Money help: my parents have a lot of overdue bills, I’m worried. - Help.com

how old are you? do you work? can you help them?

Remember bills are bills - they will always be here - we all go through difficult times and sometimes we are just irresponsible and don’t pay our bills because we would rather play- I’m guilty of that one. But…. sometimes I think people focus too much on what we owe instead of working on bringing in more money. If you shift the focus from the bill to figuring out ways to bring in more income it can turn things around.

I’ll never forget how worried I used to get when I was in my 20’s I would think of killing myself over bills. I took it sooooo personally when I wasn’t able to handle my debts. Yet business is business- it isn’t who you are!!!!

I keep everything—- so years later I was cleaning out an old file cabinet and found all the bills I had been worried over back then- almost to the point of ending my life and they were so insignificant- small - less than $5000. But in my 20’s $5000 was a huge amount of money.

This too shall pass! Focus on good positive things and the bills will get taken care of.

That is something for them to wory about not you. You need to do your best to put it out of your mind.

If you still can’t stop worrying then be proactive; go around your comunity and find ways to make some money for the famly. During the great depresion the whole famly whent out no mater there age to make some money; any amount is helpful.

You can ask people you know if they need a baby sitter, or if they need their dog walked, or if they need a room in their house cleaned, and a whole lot of things like this. Just make sure your safe at all times.