Well. Fuck.
So money was already tight and I’d delayed some bills, not to mention put a couple hundred in groceries on my credit card so I could eat till payday under the (reasonable, at the time) impression that I could pay it off again by the due date.
Then I had a three-day migraine which completely prevented me from looking at screens. I work in customer service *text chat*. That knocked my upcoming end-of-the-month paycheck from “can get sort of caught up” down to “this won’t even cover the rent”.
Then I ordered a laundry pickup, because I hadn’t had any clean bras all month (not having the physical ability to do my own laundry) and it was demoralizing. It’s thirty bucks for fifteen pounds, I did the math and figured I could afford it. I don’t have a way to weigh my laundry before sending it out, but I didn’t think I owned more than about fifteen, maybe twenty pounds of laundry.
It came out to *thirty-six pounds*. Which the laundry service just auto-drafted the charge for (as is their right).
So the point is – I’m fucked. There are bills I can’t delay coming out on Saturday that are well over what I have left in my bank account. My credit card is already full and it’s going to have a bunch of interest added. If I take as many extra hours this week as my work will allow, I can just about cover the rent, but *nothing* else… not the electric or internet service I need to keep my at-home workstation running, not the food and meds to keep *me* running, zilch.
Minimum, to avoid immediate overdraft, I have to have at least $30 more than I’ve got in my bank account by Saturday. Longer term, I have food for maybe a week if I’m careful, and after that I’d need at least $200 to tide me over to mid November’s paycheck (which I am optimistically assuming will be a full paycheck for now :P). If I can’t get the extra hours to cover the rent I’ll also need about $100 (estimated) there, and I need to get a new psychiatrist to fill my meds and also actually afford my meds, that’s at least another $60…
Optimally, it’d be really nice to also raise the money to get my bills up to date, which would be uh… oh shit I have an ophthalmologist copay coming up, in addition to the actual bills… call it like $150? Living is fucking expensive.
So that all shakes out to something around $400 minimum to get me through the next month or so, and another $150 to stop having to keep pushing shit out further. My PayPal is ethanrabbits at gmail, my Ko-fi is right here, and – god, I don’t know what I’ll do if y'all can’t help out. I wish we lived in friggin Animal Crossing or something so I could at least go hit rocks. I’ve got nothing.