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I made bout £1000 just randomly selling junk on ebay the past two years. Any old toys or shit can go, and if you have PS2 games or something just pop em on for £5 buy-it-now (buck check first as some games can go for £30+). Also go to carboot/yard sales and pick up cheap shit you know you'll be able to sell. If yuo're desperate just farm gold on wow or pull some ebay scams or some shit.
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I would say design a couple of websites, but I dunno if you have any experience with this and we really don't need any more BIG DADDY'S TATTOO EMPORARIUM layouts with gigantic flashy red text on our internet.

Seriously though, you can probably get away with charging $500 for a decent site. 
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the only feasible thing seems to either do shit loads of hours at some job, sell stuff that you can do without on ebay, or both!

If there were any easier ways that are realistic, we'd all be doing them
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Obviously you should have invested in Beanie Babies years ago.
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Sell of your rare pokemon cards.. ebay the pogs
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Obviously you should have invested in Beanie Babies years ago.

by doing this, i was able to retire at 20. i have one very rare nudibranch beaniebaby that i am willing to sell you for 400. if played right, you could sell it for 800.
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Sorry man there's no way to make money easy without being illegal. If there was we'd all do it
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My friends and I pick up a lot of money doing extra work. Easy 200 a day, but work is unpredictable.
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Hey thanks everybody for the ideas. Unfortunately as I said I cannot sell weed, and actually I did try the whoring yourself to fat chicks, but turns out 99% of people won't pay for sex, I'm guessing because it's embarrassing.

I have been selling stuff on craigslist, mostly musical equipment, I've made aruond 600$. The loan I'm trying to pay off is from 2005-2006 and you can imagine it's come a long way to just 800$. The deal is my parents were paying for my school, and then had a financial bombshell hit them. They filed bankruptcy and my cosigning on the loan defaulted them to me. Problem was, we were all unaware of this until about 6 months ago when they finally tracked me down. I've been paying like mad ever since.

I think the most helpful suggestion is the clinical trials and sperm donation. I've just send out emails asking for information on both from UNMC and supposedly the only fertilization clinic in my city.
Also, I had gotten a tattoo about a year ago, so I was under the impression I couldn't give blood or plasma. If I can I will be pissed because there were blood drives all over this last weekend.

Finally, I just realized that tax returns are coming! So I might actually get this done! Thanks for all the help!
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that's great news!

if you are still needing money by then, or if you need it during school, you could always consider a cab driving job. i always talk to cabbies lol. a lot of them do it on the side because you can make your own hours. one guy was going to school, working at post office and driving a taxi. you could always pick this up for a month or two to earn a quick buck!

gl with the tax return.
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If you have weekends free, pick up a Friday or Saturday night shift at a restaurant.  You can make mad tips.  Pizza delivery is particularly good if you have a car because you spend most of the time in your car listening to music etc.  My girlfriend works at a restaurant like . . . three days per week and is able to pay for her share of bills because she makes $200+ in tips every weekend.

Working full time at a restaurant is not usually very good income at all, because you get paid $3.15 per hour and do not get many tips during the week.  But, working just Friday nights or something will score you at least $200 a month in extra income.  That's $2400 or more annually.  That would probably cover your entire tuition for the year if you went to a cheap school.
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You could also try getting tutoring jobs (make posts on craigslist). You'd be surprised how much people are willing to pay for tutoring. I just quit a $25 per hour job tutoring a 6th grader. I don't know if its like that everywhere, but I would never have expected people to pay that much for tutoring if my friend hadn't told me about it. You could also tutor for standardized tests and stuff.
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Learn some web scripting. Learn some design (for effective communication). Then have people pay you to make (or remake) their websites.

Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.
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Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.

Isn't this called commerce :(
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Learn some web scripting. Learn some design (for effective communication). Then have people pay you to make (or remake) their websites.

Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.

I had thought about this, but in the time it would take to relearn just html I will probably have half the money!

The cab driving thing is kind of intriguing, I'm curious how to go about doing that. But since my printing job is 3-11 at night, I'm not sure that would benefit me much cause I would be working in the mornings.
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that's great news!

if you are still needing money by then, or if you need it during school, you could always consider a cab driving job. i always talk to cabbies lol. a lot of them do it on the side because you can make your own hours. one guy was going to school, working at post office and driving a taxi. you could always pick this up for a month or two to earn a quick buck!

gl with the tax return.


hmm, i thought you needed a cab liscence which cost a ridiculous amount of money to drive a taxi, no?

edit: OTHERWISE MY ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK LIED.
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Some people will pay a stupid amount of money for something anyone can learn how to do for free.

Man you could say this about anything at all, that's not really fair to say at all.  You can't even say that it's not hard, because people (usually older ones) who have little or no experience with computers can't just sit down and learn HTML, because they don't even know how to copy files.  Just because pretty much everyone on this site grew up with computers and know these things about them doesn't mean someone who has little exposure to them can just sit down and learn it.  It's easy to teach programming to children because they learn so easily, but a 50-year-old man isn't so easy to teach.

Do you know how to neuter a dog because I'm sure there are books about it you could do it for free!!!!
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Velfarre what IS it with you and neutering dogs? You gotta stop using this as an example for everything girl! It's beginning to get a little creepy
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Well I wasn't being entirely serious, I was just trying to get the guy motivated.

If you had thought harder, I'm sure you could have come up with a more reasonable and relevant example than dog neutering, but I know exactly what you mean.