Monday, March 5, 2007

The way to save money

Yet another day closer to be a millionaire! While I'm not earning money so far I can at least save them. I will describe to you my faithful readers the ways I save money.
First of all, don't pay the fare, if you can. Anywhere. When I was younger, I didn't pay for the transport at all. How? Very simple. The month ticket for all city transport is very easy to forge, it is extremely low-tech -- just a plastic card with some picture and name of the month. The only outstanding thing was a small silver hologram in corner. So I just scanned the ticket and printed it, cutting the hologram from the old ticket and glued it to my new one with a small piece of gum. Although the printer was bad and the colors were dim and I had to paint them with color pencils to make it look more real.
Well, paper is not plastic. So I put the ticket behind a transparent plastic in my wallet (designed to hold photos) to hide the color problems and material mismatch. And that's it! If a conductor had come to check my ticket I just opened a wallet and showed the "ticket" -- they never asked to drag it out:)
The only inconvenience was that I had to reprint the ticket each month... But I've found the way. A friend of mine was an invalid and he was given a permanent ticket card for all kinds of transport. So I borrowed it and scanned, then edited in photoshop to put in my name, as you had to show your ID along with a ticket and -- job is done!
Although the poor printer quality let me down several times -- the conductor took me to police and they took it away... until the next day I printed a fresh one! Well once I had too much stress talking to police, so I stopped doing that: I've grown older and these things could lead to criminal punishment. *Sigh*
Besides that, I'm sure I improve my karma doing things right, and soon I will have a nice reward -- I'll become rich!
Well, at the end a piece of advice -- if you can, don't pay the fare and save the money (first check the law and if it's worth the risk), otherwise pay and be pleased that your karma is improving!

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