[RogerWilco]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Well I did live in Bonavista, we had standards to maintain. When the NEP hit and my parents lost everything they still kept up the allowance thing.

I remember every Sunday my three systems and I would line up outside of his office and go in one at a time, there was a stack of 8 crisp $1 bills and a stack of 4 sheets of loose leaf paper. He'd pull out the paper with my name on it, which had a list of chores and jobs I was responsible for and he'd run through them. Everytime there was something that wasn't done that $2.00 would shrink. Then he'd as he says "Give you what you were worth that week" then pull out a list of new jobs and run through them with you. Then you took you're money or what was left of it and leave.

The girls always had the easy chores, vacuum, wash walls, do the dishes etc. I always got the mow the lawn, paint the fence, sand the deck. Or the spring dig the garden, or the even better ones like, dig a hole 2 feet deep to an exact diameter of 6 feet for a new fire pit. Or the gag worthy spring break one of clean up all of the dog's poop in the back yard the first time the snow vanished.

Back in the day those sort of chores made you a karate expert.