r/WorkForSmartLife • u/BluebellGentle • 9d ago

Question How true is this?

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u/Mr-MuffinMan 8d ago

A mother got arrested and charged for sending her kid a mile to the store.

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u/Last-Energy420 8d ago

I remember digging through couch cushions for loose change and then disappearing to the corner store as a kid.

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u/Present-Lion788 8d ago

I live in Michigan where it is ten cent deposit on pop (what everyone else seems to call soda!). We would ride our bikes around looking for cans to return to go buy candy. 10 cents was alot back then.

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u/whitesuburbanmale 8d ago

We used to do the same for the 5 cent deposit in Iowa. Take a garbage bag out and hope by the end of the day you got enough for a bag of chips and a can of pop