I had a paper route, mowed lawns, cleaned out leaf gutters, bagged groceries, and as a teen was a gopher and file clerk first for a local pathologist and later for the nasty office manager in my dad's office. During summers in college and med school, I worked for a moving company and still have the bulging disks to prove it. My folks could have handed me everything, I suppose, but they chose not to. Birdie's not a guy, but she worked even harder as a kid and through college and still works like a Trojan now that she's back in school. We have worked hard to instill a work ethic in our son and, fortunately, seem to have been successful. Some of our son's more pampered college chums have a laziness ethic/sense of entitlement that's downright sickening. I know I'm an old fogey compared to the kids you were probably asking this question of.

P.S. I don't have a problem buying tampons or pads.