How To Get Money To Buy A Gps??

October 14, 2004

how do I get enough money to buy a gps ???????????????????????????????????????????????/

5.3k · October 14, 2004

Save about 10,000 pennies.

24.7k · October 14, 2004

Collect can's on the street. Mow lawns. Moonlight. Beg your parents. Beg your kids. Get a day job, then moonlight. Apply for a scholarship, then drop out of school. Collect all the change from caches and save us all from the controversy of donations to charity with it. Sell your blood. Trade your #1 Edition Superman Comic for a 60CS.

Etc.

October 14, 2004

Collect all the change from caches

That's what we did!

2.1k · October 15, 2004

how do you get money for the other things you want?

1.2k · October 15, 2004

A paper route can be a good idea.

October 15, 2004

some cheap ones can be had off of ebay for $50 - $70 Geez not like you need to get a second job.

24.7k · October 15, 2004

Go to all your local cache events and be witty, dashing, and charming until everyone has pitty on you.

38.2k · October 15, 2004

I thought that is what Master Card is for.

October 15, 2004

three words : LAY AWAY PROGRAM

1.8k · October 15, 2004

Fall down a mountain while looking for a cache and break your leg. Then all your local cachers will rally together and buy you a new GPSr.

At least that worked for one cacher I know.

38.2k · October 15, 2004

Go to an event and steal one when people aren't looking. There are GPS's of every imaginable model just laying around for the taking.

October 15, 2004

We have folks in Texas that give new GPSr's as 1st to find prizes!

Oh yea... You got have one to find one in this case...

Sorry, I tried!

October 15, 2004

Start out first by practicing CITO without a GPS. Pick up all the cans.

Since you don't have a GPS you will have extra time to Trashout.

Then drive to a state that gives you the extra 5cents or 10cents on the bottle/can.....(Kramer did this).

2.6k · October 15, 2004

Give up food.

22k · October 15, 2004

Come on! What does every student do when they need money?

Ask your parents!

Tell them you have to have one for school.

2.2k · October 15, 2004

Too bad you dont live in my area. Im buying a Garmin 60c and im goint to put my old E-trex Vista in a new cache as a FTF prize.

38.2k · October 15, 2004

Too bad you dont live in my area. Im buying a Garmin 60c and im goint to put my old E-trex Vista in a new cache as a FTF prize.

That's VERY nice of you. I just got a 60CS and am keeping my Vista as a backup. I still really like that Vista...its like an old friend.

7.2k · October 15, 2004

Mowing lawns is how we did it as a kid. Push mower, hand shears. $5 split between the three of us.

Today, kids seem insulted if you offer anything less than $20 AND want to use your gear and gas. ~sheesh~

Lawns and odd jobs. Anything that people don't want to do themselves they will pay to have someone else do it if the price is right. Heck, I know adults that do that for extra money.

It's all about finding a service or a product people are willing to spend money on.

October 16, 2004

Just go tell your neighbors that your are trying to make some money so you can buy a gps unit and ask them if there is anything you can do to make some money!I'm sure some of them will find something you could do to make some money!

October 16, 2004

There's always "Ye Olde Yard Sale". Sell what you don't want, don't need, have outgrown, etc.

2k · October 16, 2004

Top 10 Ways to Raise Cash for Caching -

10. Sell a sibling.

9. Find a coin in a sewer. Buy a Wonka Bar. Find Golden Ticket. Take over factory. Sell Oompa-Loompas to the Arabs.

8. Donate body to local mortician's college. Preferably someone else's body.

7. Paint aspirins blue. Sell at school as "Viagra."

6. Take job as armored car guard. "Mistake" money bag for lunch sack at quitting time.

5. Kidnap the local WalMart greeter and take his place. Charge admission.

4. Draw up a "Will Work for eTrex" sign and hang out at highway exits.

3. Sell "Pesky Neighbor Kid" insurance in your neighborhood. Describe to your potential customers all the things you'll do if they don't buy the insurance.

2. Offer to mow the neighbor's lawn for $10. Offer to NOT give them a "lawn job" for $20. (Handy alternative to avoid the paperwork in #3.)

1. Use the cache page to find the nearest, newest cache. Hide in bushes nearby with baseball bat...

October 16, 2004

Garmin E-Trex - $250

Hiking Boots - $75

Tank of Gas - $30

Pocket Full of Trade Swag - $10

Calling in Sick to Work so I Can Go Caching - PRICELESS.

:mad: Fantastic, just love this, thanks for the laugh

Edited October 16, 2004 by legal1

October 16, 2004

Depending on were you live you could either mow lawns or shovel snow. I've done some pet sitting during my high school years. It's fun and relatively less demanding than most other jobs. Cats were my favorite. Dogs I had to take for walks, not cool. lol

October 16, 2004

Gosh, I wish I had thought of those ways to get money. I went about it the hard way and got a JOB. Now I have no time for Geocaching... :mad:

-Bob

2.2k · October 16, 2004

Garmin E-Trex - $250

Hiking Boots - $75

Tank of Gas - $30

Pocket Full of Trade Swag - $10

Calling in Sick to Work so I Can Go Caching - PRICELESS.

Fantastic, just love this, thanks for the laugh

I have to keep increasing the tank of gas price to reflect the times.

October 16, 2004

Must you remind us? I'm still in denial

I know I know

must stay on topic

Edited October 16, 2004 by Blue Contrails

2.6k · October 17, 2004

Well, depending on your self-esteem.

Around here we have people, men and women, that are driven around to street corners. They are dropped off, where they make their way to Interstate and Highway exits. They hold up card board signs with expressions of pitiful despair on them. People stopped at the traffic lights on these exit ramps toss/hand them 1 to 10 dollars at a time. This can be very lucrative. They can make from 30 to 100 dollars a day, tax free. That's more than me.

You can identify the pimped out scammers by the way they're dressed. They're smoking Marlboro's. Wearing Levi's, Columbia jackets, and Nike cross trainers. Standing next to their Jansport backpacks. Look for the little details next time you drive by one. Even though they have scruffy faces and hair, don't be fooled.

edit:they're

Edited October 17, 2004 by leatherman

October 17, 2004

Read my bestselling book, “How to get lots of really gullible people to each send you fifty dollars”. For your own copy, just send me $45 plus $5 for shipping and handling.

October 17, 2004

Top 10 Ways to Raise Cash for Caching -
10. Sell a sibling.

9. Find a coin in a sewer. Buy a Wonka Bar. Find Golden Ticket. Take over factory. Sell Oompa-Loompas to the Arabs.

8. Donate body to local mortician's college. Preferably someone else's body.

7. Paint aspirins blue. Sell at school as "Viagra."

6. Take job as armored car guard. "Mistake" money bag for lunch sack at quitting time.

5. Kidnap the local WalMart greeter and take his place. Charge admission.

4. Draw up a "Will Work for eTrex" sign and hang out at highway exits.

3. Sell "Pesky Neighbor Kid" insurance in your neighborhood. Describe to your potential customers all the things you'll do if they don't buy the insurance.

2. Offer to mow the neighbor's lawn for $10. Offer to NOT give them a "lawn job" for $20. (Handy alternative to avoid the paperwork in #3.)

1. Use the cache page to find the nearest, newest cache. Hide in bushes nearby with baseball bat...

Ah hahahahaha!

I don't really post in the forums (that's obvious, eh?) but wow.. that deserved a response because I giggled. A lot.

Thanks for the laugh.

October 19, 2004

Top 10 Ways to Raise Cash for Caching -
10. Sell a sibling.

9. Find a coin in a sewer. Buy a Wonka Bar. Find Golden Ticket. Take over factory. Sell Oompa-Loompas to the Arabs.

8. Donate body to local mortician's college. Preferably someone else's body.

7. Paint aspirins blue. Sell at school as "Viagra."

6. Take job as armored car guard. "Mistake" money bag for lunch sack at quitting time.

5. Kidnap the local WalMart greeter and take his place. Charge admission.

4. Draw up a "Will Work for eTrex" sign and hang out at highway exits.

3. Sell "Pesky Neighbor Kid" insurance in your neighborhood. Describe to your potential customers all the things you'll do if they don't buy the insurance.

2. Offer to mow the neighbor's lawn for $10. Offer to NOT give them a "lawn job" for $20. (Handy alternative to avoid the paperwork in #3.)

1. Use the cache page to find the nearest, newest cache. Hide in bushes nearby with baseball bat...

I was going to suggest convenience, and liquor stores. But your list has me beat!

Bluespreacher

October 21, 2004

Garmin E-Trex - $250

Hiking Boots - $75

Tank of Gas - $30

Pocket Full of Trade Swag - $10

Calling in Sick to Work so I Can Go Caching - PRICELESS.

Fantastic, just love this, thanks for the laugh

I have to keep increasing the tank of gas price to reflect the times.

$30? Try $48 the last time I filled up. I love having the 20 gal. tank in our jeep except when it comes time to fill up

October 21, 2004

Beg your parents.

I never really begged my parents. I just kept asking to borrow theirs until they decided to give it to me and buy a new one for themselves. Then, a few months later my brother gave us his GPS so my wife could have one while we cache (he never quite got into caching).

October 21, 2004

Collect can's on the street

That's exactly how I raised money for my gps. Well, almost. I'm a janitor and I saved every can I found. Bought a Magellan Companion on ebay for $65. I also got a digital camera with the money from can deposits.

October 29, 2004

thanks for the suggestions!! wow you put gpsr in caches!!!! man, I feel poor!

October 30, 2004

There are a lot of people on the street corners in Austin. Some corners are more lucrative than others. Some have dogs with them, but the dogs always seem to look well-fed. The one that really got us as a scam was the one we saw the other day... a very nice looking young lady (20's?) with a decent haircut, very clean, and on crutches.. missing one leg. That is the most unusual one we have seen yet! However, given her basic state of cleanliness, I am sure she also has another job and a prosthesis.

That is just as bad as the people that come up to you in the store and hand you a little card saying they are deaf and mute, and selling these pens (or whatever) is what supports their family. I wish I remembered enough sign language to see if they are legit! In either of these cases, there are training programs and jobs out there if they want one!

(sorry about the rant... some of those folks on the street corners make more money than I do... Come on, folks... get a real job and some self-respect.)

(putting on flame-proof suit)

October 30, 2004

how about getting a job! or did someone allready say that?

2.2k · October 30, 2004

thanks for the suggestions!! wow you put gpsr in caches!!!! man, I feel poor!

Ive had it about 1 1/2 years and the rubber gasket around the edge is falling off. Besdies that it works great.

Whomever finds it has the choice of getting it repaired or just living with it the way it is.

20.7k · October 30, 2004

Sell your old stuff on ebay. Buy somebody else's stuff on ebay. Don't you have $100 worth of junk to sell? If not, check your sister's room.

1.1k · December 30, 2004

Go get a job!

December 30, 2004

Sell crack, obviously. One guy in England was making about $9,000 a week. Of course he was arrested and deported. In the US they'll just send you to prison for 5 years or so (first offense). That is, of course, if the competition doesn't shoot you down in a hail of bullets.

It's a lot like playing the stock market. The biggest risks yield the biggest returns.

Edited December 30, 2004 by Indiana Cojones

December 31, 2004

Make friends with someone who is technologically-oriented and has other technologically-oriented friends, and ask them if they know of any GPSr's lying around that someone is not using or someone who is buying a new one and would be willing to get rid of their old one.

That's pretty much how I got mine (well it was actually a gift but it's an old un-needed model). And my digital camera. And my laptop. And my computer chair.

Except it was all through my brother and not a friend... It pays to know people who know people/companies who throw out their old computer stuff!

Edited to add: I forgot one-- that's also how I got my Blackberry :rolleyes:

Edited December 31, 2004 by ChicagoCanine

December 31, 2004

The American way I worked for it.

Well the first GPSr that I used was my bosses, or more correctly the companies, but you really wouldn’t want to try to find a Geocache with a survey 9sub mm) quantity instrument. All the LCD display shows was number of observation.

:huh: :huh: <_<

December 31, 2004

That's right...get it the American way!! Rob a liquor store, take the money and run. That or the sell crack idea.

1k · December 31, 2004

Shovel the snow off my front sidewalk.

2.4k · December 31, 2004

That's right...get it the American way!! Rob a liquor store, take the money and run. That or the sell crack idea.

Eh...and here I thought the American Way was to SUE someone for the money........

December 31, 2004

how do I get enough money to buy a gps ???????????????????????????????????????????????/

This new thread I posted may help you; I was inspired to post it by you, in fact. <_<

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=87390

January 1, 2005

Get a job working in the offshore oil patch. That's where I am right now. I'll have 2 weeks off to go caching starting Jan 11. Plus the money is ok. Just my 2 cents

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