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Never got an allowance. Cut grass during the summers as a kid, then delivering papers. I had 2 sometimes 3 routes, the Wash Post was the biggie and an evening paper. Had to get up at 4 every morning for 2+ years to deliver the Post but I made tons with that route. Then progressed to fast food, Hot Shoppes Jr, and then a gas station. Never not had a job. Never really saved until I enlisted in the USAF. My pay check went into savings and I lived on my Per Diem.