One area I find interesting is how people raise funds for there day (or weekend) at a Autographica. Do you work loads of over time and bank it? Have a 'small' second job? or what? For what its worth I collect scrap metal and weigh it in!
Near where I live there's been five-six skips in the nearby streets and after a five-minute chat with the 'owner's' I just raid them - may be once-twice a week. I also collect old car batteries and collect aluminium drink cans, you may laugh and say 'skip rat...' well, laff away, between last September and April this year I made £87 thank you very much, not bad from rubbish, and oooo, does that money smell nice!
Soooo, £20 for Gerry Griffin and (two autographs) £60 for Ed Gibson...
What DO YOU do?
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Financing the Hobby
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von Dawson's Express
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 06:20 PM
Luftwaffe '46, Spaceflight (esp. Apollo era), Model Kits - Airfix et al, Meccano, Kawasaki triple's, Oly OM-2n's, LOMO's, Canon EOS 300 and 450D, Meade LXD-55 AR-5, Omega Speedmaster, Lego, Thomas Cooke & Sons and C.T.&S microscope's and telescope's, Sed Atki 401's and ERF's with 180 Gardner's, CVR(T), Orion 10x70's, Skoda Octavia GLXi, lenses and prisms, Holbroke and Myford, Sir Arthur and owt that shouts quality!
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 02:59 PM
I have to do a bit of everything - overtime, dip into my savings, dip into my current account, and see what tat I can flog on ebay, to be blunt. I also collect all my spare coppers in an oversized whiskey bottle and put that into the pot - suprising how much it adds up to sometimes! But yep I have to generally generate money and save it well in advance of the shows. I spent £450 at the last show, can't really afford it but the hobby gives me pleasure and my place has signed photo's all over the walls - not to mention the experience of meeting these people in the first place
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 07:15 PM
Student loans/busary. Going TRY get a job soon go bk home as shud graduate this yr so will need fund it somehow.
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Tickle us, do we not laugh? P**ck us, do we not bleed? Wrong us... shall we not revenge?
If all of your friends are morons is it a felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if you blow their ******* heads off with a thirty-eight magnum?
Hypothetically, if the only choice you've got is to do the wrong thing, then it's not really the wrong thing, its more like fate.
It's better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 09:32 PM
i work hard and get paid extremely well, funds are not a problem for me when visiting these shows 
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