Not stealing but this is a pretty good post

and you guys know how much I like humor...from dreamer on matrixwatch ymmss forum (bold is me)

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There are still a few people still actively actively buying EPC or whatever they are called now adays. So, I want to do a servious for them and tell them how they can either make more money in 30 minutes worth of work now without needing to invest 10s of thousands of dollars, or how to make more money investing only $10. Any contributions would be appreciated, however, please try to be helpful.

1. 30 minutes of cleaning ur car. Check under rugs, or in cup holders or anywhere else coins might have fallen. Between seats is always good. If you cant find anything any week, check the ash trey or if u have a seperate coin holder and count up that change. Save that change for next week so you can make that amount over and over again.

2. 30 minutes cleaning. I started to clean my room. Found a quarter and dime so far. Im sure I will find alot more, especially where my pants congregate after a hard days work. However, its going to take plenty of weeks to clean my room only cleaning 30 mnutes a day.

3. Laundry. Today I found probably around 2 bucks. But, I found a $.50 piece that I got in change the other day (I hate those suckers but it is different) and 2 pieces of cany still in the shrink wrapped wrapper, so I had those also (they were hard candy so still edible). Will STA give u candy?

4. Find a school, a community college, a college, or something that is not more then 10 minutes out of your way. Find the busiest place where kids hang out, and after work when nobody is there dig thru the garbage cans for 5 mins to recycle cans. 10 mins there, 10 mins back, 5 mins recycling cans, and all u need to do is spend 5 minutes cashing in the cans.

5. Dont want to garbage pick? Take the $10 and buy 4 12 packs of soda when they are on sale. YOu can get $0.025 (whichi is still 10x more then each $10 invested in STA) per can to recycle them , so 48 cans will net you $1.20 if my math is right. Just try to drink the soda in less then 30 mins total (try to average a total of 45 seconds per can holding the can and drinking it. If you save part of the can for later, you dont need to include that time. Use a stop watch if you must). If you do this every week you are saving about $5,000, the cost it would take to make your money reading ads.

6. If you like reading ads, get the sunday paper, and spend 30 minutes looking for a coupon you will use. you are still reading ads, but if you use more then 1 coupon you can make alot of money that way. (I have said this time and again, but it is so true)

7. Beg a coworker or a friend, or stand out on the street for 30 minutes a week asking for a single penny from anybody who will listen. Inform them that that one penny is 4x the amount you were getting paid per hour from your previous job.

posted by steve_o @ 7/21/2006 10:58:00 PM