The clock beat me.

I caved- I got some money from my parents to keep us "afloat" with this car insurance premium coming up. We don't want a handout though, so my husband will be working off what we received today in the next few weeks. I could have asked for more, but I got just enough to help us along.

I went to go sell some books at a used bookstore which on their website claims they will pay you cash, but instead they gave me store credit. I didn't want to make a big deal about it, and I was happy to get something for VHS tapes and books we won't use anymore. So I basically traded a bunch of crap that we don't use for 2 books that I wanted to read and a book that my kids picked out. I still have some store credit, so the next time I am jonesing for a book purchase and I don't want to check something out of the library, I can use it there.

They gave us some items that they wouldn't take and so I put the ones I could for sale on Amazon

I plan to do our taxes over the next couple days, I am hoping since I was laid off this year, and our income was spotty, we will get a refund back. I hear all this chatter about the stimulus package- but it all seems rather murky to me. Some things say that if you received the stimulus check last year, you don't qualify for this year, and then other things say that there are additional tax credits for families. I am hoping that is the case.

I also plan to sell some of the kids old clothes this week sometime, I probably won't get much for it, I think I made $15 the last time I did that, but that is $15 more than I have right now.

I'm feeling defeated

My husband was able to bring in some extra money doing some handman jobs for my folks, but we are still in the hole. I have an automatic debit going to hit on Monday for our car insurance which exceeds what he was able to make and what is in the bank.

Part of this is because I went to the grocery store to buy a few things, and didn't check the balance before I went, and I over spent when I was there. I think I am going to have to ask to borrow some money to tide us over. This is very discouraging. To get some extra income, I had planned on selling somethings online, or selling some of the kids old clothes to Once Upon A Child, but both of those endeavors take time and I am racing against the clock here.

I really don't want to have to borrow money from family, but I think right now we might have to.

If anyone has any tips on selling things on Craigs List, I'm all ears. I've gone the ebay route before, but I think I need money sooner than later right now.