Week 2 - Job hunting. Balance - £2.73

*Edit* Yes i am a huge idiot, i have just realized the email for this blog is the1poundblog@hotmail.co.uk, not .com, after trying for half hour trying to sign in, so i have updated accordingly.

Hello once again readers! Although it hasn’t strictly been a week since my last blog update (I started this thing on a Tuesday) I’ve decided for simplicity sake to update this thing every Monday rather then Tuesday as that would make more sense for obvious reasons.

Only £999997.27 to go!

So far I have received a total of £2.73! But donations haven’t exactly come from complete strangers, the first £1 was donated from my student brother down in Portsmouth, and the second generous donation came from my long suffering girlfriend Kat which was a grand total of £2 (pay pal charged me 27p to accept it for some reason). So thank you both for getting the ball rolling and putting your government funded student loans to good use!

I have also been promised £1 from numerous people next time they see me, so hopefully the grand total will rise this time next week, so wish me luck! and if you want to show your support, remember you also can donate your spare change! Donate a pound via paypal!

Also iv noticed a lot of people like to promote them selfs, or there amateur bands etc.. over things like my space and face book, so in attempt to get this blog more traffic for my self, and to expose some of you talented music farts out there, donate a £1 to the cause and send an email at The1poundblog@hotmail.co.uk give some detail about your band, or what ever you want me to promote for you, a link to your site/my space/face book profile, and ill make sure to feature you in my next blog update! I may also be able to put your music up on the blog to play when people visit the site, although I’ll need to naff around with the settings to see if this is possible.

Job Hunting

After failing to make my million in the first week of this blog I have began to relies that i must look for another money making occupation, sadly that means working for a legitimate company on a minimum wage. After leaving my last job in a soul destroying supermarket environment i was determined not to return to such a place ever again. Wednesday I took a trip down town to the job center, where I joined fellow unemployed scum bags looking for job.

After half hour search it suddenly became apparent that the only jobs i where qualified for was part time farther Christmas and more supermarket work.

Unimpressed with my print outs from the job center.

But upon my walk back home devouring my heart disease inducing burger I noticed the local Loydds Pharmacy was looking for ‘Assistance’, guessing this meant they where looking for employees rather then anything sexual i decided to apply! Its now Monday and iv yet to hear of them, perhaps they don’t trust Mohawk sporting teenagers around large amounts of drugs.

Mr.Murphy’s *Weekly links
*might not be weekly

Now time for my weekly interesting/amusing link round up! Where i scour the interweb looking for links that interest me and possibly you too! This week iv decided to go with a slight Halloween theme since its Halloween on Wednesday.

Emergency Zombie defense station!- Some guys made a really cool zombie defense kit.

12 products from hell- some creepy looking and humorous products that are on sale around the world. (LOL @ the rap snacks)

The pumpkin house! - id say thats a rather large fire hazard.

And some not so halloween themed links:

5 drinking stories that put yours to shame

Lego creations - some seriously nifty Lego creations

10 kick Arse facts about Bruce lee

Also here are two links that where what gave me the inspiration for this crazy scheme:

The million dollar home page - A student from London made 1 million by selling pixels to advertisers.

One red paperclip - One man manage to swap his red paper clip for a fish pen, then swap that for something else and so on and so forth in till he managed to get a house!

Happy Halloween

So thats it for this weeks blog, hope you all had fun reading and remember you can Donate a pound via paypal! if you wish to support one mans quest to become a millionaire.

Happy Halloween for Wednesday!

Photo courtesy of long time buddy Lewis Phillips (yes, that is him) - edited by me.

The £1 blog - Week 1, introduction. Balance - 0.00

Hello and welcome to the £1 Blog, one mans insane attempt to make a million pounds. First off, My name is David Murphy of Barry, South Wales, United Kingdom, I’m 19 years of age. Now, straight to the point -

I have started this blog to catalog week by week my exploration into just how generous complete strangers can be towards another, complete stranger. I’m sure many of you readers have had the same conversation with friends or family:

“Imagine if a million people, all gave you £1. (or $2 if your from across the pond)”

Yeah? imagine that! A million people, who would other wise used that one British Pound Sterling on something mundane like a chocolate bar or arcade machine, instead gave you one almost insignificant amount of currency. Yet all these people who wouldn’t even miss there £1’s would contribute to changing your life completely, especially now the UK population will be hitting 65m by 2016! Thats a lot of£1’s.

We’ll thats what I’m going to find out! I’m going too see if you could really get complete strangers donating there spare change to me, in effort to be the man who really did get 1 million people to donate £1 each.Insane? yes! Never going to work? Most properly not. Worth a try? hell yea!

So follow the link below (this thing doesn’t seem to like me using buttons with fancy graphics) to donate £1 or what ever spare change you have. And if you see me in the street, i accept cash to!

Donate a pound via paypal!

And now a little about me:

Born, but hopefully not bred yet in South Wales, UK. I live a simple existence in the town of Barry where a strive day by day to fill my time with fun teenage antics, and ludicrous schemes. So of course when i got the idea for the blog how could i resist! I am currently unemployed after leaving my last job a few weeks ago for the sake of my own sanity, working in a supermarket can really diminish all hope you have in humanity.