Luck Turned When Counting Pennies

Congrats irishclog.. On atleast turning some profit glad to hear .. i thoguth u meant counting pennies an found a rare coiin worth a million dollars or somethin haha but still money made is good.. best of luck low!@

Sounds like a cool opportunity! A couple bucks is a couple bucks! I will do grunt work. I am not above any kind of work (to an extent of course). I have mowed people's lawns for a little bit of money for a neighbor that can't do it themselves, and so on. I don't mind. It's helping other people that matters, and a little bit of extra spending cash never hurt anyone.

Oh yes. When I was younger there wasn't really much choice for me but to work where I could. I guess that restaurants would be the best example. People here often think of those jobs as being jobs for teens and although I was a teen/young adult, I had a child to feed. It didn't matter where I was working as long as I was. It made me a better person though. I learned about people and business. I learned about wrong and right from a company aspect. I learned that everyone puts their pants on the same way no matter what they do and those jobs are just as important to the economy as any other job.

Maybe you have read about my post telling of a part time job and how happy I was to have it. The thing is, I used to be a university professor and now I´m teaching a 12 year old boy. Probably many people would say that I´m overqualified for the job. But I feel I´m doing something useful, I might make a big difference and (why not say it) I like beeing paid for teaching.

There are not many things that I wouldn't be willing to do when it comes to make a little bit of extra money. I mean take mylot for example, there have been many people that I have referred to this site because of the fact that I find it is a lot of fun to be here and the pennies that we are able to make on a daily basis certainly do add up. However, these people that I have referred feel like writing responses and starting discussions is a waste of time. Another thing that I've done to get a little bit of extra money is saving aluminum cans and scrap metal and taking that to sell to the scrap yard about once a month. It isn't a lot of money but it helps out our family and also saves things from ending up in the landfill.

Hi TheIrishClog and I see you are fairly new so welcome to mylot. Yes I have done that when I ran my business. Naturally when you make something you don't want to keep it forever you want it sold and gone. I did ceramics for 25 years did it from start to finish, molds, pouring them, cleaning and preparing each individual piece. then deciding when to fire or paint them first, glazing, or bisque and finish them off. Well I was at a end of year Christmas craft show. I loved going to this place as it was my elementary school I went to. Unfortunately for me by the time I did this show I had very little ceramics left for the end of the year. But I went anyway because I wanted to always go back for the school. I had items from 12.99 down to 2.00. I did not want to have to pack the stuff away and dig it out again. I ended this show with only having 3 pieces left. I went and found the principal and asked if it would be ok if I could leave I did not have anything left to sell. He let me go I had to get permission or I would not have been allowed to come back the next year for leaving my spot early. A lady was set up next to me with a beautiful display of ceramics. we talked a few minutes, and she was NOT selling. So as I started taking my table down and stacking my boxes to carry out she said to me I would not ever sell my stuff for that low of a price. I was kind but I turned to her and politely said I don't want to go home to have full boxes so I cant start the new year with fresh stuff. So lesson learned to me was even though you make it you have to come to terms with how long it took you to make it and also knowing when you run a business such as I did you have to price it as something that you would look at and afford to purchase. People don't understand the principal of enjoying doing a task (yes it can be boring make the same piece over and such as you did with the cards) but you did it your earned money you needed. From one home earner to another I am proud of you! I hope the well earned money come to good use to you and your family!

We've done a few jobs like this, but not too many. Mostly because with the economy in this condition, there isn't really a lot of work that people don't want, if you know what I mean.

i would do that if i had the opportunity. i work part time plus spend time on mylot. i also do imputing for my hubby's accounting services (which he does on the side) plus we have a couple of other odd jobs. i also make all my gift cards and tags as well as other gifts.

I wish they offered that legitely over here. I would definitely do it myself as that is an easy 200 more or less. As long as I could do it, I'd take the job.

I read paid emails that come in my email inbox every day. I only get a few cents for each one but it's slowly starting to add up to something substantial , I guess.