Author Topic: How are you saving up for the con? (Read 27466 times)

Mr Silmero · « **Reply #50 on:** January 17, 2009, 09:11:56 pm »

work and tax return mostly as I like to keep it simple.

DancingTofu · « **Reply #51 on:** January 18, 2009, 03:41:26 am »

Quote from: nikkiolie on January 11, 2009, 02:55:43 am

more flat screens would be nice in the gaming room. I'm sure they would really appreciate that

It seems like you have a solid plan for your money

Haha, yeah. Now all I need is an income and I'm set.

dakiro · « **Reply #52 on:** January 18, 2009, 03:30:03 pm »

being that i don't work and am in job core they pay but its like $25 every 2 weeks...so yeah... between that and the money i put away before i left is all i have till i get out in a year then they pay you like $500... wich will most likely be going toward paying back my parents =\

tofutakeout · « **Reply #53 on:** January 18, 2009, 03:45:34 pm »

yeah but 500 a little much to give. I'll be fine with like 200. :3

nikkiolie · « **Reply #54 on:** January 18, 2009, 06:44:36 pm »

I took cans in today and got $23 for it

Sadly I spent most of it getting the rest of the stuff I need for a costume....along with other things. I should be getting another paycheck next weekend so that is when I will add a little more to what I got

superjaz · « **Reply #55 on:** January 18, 2009, 08:36:11 pm »

still more worried about payin off wedding eep

nikkiolie · « **Reply #56 on:** January 18, 2009, 08:56:12 pm »

Yeah I'm sure that will take up quite a bit of money >_>

superjaz · « **Reply #57 on:** January 19, 2009, 03:57:14 pm »

Quote from: nikkiolie on January 18, 2009, 08:56:12 pm

Yeah I'm sure that will take up quite a bit of money >_>

yeah let me put it this way, we gots quite a bit in target gift cards, and you can buy stuff at the food court there with them, so chris and i might have to learn to like cherry icees and popcorn as real food

Cassiopeia · « **Reply #58 on:** January 19, 2009, 04:04:36 pm »

8D I'm gettin' that button press soon!!!

nikkiolie · « **Reply #59 on:** January 19, 2009, 04:09:00 pm »

Quote from: superjaz on January 19, 2009, 03:57:14 pm

Quote from: nikkiolie on January 18, 2009, 08:56:12 pm
Yeah I'm sure that will take up quite a bit of money >_>

yeah let me put it this way, we gots quite a bit in target gift cards, and you can buy stuff at the food court there with them, so chris and i might have to learn to like cherry icees and popcorn as real food

sounds like fun. I love both of those XD

princessmoon · « **Reply #60 on:** January 19, 2009, 05:53:41 pm »

Good credit comes in play--I use the "plastic" to save me. I have a few credit cards that don't have finance charges. When i get paid from my job, I will pay them plastics off! _mahaha... T_T

DancingTofu · « **Reply #61 on:** January 20, 2009, 12:55:54 am »

Quote from: nikkiolie on January 18, 2009, 06:44:36 pm

I took cans in today and got $23 for it

Sadly I spent most of it getting the rest of the stuff I need for a costume....along with other things. I should be getting another paycheck next weekend so that is when I will add a little more to what I got

Cheater! Oregon Law says you aren't allowed to return more than 144 bottles in a day!

nikkiolie · « **Reply #62 on:** January 20, 2009, 07:10:19 am »

>_> really? I never heard that one XD

superjaz · « **Reply #63 on:** January 20, 2009, 03:58:16 pm »

it used to be in oregon that you could only return 144 cans or bottles at a time but around 2005 or 6 or somthing they removed it and let people return more then that

prob cuz if peeps had more then 144 they would just send them in with some one else (back when store clerks counted the cans) or cuz with the macines there is no real way to stop some one from returning more then 144

nikkiolie · « **Reply #64 on:** January 20, 2009, 04:46:29 pm »

Yeah the machine I use at Fred Meyer's spits out a ticket at 144 and I had about three of those

DancingTofu · « **Reply #65 on:** January 20, 2009, 08:54:26 pm »

Hmm, all those signs must just be out of date or something.

nikkiolie · « **Reply #66 on:** January 20, 2009, 09:08:16 pm »

I haven't seen any signs =/

DancingTofu · « **Reply #67 on:** January 20, 2009, 09:22:41 pm »

Maybe you should spend more time investigating the bottle return area. :[

nikkiolie · « **Reply #68 on:** January 21, 2009, 08:07:50 am »

no I'm good. I hate doing it as it is

KogaRyu · « **Reply #69 on:** January 21, 2009, 01:14:32 pm »

Quote from: Cassiopeia on January 11, 2009, 02:04:05 pm

No, I'll make anything that people request to the best of my abilities. I don't want to limit my market.

(Though at K-con if I get a table with my friends at the artists alley we'll have a set selection there.)

Make world ends with you Buttons!!

Quote from: nikkiolie on January 18, 2009, 06:44:36 pm

I took cans in today and got $23 for it

Hmmm... Maybe i should look into this...

nikkiolie · « **Reply #70 on:** January 21, 2009, 01:25:17 pm »

its a good way to make fast money. I maybe worked for about 20 minutes

Prince Nori · « **Reply #71 on:** January 21, 2009, 10:30:03 pm »

I suck at finding a job. Think I might donate plasma and panhandle on the streets.

nah actually I have a ton of cans I need to take in XD
and lots of books to take to powells, I made around $68 last time I traded in my old manga!

makichan · « **Reply #72 on:** January 21, 2009, 10:38:22 pm »

Quote from: Prince Nori on January 21, 2009, 10:30:03 pm

I suck at finding a job. Think I might donate plasma and panhandle on the streets.

nah actually I have a ton of cans I need to take in XD
and lots of books to take to powells, I made around $68 last time I traded in my old manga!

I've been meaning to trade in some of my manga at Powells... I always forget to do it. >.>

nikkiolie · « **Reply #73 on:** January 22, 2009, 07:16:24 am »

I could do that too. I really don't read any of mine anymore and I have quite a bit of it x.x

DancingTofu · « **Reply #74 on:** January 22, 2009, 11:58:09 pm »

I wish I owned things that were actually worth anything. D:

I just have a bunch of Musical Instruments that will only sell for 10% of their actual value. Or in the case of my Piano, 2% (I'd never sell it though). :[[

nikkiolie · « **Reply #75 on:** January 23, 2009, 09:13:32 am »

I still need to sell my guitar >_>

DancingTofu · « **Reply #76 on:** January 24, 2009, 01:29:39 am »

Quote from: nikkiolie on January 23, 2009, 09:13:32 am

I still need to sell my guitar >_>

I can probably get you a buyer in less than a week if you give me a model, make, condition, picture, and asking price. Bonus points if you let me play it so I can give potential buyers an honest appraisal.

nikkiolie · « **Reply #77 on:** January 24, 2009, 09:26:29 am »

Its way out of tune right now....I'll have to look into a few things but it is a Ibanez GAX70 in dark red. I've had it for about four years, there is a strap, amp, soft case, cord for the amp, tuner and stand that I can sell with it.

As for the condition I don't have any pictures just yet but I can get some. There are a few scratched on it and when I do get some pictures I will be sure to get close ups on those. As for the asking price I'm not too sure yet.

lightbeam911 · « **Reply #78 on:** May 12, 2009, 06:54:28 pm »

One word: Cat.
My grandparents "live" with us. But they're very active, and my grandfather used to be the CEO of YMCA, so they've got a bit of money XD They travel about 10 months out of the year, and for about 3/4 of that time, their cat is left with me.

I won't lie and say this isn't ridiculous. They give me 200$ for two months of babysitting A CAT XD
Its crazy and totally unrealistic, but I'm not complaining.

Thats how I "save up" XD

I spend it on my cosplay, merchandise, and artist alley.

nikkiolie · « **Reply #79 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:37:12 am »

Alright I will get nine paychecks between now and kumoricon and if each one averages out to $100 then that is almost 1000, but I'm sure once summer hits I will be making a lot more than $100 every two weeks, probably more like $200

StarryShay · « **Reply #80 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:46:39 am »

My only source of income is weekly allowance. T.T
I really need to find some way of earning money...

nikkiolie · « **Reply #81 on:** May 15, 2009, 12:02:42 pm »

Get a job, that is always the easiest way

StarryShay · « **Reply #82 on:** May 15, 2009, 12:10:56 pm »

Yeah, but I'm only Thirteen, so I don't think anyone would want to hire me. x3

nikkiolie · « **Reply #83 on:** May 15, 2009, 12:14:59 pm »

Yeah that may be a problem. Ask to do more things around the house for a bigger allowance.

Higuma · « **Reply #84 on:** May 15, 2009, 12:42:52 pm »

I am working at night at 24 Hour Fitness after I get some bills paid off the rest goes to K-con.

GenkiIchigo · « **Reply #85 on:** May 15, 2009, 01:55:10 pm »

I didn't make very much last year, so I got an EIC check along with my tax return this year. I just stuck that extra check in my savings for con this time around. Last year they did the government stimulus check thing, so I paid for con with part of that. Usually I just keep 100$ aside from two or three checks before con though~

DooFeRthePanda · « **Reply #86 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:16:36 pm »

temp jobs and bday. my bday is before kcon and i get 100 or more and i get over 1 grand from my temp job. yup yup

nikkiolie · « **Reply #87 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:22:31 pm »

PAY CHECK THIS WEEKEND! Yay!

JulianaRose · « **Reply #88 on:** May 16, 2009, 08:13:30 am »

I get paid on the fifth, unless the fifth is a saturday or sunday. Thankfully it will be a saturday in September, so I'll be getting paid just the day before (how convenient!!) And I'm just gonna' "blow" most of my paycheck.

So not really any saving up for me.

I did all my purchasing seperatly, so whenever I get paid I just spend it on what I need. I don't really save up. Workin' at the ol' DQ is getting this all paid for

nikkiolie · « **Reply #89 on:** May 16, 2009, 08:49:25 am »

Yeah I didn't get paid a whole lot this time because I only worked 8 hrs x.x Next time though should be pretty good.

xxxchihiroxxx · « **Reply #90 on:** May 18, 2009, 03:59:51 pm »

i feel like ive posted in this before.....

uh i got four full piggy banks, ive been saving all year and i vowed not to count my money till summer so I can get an estimate of how much I want to have more.

but im feeling pretty confident, last time is aved money like that it was just over the summer, one piggy bank and that one piggy bank was 300 bucks. times that by four and then add in that i got my self a job at the ice cream parlor lined up for this summer along with extensive baby sitting since four little kids on my block are home from school for the summer. : ) Im looking at a nice little bundel.

iluvshijimi · « **Reply #91 on:** May 18, 2009, 04:04:32 pm »

I don't normally plan to buy things at the con, so I don't really worry about money-saving... My money either goes towards school or cosplaying.

xxxchihiroxxx · « **Reply #92 on:** May 18, 2009, 04:07:29 pm »

i do, its my only real chance to buy things ussualy. from things to props, prints, DVD sets (i buy in sets not just single DVD's, faster and cheaper that way, where I DVD shop doesnt ussualy have sets or anime for that matter) d=manga i just cant seem to find, ect.... that and my saved money also goes towards my cosplay, my hotel, my artist alley booth, and food expenses.

lightbeam911 · « **Reply #93 on:** May 18, 2009, 04:16:29 pm »

I just got 350 dollars for taking care of my grandmas cat for 2 months.

She has to much money than she knows what to do with.

nikkiolie · « **Reply #94 on:** May 26, 2009, 09:19:43 am »

My birthday is coming up so I should get quite a bit for that which will go towards my costumes

iluvshijimi · « **Reply #95 on:** May 26, 2009, 09:22:50 am »

Lucky! I don't really get money on my birthday, so I have to work with what I've got >.<

nikkiolie · « **Reply #96 on:** May 26, 2009, 09:25:04 am »

Also my birthday is in 2 weeks so there is more than enough time for them to get my the money between now and the con XD

mitsuki · « **Reply #97 on:** May 27, 2009, 11:50:46 am »

I'm trying to get a part-time job, good thing I already have some money saved in my bank account.

nikkiolie · « **Reply #98 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:21:57 pm »

good luck with that. It was hard for me to find a job during the summer. It took me over a month to find one x.x

mitsuki · « **Reply #99 on:** May 27, 2009, 12:29:54 pm »

Yeah I live in a college town so right now a lot of jobs are starting to open up because all of the students are leaving for the summer.

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