Gun purchase funded in the strangest way...

[OldCannon]

...but it got me thinking, has anyone else come up with an unorthodox way of funding a purchase?

We have a 5-gallon Ozarka water bottle that we throw loose change into. It's about 1/2 full now. When it's completely full, the wife and I will take a trip to Ireland. Fortunately, I'm smart enough to know that I will need a wheeled dolly to cart that jug to our credit union

[PBratton]

...but it got me thinking, has anyone else come up with an unorthodox way of funding a purchase?

We have a 5-gallon Ozarka water bottle that we throw loose change into. It's about 1/2 full now. When it's completely full, the wife and I will take a trip to Ireland. Fortunately, I'm smart enough to know that I will need a wheeled dolly to cart that jug to our credit union

I've used a 5 gallon water jug for years now. I generally empty all my change, ('silver' only, the 'copper' goes in another jar), and small bills.

It has come in handy for many purchases in the past.

[cheezit]

ive traded some side jobs for some firearms. last score was a s&w mdl 36 pinned and flat latch modle 36 in nickel. job took me an hour.

[smoothoperator]

...but it got me thinking, has anyone else come up with an unorthodox way of funding a purchase?

We have a 5-gallon Ozarka water bottle that we throw loose change into. It's about 1/2 full now. When it's completely full, the wife and I will take a trip to Ireland. Fortunately, I'm smart enough to know that I will need a wheeled dolly to cart that jug to our credit union

Now that's change we can believe in!

[77346]

I better check how much we have in our change jar

[troglodyte]

I've bought several guns with my "change" jar. Last purchase was three .22s.

[urnoodle]

I traded in the $400 shoes for tennis shoes. Actually I've never paid over $300 for a pair of shoes but yea the shoes had to go. Resale on a pair of Jimmy Choo's isn't as good as it would be with any of my guns. Guns seem like a sound investiment to me. I'm considering standing on the corner with a cardboard sign that says "will work for gun money".

[chasfm11]

$400 pair of shoes! I don't think my wife owns $400 worth of shoes total.

$400 shoes? Chicken feed. While we were on vacation in August, someone stole our information and bought these from this store with one of our credit cards.
http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/323475

Alternate funding sources have always been a great way to get items that the budget doesn't support. I wrap coins about every month or so and there is $50-80. The Glock 30SF that I got last year was financed that way.

[Songbird]

Now that's change we can believe in!

Priceless!

[Steve133]

I don't think that I've ever actually budgeted money from my regular income for guns. Every firearm purchase that I can think of came from "unplanned" income - I think almost all of them have been made using tax refund money, actually.

[BigGuy]

Boot from Leddy's in Ft. Worth. (Yes, that is a photo of President George W. Bush. According to Leddy's, he bought a pair.)
Yes, they did leave the comma out, and no the last two zeros are not to the right of the non-existent decimal.
$10,000.00 is the price. I assume for the pair, not per boot.

ps. I didn't buy a pair.

[RPBrown]

I would use the money in my change jar but I have grandkids and they always beat me to it

[jiannichan]

My last 2 stripped lowers were purchased using a jug full of spare change as well as all the parts to complete one of the lowers (LPK and butt stock). Now that I have a daughter, we no longer have that change jar and converted to a big piggy bank. I am thinking of using that to fund my next AR to give her when she is old enough.