# Fund-raising ideas needed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 27, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157 "2006-10-27T18:51:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Yellow\_Rights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Yellow\_Rights](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yellow_Rights)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/1 "2006-10-27T18:51:46Z")

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I require your help. My friend requires £2000 to fund her trip to Tanzania next year to live with a community there for a month. We need some outrageous ideas that can generate that kind of money for her but so far, we’ve come up with the clichéd 4-legged walk (with 3 of us) across the city. It can’t cost us too much 'cause we is only young.

Any Dopers with fantasmic ideas?

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/2 "2006-10-27T19:11:21Z")

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I suppose “getting a job” isn’t outrageous enough?

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**Author:** ![Yellow\_Rights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Yellow\_Rights](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yellow_Rights)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/3 "2006-10-27T19:12:22Z")

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Yeah she’s doing that too. But not quickly enough.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/4 "2006-10-27T19:32:03Z")

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Ya know, if it was easy to do something outrageous and come up with that kind of money, everyone would be doing it. I suppose she could set up a website or put an ad in the back of Private Eye (is that magzine still around?), but I think the most realistic plan of getting easy money is for her to look into exotic dancing or something. That’s pretty outrageous.

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**Author:** ![Yellow\_Rights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Yellow\_Rights](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yellow_Rights)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/5 "2006-10-27T19:36:08Z")

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Oh don’t worry, we’re only asking friends and stuff for money. Just something fun and unusual, I did suggest doing the 4 legged race in skin coloured leotards but I got shot down.

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/6 "2006-10-27T20:08:34Z")

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Babysitting  
Gardening for the elderly…get their flowerbeds planted for them  
Shopping for the elderly  
Dog walking  
Dog Shit Picker-Upper  
Casino night…You could organize it and take a percentage of the bets

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fund-raising-ideas-needed/378157/7 "2006-10-27T21:04:06Z")

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Sell stuff on Ebay.