how do you support your pirate habit?

[lady constance]

me be a wunderin...

what ye all do to finance yore pirate activities?

me wants to know the innards an' landscape of yore noggins.....

i be a registered nurse by trade... 24 years... me dopes folks up aft'r we done sliced and carv'd their carcass.... me seen loads...

and me mateys???

lady constance

[Red Cat Jenny]

Now theres an interesting question...we need new topics

I freelance graphics and web design, but my main job is at JFK.

You'd be surprised at what we see there too..

I expect to spend waay too much on kit this year.

Ack! I still need to get those shoes from Mary D!

[William Brand]

Skimp and save. Sometimes I get a little windfall and I can go to events and sometimes I can't.

[Patrick Hand]

I mug drunks fer thier pocket change.... figure I get 'nough O' em, then I can gets meself a ship and go fer there real good stuff..... yar Disney Cruzes keep yer eyes peeled......

[Misson]

Normally I'd want to combine this with the post called What's Your Day Job? that already discusses this question (to keep things consolidated and make sure that that bit of pyracy.com history doesn't get weeded for lack of recent posts.) However, the ever-creative posters 'round these parts have taken this in a different direction, answering the letter of the question, if not the spirit so I'll do nothin'. (I'm good at that.)

However, if you want to find out what the pirates of pyracy have said in the past about their day jobs or you feel compelled to explain your day job, please feel free to check out the above linked post. :angry:

And I do street theatre for tips to get money to finance my newly acquired surgeon habit. (It's a bad habit.)

Patrick, you aarr a pirate rogue to the core...wasn't that a berthed Disney ship you and Captain Jim were eying at PiP? I sense a pattern...

[withoutaname]

i make cuts in our food budget and going out on weekends on top of working as a project manager/print designer/event planner/ training developer/ instructional designer/ classroom facilitator for an airline training department where flying for free and staying at hotels for a discounted rate helps facilitate our trips for various islands, running away from daily life and going to pirate activities.

[Bess Hagarty]

Hmm…now that be a good question! (Bess ponders a bit).

I do manage the kitchen and the buttery for Captain Sterling. He gives me an allowance to furnish the household with goods and stocks of meats.

(Turns and looks over her shoulder to see if the Captain is about).

But there be many a penny saved if you know how to haggle with the Butcher and the Baker. Tis a sin what the Butcher charges for a side of mutton not to mention the price for a loaf of bread! I dare say that pig trotters are just as good and when mixed in a stew, who would be the knowing of it? Day old bread along with cheap port and a few moldy potatoes…no one knows the difference?!

With the money I save the household…I can manage to steal away for a trip or two…and the Captain need not know of any of this. Snugs the word!

[Cheeky Actress]

How do I support my pirate habit?!

LOL! Must you ask?!

[Rumba Rue]

I scrimp and save and try to make most of my own outfits.

Course it also helps to have gift cards from Christmas (I always tell people get me gift cards to JoAnn's or Michael's), and a nice guy who likes to just give me some money to get what I want, or he's with me and buy's it for me.

Course it really depends on what it is.... :angry:

[hurricane]

Diosa and I work at home in shorts and t-shirts so the money we save from not having to buy corporate monkey suits buys us our clothing. The cars are paid off so we can buy guns and cannons and powder. Who needs a new car every two years when you can get a cannon on ebay?

-- Hurricane

[oderlesseye]

OVERTYME !

[lady constance]

............"But there be many a penny saved if you know how to haggle with the Butcher and the Baker. Tis a sin what the Butcher charges for a side of mutton not to mention the price for a loaf of bread! I dare say that pig trotters are just as good and when mixed in a stew, who would be the knowing of it? Day old bread along with cheap port and a few moldy potatoes…no one knows the difference?! "..........

ye be me kin of mind.. teh cap'n either got real intelligent and asks no more--

or the lassies and lads stopped snurking when he sops up my creations using strange components/left overs

i got a bargain price for 1/4 th a buffalo -- we ate it for close to 9 months!!! i lost weight.. cause i DONT like it, it smells like grass, tastes like grass--- and 1/4th of a buffalo is HUGE!!!!!!! to get rid of it faster i invited company and did not tell them it was tatonka.....

[Cheeky Actress]

i got a bargain price for 1/4 th a buffalo -- we ate it for close to 9 months!!! i lost weight.. cause i DONT like it, it smells like grass, tastes like grass--- and 1/4th of a buffalo is HUGE!!!!!!! to get rid of it faster i invited company and did not tell them it was tatonka.....

Lilly looks over at Bess and Lady Constance.

I dare say, I rather not know what I am eating - thank you Bess.

Oh, and Bess lives only 1/8 of mile from a Buffalo farm. If the wind is right in the summer you can hear them....and smell them, too!

[Red Cat Jenny]

Damn..lol looks like Patrick is the only real pirate among us ...but we knew that

[MadL]

I give blood once a week an' once a month I march me little men into a jar.

What that don't cover, I plunder!!

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

Black market and under-the-table barters.

Bo

[LadyBarbossa]

Hmmm...

This is a tougher question than it was but a few years ago.

Currently, now... I just pick events, see if it's doable or not. Then pray to God I can go (hopefully nothin' 'll happen to where I can't go).

mostly now it's see about travelling with someone, rooming with someone when needed. I prefer the reenactments where they have the camping, and some pitch in for food or food is provided, etc. All ye have t' do is get there (gas expense). Use to be pretty darn cheap vacation. Not any more with gas prices shooting so high.

So, at the moment, it's a hit and miss deal. Outfits, they take a lot longer to make as I purchase items and materials a little bit at a time now. Instead of in bulk like I use to do.

Anything to find a good deal on something I could use for events IF it's something I REALLY need.

It's getting harder and harder to support a hobby especially if you can't deduct it from your taxes.

That and most places around here... good luck bein' paid t' perform as a pirate. Cheap devils.

~Lady B

[MadL]

Hmmm, LadyBarbossa be makin' me think it be time to return to the old pirate ways;

stake out on a main trade route on the Interstate and wait fer a likely victim to come along, then rush in and demand their surrender, then we TAKES their sloop, their food, an' all their valuables (an' give nuthin back of cours) an' it then be Off To The Faire!!!

[Merrydeath]

just watch out for the little blighters that carry guns or stunners.. makes a person a bit dizzzy ta see a Glock in your face whilst trying to drum up a little gold.. and the language when alls you want is their purse!! damn little buggers..

I spend as little as possible elsewhere, and work the fests and faires where I can for free entry and food chits. I try to drive and stay with others as much as possible, and plan far in advance so I know how much I have to come up with.. Where I live, its 2 hours minimum to drive to a fest/faire.. I've bunked with some weird and wonderful people: driven 5 hours or more to get there before dark on Friday, set up camp, done faire, drove 5 hours on Monday and then worked 9 hours that day. and I call it fun.

[Perkeo]

I get paid to break into cars and houses.

[Roberts]

Now if I told...they'd hang me..

[Silkie McDonough]

I volunteer on a replica of a 1626 Dutch 200 tonne Pinnace!

Kalamar Nykel

[MadL]

I volunteer on a replica of a 1626 Dutch 200 tonne Pinnace!

Kalamar Nykel

an' we all know what the pirate code fer 'volunteer' be

[Silkie McDonough]

Well ...I suppose ya could use "press ganged" but I enjoy it too much.

[Matty Bottles]

I make it myself when I can. And when I can't, I have someone else make it for me for cost. And if he or she can't - I buy. But making it yourself, or having someone else make it for you for cost of materials and whatnot, is actually quite affordable. It just isn't quick.