# Need $100,000 fast. Any suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667 "2008-01-08T00:33:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/1 "2008-01-08T00:33:07Z")
I need to make some extra money. $100,000 as a matter of fact. It’s sort of beyond the scope of what I could make with a paper route or a part-time job at Starbucks, I think. Plus, I’ve got a very demanding job, so I don’t have a whole lot of spare time. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/2 "2008-01-08T00:36:32Z")
I need about 35,000 So if someone could just provide a partial answer that would be great. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/3 "2008-01-08T00:37:26Z")
Get a sugar momma? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/4 "2008-01-08T00:39:30Z")
Get a paper round. Use it as an excuse to case rich folks’ houses for expensive consumer goods and lax security. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/5 "2008-01-08T00:42:14Z")
Become friends with a Nigerian Prince. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/6 "2008-01-08T00:42:23Z")
Winning lotto ticket? Walk around looking for ten million stray pennies? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/7 "2008-01-08T00:45:03Z")
Start with $200,000 and gamble half of it away. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/8 "2008-01-08T00:45:11Z")
Kiss every frog you can find. No wait, that’s princes - what do rich _princesses_ get magically turned into? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/9 "2008-01-08T00:48:12Z")
Invent the next big thing for the internet. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/10 "2008-01-08T00:49:34Z")
Home Equity Loan or Second Mortgage? Is it for something you could go to the bank for, for a loan? How much is in your 401k, maybe you can get a loan against that, then at least you are paying yourself back, but it does screw with your retirement a little. You might need to work an extra year longer than if you don’t take the loan against it. Remember, take a loan against your 401k, don’t just withdraw, then you get the tax penalty. How quick do you need the money? Jim ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/11 "2008-01-08T00:54:37Z")
Sell various body parts. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/12 "2008-01-08T00:55:38Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Sell various body parts. [/QUOTE] Or just rent out specific body parts. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/13 "2008-01-08T00:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Home Equity Loan or Second Mortgage? Is it for something you could go to the bank for, for a loan? How much is in your 401k, maybe you can get a loan against that, then at least you are paying yourself back, but it does screw with your retirement a little. You might need to work an extra year longer than if you don’t take the loan against it. Remember, take a loan against your 401k, don’t just withdraw, then you get the tax penalty. How quick do you need the money? Jim [/QUOTE] I need the money pretty quick - a month or two, tops. Borrowing is out, out, out. And ixnay on the 401k raid. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/14 "2008-01-08T00:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Sell various body parts. [/QUOTE] Like what? I think the only thing I could spare would be a single kidney, and that’s barely enough for an appetizer. ---
**Author:** ![Aioua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Aioua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aioua)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/15 "2008-01-08T01:06:26Z")
Is this serious? If you won’t borrow the money, the only way you’re going to score 100k in a couple of months is either getting stupidly lucky, or stealing it–which would require stupid luck to pull off without being caught. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/16 "2008-01-08T01:14:05Z")
True. If we had a repository of workable 50k-per-month schemes to suggest to you, we’d already be _doing them ourselves_. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/17 "2008-01-08T01:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] True. If we had a repository of workable 50k-per-month schemes to suggest to you, we’d already be _doing them ourselves_. [/QUOTE] Bah. Not _everyone_ is as greedy as you, mate. You mean to tell me there’s no way an ambitious young man can earn $100,000 in a few weeks if he’s willing to work moderately hard for it (and as long as it doesn’t interfere with my regular job)? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/18 "2008-01-08T01:17:18Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] I need the money pretty quick - a month or two, tops. Borrowing is out, out, out. And ixnay on the 401k raid. [/QUOTE] I thought you must be joking. 😕 I have acquired $100,000 after working in a high-paying **for a decade**. I have won \*\*$50 \*\* in a two minute chess game. But it’s obvious that there is no safe legal way to acquire large sums of money fast. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/19 "2008-01-08T01:19:34Z")
[QUOTE=glee] I thought you must be joking. 😕 I have acquired $100,000 after working in a high-paying **for a decade**. I have won \*\*$50 \*\* in a two minute chess game. But it’s obvious that there is no safe legal way to acquire large sums of money fast. [/QUOTE] Safe? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667/20 "2008-01-08T01:25:43Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Bah. Not _everyone_ is as greedy as you, mate. You mean to tell me there’s no way an ambitious young man can earn $100,000 in a few weeks if he’s willing to work moderately hard for it (and as long as it doesn’t interfere with my regular job)? [/QUOTE] The key term here is _earn_. If you don’t get hung up on this one word, a whole universe of possibilities opens up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-100-000-fast-any-suggestions/432667.md?page=2)