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A student in Chicago many years ago paid for his tuition by writing in hiis newspaper column and asking for people to send him a penny. Some sent a penny, some sent more. He ended up with tens of thousands of dollars and donated the money that wasn't spent on college to local charities.
In high school, my uncle had a friend who placed an ad in the local newspaper with the text: "This is it! This is your last chance to send one dollar to [address]" He made a few hundred.
And finally, a study performed by university students across the country revealed that an average pay rate of $14/hr could be achieved by hiding behind a bush and jumping up when people passed by and shouting, "BOO! Give me a dollar."
Also, who can forget Karyn, the inventive young lady (you have no idea how hard it was to come up with somethign non-insulting) who called on the excessively gullible Internet community to bail her out of $20,000 of self-inflicted credit card debt.
I see the success of these people, and wonder if I should try something like this to get out of the financial situation that I'm in. All I did to deserve the debt was to put school before work and not come up with a cure for cancer befor my father died.
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