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hey guys! So one of my older cousins lives in Japan! I asked my parents if we could go over the summer, but they said “if we have the money, definately!” They don’t think it will happen, lol. I want to see if I can raise money on my own, but seeing that I’m 15 and can’t get a job until next September, I need to find a way to fundraise. Do you have any suggestions or fundrasing ideas? If you’ve done this before, what’s worked for you? Just to be clear though, I am NOT asking for money, don’t worry. Just fundraising ideas haha.
-Bake sale sort of thing? Or something else that you make and could sell (crafts, etc).
-Paper Route (a 15 year old can do this at least where I’m from).
-Get into scouring thrift/ antique stores for rare or vintage things you can sell on eBay (I’ve made over $300 from selling Frankoma pottery on eBay). Works for clothes too (Members Only jackets for example), and video game/ Nintendo things you just have to be willing to do the research to find out what’s valuable and what isn’t.
-Scrapping metalIs there anything you are particularly interested in doing?
Oh thanks! I forgot about ebay, I could ask my bro for his old video games and I could sell some of mine too.
I was thinking of selling lollipops or candy in my school (i’ve seen it work, when the track team did it they made enough money to buy new uniforms and everything!) or something like that. But I’d need to do much more than that, so I’ll try what you said. Thanks so much!Or if your parents will let you, you can ask local restaurants if you can wash dishes/ bus tables to get paid ‘under the table’. I used to deliver Chinese food/ answer the phones for orders when I was 15/16. Their English wasn’t so great and they didn’t know the town very well so it was a huge help for them, and convenient for me. Just be sure to keep track of what you are getting paid so you’re still profiting.
Amazon is also an option, or half.com. I found Ebay to be terribly expensive because of listing fees and commissions. Amazon is also expensive on the commissions. For reselling movies and video games, I found half.com to be the best website.
It won’t make a lot of money, but Amazon’s mturk program makes a bit. You have to be choosy about what you spend your time doing on there, but you can make some additional money through that website.
Good luck!
ohh I’ll check those websites out, thanks!
Gotta be over 18 for Mechanical Turk, sorry. Plus, you’ll be doing menial jobs for them FOREVER if you want to make any amount of money haha. I’m giving up with these sorts of sites just as soon as I get my £50 from YouGov (which has taken me more than a year to get halfway! >.<)…
Also, “definitely” ;)
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MisterM2402 [Michael].
Selling stuff at school is always a good idea (if the school lets you!). I remember selling handmade friendship bracelets at my school, and they sold out so quick! Mind you, that was back in the 90′s haha… I doubt anyone would buy those particular ones anymore, unless they’re rocking some sort of ironic 90′s look!
@MisterM2402 oops my spelling needs improvement XD
@ooh_a_robot There are soooo many fundraisers going on at my school, including some bracelets haha. One club is selling bracelets that say “Go green or go home!” I am definitely buying one :D
@ooh_a_robot: Well, we’re currently going through an 80s revival period, so soon enough we’ll be onto the 90s ;) God, I hope so anyway – because I was a young child during the 90s, that makes it the best decade ever :P haha. Kenan and Kel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Nintendo 64, The Spice Girls, yo-yos, Pokémon, Home Alone, Monkey Island… *nostalgic sigh*
@MisterM2402 Plus that’s when anime started playing on cartoon network/ scy-fy channel :P
don’t forget Hey Arnold! And the rugrats :D
Meh, I was just listing my own favourites, but feel free to keep going with 90s nostalgia :P There are so many things that I know other people love that I didn’t have any interest in – Fresh Prince, Recess, Arthur, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, Saved By the Bell (was that 80s?), Furbies, PlayStation, Sonic…
Besides Dragon Ball Z, I didn’t watch any other anime back then. Now that I’m rewatching Dragon Ball Z, after having recently finished watching Dragon Ball, it’s actually kinda sucky haha. 35 episodes in, I’ve actually switched to watching Sabrina again :3 Now THAT show is even more awesome now than it was back then :D
So what ages were you guys in the 90s? *derails thread* I only lived through ’93 onwards, but it was still awesome :)
I was born in ’96, so I only caught the last bit of the decade lol. I don’t think this is a ’90s show, but it might be! I remember watching it back then: Digimon?
Digimon just scrapes through – the American dub started airing August 1999.
As for fundraising ideas… rob a bank?
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