Ive put up emergency commissions once.

Haven't since then but life is so damn busy... I hate it so I agree~

I just don't see why a freelance artist wouldn't give themselves that cushion is all.
We get car insurance, house insurance, medical insurance, all stuff that helps us pay for things.
Just kills me to see "emergency commissions" left an right on stuff I feel could have been completely avoided by having that spare saving just for replacing broken stuff. .-.

I dont have that much of a cushion sadly, but im working to make one.

Not everyone is as lucky. I know a few arists that if there shit broke they'd be completely 100% screwed but its not their fault.

I suppose that's different views on it, personally I feel if to do something like art, causes more stress an struggle financially, maybe time to consider other job options.
Even more so when it's a constant struggle, talking month after month, not just a lul in income one month.

Sadly real life bills come first an a job that can cover those should as well.
Not trying to knock anyone from their artist dreams surely, just surviving should be before anything else.

I agree. My husband brings in our main finances, my graphics design and commission art is just to supplement our income every month.
I have great work experience in management positions, but because I'm considered an immigrant not from the US, even with my green card, it's been a little harder finding someone to hire me. So I do art instead and graphics freelance, but just to supplement our finances.

Sometimes shit happens out of the blue. Like right now for me, usually we do have savings put away, but my husband's boss is almost 2 weeks late with his paycheck, and through things like that you can easily run out of your savings when you need to pay rent and bills without getting paid.
So while I agree with what you say, and do it myself, sometimes you really can't help it when shit strikes.

Sorry to hear about the delays that has to be frustrating. Of course unexpected stuff happens. I more so mean the people who don't have a savings for equipment, ones who would rather double or triple work load with emergency commissions, rather then having had something saved up just incase.

Yup, I getcha. I think some of them try, I mean I certainly tried my best to build a little nest bundle of savings, but I get sometimes something entirely unexpected happens so hard, it just drains it all in one go. And sometimes then equipment breaks, luckily I got a new tablet just recently for Christmas to replace my one that was dying, lol.
But yeah, I've also seen some artists on here who toss up Help/Emergency journals like they're throwing skittles around. Some have lists of about a hundred people to refund, and are taking extra commissions to be able to refund those people because they took too long on their art, it's a nasty cycle which will just keep repeating into infinity. :(

Yeah, sad but true. I know for me it's hard to see all these emergency journals, who do I offer help to, that truly is in NEED. Not just milking the cow so it speak ._. Makes it hard for the people who are really in need.

Yes that's true. I always felt the same way about people on the street with signs, saying they have no job and what not. I used to always give people on the street a bit of money, but have since in the years after learned you really can't just always do that, either you are helping an alcoholic buy more booze, or just helping lazy people make money. There's this one intersection in the city near where my parents live, and there's a couple, they park their car in a parking lot some distance away, they always dress dirty to play on your emotions and beg for money. But they actually have a home, and a newer car and are doing it because "I can make more begging in a day, than you working for hours."
I feel it's like that on here sometimes.. people just play emotions to get things done faster, when they don't even have a real emergency, while some are actually in hard need of cash. And I mean we can understand the latter, I'm sure we've all had situations where we were hard up for cash before.

I completely agree, there's one group of about four that switch around which street corner they stand on, my dad thinks it's a mom dad an possibly their kids (older ones) but that they rotate around.
It's really sad that people abuse other people's willingness to help.

Exactly! I mean, I was raised with "you help when you can, because you never know when it will come back to you". But I don't want to help someone destroy themselves, or help nurture their lazy, using ways. :(

I know how this goes, there is a Walmart here in my town right off the interstate and there is a couple or a man and a woman hard to tell if they are actually a couple who beg for money right at the stop light intersection that is across from the apartments i used to live in, and every night at about 10 pm a person in a Cadillac escalade picks them up every night and drops them of every morning. And for a while i thought they where just being nice and taking them to the shelter and bring them back to the place they would have the most luck getting help, till i decided to kill some time and follow them and found they live in the higher class part of my town. I nearly threw a rock at there car i was so pissed. My husband and I used to give them money every paycheck to help them out. I mean I did the right thing helping out but when you find out the type of people it went to it just kinda made the blood in me boil.

Yep, most definitely. My aunt has gotten to the level of where she will go, and she will buy a loaf of bread or something, and something to put on it, and a drink, and instead of money, she'll give them that. That way they can't go buy alcohol or something while they hold a sign saying they have no job and need to buy food. :P

Yea my hubby and i started doing now, although we haven's helped out anyone in about year now since the last few times they where not grateful one person refused the food the other accepted and then when we got in our car and looked back they where throwing it away. I was like whelp thanks for destroying my image of the homeless and making it hard for me to feel generous to those who actually would be grateful

Yeah, I've had that. But trying to offer real food is usually an easy way to find out who is just playing people's emotions and after hard cash instead. It's a real pity though...

yea although since the ordeal havent seen many people asking anymore so i see that as a good thing