Keeping everyone and everything in here comforatable is important enough to us that we turned to the Dope for any possible assistance. Help if you want, it’s appreciated. Don’t want to help? No sweat off my back. But please stop trying to tell us what is and is not an emergency.
I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but I’m also not seeing the emergency to request virtual strangers over the internet send you money. I’ve donated to Dopers in the past, both when people have posted for help and privately. But this is so beyond the realm of “help, I’m homeless” or “I don’t have enough money to keep the electricity on until payday”.
A rainy day fund is just that, for funding the things you absolutely need and don’t otherwise have the money for.
For the record, I love in Tennessee, a state with hot, humid summers and at least a bit of winter, and I don’t have central heat and air. I have one window AC unit in my bedroom (which I only bought two years ago, and I’ve lived there 8 years) and I heat with a wood pellet stove. If anyone wants to fund central heat and air for my house, they’re more than welcome to. I’m interested in geothermal.
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That is likely what Sis intends but we have yet to hear any amout. A loan out of one of my retirement plans would be the absolute final resort.
Already sold anything worth selling.
Yes. No premium channels.
Half of which is paid for by my employer. I have an office set up on one side of the dining room.
Rarely.
No monthly paid accounts in any game. Hated WoW.
Yes.
Anyone wanting to be paid back just need ask but likely will not be possible until at least a month from now.
Before anyone asks: no, we do not own a vehicle. We’ve been relying on public transportation and freinds’ vehicles for the past 6½ years.
If I were going to donate money to a stranger over the Internet I don’t think it would be for this.
Like I said, no sweat off my back.
Just to be sure this doesn’t get lost in my reply to Bob: anyone wanting to offer a loan instead just need to make it clear that they expect their money back when we’re able to repay. Which would be either 6/11 or 6/25, I’m not sure.
Wait, you’re still paying for cable?! When I’ve been ridiculously broke in the past, that was the first thing to go. Like others, I just don’t have much sympathy. You are begging for money because the rabbit is too hot, and you’re big sacrifice is not having premium cable channels. That’s kinda pathetic, don’t you think?
Besides, you can get a window AC unit for $150. You don’t need $3000 to keep the rabbit alive.
Window units are pretty cheap. Could at least keep the bunny cool if you got one. But if you want money from me you’ll have to ask my ex-wife.
I asked my Indian friend why it was that whenever I went on calls to Indian family’s houses they never had their AC on, no matter how hot. He replied, “And who is going to pay for that?”
He should join the SD.
For realsies? Because the window a/c unit I bought last year is woefully inadequate for keeping my apartment cool. I spent all of last summer sitting directly in front of the thing because I was too cheap and lazy to get a better one. I absolutely need a better a/c this summer. Chicago summers get like swamp balls, for real.
Never had any premium channels. In the long run, I believe it’s actually cheaper to have cable and internet as a package, and my employer is paying for half of the latter.
Nothing like hot, steamy sex!
He would fit right in but is too busy running the 10 businesses he owns.
Unless you get a big one (have to check the power rating and the size of the space) one probably won’t be enough to cool an entire apartment. But one bedroom? Most of the $100 ones should be adequate.
Sorry didn’t see you were in a 45+ year old condo with an association. I have never seen one of those. All the developments around here that have associations are relatively new and wouldn’t have such an ancient system.
Have you thought about talking to the condo board about your situation? Either for a loan or an exemption on the window unit thing. I think I would do that before I started begging strangers for $3000.
Son of a bitch doesn’t even cool my living room, which is all that I wanted. I got a tiny one thinking, oh, it’ll be fine. It was not fine.
BTW there are portable air conditioning units that do not go in the window. Not as cheap as a window unit. Not as effective as central air. But it will keep the bunny happy. They start around $300 depending on what size room you want to cool.
You have to look at the BTUs. Its easy to find out how many BTUs it will take to cool a specific room. Too low and you are just wasting money.
The rule of thumb I have seen is 20 BTU per square foot of room.
I totally wasted my money. D’oh! I’ll probably sell it back to someone in Craig’s List and take whatever I can get for it, then dole out the bucks for enough BTUs to keep cool this time around.
Sorry, this is a hijack. I’ll bow out.