What would YOU do to come up with $1,000 before November?

That's one of the things I do, too. I haven't been doing as many as I could do, but this week I have a route of grocery shop to complete for a company. The dealership reports can be tedious depending on the company, but I like the oil change shops. I got to do one of those last week, which is great because it saved me the time and hassle of doing it myself. Probably could have held out for a better bonus but even the straight reimbursement would have been okay since it really needed to be done. I'm hoping for some of the easy phone shops to pop up soon. They might not pay that much but they're quick to complete and report.

@yukimori Do you mean making phone calls? Or where you go and talk about cell phones? I kind of hate those but at least they don't require being out of pocket. Bare International and Shoppers Confidential have some e-mail and text mystery shops. They don't pay very well, but pretty easy.

@paigea The ones where you call specific businesses, not the cell phone shops. Honestly those are some of the most tedious I've ever done. I'm signed up for Bare, but I've never done any shops for them since they don't have much in my immediate area. I put out some feelers to one of my companies to see if they can offer a bit of flexibility on some of the current shops that are available. They want them done between today and tomorrow, but I'm hopeful that they might be able to push that back to Friday. If they can, I'll add them to my current route for that day to pad it out, since I somehow ended up with only one shop on that day and it's quite a ways to travel for just one job. I don't know what I was thinking when I requested that one by itself. If they can't do it, I'll see if I can pick up some small merchandising audits around that area and maybe try to get my car in for servicing at one of the dealerships. I still have one of those Takata airbags that needs to be replaced, and my local Toyota dealership still hasn't gotten back to me. Too bad I'm not shopping them...

@yukimori What about in the way of services you could do? Helping someone or doing chores for pay? Your grocery shops sound like they will really help.

I wish I had more excess at this point. If I did, I'd definitely host a yard sale or two to move some of it. I have a few items that I've bought with the intent of reselling, so I imagine it's time to put them up and part with them. Unnecessary spending... we try to run a pretty tight budget, but there's always a bit of fluff we could afford to trim out. I'm going to be taking grocery store mystery shops to help cut down some of our grocery expenses. I have a nice route planned for later this week, and the new batch for the next couple of weeks probably just dropped on the board today. It means a lot more driving and a lot of data entry afterwards, but actively doing grocery routes usually lets me cut those expenses by about 75% if I'm not spending much more than the reimbursement amount for each store.

@peavey It's possible, but I have to be careful to not ovedo it physically because of the fibromyalgia.

Maybe, but I've been out of the loop for a while when it comes to writing. I have no idea what sites are any good, so it'll take a bit of time to get back to where I'm doing well with it. I haven't even kept up with myLot that much recently.