Paper rounds as a Kid

I used to have the worst paper round in the village! Got an extra £4 more than everyone else though :D £12!!! :)

Not bad for getting up every morning before school at half 5, traping around for about 2 hours with about 80 papers! :(
 
I think the main problem is, the wage, mummy and daddy will give nearly all kids nowadays £15-£20 for doin SFA, so you tell a kid to get out of bed a few times a week for a tenner, and they will laugh at you. Paper rounds would get popular if they paid around 20 a week or something for 100 papers or so.

When I were a lad I got my 1st job at 14, not doing a paper round, but a milk round! that was a classy job then, haha, got me £10 for a sat morning, 4/5 hours or so work, used to love xmas as I got 2 days work, sat and sun (always delivered the weekend before xmas for the week, LOADS of milk, course back then it was cold enough to leave it on step),and £20 and my boss always doubled it for xmas/new year pressie !

whoohooo :D £40 bonus a year on top of 10 a week back then was mega bucks, did it for 2 years
 
Ben M said:
I did the weekly free one when i was 15, was good overall.
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Ditto, some 200 papers + leaflets arrived at my door around 11PM Wednesday night. I would then stop up and stick the leaflets in the papers ready for the morning. Got up about 4AM to do them all before school.

Was'nt much money £5-8 per week depending on how many leaflets, but I had very little pocket money as a kid so it was a lot of help.
 
I did a early morning on when I was at school for almost 4 years.
Used to get up at half 6 and completed the round in half an hour. Used to get about £15.
 
Paper rounds should be a right of passage for youngun's to get a feel for doing a bit of working and earning money. Gets them motivated.
 
Got my first paper round when I was 13 and it was 5 miles a day, 7 days a week for £11. Got my second one when I was 15 and that was just under a mile, 6 days a week for £13 :cool:
 
Coz kids don't know there born nowadays, and there brought up wrapped in cotton wool !

I've got a younger bro who's 17 and he's never lifted a finger around the house all his life, he gets hand outs when ever he needs one and is the rudest and most unsocialable teenager I've ever talked to.

When I was his age I was working 35 hours a week mainly over the weekend and evening and earning about £100 a week, I had loads of money and used to spend it on mountain bikes and fishing gear and I had a great life. I had spare money than i do now.

He just mopes around the house acting like Kevin the teenager, only thing he actually ever does is plays cricket on a weekend and then gets driven around like he's a head of state or something.

Kids nowaday Arrrggghhhh ! don't get em started :mad:


DavieCramb01 said:
Right i need to address this issue its realy bugging me. but was it normal for kids to do paper rounds when they were 14-16?

i know i deffinatly did one my dad did my uncle did and so it goes on.

now if you mention to children do a paper round to earn money they look at you as if you asked them to lik salt off a razor blade. whats is the issue.

Coments anyone?
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When I was a kid from quite a young age I was actually taught the importance of money.
I got Christmas & Birthday presents like everyone else - but presents throughout the year? Only very rarely and there would be a reason for it.

If I wanted anything else I had to pay for it.
So I saved pocket money and the money I got from my paper round.
Once I was old enough I got a Saturday job and at one stage I did my Saturday job and my evening paper round.
This is how things went for me and as a result I "respect" money.
I don't live outside of my means, I don't have massive debt.
The banks owe me nothing in "unfair charges" because I simply don't go into the red.

These days kids are given too much - gifts when they want them, stupid amounts of "sitting on your backside" money.
However already we see people only half a generation behind me who do live outside of their means, are constantly going into the red with their bank etc.
Those a full generation behind I hold little hope for at all.

There was talk of kids actually getting lessons in school about the value of money - maybe it is about time this was pushed through.
 
I used to do one after school. I started with my brother when I was 9 and then I stopped being a paperboy when I was about 13 or 14 and went to work in a chippy doing dishes.

Can't remember how much I got for my first paper round but my own one I got paid £6.50 a week for about 28 papers.

^^ Stoofa, i'm quite the same with money. I don't really live outside my means, I am in a bit of debt but it's manageable and it's due to being a student. But I find that it was worth it working while I was younger. As a result of these jobs I moved onto better and better things and now I've got a decent CV for someone my age.
 
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Yup, used to do one when i was 15 for something like £11 a week. But these days all you see kids doing is SFA all day on the streets, most of them prob look up to their bro's who are chavs.
 
I used to do a morning, evening and sunday paper round back in 87-89. Paid about £18 for all three. Plus I worked in a chippy so I was earning £50-60 a week before I left school.

It was hard taking a pay cut when I started an apprenticeship :D

I loved the paper rounds so much I thought I'd try being a postie for a time.
 
I had to get up at 6am when I was 13 do the paper round which took about half an hour, Mon-Sat. For a whopping £5 a week!

I hope they've increased the wage as I can see why kids don't want to do it nowadays.
 
my 13 year old cousins are doing a paper roand and getting £24 a week :O i got like 12quid when i did one!
 
I used to get £11 a week for around 25 papers (I think) a night and it used to take me 30 minutes...was between 14 and 15 years old. Happy days :)
 
I used to deliver to local free paper, the money was a joke but i did it for a surprisingly long time before i started binning the papers. Oddly i was able to bin them and continue getting paid for over two years :eek:.
 
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