update since it was downstream: i have gotten a good bit of help, so things are less dire but you're still welcome to support if you like, like by getting yourself a print of this fuckin rad rocket launch photo i took last night
even with the help i already get, i'm gonna be short next month, i've completely hit the bottom. i knew that this was the zero hour where the burn rate for bills would have fully eaten through what little i had left after the gofundme for the car accident, and i knew that for a while, but i hate seeing it.
i'll be starting the month at 531 dollars
rent's 450, internet's 35, and credit card min payment at this point is 77 dollars. i thought i'd clear at least those three bills but oop i sure won't, won't even get to midway through the month when the power bill comes thru at around 100
i'm gonna start that gofundme probably soon, seeing as i've been dead-ended with a lot of job applications and i really didn't get anywhere with SSI (the school district destroys records after 5 years, what the fuck, i couldn't get ahold of my iep OR my 504 from graduating, just the initial eval from 2007)
but until I do that, you can support moo by checking out my online photo store where i sell a lot of the launch photos i've posted to @aWildLupi . not all the ones i've posted made it there, 'cause they were quick n dirty phone edits, but i might make a gallery just for those.
direct support is also an option, but like. this way you get a lil picture out of it. if a 4x6 is 8 dollars or so, only like 1 dollar of that is base cost looking at the way i have the sellers options set up, though that margin decreases when stuff gets more expensive (like i'm not gonna charge 8 times the base price of a canvas wall art, that's probably capped at like 20, or 30 dollars profit over base cost)
i'm very lucky that my non-food expenses (currently covered by SNAP) come out to only around 700 dollars a month, but that's still 700 dollars a month i don't have
brief update, things are improved a good deal, but I'm not out of the water yet
i was tossed a bit of money by one of the space news outlets i'd lent the footage of the SRB train to, and that's got me pretty close to breaking even for October, but i don't think i'm quite there yet.
i also have a quote from the pal who's gonna work on the website so i've got a much clearer number in my head right now for what i'd wanna target with a "keep me afloat until someone gets back to me about a job" gofundme. well, a range, with "if i make it to this range, that means x, if i make it to this amount, that means y"
basically a plan i guess
opened up my email to make sure the schoolteacher I was talkin to at the launch got her copy of the photo for her kids and
whoah that's like 250 dollars that's probably near enough to keep me afloat through november, or very close to it (including what I got today from the guys who I sent my space train footage to)
i appreciate it all, that pushes the scary point away and gives me room to breathe for Psyche and other things
it's enough to tread water and hope someone gets back to me over a job or something in the near term; i'll still probably set something up specifically to cover paying my website friend so i can at least hopefully turn the website profitable, but for now i can take a moment and steady things a bit