Comments on: To make a quick $200

By: Rini

Rini — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:30:06 +0000

Don’t forget, you don’t necessarily have to get a windfall all from a single source.

We recently came in need of about $350 in unexpected expenses. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve gotten:

$100 – from my mom, because she heard about the problem
$50 – a late wedding gift from relatives I’ve never met
$100 – an award I got at work (after taxes)
$50 – my husband won a blogging contest
$50 – my parents-in-law sent us a “have fun” check
$154.79 – an unexpected paycheck for my husband’s tutoring (we thought last month’s check was the last one for the school year)

That’s over $500 in two weeks of pure out-of-the-blue Godsends!

By: JR

JR — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:44:09 +0000

Ideas: donate blood, sell your junk, Sign up for an ING account, really watch what you spend at the grocery store. Do staples only for a couple of weeks–rice and beans. Stay home. Drink water only. Find ways to save on gas. It will add up quickly.

By: budgets are sexy

budgets are sexy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:52:00 +0000

Most def. hit up CL first, then go the route of slapping it on the credit card for sure At least this way 2 weeks turns into 6 weeks…and i’m pretty sure i have enough stuff around the house i could sell by then.

fun post my man.

By: Aaron Stroud

Aaron Stroud — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:59:31 +0000

“We are currently running a $500 deficit every month anyway, so $200 doesn’t seem like too big of a deal.”

I know this feeling all too well! After building a house and having two kids during the process, it’s all too easy to shrug off the small expenses.

I think it’s a coping mechanism to deal with the stress. Normally I am fairly frugal, but I just didn’t have the energy to save money during that process.

To answer your question, I’d pull it out of savings. When I was younger and in the city, I probably would have used my emergency fund and then worked over time or an odd job or two to replace the money.

By: SavingDiva

SavingDiva — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:46:25 +0000

I would try to get a few extra hours at my part time job. If that didn’t work (or pay day wasn’t right), I would look for freelance work (cash pay) on craigslist or other sites like that.