# Need $50 - $200 \[suggest how I can get it\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506 "2010-10-27T11:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/41 "2010-10-28T19:50:25Z")
**Brynda** - Are you saying you’re a cheap drunk? **yokan** - You can always go the pawnshop route, since you expect to be able to repay soon. I’ve never done it, but you can get short-term cash that way and get your stuff back. If you’re in Tennessee, I’m willing to pay someone $8.50/hr to help me do some work on the farm. I need some fenceline cleared and I want to fence in my yard. StG ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/42 "2010-10-29T19:35:20Z")
You could sell your vote to the highest bidding politician. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/43 "2010-10-29T23:50:35Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > When I was a grad student, I made money tutoring athletes through the athletic department. You may also want to try the biology department and the medical school to see if they need subjects. Easiest $50 I ever earned was for an alcohol study, especially since I threw up and got sent home early. 🙂 I did an alcohol study last year. A girl showed up to it (the study was a Friday afternoon) and didn’t blow a 0 on the breathlyzer. And the study just showed me that even ONE drink makes you very impaired. They had us do visual puzzles before and after the drink - like, find the next pattern in this sequence, read an SAT style story and answer questions. I didn’t even feel buzzed and I really sucked at the post-drink questions. They should do the alcohol study on anyone with a DUI. It’ll prove how bad things really are. I made $80 getting an MRI a few weeks ago. Do the psych experiments and donate plasma. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/44 "2010-10-30T00:59:01Z")
I am unemployed right now and these suggestions are a help for me too, thanks. No one has mentioned babysitting yet? Question, where might i look in the Cleveland area for being a psych subject? ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/45 "2010-10-30T01:52:39Z")
University and college psych websites. If that fails, call the main # and ask. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/46 "2010-10-30T12:21:06Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > Question, where might i look in the Cleveland area for being a psych subject? Universities, research hospitals. Sometimes drug companies will advertise for paid “guinea pigs” for potential new drugs in local papers, but you have to fit a certain profile (e.g. be 45 and older and have had a hysterectomy). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/47 "2010-10-30T14:47:20Z")
> [@Notchimine](#): > > If I were in your situation, I would put an ad on Craigslist offering to clean houses or do household chores for a reasonable rate. Craigslist also has a “Gigs” section. I met a guy at church , and when I asked him what he did, he said “Gigs!”. Turns out every time there’s a triathlon or a big sports event, Energy drink companies, as well as others, pay people to hand out samples/brochures/etc. … and those are listed in the Gigs section. Just checked, and our “Gigs” also list Giving Out Samples In Grocery Stores. You could call up a temp agency, but it might take too long to get paid. I have friends that play (mediocre) guitar on The Big Street That Students Walk On (State St. in Madison, WI, but all college towns have one). I asked one of them, and he pulls in $20-30/hr, and it ain’t cause he’s the Carlos Ray Clapton of State Street… ~ ~ ~ Saw a guy with a big cardboard sign: “Need Money For Weed!” … and a hat full of bills. ~ ~ ~ Good luck! Keep us posted. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/48 "2010-10-30T14:58:08Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Universities, research hospitals. Sometimes drug companies will advertise for paid “guinea pigs” for potential new drugs in local papers, but you have to fit a certain profile (e.g. be 45 and older and have had a hysterectomy). **BigBertha** , do be advised that these aren’t psych experiments but actual drug experiments; they will slather on a cream or have you take a pill to see your reaction. Most of these require that you are on NO medication at all at the time - including birth control. Many others will require you to be of a certain type: under 35 occasional smoker. Things like that. The psych experiments usually only involve thinking/doing things, no unknown drugs of sorts. ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/49 "2010-10-31T06:37:53Z")
Rigamorale- I’m having trouble accessing the Knowledge Network website. How do I start taking surveys? Did u have to send them a resume and cover letter and salary requirements? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506/50 "2010-10-31T06:46:35Z")
> [@BaconAndEggs](#): > > Rigamorale- I’m having trouble accessing the Knowledge Network website. How do I start taking surveys? Did u have to send them a resume and cover letter and salary requirements? You know, I didn’t remember how I signed up since I’ve been a member for so long but I just looked it up and apparently you have to be invited to become a member. They send you a letter if you’re selected. Guess that won’t help you, but if you do ever get a letter from them I can attest to the fact that they’re legit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-50-200-suggest-how-i-can-get-it/558506.md?page=2)