**Money Woes is a new category that will publish letters by regular people having money problems. This is the premier post in “Money Woes”. It’s an email I received from an acquaintance. I’ve been given permission to use here.

Hey:
You won’t believe what a mess I’ve gotten myself into. Remember that $3000 sale I made the other day? Guess what? The buyer filed some complaint with PayPal claiming the item wasn’t as described and PayPal reversed the sale. They deducted $3000 from my bank account leaving me with $150. And rent is due in 8 days! Can you believe this? You know I usually have reserve funds in case of crap like this, but guess what? Because it was a pretty big sale and I felt like the buyer was an honest guy, I went ahead and bought the PS3 for Josh and the ipods for the girls that I was supposed to get them last Christmas. I spent all but $150 of my reserve funds. What the hell am I gonna do now? I’ll tell you, not that I would do it or anything but I feel so desperate right now I could jump off a bridge.