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Sassy...two grand for the car seems a tad excessive. And if your paying to have it fixed, why are you buying the daughters car? Well...unless its fuel injected, fuel filters are usually very cheap and easy to put in. Two grand would by you a decent mid 1980's subaru station wagon with 4 wheel drive that would get 26-28 mpg and keep right on rolling along until the rust monster ate it or 300,000+ miles without serious problems except for the CV joints ($300 to get changed out).

And how did you break the dining room floor?

A friend of mine's kid is said to be making over a grand a month delivering pizzas. He's a particularly smiley, friendly kid so he probably gets the best tips available, but that's good money in hard times, even if he does work a lot of hours.

Time for one of Thinkers secrets: For eight years, pizza delivery was my major source of income. Minimum wage + delivery fee ($1.25 back then) + tips (usually around $2-3), which worked out to about $13 - $15 an hour. Four shifts a week, of about five to seven hours each (shut down earlier on the slower weeknights). Depending on the season, I was usually pulling in between $1200 and $1500 a month from doing that - *after* buying gasoline and groceries. This is the job that let me buy land out right, build a house on it, and pay it off in a mere half dozen years. A good pizza delivery driver will make just about as much as the senior manager at the pizza joint. These days, the take would be several hundred dollars a month less due to increased gasoline prices.

Used to be able to pull in about that delivering papers to news stands and paper machines around here, but I don't know if that's the case anymore with the recent drop off in revenue for the paper media and all.

Did this too a couple decades back. A quarter a paper, usually resulting in about $400 - $500 a month. I couldn't stand the hours (2am to 7am, with a day job afterwards) and the wear and tear on ones vehicle is really rather alarming.

And the real beauty of the pizza delivery business I believe, which you haven't mentioned, 102, is that you get to keep most of the money rather than send it off to the IRS. One of the last bastions of taxlessness.

Alas Zen, the tax men did come after us poor pizza people. We has to enter our tips for the night when we clocked off; if we under reported we still got one of them W whatever forms come tax time with what they figured we owed on it anyhow. The Infernal revenue people had a (fairly accurate) formula for determining what we made (that was actually where the $12 - $15 an hour thing came from). Plus, the company would pull the taxes from the tips and delivery fees out of the paychecks anyhow (my hourly take after all these shenanigans worked out to about half of whatever the minimum wage was at the time - but the real money was in the delivery fees and tips, which I collected in cash, at the end each shift). I would show up for work *expecting* to make $30 - $60 on a weeknight (season depending, more than that during the really busy times) and $60 - $100 on a Friday or Saturday night in *cash*, and that *after* buying gas and groceries. My actual paychecks...well, there were a few times the take home on those topped $250 (when I was the only driver there for weeks on end), but usually they were only about half that.

The other real benefit of the job was the free food. Pizza (from the buffets, salad bar, bread sticks, sometimes chicken - used to be a KFC next to the pizza joint that shared the same owners, so I delivered for both. For quite a while I was supplying friends and relatives with free pizza, breadsticks, ect.