Extra Money?!

I'm not allowed to use power tools.... My temp gun is all im allowed to have! :(

Hahaha

I work on the oil rigs.

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Originally Posted by Timothy

I work on the oil rigs.

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You get paid to drill? :D

You could learn to rap. I hear that pays pretty good.

Sell rats as snake food! That's a serious answer lol I've gotten four hundred in a month an I have people wanting to pay me 200 but I gotta get production up!

Oh wow if I only had the time and space to do that lol.

Ya I need to build another either tubs an I can keep up with what they want. Their getting mad at me cuz I haven't gotten enough time yet. They want 20 meds a week so it's a pia an then Craigslist

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Originally Posted by arialmt

You could learn to rap. I hear that pays pretty good.

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Fitty and eminem aint got nothin on me!

I pictured more of Jamie Kennedy vibe.

I'd prefer you picture me as a true poet, Jim Morrison!

I second the sell rats. We are building another rack as I type this. The rats in this state are worth their weight in gold!

Genetically modify your snakes to :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: gold pellets.


Problem solved.



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You can donate white blood cells. It takes about 4 hours and pays like 350. Not sure how often you can do it but I would assume it would be safe to donate at least once a month....

I need to find out where to donate white blood

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Originally Posted by carlson

Ha I wanna know them too! I don't get fun things often. Mike we could start a very classy jigglo company very high class tasty stuff with large price tags!

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Lmao!!!!! "tasty" stuff???? hmmm.......that could go soo many ways!! And Mikey, I got two words for ya....TAX RETURNS. That's usually how I add new animals to my collection. And what about breeding? Are you producing yet? That's how a lot of people add new babies to their collection....by makin their own! Perhaps you could do a breeding loan with someone too? That's a low/no cost option too. Maybe someone out there will want to breed with ya.:P

Haha I'm innocent I swear. :) just over here being a good boy working out a very high class business balls and gigolos. Hmm needs a classy name now!

"Extra" money seems to get spent pretty quickly. Save receipts and track your everyday expenses for a week to see where it all goes, and where you can potentially cut back. Some quick ideas:
- Do you smoke? Quit. Even a pack a day is what, $5-6 now? Almost $200 a month.
- Do you go out drinking/partying every weekend? Those cover charges add up, never mind the drinks.
- Do you go out for lunch if you're working full time? Brown-bag leftovers.
- Speaking of leftovers, do you cook your own food, or do you buy pre-packaged "heat & eat" meals?
- Do you buy specialty coffee, or food/drinks from a vending machine? Yeah, it's only a couple of bucks... every day... but over a month it adds up.
- Do you buy bottled water? Get a filter and use your own bottle.
- Are you clipping coupons and shopping sales at the grocery store?

Then there's the monthly bills. Obviously some are fixed (rent/mortgage, electric, water, gas) though you can save a bit by conserving. That leaves phone, cell phone, CATV, and internet. Look at your plans and see if you can get by with less minutes or even dump the service entirely. We ditched CATV for NetFlix (cartoons and movies), and news we can find online. Instant savings $90/month. Same for the cell phone - do you use all your minutes? After realizing we had thousands of rollover minutes we changed plans to one with fewer minutes and the bill went from $95 to $55 BUT our phones are used very minimally.

I think you're not getting a lot of serious responses here because people don't want to say that they:

1. Have a lot of credit card debt.

2. Spend their kids' college funds.

3. Spend the money they originally planned to use for things like retirement, vacations, fixing the house.

4. Bail on other hobbies to sell them off and put the money into this one.

5. Spend their college loan money and live off ramen noodles.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

"Extra" money seems to get spent pretty quickly. Save receipts and track your everyday expenses for a week to see where it all goes, and where you can potentially cut back. Some quick ideas:
- Do you smoke? Quit. Even a pack a day is what, $5-6 now? Almost $200 a month.
- Do you go out drinking/partying every weekend? Those cover charges add up, never mind the drinks.
- Do you go out for lunch if you're working full time? Brown-bag leftovers.
- Speaking of leftovers, do you cook your own food, or do you buy pre-packaged "heat & eat" meals?
- Do you buy specialty coffee, or food/drinks from a vending machine? Yeah, it's only a couple of bucks... every day... but over a month it adds up.
- Do you buy bottled water? Get a filter and use your own bottle.
- Are you clipping coupons and shopping sales at the grocery store?

Then there's the monthly bills. Obviously some are fixed (rent/mortgage, electric, water, gas) though you can save a bit by conserving. That leaves phone, cell phone, CATV, and internet. Look at your plans and see if you can get by with less minutes or even dump the service entirely. We ditched CATV for NetFlix (cartoons and movies), and news we can find online. Instant savings $90/month. Same for the cell phone - do you use all your minutes? After realizing we had thousands of rollover minutes we changed plans to one with fewer minutes and the bill went from $95 to $55 BUT our phones are used very minimally.

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^ Nailed it. :) There are also those pesky 0% financing checks from my credit card company...

I have a $25/wk fund. It doesn't get me too horribly far, but it should get me three new 2 gene snakes for breeding next year.

My husband has a fund too for the same amount. As much money I spend on snake stuff, he spends on WoW TCG cards and board games.

I work in a storage warehouse. Just like storage wars. I have gotten good at selling abandoned goods on craigslist and ebay. I'm working on selling off the last of the Mary Kay lipsticks someone left behind. That made me a few hundred.

I had my first taste of ticket scalping when we bought extra Blizzcon 2013 tickets. That $200 profit was enticing.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

"Extra" money seems to get spent pretty quickly. Save receipts and track your everyday expenses for a week to see where it all goes, and where you can potentially cut back. Some quick ideas:
- Do you smoke? Quit. Even a pack a day is what, $5-6 now? Almost $200 a month.
- Do you go out drinking/partying every weekend? Those cover charges add up, never mind the drinks.
- Do you go out for lunch if you're working full time? Brown-bag leftovers.
- Speaking of leftovers, do you cook your own food, or do you buy pre-packaged "heat & eat" meals?
- Do you buy specialty coffee, or food/drinks from a vending machine? Yeah, it's only a couple of bucks... every day... but over a month it adds up.
- Do you buy bottled water? Get a filter and use your own bottle.
- Are you clipping coupons and shopping sales at the grocery store?

Then there's the monthly bills. Obviously some are fixed (rent/mortgage, electric, water, gas) though you can save a bit by conserving. That leaves phone, cell phone, CATV, and internet. Look at your plans and see if you can get by with less minutes or even dump the service entirely. We ditched CATV for NetFlix (cartoons and movies), and news we can find online. Instant savings $90/month. Same for the cell phone - do you use all your minutes? After realizing we had thousands of rollover minutes we changed plans to one with fewer minutes and the bill went from $95 to $55 BUT our phones are used very minimally.

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Don't smoke.

Not old enough to drink ;)
But no, i really don't party either, honestly.

I work in a kitchen so meals are free lol. :)

I rarely stop to buy drinks or water or snacks at gas stations.

I still live with my parents so i dont pay rent or for groceries. Im a pretty good cook and try to cook and use left overs.

I don't have any credit cards. I have a car payment, car insurance, gas, and cell phone bills. My cell phone is the lowest number of minutes possible lol. Maybe i'm just not being paid enough haha!

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Don't smoke.

Not old enough to drink ;)
But no, i really don't party either, honestly.

I work in a kitchen so meals are free lol. :)

I rarely stop to buy drinks or water or snacks at gas stations.

I still live with my parents so i dont pay rent or for groceries. Im a pretty good cook and try to cook and use left overs.

I don't have any credit cards. I have a car payment, car insurance, gas, and cell phone bills. My cell phone is the lowest number of minutes possible lol. Maybe i'm just not being paid enough haha!

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Sheesh, I don't even remember the days when I had so few bills! ;) Pick up extra shifts, start bartending, or find a kitchen that pays better.

I just have a lot of 'extra' money because I don't spend a lot. Prior to getting into ball pythons, I never spent money on anything other than the essentials.(Cheap ass frugal Asian here)

I never buy new clothes unless the ones I owned ripped or was unusable. I only have one pair of shoes for formal and another for casual occasion. I never buy video games, movies, eat out unnecessarily, etc etc. I bike vs driving a car. Saves on gas.
It helps that my University has a student garden that allows anyone to pick whatever they want from it any time.

I also feed my ferrets donated whole prey. My university has hundreds of breeding colonies for research animals. I always get the excess clean euthanized male roosters and quail that they don't have space or housing for. Otherwise they're sent to commercial pet food places to be processed.

Just the bare essentials. And now with snakes, the start up cost was quite a bit, but the maintenance is nothing. My rats pay for their own supplies and food, thus my snakes are eating for free. I'm using newspaper substrate, which is free too. I pick up all the extra unread university newspapers.

And when I do buy something, I buy quality. It may be a little more expensive, but it lasts way longer than a lot of cheap stuff. So in the end, instead of replacing the cheap stuff over and over and over again when it breaks or is unusable, you can just buy that quality item once that lasts a life time. Saves money in the long run.

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Originally Posted by carlson

I'm being honest donate sperm! They don't do that in my town but I gotta buddy in the cities that does it he's always got money

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I think one really needs to think more than just about the money when they donate sperm. They need to do a lot of self introspection and decide if knowing there are children out there, that are biologically yours is something you are comfortable with.

You may think that means nothing, but as an adoptee, who wants to know my biological history - I find it very plausible that these children may seek you out when they come of age. Would you be willing to have a relationship with them? Would you always wonder about how many children you may have out there? One could argue that my birth father was just a sperm donor, which for all intents and purposes he was - he got my birth mother pregnant and ran - but I still have a desire to know more about my genealogy, who he is/was, etc.

When you're young, all you think about is the money that you can make by donating sperm, when in fact, I think that once you mature, you may have regrets or questions that can't easily be answered (who are my biological children?).

The pipeline thing is serious. My brother does seismograph work for an oil company, so he basically X-Rays the welds on the new pipe tey're putting down to make sure it's quality. You can go into it with no experience as a helper, where you just help out with carrying the equipment and running the camera (easy stuff) and you make around $15/hr plus $100 a day per-diem. I almost did it this summer to save cash for college. you just have to be willing to do a bit of traveling.

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The pipeline thing is serious. My brother does seismograph work for an oil company, so he basically X-Rays the welds on the new pipe tey're putting down to make sure it's quality. You can go into it with no experience as a helper, where you just help out with carrying the equipment and running the camera (easy stuff) and you make around $15/hr plus $100 a day per-diem. I almost did it this summer to save cash for college. you just have to be willing to do a bit of traveling.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

I think one really needs to think more than just about the money when they donate sperm. They need to do a lot of self introspection and decide if knowing there are children out there, that are biologically yours is something you are comfortable with.

You may think that means nothing, but as an adoptee, who wants to know my biological history - I find it very plausible that these children may seek you out when they come of age. Would you be willing to have a relationship with them? Would you always wonder about how many children you may have out there? One could argue that my birth father was just a sperm donor, which for all intents and purposes he was - he got my birth mother pregnant and ran - but I still have a desire to know more about my genealogy, who he is/was, etc.

When you're young, all you think about is the money that you can make by donating sperm, when in fact, I think that once you mature, you may have regrets or questions that can't easily be answered (who are my biological children?).

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I've never donated sperm, but if I ever did yes I would wonder. Would I actively try and find the kids no because the role of parent and family is one that I had no right too. As a biological father yes but not their parent. I have adopted family ones met his birth parents one has not, I personal wouldn't deny a child that I had any part in creating the chance to know what they wanted about me and tell me what their life has been, they would be aloud any information I know since my genes would be there I couldn't just ignore they existed. But I wouldn't try and push myself into their lives because my swimmer made them, just IMO sperm and eggs don't make the parent. Hope in my rambling I answered what you asked, I'm not as immature as the Internet betrays me I swear :)

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Originally Posted by carlson

I'm being honest donate sperm! They don't do that in my town but I gotta buddy in the cities that does it he's always got money

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Carlson...its an incredibly small % of the male population that they actually accept for sperm donation...you have to be in the top 15-25% of sperm health, amounts, swimming ability, lack of dna or protein damage in the capsule coating/tail shape and power...the details they require go on and on....and you can bet if you have ANY medical issues or family issues of big deal things...they will reject you.

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Originally Posted by OsirisRa32

Carlson...its an incredibly small % of the male population that they actually accept for sperm donation...you have to be in the top 15-25% of sperm health, amounts, swimming ability, lack of dna or protein damage in the capsule coating/tail shape and power...the details they require go on and on....and you can bet if you have ANY medical issues or family issues of big deal things...they will reject you.

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Shh you just do a secret donation. Fast drop! Run into the bank give them a cup of it an get paid! Go go do it now!

You can be like an "American Picker" and shop at rummage/garage sales and buy stuff cheap that you could resell....for $$$$$$$

Or you could breed ASFs.....low investment, high production rate

Lemonade stand outside your house... at 25 cents a cup you'll need to move a lot of fluid, but I believe in you

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Originally Posted by liv

Lemonade stand outside your house... at 25 cents a cup you'll need to move a lot of fluid, but I believe in you

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Best idea yet. :D

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

You can be like an "American Picker" and shop at rummage/garage sales and buy stuff cheap that you could resell....for $$$$$$$

Or you could breed ASFs.....low investment, high production rate

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Just started doing this....ive bought some steals off craigslist and made some nice ass profit margins...also my university does a "green move out" week and I help a friend organize and sort all of it...which means I get first dibs on stuff before it goes to the salvage company (name for on campus pick something leave something type student run organization)...selling some of the stuff I picked up from that too...2 mini fridges, 2 sets of crutches, a nice designer named leather jacket...etc etc...

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Originally Posted by Annarose15

Sheesh, I don't even remember the days when I had so few bills! ;) Pick up extra shifts, start bartending, or find a kitchen that pays better.

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I'm only 20 :p

Can you bartend if you aren't of age lol? I can't usually get OT at my work. Every once in awhile i can though.

That craigslist idea of buying and reselling is good. I've done it with a few things here and there. I'll have to start paying closer attention i guess lol.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

I'm only 20 :p

Can you bartend if you aren't of age lol? I can't usually get OT at my work. Every once in awhile i can though.

That craigslist idea of buying and reselling is good. I've done it with a few things here and there. I'll have to start paying closer attention i guess lol.

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Legally, it probably depends on the location and establishment. In GA, you can serve alcohol at 18. A lot of places might not hire you, though, for fear that you'd be drinking behind the bar.

I probably couldn't bartend.

Sing and dance on the street corner

Ok to summarize:
You are 20 years old and in college normally, but took this semester off. What's your major?

You work in a restaurant. Are you a full-time or part-time employee?

You large monthly expenses are:
car payment
car insurance (because as a 20 year old guy with a financed vehicle you're going to get bent over)
cell phone
snake food

You don't have to cover housing, utilities, groceries, etc. for yourself.

I would look for a second part time job.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

I'm only 20 :p

Can you bartend if you aren't of age lol? I can't usually get OT at my work. Every once in awhile i can though.

That craigslist idea of buying and reselling is good. I've done it with a few things here and there. I'll have to start paying closer attention i guess lol.

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You can legally bartend when you're 18. My youngest son went through bartending school when he was 18, he was still in highschool at the time. He got his certificate and went on several job interviews but nobody would hire him. I think the reason pretty much was because he was only 18 although they don't actually come out and say that as that would be discriminatory.

As for the craigslist idea, I had a friend once who had lost his job but he was able to make ends meet (at least temporarily) by buying electronics on sale and reselling them on e-bay for a profit.