They way that I earned money growing up was by washing babysitting or finding odd jobs like cleaning yards , washing cars until I was about 17 than I able to get a real job an get paid hourly. Growing up I never really kept track of my earnings or my expenses because I did not have any. However did kept track of my savings since I wanted to buy my first car. The way that I did this was through auto draft at the time if I was getting paid weekly so I would automatically get 50 dollars switched from, checking to my saving. In no time I had 16,000 dollARS SAVED