[LakeCleElum]

Mowing lawns and weeding gardens for $0.50/hr at age 11......Paper route 7 days a week at 12, better paper route at 13, but had to get up at 0330 hrs....Age 15, started working 7 days a week in a gas station. 3 hrs after school, 6 hrs on Saturday, 8 on Sunday.....My mother made me save 1/2 of everything I earned.......I was soon saving more like 80%.

College: worked 30 hrs a week 1st 2 years and 40 hours a week the 2nd 2 years.......Paid for college and put 75% down on a house by graduation time.......After age 26, only have had a mortgage six months while waiting for one house to sell and then pay off the new one.