Interesting topic. :thumbsup:
I was never forced to work. It was what our family just did. When you are raised that way, it's what you expect, to help in whatever task was delegated to you.
I'm grateful I had to 'earn' my first bicycle & etc etc. Valuable lessons I did not realize till much later in life.
After I modified that bicycle from a 20' bike pedal sprocket to a 26" sprocket & longer chain, my Dad got pretty mad until my Uncle stepped in & told my Dad that I was just trying to be more like Dad. Tearing equipment apart & trying to make it better.
I wanted the bigger front sprocket for quicker acceleration from dead stop. It worked.
The actual value of money is something that seems to be totally dead & buried now days .
There were 4 of us and we all had "chores" to do on a daily basis.
A touch sexist by todays standards and if you didn't do your job, mum did not do hers so had to make your own dinner or do your own washing.
One learns very quickly that there is no freeloading.
Been working all my life and do not regret a minute of it, hard work is it's own reward.
However as a repair agent it always amuses me when some one comes in with a quality piece of kit the decides that they don't want it fixed because they can buy a lump imported land fill for less.
OTOH I am slowly getting a lot of top shelf equipment for next to nothing
And I started cutting the grass with a sythe and trimming the edges with a machette.
I was 14 when we got our first push ( reel type ) mower then dad a a run of good luck at the track so we got our first petrol mower & outboard engine when I was 16.
My sister still has that mower 52 years latter and it still runs like a top, still on original bore although I have modified the blade holder to take latter model blades.
She was offered $ 2000 a while back by a collector 1/3 rd her age.
He nearly died when she responded with "this mower cost 6 months wages when dad bought it so if you want it that is what it will cost you, 6 months wages.
