Survive without having to get a real job.
Hopefully this won't be as long winded as it is in my head.
I see a lot of threads of people wanting to make money, small amounts.
Well, here we go.
I'm going to try and list most of the ways I have avoided having to get a real job for over 6 years. You won't ever get rich doing this shit, but it will keep you stocked up on pop-tarts and beer.
1.) Pick up change. This one may seem a bit silly, but really, you see pennies, nickles, dimes, all over the place, but rarely do I see most people pick them up. Don't be too proud to stoop down in the crosswalk to grab that penny. That shit adds up. Get a big water jug, and put it in there. Save it for a rainy day, or when you really need a beer.
2.) Recycle. Pretty much the same as number 1. Carry a backpack with you, and a grocery bag (plastic). When you see a can, bottle, pick it up. Not only are you doing a good thing by helping to clean up the environment, but cans are worth almost $2 a pound here in CA. When you are bored, sitting at home watching asian ass porn, go for a walk down any street. There is usually a pound or two of cans along a mile long street.
3.) Invest. Oh yeah. When you have an extra $20-30 laying around, consider buying an ounce of silver, or something. If you look at silver prices over the last year, shit is going way up. Search sites like CL and ebay for people selling silver coins and such below spot price. Also stay up to date on the price of silver. If the market keeps going well, and you are able to find some good deals, you can pull in some good money depending on the size of your hoard. Granted you have to sell it to get that money, but you'd be surprised at the amount of businesses that will let you buy shit with silver. I have been known to purchase beer and smokes, at local stores with silver, when I had no cash. All you have to do is ask. Not to mention chicks dig it when they come over, and see silver coins and shit laying everywhere, makes your broke ass that much sexier.
4.) Work for websites like oDesk.com or Amazon's Mechanical Turk (mturk.com). I have covered this one pretty well I think, in this thread.
http://www.totse.info/bbs/showthread.php?t=5937
5.) Do real work. For yourself I mean, physical labor is something most people HATE doing. Most will pay good money to not have to do it. Ask around, friends, family, someone knows someone, that needs help with something. Weeding is a big one, people hate doing it. I have made $300 in 2 days pulling weeds. Try to bid by the job, and then bust your ass to get it done quickly, not only are the people more likely to find other work for you and recommend you to friends, but you maximize you money that way. You live in a snowy area? Go door to door and shovel driveways in the morning, before people go to work. Offer to do it for $10, a LOT of people will tip extra. This is the best way. Yeah it seems more like real work, but you won't feel that way when you have a pocket full of cash a stomach full of beer, and you make your own hours. Makes working for someone else a lot easier.
6.) Not really a way to MAKE money. More of a way to keep it. Pretty simple. STOP BUYING SHIT YOU DON'T NEED. Nothing I can't stand more than people always complaining how they are broke, or they don't make enough. Well maybe if you didn't spend all your money of shit you don't need, and likely will only use 1 time, you'd have more money to spend on the better things in life. Like travelling to a far off place. Do you really need 10 pairs of shoes?
Stop driving/get a bike. This isn't always an option depending on where you live, but for 99% of the population it is. I assure you, with a bit of practice you will have no problem riding 30 miles to town in a decent amount of time.
Stop smoking/drinking, add up how much you spend on smokes and beer in a week, now times that times some arbitrary number, now put a minus sign in front of it. That's what it does to your health. Knock it off, not only will you be able to ride your bike to town, but you'll have money to spend when you get there.
Well I hope this gave some of you an idea of where to start. There are literally hundreds of thousands of ways to make a buck. Get creative. If you think it's a dumbass idea, chances are others do to, look at it as you all ready having the market cornered, learn to sell it.
I see a lot of threads of people wanting to make money, small amounts.
Well, here we go.
I'm going to try and list most of the ways I have avoided having to get a real job for over 6 years. You won't ever get rich doing this shit, but it will keep you stocked up on pop-tarts and beer.
1.) Pick up change. This one may seem a bit silly, but really, you see pennies, nickles, dimes, all over the place, but rarely do I see most people pick them up. Don't be too proud to stoop down in the crosswalk to grab that penny. That shit adds up. Get a big water jug, and put it in there. Save it for a rainy day, or when you really need a beer.
2.) Recycle. Pretty much the same as number 1. Carry a backpack with you, and a grocery bag (plastic). When you see a can, bottle, pick it up. Not only are you doing a good thing by helping to clean up the environment, but cans are worth almost $2 a pound here in CA. When you are bored, sitting at home watching asian ass porn, go for a walk down any street. There is usually a pound or two of cans along a mile long street.
3.) Invest. Oh yeah. When you have an extra $20-30 laying around, consider buying an ounce of silver, or something. If you look at silver prices over the last year, shit is going way up. Search sites like CL and ebay for people selling silver coins and such below spot price. Also stay up to date on the price of silver. If the market keeps going well, and you are able to find some good deals, you can pull in some good money depending on the size of your hoard. Granted you have to sell it to get that money, but you'd be surprised at the amount of businesses that will let you buy shit with silver. I have been known to purchase beer and smokes, at local stores with silver, when I had no cash. All you have to do is ask. Not to mention chicks dig it when they come over, and see silver coins and shit laying everywhere, makes your broke ass that much sexier.
4.) Work for websites like oDesk.com or Amazon's Mechanical Turk (mturk.com). I have covered this one pretty well I think, in this thread.
http://www.totse.info/bbs/showthread.php?t=5937
5.) Do real work. For yourself I mean, physical labor is something most people HATE doing. Most will pay good money to not have to do it. Ask around, friends, family, someone knows someone, that needs help with something. Weeding is a big one, people hate doing it. I have made $300 in 2 days pulling weeds. Try to bid by the job, and then bust your ass to get it done quickly, not only are the people more likely to find other work for you and recommend you to friends, but you maximize you money that way. You live in a snowy area? Go door to door and shovel driveways in the morning, before people go to work. Offer to do it for $10, a LOT of people will tip extra. This is the best way. Yeah it seems more like real work, but you won't feel that way when you have a pocket full of cash a stomach full of beer, and you make your own hours. Makes working for someone else a lot easier.
6.) Not really a way to MAKE money. More of a way to keep it. Pretty simple. STOP BUYING SHIT YOU DON'T NEED. Nothing I can't stand more than people always complaining how they are broke, or they don't make enough. Well maybe if you didn't spend all your money of shit you don't need, and likely will only use 1 time, you'd have more money to spend on the better things in life. Like travelling to a far off place. Do you really need 10 pairs of shoes?
Stop driving/get a bike. This isn't always an option depending on where you live, but for 99% of the population it is. I assure you, with a bit of practice you will have no problem riding 30 miles to town in a decent amount of time.
Stop smoking/drinking, add up how much you spend on smokes and beer in a week, now times that times some arbitrary number, now put a minus sign in front of it. That's what it does to your health. Knock it off, not only will you be able to ride your bike to town, but you'll have money to spend when you get there.
Well I hope this gave some of you an idea of where to start. There are literally hundreds of thousands of ways to make a buck. Get creative. If you think it's a dumbass idea, chances are others do to, look at it as you all ready having the market cornered, learn to sell it.
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Buy minor metals, things such as tin, bismuth, tantalum, lead, mercury etc.
Those metals are no where near as easily tradeable as silver.
Also why I didn't recommend buying it at spot price.
QFT
That bubble is long overdue.
No they are not, but it's still a trivial matter to go to the local scrapyard.
Plus if the world goes to shit you can always melt your tin or bismuth into spoons or something, then you could make fishing sinkers out of the lead, then make fishing hooks out of that steel wire you invested in. :cool:
That's just silly.:hai:
And a scrapyard will never pay you over melt value of what the metal is worth, and you are also talking pennies per pound for those metals, as opposed to $30+ per OUNCE of silver. To the right buyer you can also get $1-2 over spot price.
I also agree, the bubble will burst, but not anytime soon, and not before I make some $$$
In this age you can, gold is used in a shitload of electronic stuff, you've likely got $10 in gold inside your computer.
Bismuth is something like 13 bucks a pound.
Tantalum is something like 70 bux a pound, and due to increasing demand in the electronics industry it's not going to fall anytime soon.
I also agree, the bubble will burst, but not anytime soon, and not before I make some $$$[/QUOTE]
:facepalm:
You're going to cry when the bubble pops.
I am well aware of golds use as a conductor, but that wouldn't be worth a can of Hormel Chili in a post apocalyptic environment. As for the gold in a PC good luck with the cancer you will get trying to separate it in your back yard.
:facepalm:
You're going to cry when the bubble pops.[/QUOTE]
Get a calculator, follow along
Scrap metal pound = 16oz
( we will use tantalum, since you seem to like it and it's the most valuable one)
Scrap price as of this second is $88.55/lb
$88.55 divided by 16 = $5.53/oz
ok now, Silver is measured in troy ounces which is 12oz per troy lb.
Silver is $32.55/oz right this second.
32.55 x 12 = $390.60
Even at a troy pound to standard pound, none of that crap can compete.
An ounce a silver is also a lot easier to obtain than tantalum, When's the last time you've seen a pound of tantalum for sale?
It's also a lot more affordable for most people here to buy an ounce of silver @ $30, than a pound of tantalum @ $80.
And that there sir, is where you qualified yourself as a retard. It does not matter how much its unit cost is - you buy what you can afford. $30 of anything still costs $30. You speculate on which one is going to increase in value more.
Pro Tip: It is not silver.
It's fucking dumb as fuck, what fucking retard really thinks they are going to make money buying shit tons of scrap metals?
You going to have a mountain of this shit in your back yard? Because thats what it would take to make any money.
I'm pretty sure this post was about making money, not how to dump all your money into a pile of shit, that will only gain a dollar or two (Maybe if your lucky) in the next year.
It's easier to acquire a small hoard of silver, buying an ounce here and there.
Look at the price of any of those other metals over the last year, Then look at the price of silver. You would have made more money by buying an ounce of silver one year ago then by buying a pound of any of those metals.
Fuck half those metals you would have just been better off leaving your money in a shitty savings account and collecting the interest from that.
I also don't see how you can argue the whole "buy what you can afford"
You know you can buy 90% silver US coins right? Ok, you can only afford $5 buy a 90% silver quarter, $3? Buy a dime. The shit adds up. You can afford $100? buy 3 fucking ounces.
So by your reasoning if you can afford $80 you should buy a pound of tantalum, instead of a couple ounces of silver?
Take that shit back to HB
http://scrapmetalexporters.biz/
Let me ask which would be more valuable in world wide economic melt down.
With the first one I have refined raw material that can be used for survival.
With the second one I have some soft shinny shit that I can make spoons out of.
Dude, there are billions of people in this country who have a major interest in not letting everything go all Mad Max. The chances of it happening are slim.
And if that is the case maybe you should buy some silver, so you can make more money in a shorter amount of time. Then use that money to stock up on bullets and bacon.
(Edit: is that aluminum siding?)
We are talking here and now.
Also if everything does start going to shit, a lot of idiots out there would be buying gold and silver to use as currency after the collapse. The price may go up, it may go down. Either way would be wiser to dump it off at that point, and buy bullets and bacon.
Are we?
We are.
How many of there are you?
we are legion
However, the title of the thread is 'How-to Survive without having to get a real job. It is not 'How to make fuck all but enough to feel you hustle by with zum bling money'.
Shit, I could sell ants to schools and make a shit load more than you would holding a bit of silver for a year.
There are lots of us
Responses like this are what &ts all about. HAHA
Does this help to make up for your small flesh brick?
To add to this thread I can personally vouch for going to Libraries(most of which are closing down) and taking any books from them that you think could be worth something and then selling them online.
Also I'd look into Couch surfing to save cash instead of throwing it at away at hostels, and also advertising your tour guide skills to tourists-Warning This can lead to free beers for you.