Not to be a whiny b!tch but...

I work for an auto parts store (Autozone) making around $450 every two weeks and I also get a 20% discount so maybe you should look into that kind of work as a highschool student (I am also one)

william
 
Hmmm. I'm a father of 4 and paying my own way through grad school. You've never seen a tight budget till you and your wife are skipping meals to cut down on the food bills.

I just picked up a '92 Nissan Sentra that gets 38mpg for $500. It has a salvage title and looks like crap, but runs great and is saving me about $100/month just in gas cost compared to the Jeep. I'm keeping the Jeep (don't trust the Nissan to get me to work everyday) but it will pay for itself several times over before the year is out. I can't see it ever being worth less than $500, so including resale value I will pretty much never lose money!!!

BTW, last year when I lived in a more accomodating location I rode a bike to work every day and only filled the tank every 3 weeks. Total monthly gas bill was about $35! I was pretty healthy to boot.
 
Thing that sucks about getting a beater for DD in Maine, gotta have insurance on it, sometimes the gas savings dont outweigh the insurance rise, especially for a male highschool student.
 
Been there too, its not gonna get much easier if the gas price keeps rising faster than the rate of inflation. I drive a 100mi round trip to work each day at the cost of about 10-12 dollars in gas a day definately sucks...
 
XJEEPER said:
I've learned several professions...
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Same here through my years...

Although I must amend that for me:
"I've learned several professions that I never want to go back to unless I really really have to!"
 
Umm.. rocket scientist... You say you get $120 check? and pay $50 for gas and pay $70 on insurance? thats $120 right there. How do you manage to save money that aint there?

From my motorcycle forum:
After hearing nothing about gas price increases for the past two weeks on my favorite news media sources (mainly cnn.com), I sat down and did a minute of fuzzy math.

Gas is up 25 cents to a national average of 2.91. This is being hailed as a crisis, the public is writing in to the news saying they have been changing their lifestyles just to buy gas. The democrats are crying fowl claiming price gouging.

Whether the gas prices should be as high as they are or not, I fail to understand the impact. If you're driving a gas-sucking SUV every day and spending $200 a month on gas, the 'two week' price increase now costs you $217.18, $17.18 more, or 3 Grande Iced Mocha Non-Fat No-Whip Upsidedown Cappuccinos.

To spend $200 you have to be driving around 1200 miles a month, or 38 miles a day, so 19 miles each way (commuting only) - in a 15mpg SUV.

So the 'lifestyle' cost of an SUV driver is 3 trips to Starbucks, less for the average car driver.

Yet they have videos of people going into pawn shops to buy gas money, crying they cant afford to drive to work anymore, and generally complaining that life is going to end because of skyrocketing gas prices.

Am I missing something?
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Try your local bingo hall.
In high school, I used to leave outta there with $70 to $100+ per night and it was all under the table, not taxed.
 
summitlt said:
So out of my $120 check, $50 now goes to gas, that leaves me with $70, factor in stuff like insurance ($70 a month) that leaves me with $52 a week to put in the bank.
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$70/4=$17.50
$50+$17.50=$67.50
$120-$67.50=$52.50

mdl said:
Umm.. rocket scientist... You say you get $120 check? and pay $50 for gas and pay $70 on insurance? thats $120 right there. How do you manage to save money that aint there?

From my motorcycle forum:
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Better stick to fire crackers.
 
Too late, you are bing a whiny b....

They still have a thing called a "school bus" in Maine right? Try it sometime.

I drive 130 miles each day to work (there is no alternative or I'd use it), live in the country where EVERYTHING is 15 miles away, have two teenage kids, a wife making $10/hr, a mortgage, two car payments, equipment loans.....

No one ever said life was going to be easy.

Of course you could take your $120 week(when I was in HS I got paid $25 working in a restaurant humpin' dishes) and go to some exotic locale, say, India, and live like a king....

Take the bus to school, have your friends come to you, and remeber these "difficult times" when you are planning what to do with your life beyond high school.

Study, go to college, get a good job, and then you can spend all that maney making ends meet while you try to save for retirement (if you get that far).

Beating over.
 
Zuki-Ron said:
Whine, whine, whine ;)

Fergie is right (one of the few times we will agree on anything), you have it easy. Reduced, if not free room and board, food, heat, electricity. Heck, I wasn't even allowed to have a car of my own until I moved out. Wait till you move out and life bitch slaps you right up the side of the head :D

When I was your age, we walked, biked, used a motorcycle, or begged to use the family car. Since the later always involved lot's of groveling, it was avoided at all cost.
Lucky bastard has his own car and all he can do is complain about it ;)

Enjoy it while you can!
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This is a rare occasion when I agree with Ron. I wasn't allowed to have a car in HS, so I have no sympathy for you. Look on the bright side, if you do well in your young adulthood you can more than make up for it. I have money in the bank, a nice house, 5 vehicles and a boat.
 
Lawn Cher' said:
This is a rare occasion when I agree with Ron. I wasn't allowed to have a car in HS, so I have no sympathy for you. Look on the bright side, if you do well in your young adulthood you can more than make up for it. I have money in the bank, a nice house, 5 vehicles and a boat.
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That means you agree with me.
 
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