Erasing Our Debt

I've finally started selling some stuff for a little extra income. Before I moved to the city from the country, I was umpiring high school baseball. Sports officiating is a good way to make some extra cash if you're looking to do so and if you've got the time at night. With baseball I could make about $50-100 a game depending on distance traveled as we got paid for mileage. Sometimes I'd even clear almost $200 for a game that was about 2 hours away. Baseball was the only sport I officiated but I heard if you can get into basketball and can get a tournament, you can easily make about $200 in one afternoon. The best part about sports officiating is that you are basically getting paid to watch the sport and make a few decisions. I always viewed it as I was getting paid to watch baseball and there is nothing better in the world as baseball has long been my favorite sport.
But back to the story at hand. I sent a message to one of the board members of my old umpiring chapter and let him know that I had some equipment I wanted to sell since I have no use for it and to tell any new members that they could get some on the cheap. I got two phone calls within 12 hours and sold some things for about $150. I probably spent about $400 on it all but it is used so I figure the things I'm getting rid of are worth that much. Baseball is one of the more expensive sports to get into in terms of cost of equipment to rate of pay. But over the course of 2 years, I probably made about $3500-4000 with umpiring and that really only covered about 4-5 months out of the year and usually only 2 days a week, so I think I made out pretty well.

Labels: extra income, job, selling stuff