Not enough income to bust up the debt and get ahead?
Do something radical. Get crazy and creative. Bump up the income and/or slash the expenses.
Sell stuff. Gather up all the unused things in your house
and start selling them. Besides getting some needed extra cash, you’ll
de-clutter the house a bit and learn some detachment.
Create an eBay and PayPal account, if you don’t
already have one, and start listing things. There are plenty of articles online
on how to do this. We did this last Fall and sold over $2,000 worth of things.
Find things that are easy to ship.
List things that are hard to ship on Craigslist.
Just be careful. Don’t sell to some psycho-killer and end up as the subject
of some crappy movie on the Lifetime network.
Have a garage sale, get other families involved
and make it a large sale to attract more buyers.
Get a side gig: cut-grass, delivery pizza, wait tables at
night, leverage your existing skills (handyman, computer repair).
Get rid of other money sucks:
Too much house? Move and downsize. Besides a lower payment, the taxes, insurance, maintenance and utilities will be less. Or just rent for awhile if rental rates are good in your area.
Car payments draining your funds? Sell the car(s), payoff the
loans and buy some reliable older ones. New cars can be a huge waste of resources.
After 5 years, the average new car as lost 63% of its value. Your $30,000 car
is now worth $11,100. Be the person who buys the 5-year-old car and keeps it
for another 15 years. Buy an air freshener if you want that “new car smell”. They
make them in that scent.
Spending a bunch of money each month on pets? Get rid of them. No I’m
not talking about dumping Fido in the country. A cat maybe, but never a dog.
Find a good home for them. Better they go and that the kids are fed.
Get rid of the expensive gadgets. A free pay-as-you-go flip phone will make a call just like that Smart Phone.
There is nothing wrong with going a little crazy every now
and then to avoid going insane.
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