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* Fishing's not catching, * I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from
by defrost 9mo ago
* Fishing's not catching,
* I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from a furnace and rolling them on a bench, using optic moulds, canes for decoration, etc .. at the age of five.
Sure, we weren't running them like chimney sweeps or coal mine donkeys 24/7 - that's what they wanted to do for pocket money - make their own, how ever many, and sell them.
- nephihaha 9mo agoI doubt she was doing much in this direction until at least the age of eleven and even then...
- defrost 9mo agoI can't say either way, having never met her. I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later. My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family.
- barry-cotter 9mo agoDepressing to realise that soon most people will not even have second hand experience with children being useful.
- cucumber3732842 9mo agoIn the days before OSHA there was a lot of stuff on a lobster boat an 8yo can be tasked with.
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- rubzah 9mo ago> Fishing's not catching Sounds like something from an MLM seminar. "Telling's not selling!"