What is the most creative thing you've ever done to raise funds for a new bass?

[thisSNsucks]

What is the most creative thing you've ever done to raise funds for a new bass?

For me, I usually just work the good old 9-5, but I recently began selling a bunch of old lego sets that I had from when I was a kid to set up a GAS fund.

Just curious if anyone else has done something out of the ordinary just to buy a new bass.

[MatticusMania]

I pimp myself out to the rich ladies in Beverly Hills

[Joe Gress]

Sell another bass. Work and save funds.


I'm not very crafty.

[davetakis]

i throw all of my change into a 5 gallon paint bucket. when it gets full, and i mean all the way to the top, i cash it in. last time i had a little over 1500.00.

[BigOldHarry]

worked as a contractor in Iraq for a year...

[durarl]

I do the change thing too, but I go a little further.

I look into my wallet, and if I have three or four 1 dollar bills, I toss one of them into the bucket. I figure I would just go out and spend it on a beer anyways. Might aswell save it for something useful.

[Mojo-Man]

Trade, sell gear.
50% of gig money. (the other 50% goes to the wife)

[jsingles]

+1 on change... at least 250-300 dollars of the 1250 i just spent on a jazz bass where from change.

[hey]

I sold all my Yugioh cards. Got $400 combined off all of them, just enough for my first bass.

[rs_worthington]

Got my girlfriend to buy it for me.

[Phillip Jordan]

sell stuff. Con the girl. Pray etc.

[Caca de Kick]

When I have time I buy and sell 60's Mustang car parts or diesel pickup truck parts. And I also work as a diesel mechanic, and there's usually people who want to avoid shop rates, so most of my gear money was/is raised by doing side-jobs on trucks at home in my garage.

[guitfiddle0409]

Paid back Bank of America the funds they kindly forwarded me.

[Montsegour]

Didn't eat my breakfast for a year ( saved money each day )
That Got Me my lovely Peavey and I lost some weight, delicious d=

[jimmy rocket]

I sold two 1920's C Melody saxophones for the funds to buy my G&L L2500

[Caca de Kick]

I do remember one goofy thing...
Two years ago I was rear-ended while sitting in a construction zone, I was in my big Dodge Ram diesel pickup, and the kid that hit me was in his little toyota pickup. He totalled his toyota, but only damaged my bumper and trailer hitch.
Anyway his dad wanted to settle without insurance companies, so I named my price, and he paid me off and I sat on the cash.
Two months later I got rear-ended in the same Dodge, and that guys' insurance paid for everything.
I used the cash to buy my shell pink Custom Shop 1955 P Bass!

[vinxbass]

Worked my A$$ off.

[flipper_gv]

Originally Posted by jimmy rocket

I sold two 1920's C Melody saxophones for the funds to buy my G&L L2500

wait, the one made out of silver? If I'm right, how come you did that?

Anyway, I'll try to start trading beers on beeradvocate.com

[stflbn]

Unfortunately for WAY to many people it would be "actually get a job".

[jimmy rocket]

Originally Posted by flipper_gv

wait, the one made out of silver? If I'm right, how come you did that?

Anyway, I'll try to start trading beers on beeradvocate.com

Neither of mine were silver. One was a Conn and the other was a Martin, and although they were nice they sat in a closet. They were my great uncle and aunt's. The bass, on the other hand, gets played all the time.

The person who bought them was into restoring old saxophones, so they're in a much better place.