brother once stayed out until dark, he came home with $27. 1
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