Just wanted to say thanks!

I've been scrapping for a little while now, but it's been mostly whatever I just happened to run across for extra money because there's a yard about 5 minutes from my job. I'm 29 and I've been stressing over my financial security a lot lately so in order to speed up my money saving process what I've been trying to do is not touch my paychecks at all. I let 6% go to 401k, pay for my benefits and uncle sam and the rest I just want to sit in the bank.



My goal is to pay bills from scrapping and at first, as you can imagine, it wasn't easy. I work nights so by the time I get off work a lot of the neighborhoods have been passed through. Recently though, with all the information you guys throw out there, especially all the eScrap knowledge, the last 2 months I've been able to cover rent just off scrap. There's so much stuff that I just used to throw to the yard that now I break down, test what I can, put stuff on eBay and even started buying towers in my area. There's also stuff that it seems people just drive by not knowing that it's actually worth a few bucks that I wouldn't have known had it not been for this site. I've always had that living check to check type of feeling and it's a huge relief to be able to watch my bank account slowly pile up.

Just wanted to give a huge thanks to guys like Mechanic688, SirScrapAlot, jghilino (I was about to scrap about 5-6 2GB or less HDs until I saw your post in the eBay section) and everyone else who posts information to help out random people like myself. It's all appreciated.

rent sux

Great start. I wish I had done what you are doing when I was 29. Keep it up and get out of rental as soon as you can. Find a small place with a small mortgage.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Very nice intro and like I always say, "no thanks needed, just throw cash",,,lol

Ha, I'm not bringing in that much. No cash throwing here.

Originally Posted by Jonniebrass

Great start. I wish I had done what you are doing when I was 29. Keep it up and get out of rental as soon as you can. Find a small place with a small mortgage.

It's in the works. I'm hoping by the end of this year/middle of next at the very latest to have my own place. Trying to get enough saved to put a decent down payment and am trying not to borrow from my 401k at the moment. Some of my friends mortgage payments are close to what I pay in rent and there's is at least going to something that's theirs.