#money tw

[gen-z-culture-is]

gen z culture is memeing about mental issues you know you have while refusing to see a therapist because therapy cost money but memes are free

#gen z #culture #submission #depression tw #money tw

[taleswritten]

emergency pay what you want commissions!

my brother in law is supposed to be in charge of the electric bill but he says he doesn't have the money to pay it so I'm trying to earn money in order to pay it. It's 247.93 and there's proof under the cut.

I am not asking for handouts, I will work for it as much as I can until my electric is cut off. If you wish to donate, that's fine too. I'm just trying everything I can to keep my electric from being shut off in this hot ass weather.

please see this link for my commission info.

if you don’t want/need to commission and you want to donate, that’s totally acceptable too and my paypal is paypal.me/writteninthestcrs and my cashapp is $stories writtcn(without the space). or even just a reblog will help.

proof of electric bill:

#commissions #money cw #money tw #psa

[scarbound]

i don't talk about it much ... but @frcebalanced and @arakhorre / @astradecays know . for months i've felt like a bit of a failure at my job because i was barely getting enough hours to make ends meet and i had lost a few clients that i had been really confident in . it's been a struggle and i had been mass applying to jobs and stressing and considering selling things to get some savings just in case .

i know most of it wasn't my fault . i had one client decide she didn't want to work with someone who was working on a degree ( even though it didn't affect the work ) , one client decided that once i got her set up and organized that she didn't need an assistant anymore , and my boss held a lot of it against me . which left me with minimal hours , minimal clients , and constant worry about making ends meet .

but today ... for the first time in months ... i feel confident and happy about my job . i had my newest client tell me she trusts me and wants to delegate a lot more to me and is already increasing her hours with me . another client that i've had for three years increased her hours and mentioned that she may increase again in a few months and wants me to carry her through until she retires . another has been consistently using more and more hours and trusting me with more and more work , doubling the plan she had when she started with my company .

and i finally just don't feel like a fucking imposter and it makes me so happy .

#ooc ↳ mox #money tw #i can finally schedule a tattoo appointment again #and be comfy with spending the money #i can upgrade my steam deck and prepare to upgrade my computer #things are genuinely looking up and i really needed this

[tsarnvoiny]

tw: vent , tw: chronic pain , tw: disability , tw money . . .

i really wish the world wasn't so hard to function in when you're poor , and chronic pain. like , it's really hard to put a smile on my face when my whole life amounts to wanting to cry constantly because of this pain i'm in . . . but nobody out there wants to give someone a chance in a job that's actually good for your body.

i'm a work horse when i need to be . . . and like i said . . . bills gotta be paid. welcome to america.

#i am probably gonna be pretty quiet ooc today #not even 12 #and i've already met my limit #i just want to not constantly want to cry just to exist #vent tw #chronic pain tw #disibility tw #money tw #✡ / 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕 . . . vents.

[hidefdoritos]

The doctor's office hours are 8-5. I call at 4:30 pm on Friday. They already left for the weekend. I need a doctor's note from last Monday's appointment. I was so sick then that I forgot to ask for one, then spent the week wondering where it was.

I call the center desk. The human transfers me to the empty office's answering machine. I hang up and call her again. She sends me to the same answering machine. I leave a message this time. I ask the robot for help politely. I hope that a human hears me.

I go to the website to schedule a second appointment. I can't afford a second appointment. The only one available is Monday 7:30 am. Before the clinic lists that it's open and before I want to be awake. At least it's well before my work time.

I fill in a reason for the visit. I get 1.5 lines to explain myself. "Need doc note from 4/15. Please call (number) I can't affor" will have to suffice. The robot tells me my field contains invalid characters. I change 4/15 to 4-15 and it goes through.

I go to my clock app and set an alarm for 7 am on Monday. I hope the little robot wakes me up on time. I have infinite characters to explain myself, but "Call doctor NOW" in the memo line will suffice.

I lie back down and stare at the stipple pattern on the popcorn ceiling (which, good news, is actually asbestos-free). I have one $100 that nobody knows about. I might have to break it this week. I have gas to get to the appointment and to get to work this week, but that's it. Nothing can go wrong.

I hope they don't charge me for this appointment.

#money tw #illness tw

[bledf1rst]

cheers to manipulative parents who guilt trip you into giving them money 🥂

i just love it when they're SO good at making you feel like the scum of the earth when they're the parent and you shouldn't be buying their groceries, gas, pet food, medicine, etc. but they need these things despite their god-awful money management it's hard to deprive them of it because they're still your parents and sorry i'm just so fucking frustrated right now. i feel like i am being conned out of my money constantly. it makes me wanna rip my hair out sometimes lol

#money tw #manipulation tw #hi just a short rant about my parent. i am fuming rn. the crankiest #( out of. ) * mun / coma.

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

POV: Your professor says you're not allowed to use the ebook version of your textbook

#original #jamie talks #book #tw money #money #money tw #tw school #school #school tw

[eulalielatibule]

I'm officially broke from Christmas shopping and it is only the 8th 🥴

#money tw

[ofsgiathan]

i really hate having to ask this but i'm in desperate need of money to help paying for this month's rent along with a few other bills. i should have the bulk of the money by no later than next monday on 1/23 but we don't have the late fees which is $15/day it's not paid which will be roughly $345 that i'd need by tuesday at the latest. and that's assuming i get the amount i'm expecting to get from school. not only that but we still have the internet ($60), one phone bill ($40), and utilities (which will be roughly $75) to pay. so here's a list of the bills i'm genuinely needing help with:

january's rent = $345 / internet = $60 / phone bill = $40 / utilities = $75

i'd prefer all donations via cash app because it's sent immediately. not only that but you're able to have your aliases / pennames as your name instead of your actual name on there. unfortunately paypal takes 3 to 5 business days to process the money but if you prefer using paypal then feel free to send me any donations over there.

paypal: link cash app: $SH1NAN1GANS

i'm also more than willing to show proof via picture receipts if it makes y'all feel better. i'm currently in the process of getting things straightened away with being able to get money for next month's bills with ease. but any and all donations would be greatly appreciated.

#out of wings 》》》 signal boost #money tw #bills tw

[falsegod]

can taylor hurry up with the international dates PLEASE. my parents owe me 20k and i’m wanna buy tickets with their credit card before they pay me back and it’s been like 4 months

#money tw

[maryellencarter]

so sleep is refusing to happen, which is very annoying. i took my night meds and wore my blindfold and everything. my right leg has also decided it is stabbing pains time, which might be associated with the first thing. so while i wait for some ibuprofen to kick in, i figured i would start to explain my latest effort in the ongoing saga of getting myself to actually go to work.

so i was talking to logan about it, as one does. i haven't even explained logan for the sherlock holmes people, have i? call him my imaginary friend, close enough. he's a version of wolverine from the x-men (comics version circa 1983 if you want to get specific -- hugh jackman is a foot too tall and looks oddly like peter lorre to my prosopagnosic ass), he's my big brother via my teenage mary sue (that's a whole other post, but my little sister maintained this au where we all got to pick our own fictional or invented parents and relatives, which says exactly the things about our irl family situation that you'd think), he's been with me for nearly twenty years now, saved my life multiple times, got me out of some truly horrendous situations. these days he mainly shows up when things are Very Bad. and right now, because i'm struggling to get myself to go to or stay at work by any damn motivation whatsoever, things are pretty damn bad.

so i was talking to logan about it, which i've been doing for a bit while, but this time we were talking about the delayed gratification aspect of a paycheck. how if i skip work and go do a fun thing, i get to have fun immediately, but if i sit at work being mildly bored and intermittently annoyed, then i get money 1-3 weeks later, which might as well be the heat death of the universe as far as actually making an emotional connection between action and reward is concerned.

(it might be relevant to explain what i even do, huh? text chat tech support for a major cell phone company, basically. it's the sort of job where the elevator pitch is like "living the dream", because i get to sit around at home in whatever state of dress i prefer, doing anything i want as long as i keep an eye on my workstation and drop everything when a message from a customer comes in. on slow days it can be a good 15-20 minutes between customers. on busy days, i can be typing nonstop for hours, but those are rarer. however, when faced with a basic choice between "i can't practically play certain video games or do complicated crafts on the clock, because they're too space consuming or not pauseable enough, and I definitely can't go to any events or meet people" versus "if I'm not on the clock I can do whatever I want", it's hard to prioritize Getting Money At Some Future Point.)

so anyway what logan suggested was -- because i know how to calculate my own payroll taxes and often do it for fun (in fact, it probably indicates just how badly off i've been emotionally that i hadn't even downloaded the 2023 irs schedule 15-t for payroll tax brackets until yesterday), i have the ability to figure out, down to the minute if necessary, exactly how much my take-home pay will be based on time worked so far. because logan is inside my head, he also knows that i used to really enjoy being the banker for monopoly, organizing all the play money and making change and keeping track of Amounts and what-all.

so he suggested getting some play money and paying myself in realtime -- basically creating a physical representation of how my paycheck is accruing. i have sat at work for so many minutes, pay myself a dollar. like gamifying shit, but instead of getting a little token in an app that doesn't directly relate to anything irl, i'm getting tokens that very directly represent the exact benefit i am getting by sitting around being annoyed that i don't have room for my gaming laptop next to my workstation.

at this point it becomes relevant that the game of monopoly no longer comes with play money. the company that sells it decided, some years back, that declining sales were due to cash being insufficiently hip with the kids and making change being an absolute turn-off, rather than... you know, literally nobody anymore having the free time for an all-day game that causes intergenerational feuds. so they replaced the paper money with play debit cards and a digital voice-activated top hat that does all the math for you. so now you don't even get any practical life skills with your intergenerational feuds!

so, after a couple of shopping adventures, i have procured construction paper and a silver sharpie (and a working black one because mine was dead) and a clear jar so i can see all the colorful play moneys when i pay myself. i have adapted the rupee color system from breath of the wild, because i'm already familiar with it, to fit the colors of construction paper i have, so ones are green, fives are blue, and so forth.

i tried this method at work yesterday, and so far i'm very excited about it. it takes me about six hours of work to cover my healthcare deductions for a two-week pay period, and after that (until federal tax brackets kick in after a few days' earnings) i basically earn a dollar every four minutes after tax, which means roughly every time i start to get bored, i've earned another dollar and i get to fidget with my little pieces of construction paper again.

i'm also definitely going to have to confront the thing where it feels wrong and unrealistic that i make this much money. because in an eight hour workday near the beginning of the pay period, my take home pay is about $120, and that just feels like a silly amount that doesn't apply to me. but, well, i earned this dollar, and also that one, and the other one over there... which one didn't i earn? it is a conundrum.

i don't know if i'm just excited because everything is shiny and new, but i definitely am very excited that this might actually Help, because it's making being at work *feel* different in a way that hasn't happened before. have a couple of pictures.

#money tw #budget tw #i feel like this probably needs some other warning tags but i'm not sure what #eletelephony

[musamulta]

My activity might suffer a bit soon. Why is under the cut.

So, I lost my job. Right after moving. My roommate is keeping us afloat as much as he can. I might have another job lined up now, but it won't start til the end of the month.

As a result, I'm not currently taking my meds. I can't afford them. The two meds that have been temporarily stopped are my antidepressant and my chronic pain medication. I hurt so bad, right now. It's barely tolerable.

I'm going to hyperfixate a lot, that's a given, but I may also have days where I can't even type due to the pain in my hands.

#ooc #money tw #pain tw #mental health tw

[tinybwaby]

#sorry i haven't been on lately #I'm too depressed #trying to keep it together but it's really hard #not having income is so scary #i really need help and i don't know what to do #adult stuff tw #money tw #depression tw #risu speaks #risu tags

[dcfcrged]

Any chance anyone can spare some funds to get some grocery necessities to tide us over for the weekend? 😞 anything helps. PayPal: [email protected]

#money tw #ugh

[ofsgiathan]

UPDATE ON LIFE

Hey, everyone. I just wanted to stop by and give an update on how things have been. Um ... well ... on the bright side my mom's home (finally!), got approved for food stamps, and got things going on seeing both a counselor + psychologist. The downside is that I'm basically no longer able to work anymore and am currently in the process of applying for disability. On another note, there's a pretty high chance of me having Borderline Personality Disorder. I've speculated this for a while and have mixed feelings on being told that I probably have it.

With all of that being said, I finally got things going and created a GoFundMe because I'm in desperate need of help until I get my food stamps and get approved for disability. There's more info about everything here. I'm also in the process of working up the courage to do icon commissions and not scare myself out of doing them.

#out of wings 》》》 shenanigans #tbd #money tw #finances tw

[asoulofstars]

Hey, all. I really hate making posts like this.

Moving really drained my entire bank account, and now I have less than $100.00 to last me until Monday, the 15th, when I get paid next.

I don’t have any skills that are commissionable; I know my edits are very basic, and it’s not like I can charge for fanfic.

Gas alone will cost me about half of what’s in my account; I’m currently sitting at a 1/2 tank, so I’ll need to fill up probably by Wednesday.

If anyone has a few dollars to spare, I’d appreciate it, and I will pay you back when I get paid. I just have to pay car insurance and make sure to pay at least $20.00 towards my credit card.

I will DM my PayPal info if anyone is ABLE.

The key word here is ABLE. Please do not send me money if you are not able to. I don’t care how much you want to help. You gotta take care of yourself first.

#stardust (ooc) #money tw #finances tw