Ho much can a beggar make per day/week?

JONJO THE MISER · 16-07-2009 06:26PM #1

I ask this question because im really interested, i mean if your on the dole and also Beg i assume they would make a good few bob per week, ive heard of professional beggars before but i dunno how much one could make per week from begging.

annabellee77 · 16-07-2009 06:27PM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I ask this question because im really interested, i mean if your on the dole and also Beg i assume they would make a good few bob per week, ive heard of professional beggars before but i dunno how much one could make per week from begging.

Have no clue but your username made me laugh with the name of this thread

:D:D

SV · 16-07-2009 06:29PM

like I said, hundreds of thousands.

engrish? · 16-07-2009 06:32PM

SV wrote: »

like I said, hundreds of thousands.

I'd love some of them right now

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_113308_401906_-rankin.jpg

Trinity · 16-07-2009 06:36PM

Depends on your strategy

see my sig

Edit- which is probably too big and i thought we were not allowed post pics in AH??

TorresDaLegend · 16-07-2009 06:37PM

They did it on the adrian kennedy show one night, your man went out for 3or 4 hours and made 2euro, and ?1.50 came from one guy all together :P so not very much, although i have heard of "professional beggars " makin ?600 a day :O

consultech · 16-07-2009 06:45PM

I reckon about €50 is possible per day plus dole, plus benefits, plus whatever other handouts they can claim = You're better off begging than earning a €25k salary - tax - doctors/dentists/medicine etc costs.

Cuddlesworth · 16-07-2009 06:48PM

Begging makes little money. Aggressive begging/conning makes a mint. Giving people sob story's for a couple of Euro around places where people get or take out money(ATM's, ticket machines etc...).

ronnie3585 · 16-07-2009 06:48PM

Bout' three fiddy.

K4t · 16-07-2009 06:58PM

You don't wanna get into begging. It's shameful and demeaning.

The real money is in hoaring yourself.

JONJO THE MISER · 16-07-2009 06:58PM

I reckon if you could set yorself a goal of 100 euro per day it would be good, that would be 500 per week plus 200 dole plus 60 rent allowance, not bad at all.

Schism · 16-07-2009 06:59PM

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Bout' three fiddy.

God damn loch ness monsta.

16-07-2009 07:00PM

204 per week.

408 xmas week.

SV · 16-07-2009 07:01PM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I reckon if you could set yorself a goal of 100 euro per day it would be good, that would be 500 per week plus 200 dole plus 60 rent allowance, not bad at all.

Ohh, you gave yourself weekends off?
Must be nice being your own boss..

tbh · 16-07-2009 07:03PM

I used to chat to a guy who was selling those little religious cards on Grafton st. I bought him a wee radio one time but other than that, he would never take money or food off me. He was well into his 80's and was a really nice guy, very honest and very funny. He said he only used to sell the cards for something to do, he was living in a home - I think it was a religious run thing for homeless elderly, and had no family so got lonely sitting in.

Anyway, I'd look out for him and see him the odd time, but then I stopped seeing him around and assumed he'd died. Imagine my surprise when about two years later there's a picture of him on the front of the Sunday World! He'd just died, and the headline was "King of the Beggers"! he didn't smoke or drink, and so all the money he got, he just saved. He'd 80K cash and two houses

I still laugh thinking about it, fair balls to the guy

Degsy · 16-07-2009 07:03PM

You can make a fortune begging.
I remember the grafton st punks in the late 80's would stand outside freebird records "tapping for odds" and easily make 20 quid an hour..and that was then.
If you spendd all day at it and hassle the right sort of people(older,hippies gone to seed and neo-liberal ****) you can probably make 700 quid or more a day.
The invention of one and two euro coins is a godsend for beggars.Years ago if you wanted to give somebody a pound,you had to peel off a note which is pschologically hard to do..now you could have 10,12 quid in your pocket in loose change..and very few people will only hand over 20c if they're going to cough up.

TedB · 16-07-2009 07:04PM

I can take in c. 100 quid a day on my better days. Depends how aggressively I market my story tho - sometimes just standing over someone on the hapenny bridge and not letting them past gets me a few bob.

My name is URL · 16-07-2009 07:05PM

Ive not heard of many Irish beggars make that much. They usually have a few coins in a cup or hat, hardly ever notes.

When I lived in San Fransisco there were a group of pan-handlers that litterally made hundreds of $ per day by helping people carry shopping to their cars etc.

And some war vets get the sympathy bucks for dragging themselves around on carts, coz they got no legs

Irish beggars are fcuking boring

Degsy · 16-07-2009 07:07PM

tbh wrote: »

I used to chat to a guy who was selling those little religious cards on Grafton st. I bought him a wee radio one time but other than that, he would never take money or food off me. He was well into his 80's and was a really nice guy, very honest and very funny. He said he only used to sell the cards for something to do, he was living in a home - I think it was a religious run thing for homeless elderly, and had no family so got lonely sitting in.

Anyway, I'd look out for him and see him the odd time, but then I stopped seeing him around and assumed he'd died. Imagine my surprise when about two years later there's a picture of him on the front of the Sunday World! He'd just died, and the headline was "King of the Beggers"! he didn't smoke or drink, and so all the money he got, he just saved. He'd 80K cash and two houses I still laugh thinking about it, fair balls to the guy

Reminds me of that disgusting trinity "character" Mat the Jap..he used to guilt the students into buying him drink and food,some of them would give him money to show how sound they were and he scabbed tickets to all the TCD balls and events and would drink for free all night.
One day he was found dead in his hovel with over 100 grand in a plastic bag...the laugh was on the do-gooders there!

K4t · 16-07-2009 07:07PM

Degsy wrote: »

..and very few people will only hand over 20c if they're going to cough up.

10c is my max tbh.

If everyone gave that they and charities would do fairly fckn well. It's just a pity not everyone is as generous as myself.

tbh · 16-07-2009 07:11PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Ive not heard of many Irish beggars make that much. They usually have a few coins in a cup or hat, hardly ever not

they clean the cups out man! would you drop any cash to a beggar with a fiver in his cup?

I know a busker on grafton street - in fairness, he's one of the good ones - who was claiming he was getting 500 a day in summer and 200 in winter in '02

16-07-2009 07:11PM

I refuse to give them anything.

It's more than likely just going to feed their habit.....

collecting stamps.

Phototoxin · 16-07-2009 07:15PM

sometimes just standing over someone on the hapenny bridge and not letting them past gets me a few bob.

harassment?

Also I find its more alturisitc to feed beggars as i) they cannot complain and ii) you know its not going on drugs/whores/YOREMA/etcetra

DTrotter · 16-07-2009 07:18PM

How much if you get a child to stand in?

Bob Z · 16-07-2009 07:25PM

They make about 450 to 800 before tax.....except they dont pay any tax.

Degsy · 16-07-2009 07:26PM

tbh wrote: »

they clean the cups out man! would you drop any cash to a beggar with a fiver in his cup?

+1
I used to date a bird who used to give her two favourite beggers 20 quid each whenever she saw them..you may be sure they didnt leave that sticking for people to see.
The reverse of the toilet attendent beggers..they leave a 2 euro coin on thier saucers so you think thats how much you have to pay them for the toilet roll.

JONJO THE MISER · 16-07-2009 07:30PM

I reckon you got to market yourself right and beg at the right times, Saturday evening and sunday morning masses im sure you would get a good few bucks by looking really depresed and have dirty clothes and being non agressive and polite, then the lunch time crowd outside the big office buildings, then head over to the colleges when grant day comes, i reckon with the right strategy you could end up making 200-300 per day on average.

Biggins · 16-07-2009 08:32PM

Also boils down to location, location, location.

Being at the right place and the right spot at that place makes a difference.
* There's no point in planking yourself at a spot where people are just steeping off a train or bus, etc.
* No point at being at a corner as as soon as people go around it, they have already half missed you.
Life would be harder if you were outside a place that has a high numbers of those coming and going at high speed (dentists, doctors, some supermarkets, etc).
* Ideally you want a spot that people are at more leisurely, relaxed, in a more public place than out of the way, in a center of a street than at the end of it. Not near a bank machine because folk go up to it and quickly duck away with their note cash.

I knew beggars over the years that used to row over various spots from Dublin, London to other European cities. Some rare places for them was right little earners.

TwoShedsJackson · 17-07-2009 05:11PM

Degsy wrote: »

Reminds me of that disgusting trinity "character" Mat the Jap..he used to guilt the students into buying him drink and food,some of them would give him money to show how sound they were and he scabbed tickets to all the TCD balls and events and would drink for free all night.
One day he was found dead in his hovel with over 100 grand in a plastic bag...the laugh was on the do-gooders there!

When ever anyone is described as a 'character' in Ireland, it always seems to mean 'a useless alcoholic chancer that people haven't the nerve to tell to fu<k off while he's scrounging.'

Paparazzo · 17-07-2009 05:40PM

I used to know a guy on middle abbey street in dublin that would come onto our shop and change the money he made begging. In about 2-3 hours he'd have £60 and he'd go home. That was around 1994-1995, the guy is probably living in Dalkey now.

bakkiesbotha · 17-07-2009 05:53PM

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