Back in the days of allowance

When we were young we got an allowance every week. Most of us got $1.00 a week. My two older brothers may have gotten more but I know my sister Bunny and I got a dollar.

Toward the top of Mill St. there used to be an old laundromat. It was turned into a home many years ago but back then we would take our precious dollar and spend it on candy in the candy machine that was in that laundromat. Each thing in that machine was 10 cents so that meant 10 different kinds of candy I could buy! And this was the good candy too...full sized bags of M&M's (and yes things were bigger and better for less money back then...it's true); Mounds bars; Milky Way bars; Zero bars (can't even find these anymore); Necco Wafers (we must have been desperate to eat those!); Good and Plenty; Good and Fruity and of course Hershey bars. I was in heaven every time I went there and we shared our booty with the neighborhood kids.

I don't recall anyone ever washing clothes there which is probably why it eventually closed. Luckily for us there was a small restaurant on Main St (called The Barn Restaurant) that used to sell penny candy. Bunny and I would stop and spend our money there after Sunday school as we walked home. I'm also ashamed to say we were given 50 cents each to put into the collection plate for church and more often than not we held back half of that for candy.

When we were older we used to skip church and Sunday school completely and hang out on Crane's Hill instead. We never got caught but it was rather cold up there so early in the morning sometimes so we didn't do it often. Rotten kids, eh? I don't think Mom and Dad ever knew we did any of that stuff. I'm sure I would have remembered the fireworks if Dad had found out.