advice in "Real Life," but in World of Warcraft you want to collect every little thing you possibly can.

To get started well, you need to do the following:

1. When you first start, be sure to choose two gathering professions. Mining and Skinning might be easiest early on, but Mining and Herbalism will ultimately be more profitable. Another advantage of these professions is that you can start them without having to purchase equipment like you do with some other professions - so already, money saved.
2. Invest early in plenty of bag space. It may be hard to do because it isn't as fun and instantly gratifying, but it will help immensely in increasing your fun over the long run.
3. Now use your skills and fill those bags whenever possible, even if it doesn't raise your skill, and even if it feels like you're filling your bags with junk. Even the gray and white items will accrue more wow gold than you might imagine as you slowly sell off these raw materials.
4. Be sure to collect clothing like linen, wool and leather early on. This stuff always sells.
5. Use the Gatherer Mod. You can find this valuable mod at the following site: wow goldGathering With the Gatherer Mod

Don't worry that you're "abandoning" fun skills like blacksmithing or leathermaking. You can come back to them later and make more efficient (and thus more fun) use of them when you're a higher level and you have more wow gold.

1. Don't fall into the wasteful pattern of buying new armor and equipment every level or two. You probably don't need these incremental upgrades and they waste your wow gold just when you're starting to get your wow gold finances in shape. And don't succumb to alluring prices at the Auction House. It's better to obtain your new armor and weapons through doing instances anyways.
2.  Instead of losing your 2 wow gold deposit, try disenchanting and vendoring the item instead of putting it up for auction.

For more aggressive and advanced wow gold gathering tips for WoW, I suggest investing just a little bit of real world money in either Valkor's wow gold Making Guide or Derek's wow gold Mastery Guide. If you try just one, I suggest Derek's wow gold Mastery Guide; not only does it teach some of the most clever wow gold-making techniques I've ever seen, but Derek puts together an all around great book that will enhance your quest for World of Warcraft Riches in more ways than just wow gold-making.