How do you pay for SCUBA?

[MeiLing]

If I want to make a major purchase, I use my bonus or sell stuff on ebay so it's not coming out of our household budget. You'd be surprised how much stuff you have that you don't really need until you start looking at everything in your house as potential scuba gear. I feel like a junkie looking at all my stuff going 'how much can I get for that', but really it's the best way to make side money that I've found without getting another job.

I wish I could convince my husband of this. I've offered to let him keep all the money from everything he sells of mine on Ebay or all the proceeds of a garage sale and I can't get him to bite!:shakehead

 

[DivingsInMyBlood]

The best way to pay for Scuba is to

#1. Get off yer *** (assuming this applies)
#2. Get a good education
#3. Use that education to get a good job.
#4. Work hard to make lots of mulah
#5. Use the mulah to pay for dive trips!

The old fashioned American way!

Or if you dont want to spend thousands of dollars getting a good education to only find yourself working at starbucks at the end of it all, GET INTO A TRADE and see it through. Which reminds me that i have to buy alot of stuff for diving, anybody wanna buy a drumkit? lol

 

[MeiLing]

yeah but I pay $600 per week, or $2400 per month...
Auckland has been rated as one of the most overvalued places in the world...Luckily the divings not bad

My bad, in the US mortgage payments are considered in monthly payments. And $600 a week is still probably less for the same property here in Hawaii. Same here with regards to the diving!

 

[drbill]

Like AlmityWife, I don't drink, smoke or party.

Oh, yeah... that, too. It is amazing how much you can reduce living expenses when you analyze them carefully. I used to be a two pack a day smoker. With ciggies going for $5/pack out here, I figure I'm $3,650 richer by not smoking. I rarely drink anything but club soda (dive too much).

Oh, and I don't date... that saves me about $10,000 a year. I guess I'm just very boring.

Hmmm, if I'm saving so much... where is it all going?

 

[rhadamantus]

Oh, yeah... that, too. It is amazing how much you can reduce living expenses when you analyze them carefully. I used to be a two pack a day smoker. With ciggies going for $5/pack out here, I figure I'm $3,650 richer by not smoking. I rarely drink anything but club soda (dive too much).

Oh, and I don't date... that saves me about $10,000 a year. I guess I'm just very boring.

found this true last year, ive been tracking them since. that and if you can develop enough patience, you will find out you can actually wait long enough til you have a reasonable level of cash to buy something...

 

[under water]

I thought that was what credit cards were for.
Of course if you are going to ask me how I pay my credit cards.. that's harder..
Another credit card??
I guess I'll just have to keep working for a living for a while.
What I really want is to find a way to do scuba "research" in the tropics and get paid for it. There must be a few government grants out there somewhere.
Or maybe I'll start modeling for KISS rebreathers

 

[Andi327]

I don't work...boyfriend pays my way.

 

[rhadamantus]

I thought that was what credit cards were for.
Of course if you are going to ask me how I pay my credit cards.. that's harder..
Another credit card??
I guess I'll just have to keep working for a living for a while.
What I really want is to find a way to do scuba "research" in the tropics and get paid for it. There must be a few government grants out there somewhere.
Or maybe I'll start modeling for KISS rebreathers

ironically, the rule with credit cards is that:

if you cannot afford to pay for it in cash, do not use your credit card. :laughing:

 

[Tigerman]

I convince consumers to buy stuff they didn't even know they wanted.

I did that while I was studying. Amazingly easy really. Much easier than selling something to the ones that think they know what they want, but dont really know anything about it..
Ive also been working with selling customers items they know they want (websales), army, couple of different security companies, giving skiing/snowboarding lessons as well as other skiing resort work, done a little carpentry, and currently work nights at a Hotel.
As it says in my profile, what I work with right now might not be what I work with in a month or two
The common nominator for all the jobs however that ive been paid (at the current rate) no less than 18 USD/hr from the day is turned 16. The good thing about Norwegian prices is the Norwegian wages

 

[Travelnsj]

I don't work...boyfriend pays my way.

I need to find a girlfriend I can live off of and pay for my diving ....LOL