The piggy bank is broken

I need money. I guess that's a given, considering I'm in college. I've been thinking about ways to make money other than getting a second job (my last resort), and so far I've made few actual attempts. Through the grape vine I discovered Dollarsurveys.com, which I don't recommend. Very naively I jumped in head first, only to discover that you take very few surveys but receive a lot of "special offers". So now I'm getting phone calls from 1-800 and unlisted numbers and ads in my inbox and I've had to just completely stop using Dollar Surveys. Get paid $1.00 for every survey you take?! That's a lie. If you actually get to the point where you get to take a survey, you may not "qualify", or you may never know when it's finished because of all the offers you keep swimming through. So I haven't seen any money in my PayPal account yet and I doubt I will ever see any.

Andy suggested I start a small flower arranging business, which might be possible if I had some external financing, but I'm pretty sure my lease stipulates that I can't run a business out of my house. So there goes that idea. My next thought is that I could sell my best photos as prints/posters/whatever. I have an account with Snapfish so I could only charge slightly more than what I paid for the prints and make a small profit. I'm not sure if any of my photos are actually worth purchasing; I guess this is something I would have to contemplate further to decide if it would actually work.


Or maybe I should just get a second job. I might have to over Christmas break. I should have an internship this summer so things will be better as long as I get paid, but for now I'm stuck in this unbearable monetary limbo where I slowly drain the money I saved for utilities yet I am too afraid to buy groceries (much cheaper than buying lunch every day) because it always ends up costing way more than I feel I should pay. I buy generic brands and I look for bargains so it's not like I'm irresponsible with my grocery shopping. It just makes me nervous. Anyone who has ever gone grocery shopping when their fridge is empty knows that it's very easy to be overtaken by the snowball effect of buying way more than you came for because you see so many things you didn't think of putting on you list. Or maybe that's just me. I know it won't last forever but I feel like I'm running in circles.

-K