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Anonymous
vindago (one of our regulars on CAA) was telling me how he was going busking on the weekend so he could get a few bucks to buy a decent quality sub...

What are the craziest things you guys have done??

for me it was doing 'alcohol testing' for colmar brunton research when i was 17 (I scammed my way in being under age) and i was saving up for my first head unit... Got payed $150.00 for testing drinks that made me feel very very sick, they had huge alcohol compositions and very little actual decent taste
BlackIce
Working 5 hours overtime (bringing me to a total of 50 hours a week) for months to save the pennies to buy my first D2.
dasherhalo
er, how do you apply for that job??
east_bay_punk
weekend work (plumbing)
so i can buy the gear..... but then have no time to install it.
Bassaholic
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Originally posted by dasherhalo:
er, how do you apply for that job??    
hahah

NUMB - consider yourself lucky, I know a bunch of 17 year olds that would have done it for free.
MrMonaro
I'd do it for a resonably low price (being 17 and all, it just means i aint paying for it!!! )
exup
i worked at dominos. hahahaaha man i was desperate!

On a different note, i was workin from 7am till 12 midnight (across 2 jobs) for a month to get my bike. Then i quit my second job......phew, that wasn't much fun. But i have my bike
Redav
Didn't know it at the time but I was doing long hours getting a job done. Did a 74hr week in there somewhere. Ended up craming 250 hours into 4 weeks. Money went to car and stereo.
VL Commy
Um workin at woolies as a checkout 'operator' for 3.5yrs.....
DD
im working at hungry jacks for my auduo money .. soon to be leaving . and getting some reall money
vindago
haha, i didnt end up going i decided to sell some of my possessions instead... will probly busk next week to go towards the amp, hahah.
basic124
last year i did door to door selling. i worked there for a month, made $400 in that time, and somehow managed to walk out of there without giving htem the finger, wiping my **** on teh carpet (i cann taht a "mud slide"), or burstinga tyre on one of the vans. in fact, they made me feel guilty about it. half price shutters are the root of all evil..

at the time, i had intended to work ther for ALL of last year... i barely had enough money to stay alive, let alone buy car audio stuff that was however teh goal...

this year.. i put off getting what could hav ebeen an urgent service done to my car to buy my subs... thats about it...

i did once eat a pepper sandwich (READ: LOTS OF PEPPER) at a party so i could get $10 to buy some maccas after teh party and a train ticket home..

haha
Matt P
but was it freshly cracked pepper? LOL
Rattlehead
I gave up the to save up the cash for my first crapty system.
That was absolutely crazy...can't believe I gave up the thing I love most.
Crimson Ninja
Went stupid on my AGC Credit card... $2000 later, on 27.5% interest... I could cry...
bassmekanik
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Originally posted by Crimson Ninja:
Went stupid on my AGC Credit card... $2000 later, on 27.5% interest... I could cry...
ouch

i work my ass off for mummy and family to get my stuff still do and will do untill i get a job
[white lie]
i've done the "juggle two jobs at once" trick...70 hour weeks arent much fun, but you dont have time to go out, so you just end up saving it

other than that, i think i've been pretty tame. Either layby it and work hard enough to pay it off or throw it on the credit card
Anonymous
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Originally posted by Crimson Ninja:
Went stupid on my AGC Credit card... $2000 later, on 27.5% interest... I could cry...
yeap, i did that, also went for a CBA credit card and its killing me slowly
Kramy
i have only once maxed out my AGC card limit is 4000 but i had 6 months interst free so paid back in time.
Cappy
I've gone into debt with friends, i sold heaps of my stuff for audio, eg. Jaycar Party Speakers, i loved those things .
I work 2-3 jobs alot, mainly on my holidays.

In year 8 a guy paid me 15 bucks to get him invited to a party, hehehehe, but he never paid....
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