Temporary Ways to Survive a Job Loss

The following are not necessarily good ideas for financial benefit, but they have been used to get through tough financial times by those who have been through them.
Cut and sell firewood (if you are handy with a chain saw).
Collect and sell aluminum cans.
Sell junk automobiles for parts or scrap metal.
Tear down old buildings for materials and sell materials as “recycled” or “reusable.” Note: Old barn wood is often used for picture frames; Old brick for brick decorating or landscaping.
Buy coveralls and paintbrush and ladder and start door to door solicitation to paint by the room for a certain price plus cost of paint. This works only if you are neat and don’t make a mess.
Empty your piggy banks. Look for “wheat pennies”, “WWII silver nickels” and old coins that can be sold to coin shops or collectors.
Sell slightly used but outgrown or never used clothes to consignment shop or slightly used clothing store.
Eat beans and rice often. In some countries a big bag of beans or rice is regarded as a guarantee against hunger. Learn how to slow cook them for best effect and taste.
Sell any extra vehicles you own, including dirt bikes, motorcycles, tricycles, and those that aren’t essential as alternative transportation.
Dispense with the cable and pawn the TV.
Go to the library and use online resources there if you can’t afford internet service. Contact government job services agencies. Work for temp firm.
Use library as source for movies, dvd and VCR tapes, books and magazines.
Borrow against your paid up whole life insurance policy (if you are young and healthy)
Sell your blood or plasma via donation sites that pay.
Sell your coin collection, stamp collection, or antiques.
Borrow from your retirement funds (last resort choice)
Withdraw early from retirement funds (worst choice due to tax penalties)
Buy “day old bread” and freeze it and take out enough for each day.
Eat eggs, cheap and easily digested protein. Good fried, boiled, scrambled, deviled, poached mixed with mayo to make egg sandwiches or with a dab of milk in French toast. Not great for low cholesterol dieters.
Use your work skills and talents in creative ways to earn income.
Crafters can make items to sell, seamstresses can alter clothing or make sellable piece work.
Boil peanuts and sell them by the roadside.
Open a lemonade stand.
Dress as clown and Sell balloons.
Offer services for pay: mowing lawns, raking leaves, tilling garden spots, spreading mulch, buying groceries, running errands, etc.
Tithe anyway. (a tenth of nothing is nothing, but if you can’t live off 90% of your earnings, you won’t be able to live off 100% of your earnings either.)
Go to church. Most don’t charge admission.
Pray. Ask. Seek. Share with friends and family your needs and ask for help in locating new job possibilities. The more eyes and ears looking, the better.
And as Winston Churchill said, “And never, never, never, never, never give up.”