What did do as a kid to earn money ?

Did lots of the regular stuff.

Used to go around the neighborhoods on trash night and grab broken lawn mowers, take two broke ones, make one run and sell it.. was usually good for 15 bucks for a short amount of work.

Got enterprising once, Dad was in the service so I decided to help out by polishing all of his left shoes and told him I'd do the rights for a buck each. I polished all the right shoes and got a good *** whooping!