# Could you get $20,000 in emergency funds in 30 days?  $200,000?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 25, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-get-20-000-in-emergency-funds-in-30-days-200-000/583097 "2011-05-25T00:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-get-20-000-in-emergency-funds-in-30-days-200-000/583097/12 "2011-05-25T01:20:03Z")

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As I just posted in the other thread:

> [@Could you get $2000 of emergency funds in 30 days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-get-2000-of-emergency-funds-in-30-days/583056/42):
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> No way, no how. I have 5 cents in my checking account until next week. I could not get $200 from anybody.

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