At the age of 14 what did you do for work?

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I've heard or read somewhere that you could create your own Playdough at home. I didn't bother memorizing the recipe but I thought it was worth a good try anyway. :rotfl:

After browsing all the crap I had at home I called a friend over and we started a completely random and non-methodical mix inside our Cauldron of Doom, trying to stick to the least toxical stuff. Since Playdough's formula is still a secret, I guess I can't reveal mine either. Yes, it worked. Let's say it has something to do with carpenter's glue and remarkably nothing to do with flour.

Then we went around the neighborhood trying to sell it. We went to the city where pedestrian traffic was more intense but in porportion to the amount of affairs people don't want to be distracted from. We made hilarious performances at the bus stops. In the end a kind Gentlemen bought it out of pitty, I think. :rotfl: It didn't looked very appealing. You know, the first car invented wasn't the best car. Our dough was still immature and ugly.

The comic ending: I'm lying. I can't tell you the formula because I didn't wrote it down. We spent the next day from morning to night attempting to recreate the thing, unsuccessfully. At least I learned to ALWAYS NOTE DOWN ANY THOUGHT, IDEA, FORMULA, PROCESS, etc.

The 5$ we earned in a day was no profit at all because the cost of the ingredients wasted in the attempt to recreate the blob outweighted the 5$ by far.

By the way, the 5$ could've been a waste to the Gentleman aswell. We found a little piece of the dough melted next to the window the following day, warm after a long exposure to sun-light. Not that he would've used it anyway, seeing as we only manipulated it with gloves, who knows how toxic the thing was, and not that the real Playdough doesn't dry and crack if left on the sun aswell, but at least that one may come off with water, ours left a permanent round oily spot on the floor.

I can't remember that far back!!

Can you remember what you did 33 years ago?