Hey people i'm pretty young (14) and wanna buy a set of turntables and a mixer but i don't got the money. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to make some money? (Don't say mow lawns because that won't work)

Thanks

Tribal

Lawns

maybe you can get a p/t job with a mobile dj

Mowing lawns will work, if you save up. . . . it will take a while, a few other options, any job that pays money, might not be great hours, or great pay, but it's money, a paper route, blood donor, sperm donor.

I bought my turntables with the money I saved from my high school job at a grocery store. It ain't gonna happen overnight. And you really don't want it to. This is the part called "paying ya dues" It will taste alot better after the struggle is over. Most people buy one turntable at a time and just practice with the one for months until they can afford another one. But by the time they get that other one they are well seasoned. Then you get others who can afford to buy an entire set up with no experience and the next week he tries to do a party and bombs.

Get some ho's.

I thank you guys for all of your suggestions (except the lawns), especially Pulse's

please listen to the notorious b.i.g.'s - gimme the loot. many ideas...

Pulse, If he don't wanna cut grass, what makes you think he would want to do gardening work. Get a ho? Why not get a rake or get a shovel, ...Yeah , get a shovel and help clean out some of the ish that gets deposited around here.

But seriously, at 14 your options are probably legally limited. Not many employers want to hire under aged employees, train em, insure em and have em bail at summer�s end. So the personal labor market might be your best bet. I have a really good friend that currently owns one of the states most respected and best landscape companies that began as a summer time lawn cutting experience when we were 14, 26 years ago. Through continued hard work and some good fortune, which is more due to the hard work than luck, he is, and has been for more than a decade, sitting on easy street. He still busts his hump from sun up to sundown but he has earned it all with pure sweat equity. I�m proud to call him a friend.

So, at 14, you should not be looking for the key to the executive washroom, unless you want to one day own a respectable janitorial service company. Cutting grass, washing down houses, detailing cars, are all honest ways to earn some cake and you will also learn, what not nearly enough people do in this "I want it now society", that hard work is worth the effort and you can have honest pride in your self. Noone can take that from ya! Good luck, and have a profitable summer.

Aight tribal, I'ma hook ya up with a simple plan. Get $20 bucks from your whoever loves you. Don't make an excuse...sell some of your cds or videogames, just get it done!! With this $20 have your mom take you to Price Club Costco Sam's Club whatever. Go to the candy isle and buy boxes of individual wrapped candies. Get sour things...and then go to school and sell them for a mark up.



I started with Now n' Laters and those cinnamon toothpicks. You wouldn't believe how many 7th and 8th graders would buy those toothpicks for a nickle a piece. Or sell candybars for $.50 each. You can't get that price at the convenience store these days. Fact is kids will always buy candy. Always!!! If you can't sell it at school, wait til after and break out your backpack across the street. I'm not kiddin' this works. My parents went out of town to care for a dying relative when I started 7th grade. They gave my aunt 2 weeks worth of lunch money and my aunt gave it all to me on day 1!!! hahaha $30 dollars went a long way my friend. And your money can too...cuz kids buy candy...period!!

Thats good Bigun.
When I was fourteen I pruned christmass trees for 2 and a quarter cents apiece. I averaged 750 to 850 trees a day. (just for the summer)
Dutch.

DANG! That's some cash! Hey tribal! I know summers here and school is probably out for you. But take that candy and strap a boombox to your rump! Play an old Popeye or Mario chingle while walking down your neighborhood. People might look at you funny, but when they approach open up a backpack and start slangin!

Around my neighborhood my kids get excited over Free Candy Tuesday...basically ice cream man buys a cheap bag of like Dum Dums and throws them out his window. Since all candy is indivually wrapped its safe. And you wouldn't believe how kids still go buy candy bars for their parents. It's a plain fact...not just kids, but Americans....love candy!!! Just make sure you got Snickers and such for the grown ups. Sour crap doesn't always cut it for the grown ups.

Anyways, you better getting to doing something tribal, before your whole summer vanishes. Next thing you know you'll be back in school, so get going...that equipment isn't getting any cheaper these days.

Biggun has a good plan. I remember a few kids that I knew making some serious bank selling Blow-Pops at school. They would buy them in bulk, and sell a Blow-Pop for more than twice the price that they paid buying them in bulk.

The only problem is that you have to run an undercover operation because the schools have rules against that stuff. You might get away with it for a while, but soon enough your operation will become so popular that a teacher or administrator will find out (it will also spark some copycats)

So the best advice is to go in there during school hours and make as much of a killing as you can, as fast as you can. Then when you get caught, claim that you didn't know it wasn't allowed and let them give you a slap on the wrist. Then take Biggun's advice and switch to an "after school" operation.

Also, if I were you and I was selling candy bars, I'd tell people that they were "two for a dollar" rather than just saying "fifty cents each". This plants a suggestion in the customers mind to buy two instead of just one. Plus, besides doubling your sale, it also reduces your having to deal with giving change. Of course if the person only wants one, you'll still sell it to him but it's better to start with the "two for a dollar" sales pitch.

Sorry but Chris just lost me there!

That dope & cig idea sounds like a great idea Chris. Always go for the low road. Rules are for fags. Make sure you grease the sheriff's deputy that's pulling security duty at this wonderful educational institution. They love it when children break the law. And don't stop at the on-campus deputy. Make sure you inform the local street dealers of your plans, they always welcome, with open arms, some healthy competition. Hell, if you generate enough income from your illicit enterprise, you might even want to set up a fencing operation so that you get first crack, no pun intended, at all the best stolen goods that your crackhead customers pilfer to feed their habits.

What was I thinking when I suggested you should work hard at a legitimate job, how old school of me. You've help me make a decision. I'm selling all my hard earned gear, junking my morals, and jetting down to Columbia and getting me some contacts in the drug trade and then it's �Hello easy street!�

Things to do:
1) Smash all the mirrors in my house so I won't have to look at myself
2) Jettison my family & friends, because they will just get in the way with all that useless advice and caring
3) Learn how to toss a salad, because that�s in my future too.

Somebody just made a huge ASS of themselves, and it wasn't Biggun, Rox, or me.

Chris,

Just using your post to make a point, my young Jedi scribe. But I hope you get the point, and it appears you did, through the sarcasm. Habits, good & bad obtained in one's youth, if fostered, become behavioral traits as adults. There is no such thing a easy money. Even inheritance has a tremendous price. Do the right thing. Good Luck!

I agree Rox. It taste soo much better when you gotta work for it. Sometimes the struggle is part of the game and when you look back you feel like you accomplished something. "Paying ya dues" and earning your way. Easy money is like a sparkler. It's bright and fun but only last for a very short moment.