My big day fundraising (reply to $1500 a day thread)
hey everyone, i was reading that "how i make $1500 a day" thread for the past week or two trying to think about how to do it and i finally did it, i will tell you all the story of my day so you can read it and judge whether it was worth it and ways to improve. also note it is long so i will say the day dissapointed financially.
so it was wed night that i decided i would attempt to defraud a charity and pretend i worked for them on thursday night i prepared, i purchased some alcohol and a trial drug i just wanted to test out (nutmeg, dont judge me yet i was just curious and i thought if this plan fails at least i could possibly get high). i attempted to print off a badge for the red cross foundation, unfortunetely i ran out of colour for my printer so i tried to use lipstick and nailpolish, neither worked so i decided to change to a different charity. after some searching i found Oxfam, i thought a lot of people knew who they were (which i was definetely wrong about so if you dont know them there an international crisis management fund, they send aid and manpower kind of like greenpeace in america, they also fund african issues. helping them improve there billions of problems) and i knew a bit about them. the logo was very easy to make except it was in green, i printed it on black as well as 2 pages of who they were and 4 pages of sign sheets, my idea was simply to have them fill there name on the signup sheet and i said well send them the receipt in the mail, the badge didnt work so i simply flashed the clipboard with the oxfam logo when they asked who i was, i finished everything up at 6 and fell asleep at 6:30 am
the next day i woke up at 12, put the entire 25g nutmeg packet into a cup of coffee and drank it as quickly as i could, it made me sick soon after but i had a shower and suited up anyway, i grabbed my bag with water and a ham sandwich as well as a flask of alcohol and a tablet of valium and headed off for my long walk. i live in a very nice area except its government owned, no ones rich just on the dole so not only would people know me but they wouldnt give me money anyway, so i knew i had to get to somewhere rich and it just so happens a very rich neighbourhood was on the otherside of a nature reserve that i live close to. i began my hike and the nutmeg made me a little sick, i drank some water and was feeling fine, i've walked through the area a few times before so i knew main parts and eventually i ended up on the other side. I was exhausted so i sat down looking at the neighbourhood, the area i hit up ran parrelel to the reserve so i knew i was safe if anyone chased me, i wasnt feeling nervous but i didnt want to fuck up so i took my valium and drank about 3 standard drinks worth and hit up my first home.
the first thing about door to door people we all know is they get rejected A LOT. this isnt my first time face to face marketing i use to work going from business to business so theres a certain feeling to getting rejected, and ive always hated it and eventually learnt to ignore it. but when i was rejected from my first home it actually felt good, it was as if i knew i was doing a good job, "im sorry im not interested" meant that i was good enough for her not to give a shit about. it was the third house i hit up that gave me a 5er, a nice old lady if i remember, after that it took a little while longer but eventually i got to this buetiful girls house, she was wearing a school uniform from a school just accross the road from me and we talked, apperently she was 21 and its her old shirt, we talked about how life is after school and about our situations, i lied and said i was doing this for my resume and she gave me a 5er, i have her address written down and number ha ha i wonder if chicks like con artists?.
my first big snag was probably after my 4th donation where a middle aged fat lady asked me for ID. i acted confused like i should have and pointed to a fake ABN i had written down on my sheet (australian business number) and when she mentioned calling the cops i said "we have donations online, just simply go to oxfam.org and donate" and then walked off, i doorknocked 2 more houses before i became a little to paranoid and decided its time to go for a lunch break, this was half way through my day at around 3:30 so i jumped the barb wire fence and walked about 20 metres into the forest. i had intentions to get absolutely wasted today and msg my ex while high in the forest but i still couldnt bring myself to it, id like you to know that night i did end up msg'in her, as well as another of my ex's whos moving but the one whos moving was just cause were already mates.
so after a half an hour i headed back into the neighbourhood, i met some nice people although most houses had no one there. there was some kids who just got back from school who followed me around for a bit chattin to me, there was also a bike just sitting there outside someones house with no one home anywhere but i decided im a conman not a heartless criminal.
towards the end of it i was so tired i hid in the middle of a roundabout drinking water for ten minutes (it was a huge roundabout with a mini forest in the centre)
after i had that drink i hit up one of the roads that was going away from the reserve and then went through someones backyard to get to the highway.
after another 20 minutes of walking my mother picked me up at 5 (i can drive but remember i had some liquid courage earlier on and was still sipping)
now the basics are here, the best part
i hit up around 30 houses, maybe more maybe less
the majority were empty
people started getting home at around 4
and all up i made 37 dollars
some times, i got there at around 2-2:30
rested for 40 minutes
spent 6 hours the night before figuring out how to use photoshop to make a green logo black and making up all the papers
as well as 15 minutes shaving and suiting up
40 bucks for 8 hours work was a big dissapointment, although most of that time i wouldnt need if i wanted to do it again it was still rather dissapointing, the houses werent just big they were huge, usually with the big white picket fence that stops you from walking through there lawn to get to there neighbours.
also no body really cared, whether they rejected you or gave you money no body gave a shit, most didnt even want to sign the sheet when i started giving them choices
i never recieved anything less then 5 dollars, biggest was ten, one man asked me to come back later when his wife gets home for change.
so thats the basics, if you have the paperwork already made out for you and drove instead of hiking through a nature reserve drunk you could make an average income, 40 dollars for 2-3 hours work is average but not worth it for the work, there was a damn lot of walking as well as the basic fact that its fraud and if the cops did catch you (as much as both you and them both agree its a pretty pointless crime with no one getting hurt) fraud is a big charge.
also on the note on the nutmeg it was good 8 hours into it, im not a liar so believe me when i say it was like a very very mild maruijuana trip, it made me hungry and gave me cotton mouth like grass and made me histerically laugh at moments, problem is it comes on and off and when its off whether you feel sick or just disorientated you want it to go away, which it didnt untill halfway through saturday.
Last edited by Sexual_Jesus; 2008-09-21 at 13:46.
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