How do you pay the bills?

Dammit I can't think of a snappy comeback.

 

I moonlight as an assistant manager at a non-profit retail store, harboring my BS in Biology for some later date. Meanwhile, investments and the like have kept me comfortable enough to augment my meager salary. I spend a great many hours at work, tending to my own outside financial endeavors, dipping my pen in the company ink quite often (both away from, and at work, completely oblivious to others), and occasionally tending to the duties outlined in my job description.

 

is it a thrift store? I worked at a huge thrift store when I was younger-I loved it, I ended up with sooo much stuff- I love junk stores. The big thrift store here (in an old walmart) its HUGE- and they give our clinic old ugly towels that wont sell. helps us out a lot

 

Lomo works for "Boys are US" last I heard.

 

I sell construction materials as Assistant Manager (AssMan) and do most of the procurement, payroll, and whatever other people won't/can't do. I also moonlight as a Major in the Army National Guard.

 

IT consultation for hospitals till I get tired of it. And starting to get tired of it.

 

Quality Assurance Test Technician, which basically means I test the three types of Oil field equipment we make. Unfortunately for me, I am the only one who can currently run tests on all three and not miss a beat, so I get ran ragged every night trying to keep all three areas caught up.

 

You know, taken out of context... :biggrin:

 

Pretty much. People give us shit, grade it, and sell it. And, yeah, I've amassed quite a bit of 'stuff' in the process.

 

We hit up the goodwill across town looking for some 'threads' for a 70s party we were going to, there was a trek mountain bike in there. Some old dude wouldnt let go of it, he kept leaning over it acting like he was testing it out. Had he turned his back I would have snatched it from him. We didnt find any clothes, it was a wee bit warm for a polyester suit, but we did pickup a BMX 'trick' bike for my boy for $4.

Somebody was unloading a 'bowflex' as we were leaving. By the look of the people unloading it, I dont think they ever used it.

 

thrift stores rock... I call it treasure hunting. My husband gets the most disgusted face when I come home from one with loads of junk... my son likes starwars crap... and I found 5 bags of star wars figures --- each bag was 5$ and each held about 20 people... Good deal considering each one of the people cost 5-12$ at wallmart.

 

They were the new starwars guys? I used to have a trunk load of the original ones, you know the onese that had the lightsabers up the arms, so you had the little slide deal to get them to come out of the hand? That and all the battle damage stuff you could get. Those toys kicked the new toys booty.

 

it was all new ones... He has all of his dad's old ones plus I bought a bunch in bulk lots on ebay...plus the brat picks up a new one here and there. I think last time we counted after Xmas he had a total of 270 or something like that. I hope he grows out of it. Starwars is nerdy .. plus his life size latex rubber Yoda thing still creeps me out. I have a feeling he will be 35 living in my basement - collecting comic books/starwars crap.

 

Start keeping shit from celebrities that you think will die soon (and some wild cards) and right after they die, sell it on Ebay. It'd be the only time it'll be worth anything.

People go nuts thinking that they will get that money back someday. Yeah right.

 

*I have 62 Anna Nicole bobble heads.












*not really

 

I dont know if you remember them or not, but Hardees had the 'California Raisins' that they would sell with meals or whatever, the commercial they were always singing, "Heard it through the Grapevine", well I was probably 12 or so, maybe a bit older, but I had a stack of these things, not all of the 'group' but I had multiples and apparently like the one with the saxaphone was worth more and all. So I ran them in the local penny pincher, and sold them to a rather portley (portly?) lady for 200.00.

My grampa laughed when I told him how much I got for them. I didnt pay anything for them, my friends mom worked at the hardees (yea I know cha-ching) and would bring home a whole bunch of them whenever they got the 'new' ones in....

I should check Ebay, they are probably worth a fortune now....

 

Nope

That big gurl got pwned and didnt even know it!

 

I know I have some of those as well, I also have huge collection Garbage Pail Kids cards - I am sure they are all molding like hell in a box somewhere.... I NEED to have a yard sale

 

There is a part of me that got rid of all those things a long time ago, even though I do still have my Transformers comics.....

 

I have all of my old comics. Baseball/football/basketball cards too now that I think about it.

I'm entirely too lazy to look them all up and see if they're worth anything, maybe next year.