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In reply to the discussion: Best rant on PC I have seen for awhile...long, but worth it. [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You had to be at least 12 to babysit.
And you were expected to clean the kitchen.
In the summer, for 6 weeks, the berry farmers would have buses, like school buses, at the local Safeway at 6 am, anyone 12 and older was driven to the strawberry fields, where you picked berries till 2-3 in the afternoon, at 1.00 a flat. I think a flat held 8 of those green baskets you buy at the store.
Every flat got a ticket punch on a card you had, when full you turned the ticket in for 15.00. That would take several days to do.
no taxes, no forms, and mostly always kids picked, a few grownups. Bus drove you back to the drop off point at the store.
That was my money for school clothes in the fall, and it never seemed unusual to have to buy my own clothes.
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