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$400 to your name, or $400 extra a month? If the latter, I'm not sure what the problem is. You're obviously able to pay your bills but you're saying you cannot. Put a little extra down every month and speed the process up.

 

That should be a temporary thing, yet you have not wanted to do this in the past, and have no plans to do so in the future. So, it is an excuse more than anything.

If you really wanted to have your cake and eat it too, run a home based business, sell stuff on eBay on the side, like everybody else in your position does. You're expecting somebody to plop an easy way out in your lap but the words "home based business" is the closest you're going to find. And please don't say you can't do that, because anybody can.

 

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Stop preaching. You can't serve God and money.

Work two jobs.

Pay off your debt.

Pray for mercy.

Does your wife have some family that could help with her care, or have you alienated them?

 

OK, John, you called me by name, so I feel compelled to respond. Then I'm done.

Both you and the man are making excuses.

You, by refusing to order your time and talent in a way that is both pleasing to God and exercising responsibility to your debtors.

He, by claiming the same problem in reverse, choosing his debts over God.

Neither of your are correct, and dishonor both God and your responsibilities to God and man. Both of you need to read what Jesus said about money, debt and prison. You have both locked yourself away in one of your own making.

 

Go buy the lawnmower and hit the pavement. My brother and I started working that way when I was 11 years old and he was 12.

We walked. And we pushed our lawnmower. And we knocked on doors. And we asked if they needed their grass cut, on the spot.

Don't act like you're begging for money, act like you were sent there to help them.

Back in 1982, we were making close to $100 a day to split, working about 6 hours.

We built a customer base that kept us busy with repeat business.

All you need is 10 people the first week, and 10 the second. Mow each one every other week. Charge 20 bucks per yard, net 18 after gas. $180 per week.

You could probably shoot for 12-15 each Saturday, which would be a solid 10 hour day to net over 200 bucks.

Not too shabby, if you ask me

 

Church nearly everywhere happens on Sunday morning, Sunday evening, Wednesday evening, and sometimes more. If somebody really wanted to go, they'd go.

 

Not crap in your closet, I mean turn it into a business. Buy wholesale, sell retail.

 

There are so many nice mowers ridden by so many people who are willing to take low pay combined with expensive insurance that it's not quite as easy to make decent side money by mowing nowadays, just super competitive. Then you've got a truck and trailer to pay for, and commercial insurance and license if anybody ever notices. Lord knows I'd do it if it were worth it, as I have a mower that costs as much as some new cars and would love for it to just pay for itself. You can do it but you'd have to be a real go-getter. The real world isn't quite like an 11 year old mowing the neighbors yard.

 

You accomplish something then highlight it, you point out what you're good at and how that skill is useful and can help in a tangible way. You display your enthusiasm for certain pertinent subjects. etc., etc., etc. This is how you get a good career, not by saying you graduated somewhere and leave it at that.

Depends. If you're trying to be a manager, yeah a resume is needed. Factory worker? Not so much.

 

Yes siree Bob!