Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do?

Re:Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? by PieSquared on Saturday November 29, 2008 @11:44PM (#380641)

I haven't been in such a situation... but you said, "Sell any other assets you don't need for work (e.g. television, videogames, other non-essential and time-wasting items), use the money for food and debt service."

Is the $500 you're going to get for selling a TV and a video game system going to help that much? It seems that you should keep anything you actually use, to me - you're in enough stress as it is, you don't need to make yourself feel desperately poor.

Or am I missing something?

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Re:Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? by skmurphy on Sunday November 30, 2008 @01:26AM (#380713)

It's a question of focus. He is desperately poor: he's completely broke. He has talents that he needs to focus on making money. My assumption was that he still wants to be an entrepreneur: he needs to learn how to bootstrap on minimal cashflow.

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Re:Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? by run4yourlives on Sunday November 30, 2008 @01:07PM (#380976)

I think you'd get a bigger payoff from not having the TV and games around to distract you than simply the $500.

Every hour not spent watching TV can be better spent somewhere else, even if all he's doing is reading.

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Re:Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do? by skmurphy on Sunday November 30, 2008 @07:13PM (#381227)

TV is a "two bird stone" in that regard. Videogames as well.

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