BDC

If you can afford an internet connection, a computer to connect to the internet with, and the software to create stuff to even enter into this contest, then, check me if I'm wrong, but you should have $20 stashed away somewhere that you can scrounge up from even your penny-jar.

Heck, if you send me yor income tax statement and can prove that you are truly destitute, I may cough up the $20 for you even if it means macaroni and cheese for me, for a week. I've been known to host artist's art sites for free, until they can get established, so this isn't all that different, I suppose.

HOWEVER, if you have ANY luxury items such as coffee, soda/pop, cereal, automobile, or even buy your lunch at the cafeteria instead of making it yourself, then $20 can be saved by cutting some of these things out of your life for a while.

I'm not independantly wealthy, and as a starving artist myself you are preaching to the choir about pinching pennies. I'm quite well aware of how difficult it is, thank you very much, to pay for things.

In spite of all that, however, I still don't see the problem here.

Message edited on: 02/06/2005 14:25