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How do you guys afford your habits?

i have no idea how i paid for it when i was still doing it a lot. i spent more money than i was making, but never went broke. i just kinda found ways
 
merged 'have u ever used the scrap yard' thread with this one. search peoples! cmon, that thread was on the front page here, it aint that tough to post in the one that already exists. its aight tho i kno when u noddin its hard to notice these things ;)
 
Fuck stealing.

Fuck ripping people off.

My job pays me well and I could afford a habit, but why? Set up shop and helping out a few close friends is as good as it gets.
 
How does selling scrap metal work? How do you get the scrap without stealing it, and how do you make a profit if you're paying people for scrap and transporting it to the scrap yard?
 
Coolio said:
How does selling scrap metal work? How do you get the scrap without stealing it, and how do you make a profit if you're paying people for scrap and transporting it to the scrap yard?
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The scap metal usually comes from shit people have left on their front lawn, from factories or workplaces where theyre throwing stuff out. you can get metal in all kinds of places and make quite a bit of money out of it. I never did it but ive decided im going to start lol

I had some friends that would rake up up to $600 a day between 2 of them although they orgasnised beforehand to pick the metal up from certain places and had goos connections. But there is certainly money in scap metal.
 
Put a junkie in a desperate situation and he will find ways to get the cash to cop. Back when I was shooting dope and living at my parents, I literally stole and pawned like half the house as well as stole alot of money, and did the middle man thing. Then after my parents had enough of my shit and kicked me out and I ended up being homeless on the streets of LA for 5 months, I had to get creative. Panhandling, standing on the freeway offramp holding a homeless sign begging for change, recycling, boosting, snatched a few purses, burned a few people, became the norm to support my dope habit. Thank god I got out of that situation and am now on suboxone.
 
rachamim said:
"Junkies burned family and friends and therefore do not have computers.": Of course, for sure. I think alot of US libraries have public accessable computers but rather than a cash problem I would think it is more related to their lack of time and iniative. If you are out there grinding, doing your hustle you are not going to wander into a library, wait an amount of time and then spend valuable time playing with a computer. I think it is pretty amazing that BL has so many addicts as members given the circumstances.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. When I was living on the street shooting dope, my entire day consisted of hustling up enough money for dope and shooting dope. That was my day. I begged or somehow got enough to get a bag or two, copped, shot up, and repeated the cycle. This was neccessary for me not to avoid being deathly sick. When you have got that bad of a heroin problem your whole reason for even existing is to shoot dope and hustle up enough money for dope. Shit, I didnt even have time to eat somedays. I remember reading a thread created by someone who I wont name, who had spent some time homeless addicted to heroin and coke(I think he is actually homeless at the moment), but yet while he was homeless and strung out he would find time to go to a library and get on BL and post his adventures on the streets. He even said on one of this threads that he is going to start a journal on here detailing his adventures on the streets. I just found that incredible. Like shit, when i was out using and running the streets, BL or using the computer never even entered my mind. What the fuck could BL do for me when I had a raging heroin addiction and needed to make $20 to get well? Yeah, some of the posts and people on here crack me up.
 
I wish I could do some of that metal stuff they were talking on the first page. Alaska barely has any recyclcing centers... the fuel/transportaton/land costs to set up a facility actually means you're wasting more resources than you're saving to recycle.
 
People here often steal telephone wire. They cut it and attach it to their cars and drive and pull chunks off. It's a bad problem. They also steal the high voltage train wires usually by sawing them off with an insulated saw and often get electrocuted, there were some pictures of a guy that got roasted going round on email a while ago. Wasn't a nice site.

but yet while he was homeless and strung out he would find time to go to a library and get on BL and post his adventures on the streets. He even said on one of this threads that he is going to start a journal on here detailing his adventures on the streets.
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I'd also love to read that.
 
Coolio said:
How does selling scrap metal work? How do you get the scrap without stealing it, and how do you make a profit if you're paying people for scrap and transporting it to the scrap yard?
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People in my area (North Carolina) patrol the streets and sort through trash to find metal (mostly copper).

When I re-modeled and sold my mother's house, we rewired a couple of rooms with some 50 year old copper wire. Someone who worked at the house, saw the wire, asked if they could have the wire, I said yes and they sold it.

There has been a lot of publicity lately about stolen wire from construction sites being pawned.

My sister has a friend who got caught stealing $10,000 of copper wire from a construction site. A STATE PRISON was under construction and the dumb MF stole from the the prison system. (He went to jail -- quickly.)
 
I don't understand why you didn't sell the copper yourself after re-modeling your mother's house. Why'd you let the worker cash in? Is it just because you don't have time for that shit?

It seems from what I've gathered that a lot of people are willing to just give their scrap metal away to people who are willing to transport it to the scrap yard... but I dunno, I can't imagine doing that. It'd feel too much like giving someone free drugs to know that they're only going to turn around and sell them to someone else ASAP.
 
Working, pawning, hustling, etc. BUT no stealing or scamming. I could probably clear a lot more each day by scamming people, and I sure enough know people I could do it with, but while it isn't stealing it isn't really NOT stealing either.

The one thing I really regret was pawning off my recording studio. Pretty much ALL of it. And some guitars. That was all a big mistake, and I knew it at the time but did it anyway. Thankfully I still have the guitars in pawn. Everything else is gone but my gibson sg and seagull sprucetop are ok, there waiting for the day when I have funds to buy them back out. I went and renewed the pawn agreement yesterday, actually, and spend money that I was gonna put on the clinic. So this week looks sick now, but it always does, and yet I never end up actually down out and sick.

People attribute magical powers to my ability to get well without breaking the law (other than every drug law known to america). I just work real hard at it, same as I work real hard at work. Cause being a dope fiend is a 24/7 job, no fucking doubt about it.

Ugh, and I found out my gold chain is worth actual money at the pawn... must keep that thought out of my head.
 
I've never understood how some of you could possibly afford a gram+ a day H habit or a 300mg oxy habit (without a prescription). I make a very good living and there is still no way I could afford to spend a couple hundred dollars a day. I mean certainly you guys aren't stealing hundreds of dollars of stuff a day, right? You would be caught in no time. That's basically what has always kept me from developing some monster habit. I always make sure I can pay all my bills and if I want to have some fun, it comes after that. If I don't have the money, I just quit until I do. So I'm curious...how do you afford it?
 
i dont kno how some people do it really. i mean ive been doing H for 2 years now, jus went to the needle about 5 months ago. it deff was different with the needle, my habit atleast. i usually do around a half gram of Raw a day. its hard to even manage that specially now. i only use about twice a week now so its alot better. but if i had long money my habit would be much larger.
 
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