Getting Allowance

I never got an allowance persay. Or many random gifts...
My Chritmas stratagem, however, consisted of putting so few items on my list that I would be nearly guaranteed to get them. My parents would always say "it's a wish list, not a get list." Too bad they didn't realize that I wasn't going to fall for that bunch of noise. You put a PlayStation (one) and two games on your Christmas list and nothing else, you're more than likely going to get it.

No, no allowance though. Except when my mom got me Battletoads there were two jars on the counter, one full of marbles representing my owed balance. Every time I would do a chore that normally belonged to my little sisters, I'd get a marble in my paid jar. I think I got through half the marbles before my mom stopped caring.

Jam it back in, in the dark.