The 35 Most Surprising “Broke” Habits People Swear By—You Won’t Believe Number 17!
My bank would honor the transfer while It waits for the funds. This… I know takes 1 business day. (So you get extra days if it’s done on a Friday after 5pm)
Which means I have 24 (48) hours to deposit that exact amount into the account before the bank drafts it.
Now I was an uber driver at the time… So if I was really short on gas for the day but I needed the money… That’s what I would do.
I would transfer $100 to my account. Buy $40-50 worth of gas. Drive 8-10 hours as fuel efficient as possible
Deposit the money at an atm by midnight. Kept (if any) any profit…
No one was the wiser.
It wasn’t sustainable. It sucked. But that’s just what I had to do…
I had no job. No money. All I had was bills and creative ways to make money out of nothing.
Hocked wife’s engagement ring that she wasn’t wearing so I could buy her a Christmas gift. She thought I just took it back because we were “on a break.” I was eventually able to buy it back and return it to her jewelry box. That was over 25 years ago, and I still haven’t told her.
Went around my university finding abandoned textbooks to sell back to the store.
Collected change from a public fountain to buy something from the dollar menu when I was a teenager, starving and super poor
Looked up google images of steak and milkshakes and other good meals while I was actually eating crackers and water trying to envision good food to make the experience more enjoyable
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