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Donating fluids for money
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I'm sort of in a bind financially, and while I've donated plasma on and off in the past, I was wondering if there were any other options available for someone to basically sell the stuff that they're making.
As far as I know, plasma and sperm are the only body-manufactured items that you can donate for money. But, are there any others? I know you can donate marrow if you match someone who needs it, but does it pay? Where would I go to find out? Where would I go to register and get typed (I plan on registering even if it doesn't pay)?
Is there anything else I can donate that will give me money?
H/A, help me make money using my body in a non-hooker kind of way.
As far as I know, plasma and sperm are the only body-manufactured items that you can donate for money. But, are there any others? I know you can donate marrow if you match someone who needs it, but does it pay? Where would I go to find out? Where would I go to register and get typed (I plan on registering even if it doesn't pay)?
Is there anything else I can donate that will give me money?
H/A, help me make money using my body in a non-hooker kind of way.
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The only easy things are blood/plasma and sperm. Everything else involves very long wait times and usually no real money. For instance, women can "sell" their eggs if someone wishes to buy them, but it involves a screening process and very involved surgery and medication -- essentially, becoming a surrogate mother prior to conception.
So it looks like plasma and sperm are my only options? Damn.
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Make sure you're okay with that first.
Google plasma donation, you'll probably find some place near you that you can donate plasma for 20-50 bucks.
Different places have different time limits. Some say once week for no more than 12 times a year, some say 2 times a week as much as you want. Or something like that. The point is it varies by office, I believe.
Unfortunately we never gave enough of a shit to look that hard, but it is something I would like to do, if only out of curiosity rather than money
I am unsurprised that a process involving jamming a ginormous needle into the center of your bone and slurping out the sweet, sweet marrow within is unpleasant.
Eggs from desirable mothers go for tens of thousands of dollars--not exactly a pittance. This is not entirely relevant to the poster's problem, however, unless he has a very helpful girlfriend.
I stopped though, I started having some palpitations and feeling very anxious during donation for two visits. I don't know if it was in my head, or some reaction, but they both went away when I stopped donating.
No, not relevant to males, but it is relevant to the "other things you can sell" aspect. There's usually someone fishing around for eggs in college campus newspapers, offering between 10k and 20k, which is a huge amount of money, but I've never known a woman who did it or knew someone who did it, because it's a huge time investment and a massively intensive process. So the prices are accurate.
Really, more pointing out to the OP that pretty much any other way to get money via your body is going to be time intensive and painful. We produce blood and men produce sperm in abundance, but it's a desirable thing so there's a demand for it. But the prices reflect its abundance. Other parts of the body are either worthless or essentially not for sale.
The mention of testing at college campuses is a good one, though. I had forgotten that when I was in college I did food testing. I got $5 a test (once a week for 2 months) and I ate variations of BBQ bugles, doritos, and some other chips. had to fill out a form describing how I felt about them and what my mood was at the time and all that. So not all of the things are drug testing or at all risky, either.
It's also effectively useless to be a random donor for it since you have to be a very close match. that's why typically they only do marrow transplants from family members
Ive done a couple of these, they are easy money. My experiences were taking a muscle relaxer and chilling in a bed watching movies all day while they draw my blood every few hours. Do that for about two weekends in a row and come out $800 richer.
The guy I knew who did it was a random donor, in fact. I'm in the registry, too.
Of course, that's up to $75 a week, which isn't bad.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Whether giving blood is sensible or not has a lot to do with your body and lifestyle. If you're huge and healthy you won't miss it, you'll make up the volume very quickly. If you're small, blood pressure problems etc. it'll hit you harder. If you're serious about a particular sport it could affect your training.
I gave whole blood for a while and became anaemic. Of course, in the UK we don't get paid. I lost my enthusiasm pretty quickly.
If you ever need a quick laugh visit http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/b9_blood.html.
Re sperm donation: I have heard of a case where the sperm donor was hunted down for child support. I know this is extremely unlikely, but, it's still something to consider.
My understanding is that's pretty unlikely. What is likely, and is moving towards a legal right, is twenty years from now having a kid show up and asking to see you; Daddy.