# Anyone ever sell Grit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579 "2010-10-09T05:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![confederatemule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@confederatemule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confederatemule)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/21 "2014-10-26T11:45:14Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > So it wasn’t the true Grit. No, running coach, it was not. The magazine caters to the homesteader. Sorta like “The Mother Earth News”. The original paper did reach out to rural U.S., but had news that would be of interest to all rural people. Read this; > **[Grit (newspaper)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_%28newspaper%29)** > > Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural U.S. during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle "America's Greatest Family Newspaper". In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its circulation was in towns of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. > The publication was founded in 1882 as the Saturday edition of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania, ... Click on “images” at the top of this link, [grit paper - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=grit+paper&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) I had the bag and all. They furnished the forms, for their payment, with an addressed envelope with every batch of papers. I do not remember how the money was sent. I did not have a checking account. ?? I ain’t give a thought to this small chapter of my life since then. That was one of those useless thangs my step mother made me do. I wanted to be working with my Dad (mechanic) or fishing, or hunting with him. Mule ---
**Author:** ![confederatemule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@confederatemule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confederatemule)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/22 "2014-10-26T12:08:08Z")
Or better yet, go here; [https://www.google.com/search?q=grit+news+paper&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=grit+newspaper&spell=1](https://www.google.com/search?q=grit+news+paper&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=grit+newspaper&spell=1) click on images at top. Go here; > **[GRIT History - Grit](https://www.grit.com/grit-history/)** > > As American as Mom, Apple Pie & Grit By Jean Teller, senior associate editor Photographs from Grit archives Note: You might be a long-time Grit reader, or you might be picking up Grit for the first time. Either way, you’re holding a piece of... Mule ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/23 "2014-10-26T12:46:57Z")
> [@nonacetone](#): > > I get Grit magazine! I really enjoy it. It’s something along the lines as Mother Earth News, but just not as popular, I’d say. Grit and Mother Earth News are both published by [Ogden Publications.](http://www.ogdenpubs.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/24 "2014-10-26T13:10:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s a reduced size serving Southerners eat when on a diet. It is also what my teeth did after reading this post. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/25 "2014-10-26T13:32:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > So it wasn’t the true Grit. > [@confederatemule](#): > > No, running coach, it was not. Whoosh. “True Grit” starring John Wayne — [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/26 "2014-10-26T13:32:58Z")
[To make it all worthwhile.](http://www.grit.com/food/recipes/bacon-cheddar-biscuits-recipe-zerz1410zdeh.aspx#axzz3HG0famIn) Bacon-cheddar biscuits with chipotle chili. Possibly the world’s most perfect food. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/27 "2014-10-26T15:32:09Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Whoosh.[URL=“[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/)”] Which reminds me that we were watching _The Lego Movi_e the other night (oldest in-homer had not seen it), and I again thought that someone needs to capture that line of Emmet’s from near the beginning… “Did I hear a whoosh?” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/28 "2014-10-26T15:37:19Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > The Grit being published now has almost no resemblance to the Grit that was hawked in comic book ads; the original Grit was an actual newspaper that concentrated on upbeat/positive news and columns, like a neighborhood paper. By the early 1980s, when a church friend of mine sold it for a while, it had switched from a broadsheet to a tabloid format, but it remained newsprint. The current publisher merely bought the name and slapped it onto a glossy rural lifestyle magazine. (Comparisons of its current incarnation to Mother Earth News, incidentally, are apt; they’re published by the same company.) That sounds right - I’d see copies of Grit at my grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s houses in the early 70s. ---
**Author:** ![confederatemule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@confederatemule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confederatemule)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/29 "2014-10-26T15:47:01Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > The “Grit” model of door to door sales makes little sense. Having kids deliver the local paper makes economic sense in densely packed areas. But selling and delivering a national paper whose peak circulation was only four hundred thousand? Especially when most copies were sold to rural residents? I sold in both places. In town, densely populated, on Thursdy night. In a rural area on Saturdy. After a short period of time there were folks I could count on to buy the paper every week. Mule ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/30 "2014-10-26T15:50:24Z")
I walked down the street in SOuth St Paul Minn in and out of businesses and sold the newspaper. One beauty shop I’d sell 3 or 4 to her various clients. I don’t remember the price or the content, except that I’d read it. My other exposure at 12 years old was the Wall Street Journal. I didn’t get a lot out of WSJ. ---
**Author:** ![confederatemule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@confederatemule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confederatemule)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/31 "2014-10-26T16:46:09Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > I walked down the street in SOuth St Paul Minn in and out of businesses and sold the newspaper. One beauty shop I’d sell 3 or 4 to her various clients. I don’t remember the price or the content, except that I’d read it. My other exposure at 12 years old was the Wall Street Journal. I didn’t get a lot out of WSJ. 🙂 😉 ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/32 "2014-10-27T00:54:53Z")
> [@confederatemule](#): > > Yes, I did sell the Grit weekly news paper. In '61 & '62. I sold/delivered on Thursday night and Saturday morning. It cost $0.15. I did make a little extra spending money. It was a great paper. I read it every week. > The rest of my time, not in school, I worked for my Dad. The one time I asked for pay, his answer was; “You get 3 meals a day, a roof and place to sleep. When you need something you get it. I will not pay you to earn your keep.” > You know, he was very correct in his evaluation of the subject. I got everything I needed and a lot of what I simply wanted. > > Mule > > BTW… A couple, or so, years ago I subscribed to the Grit Magazine. I is no comparison to what I sold. I was very disapointed. I got the same answer from my Dad when I asked about pay. My parents also paid what was left of my college tuition after scholarships and grants. Considering the amount of money they had that says a lot. I don’t know how they swung it for 3 kids. ---
**Author:** ![ron425](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@ron425](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ron425)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/33 "2016-11-30T16:55:53Z")
When i was a kid about 12 , i went to live with my aunt and uncle for a year or so in Magee Mississippi , where my uncle worked at a dry cleaning store and my aunt worked at a " T.B. hospital , aka " Sanitorium . While i was there i sold grit newspapers , mainly to the elderly , since they were the only ones who even heard Grit papers and up until i started selling them , my customers had thought they went out of business. The town" Magee" wasnt that big and my uncle had lived there for many years and my aunt was a nurse at the hospital , so between the both of them and the people i had met prior to selling the papers , i had approx. 200 customers and was top" paperboy" , if you will, for a good year and as such , i had won fishing gear, camping equipment, bicycles, cameras, anything they gave away to their " paper boys" , and they offered alot , i pretty much had won. my uncle would take my customers papers to town to give to my town customers as well as collect my money and my aunt would take and deliver the hospital customers as well as collect the money. Almost every patient in the hospital bought my paper , mainly because it was around when most of them were young. Back then , 1969 , the paper was a quarter , not sure now how much it is. I did alright back then , selling papers , i made enough to save , had won almost everything else i wanted , except for a BB gun which my uncle gave me for xmas , and it was fun. I hope that answered yours and anyone else questions. ``` RON DUNCAN :cool: ``` ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/34 "2016-11-30T17:19:15Z")
I read comic books as a kid, and saw all the ads saying “Sell Grit to win neat prizes!” But I never responded to the ads (I DID try selling seeds once, and it was a fiasco!). In fact, until a few weeks ago, I had never seen an actual copy of Grit magazine, and wasn’t entirely sure it really existed! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/35 "2016-11-30T17:56:53Z")
I’d forgotten about Grit, never seen a copy. I’d like me some X ray specs and sea monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/36 "2016-11-30T18:07:28Z")
Still published: [http://www.grit.com/](http://www.grit.com/) 6 issues a year for $14.95 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/37 "2016-11-30T18:15:42Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I read comic books as a kid, and saw all the ads saying “Sell Grit to win neat prizes!” But I never responded to the ads (I DID try selling seeds once, and it was a fiasco!). > > In fact, until a few weeks ago, I had never seen an actual copy of Grit magazine, and wasn’t entirely sure it really existed! I think they had those ads in Boy’s Life too. I’ve never seen a copy of the mag. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/38 "2016-11-30T18:33:19Z")
> [@Strainger](#): > > I know the OP is four years old, but…[nitpick]It was actually Richie Rich’s _dad_ who got started on his millions by selling Grit.[/nitpick] Yep: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3KYUicwjmqo/UGEUPZFq1RI/AAAAAAAAfK8/WDQ9DisRb34/s1600/img120.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3KYUicwjmqo/UGEUPZFq1RI/AAAAAAAAfK8/WDQ9DisRb34/s1600/img120.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/39 "2016-11-30T20:32:32Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > (I DID try selling seeds once, and it was a fiasco!). I tried that once also. They never sent enough of the seeds anyone really wanted. Way too many flower seeds. I also tried selling Christmas cards once. That’s how I found out about the only Jewish woman in town. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579/40 "2016-11-30T20:45:47Z")
I sold Christmas cards one or two years, and I actually owned a pair of X-ray specs. Guess what? X-ray specs were misleadingly marketed! You couldn’t actually see through women’s clothing, as was implied in this ad. [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/x-ray-specs/](http://blog.modernmechanix.com/x-ray-specs/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-sell-grit/556579.md?page=3)