Rat Race Blues is a beautifully designed and easy to navigate e-book with valuable strategies for living life you want and deserve. This e-book begins with an analogy that most of us can understand: comparing our lives to a merry-go-round. How many of us spend our days overworking, overspending, frustrated and feeling like we can never get ahead? We work harder to pay bills, overspend in response to stress and work harder to pay for overspending. On and on it goes. Darlene Arecheddera offers readers a way to get off merry-go-round, improve their lives and reduce their stress.

With so many out of work, laid off or staying in dead end jobs to make ends meet, we need creative ways of generating extra income. Here are a few simple, innovative ideas to get cash you need quickly.

1) Your personal gold mine, can be staring you right in face. Many of us save momentos for years for nostalgia or for that one time that we might need them. That time never seems to come though. Why not allow someone else to enjoy them as much as you have. These nick nacks may seem inconsequential or even like junk to you and may seem like buried treasure to some one else.

Go through your closets. Clear off your bookshelves. Unload those dresser drawers and create streams of income. Turn that old typewriter into a writer's dream and earn extra pocket money. Take that nineteen fifties dress out of closet and make a retro chick happy, while filling your bank account.

With invention of online auctions, like ebay and ubid, you can turn trash to cash. Or you can go to flea markets and offer your treasure up to vendors for half profits. Books can be redeemed for a partial profit through sites like half.com or even amazon.com.