Shoots, Mom would give us a quarter, we'd go to the movies, get a soda and candy and come home with change!
Dad would give me 50 cents. I'd get on my bike, ride to the gas station with the gas can, get it filled, buy him a pack of smokes and sit and have a soda, then come back home.
These days, you give a kid a quarter and they look at you wondering what they are going to do with it. lol
I remember my first REAL job. I made a whopping $1.72/hr working 2d shift in a nursing home. That was alot of money! That $1.72 included the "shift differential".