You can starve on benefits in this country.

[zorgon]

There are so many ways to make a buck... the biggest problem is picking one and making it work.  My problem has always been too MANY projects and never focusing on one...

I don't need to be rich... though I suppose to many I would be considered so... it's all a matter of perspective.

To a homeless person my house is a castle... yet I currently owe more on it than I could sell it for if I had to.

We get daily flyers in the mail advertising the Great Obama's plan to ease mortgage payments but if you read them you find out quickly that all you gain is another 15 years of interest payments

Thanks for NOTHING

Renting a spare bedroom helped a LOT  We are asking $400.00 a month but even a dorm room at the local schools goes for 620.00 a person with two to a room and the bathroom is down the hall. But that room pays the power and gas bill  and we got lucky with a real quiet tenant that doesn't even want to use the kitchen

Somamech has been looking around the web at simple wooden furniture that any person with some shop access can make... They go for good bucks.  Even if your skills are not so great

Treasure hunting like those old books is a lot of fun... you can find some really good stuff. I have one piece in auction now that I paid $10.00 for....  I sent a picture to an auction house as I suspected it would be worth something.... seems I was right    I was thinking a few hundred... but right now that piece has been on display in three cities and the agent has high hopes. Not going to jinx it but will report back in Novemberr when it goes up for auction

My family has long been a family of scroungers and flew market sellers. My parents had to to survive the war in Germany... It just became habit  and then fun.. and really it is all tax free money as it is used goods and cash sales

I guess I find it hard to understand why people that have free time and need a few extra bucks are not rushing out to do the same

Soon I will be able to return the favor to those that lent me a hand getting that car

[robomont]

congrats on the car.