Question Posted Thursday February 26 2009, 8:00 am
im 16/f and share a room the size of a closet (when it has 2 occupants) with my 6 year old sister. thats a bit of a difference. i need my own room before i go crazy.
my mom says if i can give her $10,000 she''ll give the rest to make me a room.
maddiec123 answered Thursday February 26 2009, 3:34 pm: Honestly - without knowing your skills or experience it is hard to realistically target a way for you to make quick $$. If there was a quick and easy way to legally earn that much, everyone would be jumping on it.
Assuming by your age, your education and work experience is probably limited, so the best you can hope for is a steady minimum wage job. And $10K is a lot to earn if you are depending on minimum wage to earn it. After taxes you are looking at over 2000 working hours. Even if you worked full-time, that is 50 working weeks if you save every penny. Then - once you have the money saved to pay for the room, it takes months to actually build the add-on to a house.
By the time it all comes together, you are going to be out of High School and ready to move out anyway, leaving your hard earned $10K room behind.
I don't like telling people "it can't be done" but this just doesn't seem realistic.
If you had something of value to raffle off...or a rich grandma it would really help! Maybe call Ty on Home Improvement??? Could you trade your small bedroom for the larger living room so at least you have more space? Is your mom married? If not, find her a rich husband - quick! ;-)
Good luck. I know your sister most likely loves and looks up to you, but the 10 year age difference probably is driving you crazy. If you can't have a room of your own, maybe there is some way to at least carve out space of your own somewhere in the house. [ maddiec123's advice column | Ask maddiec123 A Question ]
life_luv_music16 answered Thursday February 26 2009, 3:19 pm: Well, um thats a lot of money. One idea is to get a job and dont spend 1 cent of the money you make and you should get the money in about a year. Make sure you find a job that pays $10,000 a year or more. Or what you can do is maybe think of other rooms in the house. Is there a basement you could use? Or an attic? Maybe you could save up some money to fix up those rooms. I really hope this helpes you any way possible. [ life_luv_music16's advice column | Ask life_luv_music16 A Question ]
Attention: NOTHING on this site may be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without explicit consent (in writing) of the owner of said material, unless otherwise stated on the page where the content originated. Search engines are free to index and cache our content. Users who post their account names or personal information in their questions have no expectation of privacy beyond that point for anything they disclose. Questions are otherwise considered anonymous to the general public.