Killing muskrats under my neighbor's porches with my pellet gun when I was 8.I mainly did it for fun; I wasn't concerned so much with the cash aspect.Ended up making a few hundred bucks out of it.It was money, I didn't know how it would help but I knew I was better off if I had some than if I didn't.
8/25/2009 1:16:55 PM
no, you didn't
8/25/2009 1:17:26 PM
look, its my favorite TWW party pooper
8/25/2009 1:18:12 PM
Muskrats wouldn't really be spending much time under someone's porch unless that porch was overhanging the water.
8/25/2009 1:19:45 PM
Cutting grass of neighbors and my grandparents.
8/25/2009 1:21:12 PM
I thought for sure it was going to be this:http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=574526
8/25/2009 1:21:23 PM
it was at the lake, we lived on a lake [Edited on August 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM. Reason : ^Eric, I was 8 ]
8/25/2009 1:21:39 PM
Mowing lawns in the neighborhood at age 14 or so would probably be it. That and selling Now & Laters at school
8/25/2009 1:22:53 PM
I worked on and off at my grandfather's farm as a kid. But I like to reference selling burnt CDs when I was in high school. Used some savings money to buy an external CD burner (first kid at high school with one). Made set mixes to begin with and sold them at $10 a pop (a hip-hop mix and then an alternative rock mix). Then started taking requests for compilations. Sold those at $15 a CD (because that was back in the dial-up days and I used to stay up all night downloading songs for people). Ended up decreasing the prices to about $5-$7 by the time I graduated, because by then everyone already had their own CD burners and internet was becoming faster.Still made some damn good money at the time.
8/25/2009 1:26:39 PM
my school was the first in the county to have a CD burner back in the day...it was a SCSI POS by creative labs (i think)...in any case, i had two separate classes in that technology room and the teacher loved me, so i could use the burner whenever i wantedin the glory days of napster, i was king of my school...for $7, you could have any mixed CD you wanted[Edited on August 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM. Reason : ^ welcome, brother...we even posted at almost the same time ]
8/25/2009 1:26:44 PM
mowing lawns so that i could buy
8/25/2009 1:26:58 PM
i remember mowing yards to buy a bb gun
8/25/2009 1:27:25 PM
Three Broke Guys landscaping services were the shit. Made bankage for a few summers in middle school.
8/25/2009 1:28:35 PM
my first purchase with my own money was a new genesis controller because I had broken one of the two that came with the system by slamming it into the wall when i couldn't get out of the first level of Ecco the Dolphin
8/25/2009 1:28:40 PM
I took money from the church collection plate.
8/25/2009 1:29:32 PM
^^^^^^Great minds and all....[Edited on August 25, 2009 at 1:30 PM. Reason : .]
8/25/2009 1:29:51 PM
our school had a T1 when most people didn't even know what high-speed internet WAS (we had a private grant from what was then glaxo wellcome, which is why we had all of this)...so it wasn't a big deal to download whatever anyone wanted (and the rest of the county was pretty rural, so it wasn't like there was going to be competition any time soon)
8/25/2009 1:32:52 PM
^ damn, and back then a T1 was like $5k a month
8/25/2009 1:34:19 PM
my first one was having the responsibility of pushing the milk cart to the lunchroom when i was 5, i didn't really think of the consequences and i used all the kids' milk money and bought me and my friends ice cream and kept the restonly happened once, then i had to go to the principals office when i came back w/o any milk
8/25/2009 1:36:54 PM
hookin
8/25/2009 1:55:40 PM
tutoring/helping my brother with him homeworkmy parents would pay me like $8 an hour because they couldn't stand to try and help him and would always end up in a fight. he was not the best at schoolwork so it always took a long time and i was able to make texa$
8/25/2009 1:58:28 PM
I opened up my own vending machine company in my mom's office when I was about 8 or 9I would go buy candy, cracker packs, and chips from Sam's Club and then put them in a basket and a little money cup.I had so much fun making my sign, price list and filling the basket...I didn't really make any $$$ though b/c I had to pay my mom back for buying all the stuff from Sam's and I would "treat" myself to a freebie too often.[Edited on August 25, 2009 at 2:00 PM. Reason : g]
8/25/2009 1:59:17 PM