If your like me, your always broke. Yet wheres the fun in getting a job, when you can just suck up to your parents for an endless supply of cold, hard cash? The hours you save mooching over getting a respectable job can then be spent doing anything you desire, food, fun, friends you can have it all!

1) Before even talking to your parents, pinch yourself, put mint toothpaste on your eyelids, anything, just squeeze out that droopy, teary, sad face. This is crucial, you have to strike that right chord with your parents from appearance. Use your acting skills if you have to, but you have to appear like mom or dad's "perfect" child, positive, polite, sad, and loving.

2) Choose your target wisely. Mom or Dad, you've spent 16 to 17 years with these people, you should know by now who the piggy bank is. Of your two "assets," who has the loose, overflowing wallet? For me that would be my dad, so with your target in your sites zero in!

3) Flattery is your #1 weapon, and a great way to start off your persuasive attack. "Why, hello father your looking rather less chubbly today, have you lost a pound or two?," wouldn't score many sympathy points. Yet "Hey dad, did you ever know that your my hero? You are the best dad in the world," will most likely turn his wallet into a leather ATM machine.

4) Don't give up! Persistence is an important factor in mooching. If they won't give you what you want right away, annoy them into it! "PLLLLLEEEEEEAASSSSEEEE," or "All the cool parents are doing it," could very well do the trick. If all else fails, you may be desperate enough to start the guilt trip. "Fine, I'll just have to starve to death then...keep an eye out for the obituaries."

5) Unless your parents have hearts of cold stone, one of the above tactics should have worked. If not it may be time to consider a different profession. Yet since it probably did succeed, remember to shower your parent with a barrage of "thank yous" and "I LOVE YOU's" as to soften them up for the next time you need some extra cash