Originally Posted by Webby

Dammit Will... you had it lucky
This is where all the hardship stories start coming out and it ends up a competition to see who was poorest :-)

When I was a lad (time to play the weeping music) .. think I was earning $20/week then which was actually reasonable money for a kid at that time.

I saved up.. think around $300 and immediately went into the adult biz marketing by mail. Can't remember exactly, but took around 10+ years later and had four production units churning out sexy panties, dildos, movie processing lab and manufacturing chemist (sex creams/sprays) and selling this crap by mail. Then along came the bricks and mortar stores blah..

But... hell man... I sure never had a nice TV like Jim - I'm envious