When my son was in the fourth grade he and his mother stopped at a Little General store. Once inside
my son said he needed to go the bathroom. When he came out he told his mother that he needed 75 cents. She asked what he needed 75 cents for.
"Just give me 75 cents." She gave him the money and
when he got home he showed me what he had bought. I ask him, What are you going to do with that? He said I don't know. The next day he came home from school and showed me the 3 dollars he made from his 75 cent investment. Who would pay 3 dollars for that thing?, I asked. He told me who bought it,and added "everyone wanted it." When his mother came in, the first thing he said to her was,
"We need to go back to the Little General."
He always had a head for money. When he found out pop cans and copper and brass and even scrap metal could be turned in for money, he had everyone saving this stuff.
At 13yrs. he bought a used 4-wheeler.
At 14yrs. he bought a used Ranger 4x4.
At 18yrs. he bought a used F-150 4x4.
He paid cash for everything.
He was 21 and working a real job when my mother died, so he bought her house and rented it out.
Two weeks later he bought a new F-350 4x4 diesel.
And the boy who gave him the 3 dollars helped bring about his parents divorce.
He was bringing girls home for dad. (good son)
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