Antique Maps Of United Kingdom

My father collects antique maps of United Kingdom and I for his 50th birthday I wanted to find one that was really valuable and special that he could add to his collection but the one problem was that as a high school student I was pretty broke and the antique maps of United Kingdom that I wanted to buy him were out of my price range.

I found one that wasn’t too expensive a Hants Hampshire Rare Antique County Map. Osborne from 1748, which I knew that my father would love because his grandparents came from Hampshire so it would have a very personals meaning for him. This was at the antique maps of United Kingdom shop and as I looked at it I wondered where I would find the 60 pounds to pay for it in the two weeks before my fathers birthday.

The good thing was that school was on a break so I had the time to earn some money I just didn’t know where I would be able to do that. The owner of the antique maps of United Kingdom was a friend of my father and he asked me why I looked so sad. I told him that I wanted to buy the Hampshire map for my father’s birthday as a special gift but I didn’t have the money.
I asked him if he had any odd jobs I could do to help me earn the money. He told me that if I cleaned out the storeroom of the antique maps of United Kingdom shop he would pay me 10 pounds, which should help.

I thought that would be a great start so I spent the next 3 hours in the antique maps of United Kingdom dusty storeroom and organized all of the antique maps of United Kingdom onto the shelves, dusted the maps and mopped the floor. The owner of the antique maps of United Kingdom was really pleased with my work and told me that he would put the map aside for me until I found the rest of the money.

I wandered home wondering how I could find the rest of the money to pay the antique maps of United Kingdom owner for the map. I was quiet at the dinner table that night and my older sister teased me saying that I probably had a girlfriend at that was why I was so quiet. Normally I would rise to the bait but that night I was too busy trying to work out how to earn some cash.

The next day I door knocked the neighbors, especially ones that had long lawns or overgrown gardens and offered my services to help pay for the map from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop for my father but I had no luck many of them were not home and I returned home feeling a bit dejected but still determined to buy the map from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop for my dad’s birthday.

It took me a few days but I earned my next 10 pounds from our next door neighbors mowing their front and back lawn and trimming their edges it was a big job but I was pleased that I still had a week to go and only another 40 pounds to find to buy the map from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop.

The next job I found to help me pay for the map from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop was helping out another neighbor to clean the gutters of his house. They were clogged with leaves from the tree and I spent the day up a ladder and even on the roof, even though I am terrified of heights and I earned another 15 pounds towards the present for my father from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop.

Now I had 35 ponds and only another 25 to go and it was still three days till my dads 50th and I wanted to give him his present from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop at the big party that my mother was organizing for him. I scored the next odd job when I was wandering a street not far from my house and a man there was just finishing putting up a brand new paling fence.

I asked him if he needed any help painting it I told him that I was trying to earn money to pay for a present for my fathers 50th birthday and told him about the special map at the antique maps of United Kingdom shop. He agreed and I spent the afternoon painting the fence and he was very generous and gave me 20 pounds for helping him.

Only 5 pounds to go before I could pick up the map from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop and that came very easily. When I arrived home my mother asked me to do some odd jobs around the garden the next day and told me she would pay me 10 pounds to get it done early in the morning. I told her deal and the next afternoon I bought the map from the antique maps of United Kingdom shop for my father and had some money for wrapping paper and a card so I was set to give my father his map for his antique maps of United Kingdom collection for his 50th birthday.