This economy is killing me!

You are not the only one. My husband and i have depleted our savings account, and are now living pay check to pay check. I did not receive a raise, and the increase in state taxes, and the proposed expiration of the tax cut put in place during the Bush administration has increased my tax withholding from my paycheck. Add higher premiums for health care and I may as well have taken a pay cut. Property taxes rose so that is an extra bit out of pocket as well. I use all of my breaks and my lunch time on sites like this. I hope to make 30 or more a month from all of the sites combined. this is the only money that goes into our savings account. unfortunately, so many sites are no longer paying cash, and instead are using gift cards that money still is not going into savings.

Try to sell stuffs via ebay

The prices of staple foods and edible oils are going up.This should make menus and dishes in restaurants costly.Not only do you have less customers but the prices are up too.This is a double blow.I play the stock markets,without taking ANY risk, for some extra cash.

We all encouter financial problems especially in these hard times. However, I learned to live with it and I just ignore those problem. I just thank for all the blessings that I get.

When I was young, I had used to work at two restaurant within a day. I worked as a cook in a chinese's restaurant at daytime from 10am to 4pm, then I worked as a dish washer at an Italian's restaurant at night from 6pm to 12 pm. It was the way for me to earn a living at my twenties.

It seems that this is really a global problem. Poor restaurants, how could they earn money when people like me can't afford to go out? For me the things are going down and down and now I'm scared. My job is not easy but I work also at home. I translate movies and I make subtitles. This spring most of the tv channels stopped to show new movies at least for a month. Now there is no much work. And the money they pay are not enough even for the food. I try to make some online earning but without a good success.

Everything is getting more expensive I've noticed, and in the UK tax is going to go up in a couple of months so everything is going to get even more expensive. I'm living on benefits at the moment so it's always been tough but it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet. I'm looking for work but there aren't that many jobs going so I don't know what I'm going to do. I use Mylot and have a few posts on sites like sqidoo but they aren't making a lot of money so it's more like a hobby than an income stream. I'm trying to find other ways to make money, I'm thinking of trying to become a "virtual assisstant" as I can type things up and design basic flyers for people and stuff like that, but I don't know if there's enough work locally for me to a lot doing that. And I bet lots of other people are doing the same thing so it will hard to get what work there is.

Maybe consider getting another job or a different one. That's too bad, because I started going to bartending school a little bit ago, so I hope that's not what's going to happen all over - otherwise I shouldn't have paid money to start it. LOL. I recently went from being part-time to getting a different position in the same company, but full-time (with a pay increase) and so far that's been working pretty well. Of course I also have an on-call second job, which is really flexible when they have work (but they haven't had work for 2-3 weeks now!) Other than that, online work, and on the-side stuff like consigning clothes for money is how I make money. But mainly it's that primary full-time job that pays the bills.

Making extra money online helps..but my FT job pays the bills...

I now exactly what you mean, the economy isn't lighting up and it's not expected to any time soon. The restaurant business has been dropping you can see it especially Thursday nights and throughout the weekend. Restuarants that normally had a waiting time of lately have no waiting time or barely anything compared to before. Besides the fact that the people aren't making what they usually made because of this downfall, they don't take into consideration the cost of living that continues to increase. Lately I have been tryig to earn some extra cash online, hopefully that will help a bit.

Even though i have my own business already, i still do some extra work sometimes. This season i will earn a little or might earn me nothing at all in my rice farm due to typhoon just hit our country last week. So i need to make sure my 2 other business makes it well this month just to cover up everything i will lose on the other one. in the nature of my businesses, calamity is my worst enemy. Hopefully i could recover soon.