Re: General discussion chat Don't tell me what to do. I have a change jar with probably $5 in it. Is that enough savings?
Re: General discussion chat .... I have a college fund? Meh. I can't get a job for another 10 months and lawn mowing barely makes enough money for me to buy some of the stuff I want.
Re: General discussion chat That's unfortunate. I make around $1500-$2000 in the summer mowing. It's enough to keep my parents from making me get a real job fortunately. My college fund is separate from those savings, but I am saving up that 2k for a decent computer and supplies for college.
Re: General discussion chat Wait, what. Just how much mowing do you do.. I've made maybe a couple hundred this summer..
Re: General discussion chat No, it's not that hard to make that much mowing. My uncle made almost $100 a day in the summer when he was a kid from mowing.
Re: General discussion chat Well... Mines filled with old people. The average age of my street is about 70.
Re: General discussion chat You must be cheating yourself out of a ton of money if you're mowing 5 (I think thats what you said) yards and have only made that much. I've made over 500 bucks this summer and I only mow my, my grandmother's, and an asian lady's yard. How much do you charge?
Re: General discussion chat Around $20-30 is what I usually get. A lot of them don't have me mow every weekend, more like every two weeks. One old lady has me leaf blow her deck and driveway every week and every two weeks I mow their lawn. ($15 for just the cleaning the driveway and $35 for both.)
Re: General discussion chat I mow my grandmother's twice a week ($25 per mowing), my neighbors once per week ($20 per mowing), and my Grandfather's business once per week at ($30 per mowing). Then I occasionally mow other people's as they need it. This year has been slower than usual so I won't be getting $2000 in total. Though, when I said "per summer" I meant per mowing season. So from Mid-Late April to Late October. Not just over the summer.
Re: General discussion chat Well, i guess at least in the uk the government will give you a zero interest loan so you only pay back what you have borrowed for first time uni students. You also dont pay it back until you are earning above a certain amount of money and it gets written off if you don't get a job after a certain amount of years (think its 3, not entirely sure). In total university here will cost £27,000 ($45000) for a 3 year course in most uni's. Should be a fun time financially...
Re: General discussion chat What's to stop people living with their parents for another 3 years so that they don't have to pay off the loans?
Re: General discussion chat So, at work we use a cleaning product called Deepio. Its just a normal degreasing product, it comes in a spray bottle. Entirely safe for contact with human skin etc, you just dont want to consume it or get it in your eyes. We also have some oven cleaner. Its the exact opposite. Its a very strong alkali compound. You get deepio in your eyes and it will probably just sting, get the oven cleaner in your eyes and you will probably be blinded. Its strong enough to react with aluminium foil (check it out on youtube) and as such has a warning to not be used on aluminium surfaces. Its strong enough to burn skin. Nasty stuff and when we use it at work we use it with yellow rubber gloves (it doesnt seem to react with them as badly as the blue ones we used before) often doubled up and goggles. Now some absolute fucking idiot moron had an amazing idea at some point in the last 24 to 48 hours. Why don't you take a deepio bottle which we presume ran out (although it will be really taking the piss if it turns out it wasnt empty) and should have simply been binned, open it, fill it with oven cleaner and then leave absolutely no markings on the bottle to indicate they did so. Its actually started eating at the little feed pipe for the spray head and the nozzle its been squirted from too. A chef today picked the bottle up assuming it to be normal deepio, sprayed it, got it all over his hands, spent half an hour running it under the tap and it was still bright red. - - - Updated - - - That isnt how it works. You go to uni for 3 years and it costs £9000 a year in tuition. Therefore you take out a £27000 student loan. The loan repayments in future are added onto your income tax payments (which are usually automatically handled by employers in UK so you dont really need to worry about specifically turning up somewhere to make a loan repayment) and are only paid when you are earning more than £25000 per year, if after a certain period of time (I think its 25 years) you havent paid the loan off then the remaining debt is wiped. Just living with your parents for another 3 years isnt going to prevent them from paying off their loans.
