Being really, really poor thread

Find a rich girlfriend.

Problems solved.

  On 9/4/2011 at 11:53 PM, asymmetrical head said:

hmmm... I'm probably gonna hit up that survey thing and just do it all night every night :)

that was some nice easy money... I don't like that amazon payments though is the option for receiving payment.

  On 9/5/2011 at 6:30 PM, yikes said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 6:08 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 5:39 PM, yikes said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 4:31 AM, chenGOD said:

Someone mentioned the Krishna temples - totally good. They have mad vegetarian feasts.

 

fixt

 

Does it matter that they're vegetarian? They're great no matter which way you slice it. Smetty is not a vegetarian, and he won't care if the food is vegetarian if it's as awesome as the food at the Krishna temple is.

 

at this point every time i make any post you have some problem with it

fuck off

Not at all true - did you write the post about the krishnas originally? Yeah so I seconded that by saying they have great feasts - I know, I've been to a few of them.

When you distinctly identify it as "vegetarian" you are saying that it is something that is not normal. In effect you are denigrating being vegetarian to something other, and are saying "even though this is vegetarian, it is still delicious, which might not be standard when encountering vegetarian cuisine".

A person who eats meat is more than likely also going to eat vegetables, (a bit of faulty logic on my part, but based on observable habits not a bad conclusion), and is not likely to care if there is no meat at a particular meal. A person who does not eat meat should care enough to ask if the meal has meat in it, at which point they can choose to eat only the vegetables at said meal, or not participate at all.

Why the need to curse - are you that full of anger?

  On 9/5/2011 at 5:05 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

 

loan payments are now due, sucking up the rest of the expendable income.

Can't you defer on the basis of financial hardship?

as some others have said, i guarantee you would get 'food stamps'. it's just a debit card kinda thing, so nobody's going to sit there and call you out at the store while you fumble around licking stamps or something...depending on your rent and other bills, you could get up to $300/month. it takes about 30 minutes from what i recall--it has been awhile thank god, but it's way easier than starving! good luck

  On 9/5/2011 at 5:02 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

 

sorry my man, but fruit is NOT cheap where I live. I get applesauce on sale when I can...but a fresh apple goes for about 2 dollars. I am not kidding. One apple.

Exsqueeze me? Baking powder? I'm sorry but no. Something is wrong with this picture. Are you trying to buy an apple at the gas station or something?

orite

indian/middle eastern/asian and mexican groceries

fucking manna from heaven, they are

i used to get dried chickpeas and tahini. came to about 8 bucks. made enough hummus to last me a month.

  On 9/5/2011 at 6:30 PM, yikes said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 6:08 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 5:39 PM, yikes said:

  On 9/5/2011 at 4:31 AM, chenGOD said:

Someone mentioned the Krishna temples - totally good. They have mad vegetarian feasts.

 

fixt

 

Does it matter that they're vegetarian? They're great no matter which way you slice it. Smetty is not a vegetarian, and he won't care if the food is vegetarian if it's as awesome as the food at the Krishna temple is.

 

at this point every time i make any post you have some problem with it

fuck off

that's the spirit laddie

Hardcode's just sold a car. He could probably spare a few quid.

I would be happy to send you a tie if I could afford the postage.

fuck it, let's have a whip round for SR4 so he can go out and get royally drunk. i'll happily chip in a fiver.

Salted peanuts are supposedly the best value food available anywhere at typical prices, based on protein content, calories, and nutrients.

You can get a big foot long tube of them for $1 where I live. 1/4 of a jar could easily fill you up and act as a meal but they may mess up your insides quite a bit.

Get an off-brand store type though not overpriced Planters.

you're really, reeeeeeeeally poor?

then cancel your internet subscription and get a second job and/or work nights and stop wasting your time and money talking shite online!

/tough-love

  On 9/5/2011 at 10:12 PM, sirch said:

you're really, reeeeeeeeally poor?

 

then cancel your internet subscription and get a second job and/or work nights and stop wasting your time and money talking shite online!

 

/tough-love

 

read first post plz. you seem to have not read any of it.

anyways thsi thread wasn't designed as a "pity me, i have it so hard" thread, shit, half the people i know are in a similar situation...and im not doing horribly with it. its different, and oddly enough in somewhat of an exciting way.

Im planning on selling all of my cds...do you know if id be able to get about 2 bucks per? if so, thats a couple months of rent right there. Ive heard no one even takes free cds anymore.

  On 9/5/2011 at 8:11 PM, disparaissant said:

orite

indian/middle eastern/asian and mexican groceries

fucking manna from heaven, they are

i used to get dried chickpeas and tahini. came to about 8 bucks. made enough hummus to last me a month.

o shit this sounds like a fantastic idea! gotta find a mexican grocer now...

also, many thanks for the drinking fund offer, but getting drunk is about the last thing on my mind right now.

have one for me!

i've never found it extraordinarily hard to make money, just annoying. being poor is more annoying, though, and somewhere in between i've found a balance.

i recall reading an old yippie guide that someone had scanned and turned into a text file. it had a section about living cheaply/freely. all sorts of brilliant ideas that ranged from altruistic to downright sketchy. i'd link it if i remembered enough to find it on google, because i know you'd get a shitload out of it now. try to find some stuff like that !!

edit: shit, i remember now! it was "Steal This Book." go read that

edit II: http://www.semantikon.com/StealThisBookbyAbbieHoffman.pdf

Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Organ meats are actually not cheap where I live. Much better to get cheap cuts from WinCo or similar budge supermarket, or one of the Latino/Mexican meat shops. Costco meats are the best bang for your buck, but if you're poor chances are you aren't paying 50$/year for a membership. And having meat doesn't really need to be an every day thing. If you know how to cook feeding yourself is super cheap really.

Yeah, I moved out when I was 17. Too young for Welfare and I have a ton of health problems, the worse being bipolar and fibro myalgia. I was also doing a lot of drugs at the time. So I couldn't hold a job. I once went 22 days without eating a thing. ( actually I did have 1 used pizza dipping sauce container) My meal after the 22 days was first a bread bowl from Tim Hortons that someone left behind (they ate the soup and left a perfectly good bread bowl). I spent a week in the hospital psych ward, so I got to eat there. Out of the hospital I went another couple days without eating. Then a friend gave me $5, so I bought a can of tomato sauce and a big bag of spaghetti noodles. I ate the entire bag of noodles in about 45 mins. It was a Blockbuster popcorn bowl filled with the pasta. That was the most I ever ate at one time. I felt like shit afterwards.

The day I turned 18 I went on Welfare. It allowed me to pay my bills and have a few extra bucks (like $25) for the month. I managed to bum friends for drugs so I could use my money for food. My buddies worked along with me on this. Which helped me to eat.

Anyways, I'm 25 in less than 2 weeks and I'm doing a hell of a lot better now. I'm on permanent disability, which pays just over $1000 per month. Which is plenty for food and bills and a few extra things like games. All my meds are paid for in full. I've quit all the recreational drugs I was doing. I've been clean since I was 19 now. I've actually gained some weight and look a bit healthier lol. So yeah, things ended up working out for me. I'm quite happy these days (minus some depression that is inevitable from having bipolar).

So hold on dude, things may not be so good right now, many suffer like that for quite some time. But for lots of people, they run into a solution. You seem like a smart guy, I genuinely hope things work out for you soon.

Cheers.

  On 9/6/2011 at 4:06 AM, 747Music said:

I managed to bum friends for drugs

*snicker*

Speaking of organ meats. Yum Yum.

I think anyone will struggle to complain without looking pathetic after 747's surprisingly chirpy tale of starvation and illness. Go you!

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mturk

somebody explain to me how people can give an entire hour of their own time to make 0.03 $

have you tried eating out of dumpsters?