• BurgerBaron@piefed.social
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    17 days ago

    $0 as a teen, had to work once I was 10 starting with paper route.

    Before that I got $3.25 every Sunday which I saved up for 50% of an N64 and then convinced my dad to help me buy it for Christmas one year which he agreed to.

    He was extra generous and bought Super Mario World so I had a game to play day 1.

    Oops.

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        17 days ago

        You ever scrounge for lost cash? Swimming pool change rooms and the return slots on vending machines were my go to. Usually never found much more than a few coins, but sometimes you’d find paper bills!

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          17 days ago

          Yup, we used to get all our arcade quarters by checking all the coin op lockers, especially underneath if there was space. There used to be at least a simpsons arcade games worth for my brothers and I.