To anyone listening, the first time I tried a "provider" I was totally ripped off and felt ashamed of myself! It was bad enough to almost make me give up on "providers" until I tried one with some glowing reviews! and boy what an experience. My only problem is I wanna try as many women as possible, and we all know that ain't cheap! Do any of you more experienced "hobbyiest" have some sort of method or plan to keep yourselves from missing rent just to have some fun?

"Do any of you more experienced "hobbyiest" have some sort of method or plan to keep yourselves from missing rent just to have some fun?" -- taciturn


yes. it's easy. do as i did: sell the house, the car, the kids and the wife. keep only your job so you can hobby often, hobby hard, hobby long, hobby right, hobby wrong, hobby all you can be ... and live comfortably ... "IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"

and to support yourself, you could become a motivational speaker....

the right Reverend Singleton.

Right on Rev!

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None of us around here is in denial about it though. We all just do what we gotta do to keep "stuffing" those envelopes. Try these money saving ideas so you can meet the new financial challenge the hobby has brought.

(1) One meal a day preferably cooked at home
(2) Only eat out when accompanied by a provider
(3) Don't use your home airconditioning (you'll save big$$ on electricity)
(4) Wash your car yourself
(5) Give up HBO/Showtime etc and just get basic cable(you're spending your time on the internet anyway)
(6) If Wal-Mart doesn't have it you don't need it
(7) When shopping; buy generic
(8) The mortgage/rent gets payed first. then your auto loan. (you need a place for "Outcall" and wheels to get to "Incall")
(9) Work overtime with a smile
(10) Play lotto(responsibly) and hope a lot

  You bit into the "apple" taciturn. Now deal with the "Knowledge"

  Cm

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and above all else ... remember this:

  "It's all about the Money"


[rimshot]

Old age.

I sure did bite into this forbidden fruit, now i want to try the entire barrel. Thanks all you more experienced hobbyiest for all the wisdom. As of right now, I'll see what I can do about keeping this potentially addictive habbit a quaterly and special occasion thing! WISH ME LUCK! --Thanks CM (as I hold my lotto ticket!)

The problem you describe (too many babes, no enough dough) is at least 3100 years old, and probably goes back much earlier.

John Romer in his series "Ancient Lives" (may be back again on PBS someday), describes the artisans who lived in the village of Deir el Medina in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt circa 1140 BCE. These people are the craftsmen who constructed the tombs of King Tutankhamen and others.

As it turns out, these were the very same people who robbed these graves. I would suppose it was a real cottage industry, sort of like our "war on drugs" today.

When one King Montukerkoposhef's tomb was robbed, the grave robbers spent their ill-gotten booty on, well, booty. That is, they melted down the gold and feasted on wine, women and song (I guess the song was free). Alas, all did not go well. The thieves were discovered and tortured, tied to wooden stakes and left to die in the desert. The village itself was humiliated, starved—and finally ordered back to work. All of this is known from letters and notes written on pottery shards (sort of the E-mail of the day).

My guess is that your problem has been ubiquitous through the ages. Hopefully, you'll arrive at a better solution than these ancient Egyptians.