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10 Jan 2007, 12:07 pm

I would post this in teh job forums but this forum is MUCH more active and i'm more likely to get some answers.

I need to raise $2000-2500 so i can build a computer and i'm 14 (almost 15) and i can't get a job and allowance's WON'T work,i need to make money so i can build a new computer!! !! !

Please help...


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10 Jan 2007, 12:09 pm

why do you need such an expensive computer?

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10 Jan 2007, 12:13 pm

1.That was a FAST reply,i mean FAST!! !! !

2.I want to play games at maximum grafx settings.


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10 Jan 2007, 12:23 pm

Well, unless you start robbing people there's no way the money will come fast or without effort. However, although you can't gat a formal job yet, you can (depending on how well you deal with people) start asking around wherever you live after odd jobs. Oftentimes people would rather pay for someone else to do their scut work than do it themselves.


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10 Jan 2007, 12:23 pm

Well, do you have skill at doing something you can do at home? Like making something you can sell? Like t-shirts that say "I'm Aspie and Proud ! !!"


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10 Jan 2007, 12:31 pm

I tell you what, your problems are over. If you just send my 9 easy payments, of $199.95, I will send you the nine-tape set How To Make Money The Werbert Way. It's that easy! Just nine simple payments of $199.95, and this entire cocllection can be yours, and your money problems will be over!! !


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10 Jan 2007, 12:43 pm

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I tell you what, your problems are over. If you just send my 9 easy payments, of $199.95, I will send you the nine-tape set How To Make Money The Werbert Way. It's that easy! Just nine simple payments of $199.95, and this entire cocllection can be yours, and your money problems will be over!! !


I'm serious.


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10 Jan 2007, 12:51 pm

Ha ha, Yog-Sothoth already has you cornered, doesn't it???


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10 Jan 2007, 1:34 pm

Maybe you could buy somethings cheap localily at yard sales and resale them on e-bay.

Scraping is the poor mans way to get money for his next beer. You could collect labor
intentive things nobody wants to deal with like AC electric motors and remove the
copper (note some have aluminium field coils so watch out). A big scrap yard would likely sale you motors cheap if you become a regular suppier of scrap copper to them.

My mom has made all kinds of craft items. Like lighted glow balls from plastic cups and Christmas lites. Other ideas are bird houses.

I notice peoples roofs are often covered with leaves/etc and that shorten the life of a roof you could get a boom and a folding latter and sweep peoples roofs off. I think you
said your tall so lie and say your 18.

You can legalily make 200 gallons of beer or wine at your house a year. Though technically you can only give it way legalily.



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10 Jan 2007, 2:06 pm

You can legally make beer but not sell it? lmao

Roof sweeping? lmao Yeah that's a bad idea, soon as he falls they'll get sued along with his ability to walk being gone.

Friend, 2500 will get a nice PC, but the problem here is you're 14 and can't make that kinda money, I'm working and barely had enough to finance a Dell E521, this thing is an Athlon x2 3800+ 1 GB DDR 533, 160 GB SATA2, Sigmatel Audio (onboard), GeForce 7300, and it still can't play Oblivion! If I were you I'd forgo the PC and get a really nice TV + XBOX 360, then all your problems will be over. That's what I plan on doing, it's much more realistic than trying to build a PC that MIGHT run Oblivion maxed out, and MIGHT not have some sorta unknown problem with it's hardware because you drooled on the processor or didn't add enough thermal compound :-P



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10 Jan 2007, 2:06 pm

Anything else???


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10 Jan 2007, 2:26 pm

sderenzi wrote:
If I were you I'd forgo the PC and get a really nice TV + XBOX 360, then all your problems will be over.


Does X360 have wargames (strategy wargames),huh??? PC has better games and better grafx.

Not that i want to,but i could play oblivion with 40+ FPS with:

E6600 OCed to 3.3+
8800GTX
2GB RAM

All maxed out @ 1440x900 8)


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10 Jan 2007, 3:02 pm

Yeah I forgot many aspies have dyspraxia. I do but I played on roofs so much I could do the sweeping job(and roofs are not that steep in Texas since it does not snow here much, oneday a year if we are lucky).

Other ideas:

Dog walking bussiness.

scraping houses to remove old paint. look at houses that need to be painted and tell people you will work hard for $5 hour (or what ever) to remove the old paint.
Though avoid houses that are older than say 1950 to avoid lead paint and wear a dust mask.



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10 Jan 2007, 3:25 pm

Or you could beg us to send you $$$$


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10 Jan 2007, 4:25 pm

Unknown wrote:
sderenzi wrote:
If I were you I'd forgo the PC and get a really nice TV + XBOX 360, then all your problems will be over.


Does X360 have wargames (strategy wargames),huh??? PC has better games and better grafx.

Not that i want to,but i could play oblivion with 40+ FPS with:

E6600 OCed to 3.3+
8800GTX
2GB RAM

All maxed out @ 1440x900 8)


Wants.. You dont NEED anything, young grass hopper :)



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10 Jan 2007, 6:24 pm

TheMachine1 wrote:
Yeah I forgot many aspies have dyspraxia. I do but I played on roofs so much I could do the sweeping job(and roofs are not that steep in Texas since it does not snow here much, oneday a year if we are lucky).

Other ideas:

Dog walking bussiness.

scraping houses to remove old paint. look at houses that need to be painted and tell people you will work hard for $5 hour (or what ever) to remove the old paint.
Though avoid houses that are older than say 1950 to avoid lead paint and wear a dust mask.


I'm not physically able to remove paint off house's.

Give me ALL your ideas and see if i can find any that might be possible...


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