I am sure I did but apparently it wasn't important enough to make a permanent memory of it in my brain. However I did find something that was probably pretty important to someone else or at least it would have been to me had I lost it. I had gone to feed the cows and at the time our hay baler was one that made small round bales. When stacked they would form a triangle and so we would have to climb up to the top and take one of the bales and push it off so that it landed in the manger below where we would spread it out for the cows. That particular night as I slid down off the stack (the preferred method of getting down) I got to the bottom and something hit me in the back. As I searched for what it was I found a silver dollar. Silver dollars were not at all common even though I knew what they were since I had been given one for memorizing the current prophet (David O McKay) and the quorum and the 12 apostles and assistants to the quorum of the 12. So I already had a silver dollar but was glad to find a second one. We could never discover who had lost the coin and figured it was probably because they didn't want us to know that they had been playing on the haystack. It was years later after I was married when Lynn and I were discussing it and he asked if he could have it since he didn't have one and I had two. I gladly gave it to him.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Oct 16, 2010
Tell about pulling or losing a baby tooth.
I think my memories of all the teeth that I lost were probably wrapped into one giant or not so giant recollection of what seems like just one tooth. I remember tat it was painful and so i always kept it a secret until it was almost ready to fall out on it's own. It seemed like the method of pulling was a pair of pliers in dad's hand and a few seconds later it was out but it still hurt. The best part though was the dime under my pillow in the morning from the tooth fairy.
Oct 15,2010
Do you have any advice on how to be wise with my money?
Pay tithing first, yourself second and then the bills and after that the fun things.
Oct 14, 2010
Did you have to do anything to earn it?
For the dime I had to do the dishes and other household chores. For the milk money I had to feed the cows, milk the cows, feed the chickens and gather and clean the eggs. I also had to help with the farm chores of irrigating, cutting, raking , baling, and hauling the hay that would feed the cows during the winter. We also had a lot of other chores that we would do depending on the seasons. For instance the late summer days were filled very full of picking, washing and processing the fruit. My job was more as well because I had to bring the bottles in from the grainery where we stored the bottles, remove the black widow spiders that made their home in the bottles, wash the bottles and prepare them for having the fruit added to them. I also was the one to sort through the storage room and remove old fruit and empty and clean those bottles as well. Then I would put the new fruit away in the storage room. I had plenty to do to earn any allowance.
Oct 13, 2010
What allowance did you get at different ages during your youth?
I don't remember what I received. I think I received a dime a month at one point but it was when I became a teenager that I received an allowance which was from the milk that I sold from doing chores. I had at one point about 6 customers that I would sell milk to for 25 cents a gallon. I had a little wooden box that I had built and placed in the barn where they would put the money. I sold probably an average of 2 gallons a day.
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