According to Wiki, Bachmann became financially independent at 13.

Any guesses?

this woman is batshit crazy.........

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14445




At 13, Bachmann was forced to become almost financially independent after her parents divorced. She used her babysitting money to buy her own clothes and lunches at school and saved up enough to purchase her first pair of contact lenses. Between college semesters at Winona State University, she took her hardworking streak to Alaska where on one memorable day she cleaned 280 salmon.

"I learned the value of a dollar," she told WORLD. "Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers."

Bachmann grew up in a Democratic family and worked on Jimmy Carter's campaign during college. But throughout Carter's presidency, Bachmann says she grew disappointed with his liberal approach to public policy, from support for legalized abortion to economic decisions that sent gas prices soaring. Next election she voted for Reagan.

As her politics changed, so did her faith. She attributes a turning point to watching Francis Schaeffer's Christian worldview video series, How Should We Then Live? "In college I felt like in some ways my mind had been saved," she said.

grocery shop?

my kids work, earn money and buy all they of want outside of what i am willing to buy and spend. i guess they too are financially independent. NOT

Did she work for free too?

Where was she living? If she was living with either parent, she got free rent, utilities, etc.
More probable that she earned her own spending money. Lots of people do that.
What is interesting is the way this is phrased. She gives no credit to her parents and apparently holds a large grudge against them. She feels unloved and has adopted a world view that no one deserves to be loved and taken care of.

It may sound like cheap psychology but she really does have a hard edge to her. The biography shows an attitude and gives a glimpse of where the hard edge comes from.

both on the Dark side of the Force.