My Financial Life

In 2004 we moved into a new house which is where we live currently. My dad had it built because he wanted to move her for good after retiring from 15 years in the NHL so he had a pretty solid income. Although years later he obviously didn't manage his money very well because he would mention how he was running out and didn't have a lot left

My family took a vacation to Disney World every year and my parents would tell us if we spent all day in the garden with them, planting and cleaning up flowers and weeding we would all get $100 to spend while we were down there on games and rides and things

My grandma had sent us all a back to school letter saying that for each A we got she would give us $10, for Each B $5 and nothing for anything lower. So that gave us all as kids good ncentive to do well in school because we would get paid for working hard in school.

I probably got money in birthday cards before this but I remember this vividly because my Grandma and uncle sent me one card between the both of them which was a total of $80. To me this was unreal because I was 10, and I thought $80 could buy me anything and it just made my whole birthday, I went out and bought a video game and new pair of shoes with it

The start of my summer in 2012 my dad had taught me how to cut the grass. He would pay me $20 for overtime I did so I was always excited to cut the lawn. Now its not as fun because I don't get anything for it :(

When I was 14 my dad would take me and my brother to a couple of his buddies houses or camps to help take their docks out of the water, we would each made $20 for each dock we took out so that was a pretty good gig not having had a job yet

I remember going with my friend when he got offered to go shovel roofs for people he knew and he would take me with him and some of them would take hours but usually we would make $50 each and one roof took us about 4-5 hours and we made $100 which I did not expect it was hard work though

For spring break my family took a trip to go to the Mall Of America and on the way there we stopped at a small gas station where my dads finance bought us all a scratch off "cash word" and I won $50 it was my first ever scratch off and I was excited to get to the mall and blow it which I did very quickly

I got my first actual job although I was getting paid under the table working just down the road from my house for a family friend, my brother had worked there at my age and I would do things like sweep the parking lot, pull weeds, cut the grass, paint and make dump runs. I was making $8 under the table for like 3-4 hours a day usually every weekend

My dads friend used me and my brother a lot to help him out around his house with all of the yard work because he is older and can't do it all but my brother was working full time so I did most of it, he paid me $10 an hour for working a few days a week just doing chores like cutting the grass, weed whacking, and stuff like that and when we did stuff in the water like work on his boat or his dock he'd pay me $20 an hour because it didn't take extremely long