Need to make £50 in less than 72hours!?!?

bexiboo92

Soo we've stupidly run out of money this week...however need £50 odd for travel to a job interview and food.

Don't really have any friends/family I can ask.

Only thing worth any real money is my mobile, other than that I have some odd CDs, DVDs and books I can sell..

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

HappyMJ

£50 is a lot considering JSA is only £56.25 a week and that keeps an under 25 y.o fed. You could stay in for the next week until your next JSA payment comes in. Any money you make would have to be declared to the jobcentre and would come off your next JSA payment anyway. I would say you need your mobile to be able to be contacted by potential employers so I'd keep that. CD's and DVD's are worth pennies and if you go to town to pawn them what would the bus fare cost and if you are in town will you stop by a shop and spend the few pounds you get?

bexiboo92

HappyMJ wrote: »

£50 is a lot considering JSA is only £56.25 a week and that keeps an under 25 y.o fed. You could stay in for the next week until your next JSA payment comes in. Any money you make would have to be declared to the jobcentre and would come off your next JSA payment anyway. I would say you need your mobile to be able to be contacted by potential employers so I'd keep that. CD's and DVD's are worth pennies and if you go to town to pawn them what would the bus fare cost and if you are in town will you stop by a shop and spend the few pounds you get?

Errrrm I'm not on job seekers.

McKneff

So if you are working and earning and you presumably knew about the job interview coming up, why on earth have you not budgeted for it.

I have to admit, like HMJ, i presumed (wrongly) that you were out of work (interview for a job) and on jobseekers allowance.
Do you not have a credit card

savemoney

OP also said we've I assume there are too of you. Can you not ask around for any work like gardening, cleaning cars or 2nd job

bexiboo92

Interview was offered at last min, didn't wanna turn it down. A company had a delay in taking out a direct debit and didn't warn me they were going to take it this week, hence the lack of money...

No credit card.

I didn't come here for judgements.

HappyMJ

bexiboo92 wrote: »

Interview was offered at last min, didn't wanna turn it down. A company had a delay in taking out a direct debit and didn't warn me they were going to take it this week, hence the lack of money...

No credit card.

I didn't come here for judgements.

Who is judging?

moreofthegoodstuff

Can you not ask for the direct debit to be recalled, try phoning your bank and see if they can pull it back? I don't know if this will cause you more problems later on but could be a quick fix.

SEASHELL

Do you have anything you can take to the pawn shop. Or sell on one of facebooks for sale pages. I was in a similar position a few months ago where I needed to get £80 in a couple of days and have no one I could have borrowed off. Managed to flog some clothes, dvds , shoes and handbags on my local for sale or swap site and managed to make the money I needed. Good luck, hope you get it sorted x

savemoney

My post was trying to be helpful nor was anyone judging some people made assumptions

bexiboo92 wrote: »

Interview was offered at last min, didn't wanna turn it down. A company had a delay in taking out a direct debit and didn't warn me they were going to take it this week, hence the lack of money...

No credit card.

I didn't come here for judgements.

kerrypn

OP How far are you travelling to the job interview? Could this not be defered until next week?

In terms of food have you got anything in at all? If you have, post what youve got, there are some weird and wonderful concoctions we have had over the years when in a tight spot