How do you do to get money ?

**HermanAB** · March 19th, 2012

You can pan handle. A beggar probably has a 10% success rate, so you only need to ask about 160,000 people for a dollar.

**nathan.the.sane** · March 19th, 2012

Originally Posted by Hylas de Niall

Surely pretty much everywhere military service is a multi-year commitment that you can only get out of early by paying?

Well, somewhat blithely put but essentially true I suppose. You could say the same thing about marriage, though. Some people don't mind making long term commitments, I guess?

**Dry Lips** · March 19th, 2012

Originally Posted by linoseros

how do you do if you need 16,000$ ?

I'm going to ask the question everyone here wants to see answered... What do you need $16k for?

**Paqman** · March 19th, 2012

Put one dollar into 3% savings account
Wait 329 years
Profit!

**nathan.the.sane** · March 19th, 2012

Originally Posted by Paqman

Put one dollar into 3% savings account
Wait 329 years
Profit!

Meanwhile, if the OP lives somewhere with a > 3.0% inflation rate, he'll end up with less than a dollar of spending power!

**Jay Car** · March 19th, 2012

Originally Posted by Dry Lips

I'm going to ask the question everyone here wants to see answered... What do you need $16k for?

I certainly wondered what it might be for. Whether for goods or for services. Hopefully it isn't to pay a fine!

For goods, like a car or a motorcycle for example, maybe buy a less expensive model and fix it up.

If the item is being sold by a private party, rather than a dealership, maybe you could work out payments, or barter for part of the price...do you have anything to trade?

If you need money for a creative/inventive project of some sort, maybe try kickstarter. A few kickstarter projects have raised several thousand dollars in a matter of days.

Or sell things. Many places have swap meets where you can rent a space for a few dollars, find some things to sell, maybe ask friends, family, neighbors for things they'd like to sell and offer to display their stuff for a commission on any sales.

These days, depending on only one job to help you save money is a sure path to frustration. If that job gets eliminated, or the company goes bust, you'll likely need to use what money you saved on living expenses until you can find another job.

There are hundreds of things a person can do to bring in small amounts of money to suppliment their job income. It all adds up and those small bits of income, combined, can help keep you afloat between jobs and maybe keep your savings intact. Getting a job is good, but think beyond it for extra money.

As far as your specific need for $16,000, if you need it tomorrow, there's no answer unless you have someone to borrow it from. If it's for something that can wait, then be creative and do small jobs on weekends, lawn work, maybe, or house-sitting, computer-fixing, math-tutoring, handyman work...whatever you have skills for. Write a short how-to ebook and sell it on Amazon...heck, write a whole series.

I have a good friend that has a blog about pets, she sells several pet products from her site for a commission. She won't make a living from it, but it adds a nice bit of change to her savings account every month.

Another friend used to play his guitar and sing for old folks in nursing homes. He did three to five nursing/retirement homes a week at $40 to $50 a 45-minute session depending on the budgets of the various homes (they'd likely pay more nowadays). He couldn't play guitar very well back then, but they loved him anyway...it was great practice for him and put cash in his pocket.

If you try everything that's been suggested in all of these posts (or as many as you can), you could save up a lot of money in a fairly short time...say, a year or two if you are very dilligent about working, pinching pennies, and being a little creative.

Good luck with it!