But naturally he Carry's a little black book to document his wins and losses at the Casino's and scratch tickets. If he looses he can deduct the loss from IRS, if he wins more then the deduction he just overlooks or honestly forgets to report the extra income.
I had no idea this was legal until I ran into well dressed people going through the trash cans outside convenience stores looking for thrown away loosing cards.
Ah the Tax Man, if you walk to work he will tax your feet.
We in the 70's had some great ways to lawfully deduct interest rates on credit cards, cars and trucks, home loans, and all pre paid Federal taxes on gas, booze, tobacco.
Heck of a job, we had to keep each and every receipt, and we cheered when the interest rate went up, more deductions for us.
Then the bottle and can return came in sometime in the 80's kept the kids busy all summer scavenging from dumpsters, road sides and park trash barrels. My kids were making 2-4 bucks a day and did a community service by cleaning up the town.
A good way to make extra money, buy an old truck. On trash day pick up the discarded washers-dryers, refrigerators old furniture and check carefully for places that had a wedding, funeral or any kind of celebration as oh so often in the confusion gifts are thrown out in the wrapping paper..
Off Your Ass and find a way to make money without a steady 9-5 job. If you have been on unemployment for 6 months, no job prospects in mind------- I found accidentally that stores have to pay to have broken or mangled stuff hauled away.
I was at a early spring gardening store that dealt with lawn ornaments, out back was a mound of outside pottery stuff waiting to be hauled away. I asked what was the price for one item in perfect shape and told I could take what I wanted no charge. My daughter and I spent a good 3 hours going through the pile, we found about 15 or so pieces and hauled them home.
Cleaned them up and spent perhaps 10 hours painting them. Some had the makers brand on the bottom, checked on line and this free stuff became our Christmas presents to family and saved us a bundle of money.
Lots of ways to make money, takes some work and imagination but it can be done, a hobby can turn into a small business, but keep looking for the full time job.
