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To: JDN who wrote (117401)	5/31/2005 4:44:14 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793771

Pretty weird for a young boy, eh? Not really weird, but rational in an economic sense. I wish someone had drilled the power of compound interest into my mind when I was a child. Not a mistake I will make with my child.

To: JDN who wrote (117401)	5/31/2005 4:53:21 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793771

<< I would only spend 3 cents of it daily for one dinner roll. >> I spent my three cents on a carton of chocolate milk. When I was 11 I got a summer job scraping the walls and ceiling in the basement of my dad's store and then painting the whole basement. Paid 25 cents an hour and I had to buy my own lunch, then again I did get free medical. When I got $20 together I opened a checking account that I still have today 46 years later. Never bounced a check and am up to check 4198 now. My friends got jobs detasseling corn and that paid $1.25 and I wanted to have that for my job when I grew up. That was a fortune compared to what I was making. 6 days a week in the Black Hole of Calcutta and then on Sundays I caddied and mowed lawns. My dad kept telling me to remove my shirt because I was too pale. No shit, 6 days a week with no Sun. I burned like a steak in a cheap diner. The burns we get before turning 25 are what cause cancer. My skin guy says he will retire off me.