# Best way for Buffy to earn money? (unboxed spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096 "2005-08-29T14:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/21 "2005-08-29T19:20:57Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > There’s a real problem with charging people to save their lives after-the-fact. See for example the hilarious scene in Angel season 3 where Angel tries to do just that. > [@The Controvert](#): > > The Slayer shouldn’t get pregnant Season 7 spoiler: Didn’t seem to slow Nikki down. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/22 "2005-08-29T19:34:56Z")
Porn website. She and the scoobies could wear masks, or Willow could cast spells to disguise them. ---
**Author:** ![MMI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MMI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMI)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/23 "2005-08-29T19:39:28Z")
I don’t think that the _teaching self defense_ thing would work. “If attacked, simply do a back flip over tehm , thow them against the wall, smash a piece of furniture to make a stake while they are recovering, thrust it through the heart. All done” It just isn’t that useful for the average non-super hero. It’s kind of like the temporarily mortal Q’s advice in ST:TNG - all you have to do is change the gravitational constant of the universe. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/24 "2005-08-29T19:40:26Z")
“I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I’ve got muscles you’ve never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you’d beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.” I stand by my “hooker” suggestion. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/25 "2005-08-29T20:01:33Z")
According to a number of offers I’ve been emailed and seen stapled to telephone poles, there are a number of high-paying jobs available that you can do from home whenever you want. Perhaps Buffy should look into those. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/26 "2005-08-29T20:04:23Z")
“Have you ever considered law enforcement?” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/27 "2005-08-29T20:06:53Z")
Two words: Ponzi scheme ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/28 "2005-08-30T02:00:31Z")
Buffy Summers, Tomb Raider. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/29 "2005-08-30T02:17:14Z")
**Selkie** That actually leads us to a feasible way Buffy could support herself- taking the assets of those she slays. Kokistos was ancient. He seems to have gained a lot of wealth in that time. If the slayers didn’t take it, somebody like Mr Trick would. What did Glory and her servitors own? There’s even an episode in which she slays a group of vampires living on the UC Sunnydale campus, and asks about taking their stuff. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/30 "2005-08-30T02:20:08Z")
way back in season four, Spike unearthed a chamber containing the Gem of Amara and a lot of other nifty stuff. Buffy should of fenced the other nifty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/31 "2005-08-30T02:31:28Z")
… and given that her mother had (owned? worked at?) an art gallery and her Watcher was part owner of the Magic Box, Buffy would have had easy access to channels through which to sell some of those treasures. The obvious argument against that sort of scheme is that many of the objects had mystical powers and shouldn’t have been released into general circulation. To quote Giles in “Dead Man’s Party”: > [@](#): > > Unbelievable. ‘Do you like my mask? Isn’t it pretty? It raises the _dead_!’ Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/32 "2005-08-30T02:53:41Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > way back in season four, Spike unearthed a chamber containing the Gem of Amara and a lot of other nifty stuff. Buffy should of fenced the other nifty stuff. Buffy didn’t know about the other nifty stuff. She wasn’t with Giles (and Willow and Xander, IIRC) when it was found, and it’s unknown if she ever learned of it. > [@Selkie](#): > > … and given that her mother had (owned? worked at?) an art gallery and her Watcher was part owner of the Magic Box, Buffy would have had easy access to channels through which to sell some of those treasures. Giles didn’t own the Magic Box until S5. Prior to her mother’s death, Buffy had no need of her own income, and after her mother’s death Buffy wasn’t around for too much longer herself, and had other priorities. By the time Giles returned, it’s perhaps understandable that the first thing on his mind wasn’t Spike’s treasure cave. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/33 "2005-08-30T09:05:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I’ve got muscles you’ve never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you’d beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.” > > I stand by my “hooker” suggestion. 😃 That was Faith. Yes, SMG said the lines. But it was Faith. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/34 "2005-08-30T11:33:38Z")
> [@Boggette](#): > > I’ve been saying this for years now. The Watchers council should have been paying her mortgage and any other expenses she had. > > The only reasons I can think that they don’t is that no other slayer lived long enough to need to pay off a mortgage and/or they lived off their watcher who was paid by the council. Heck… Even Giles was reinstated with back pay to the time he was fired! Me, too. I thought it was wrong that Buffy had to get a job at DMP just to pay the bills, when she was already expected to work a full time job keeping the world safe. I mean, what would have happened if she lived long enough to graduate college and get a day job? What if she were a lawyer? Would she be expected to leave a trial because some demon was rampaging through the local shopping mall? If so, then the council should also be paying her for her time. Just because someone is Chosen doesn’t mean they also don’t have bills to pay. That was always something that bothered me disproportionate to the fact that it was just a TV show. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/35 "2005-08-30T11:34:48Z")
Capture a vamp ‘alive’. Convince him to give up name, address, credit card number, etc. Raid his accounts. Repeat when necessary. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/36 "2005-08-30T13:36:02Z")
RE: the Council and Buffy’s bills She made it pretty clear that she was no longer working for the Council - they were working for her. That’s the only way that she was able to get them to give her info about Glory. So, whle she got Giles his job back, with back-pay, it didn’t seem to me that she got her “job” back. They are clearly her independant contractors in the field of specialized demon research. If they’re not going to have a pet Slayer, why should they pay her bills? Actually, I always thought she’d make a pretty good teacher, but there’s that erratic work schedule thing. Perhaps a fashion buyer or stylist? She always knew where to find stylish yet affordable boots. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/37 "2005-08-30T22:50:08Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > RE: the Council and Buffy’s bills > > She made it pretty clear that she was no longer working for the Council - they were working for her. That’s the only way that she was able to get them to give her info about Glory. So, whle she got Giles his job back, with back-pay, it didn’t seem to me that she got her “job” back. They are clearly her independant contractors in the field of specialized demon research. Well, when she got Giles hired back it was as “my official Watcher,” which strongly implies that she’s working _for_ the Council. That was in episode 12, and Joyce was still alive so Buffy wasn’t in serious need of a Slayer stipend. Very little time passed between Joyce’s death and Buffy’s (six episodes, the last four of which all take place in the span of about two days) so money probably wouldn’t have become an issue assuming Joyce had any savings at all. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/38 "2005-08-31T01:25:38Z")
What about becoming a street performer? Given Buffy’s speed, agility, and coordination, I’m certain she can quickly learn to juggle knives while riding a unicycle. The weather in Sunnydale is warm year round (remember everybody’s surprise at the snow in the Christmas episode that introduces the First Evil.). This job would give Buffy an excuse to wander around town. It would also provide her with an excuse to carry weapons and stakes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096/39 "2005-08-31T01:55:59Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > That was Faith. > > Yes, SMG said the lines. But it was Faith. Doesn’t change the fact that it was Buffy’s body. After what she did to Spike later on (“When did the building fall down?”) I repeat my previous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-for-buffy-to-earn-money-unboxed-spoilers/319096.md?page=1)