I'm pretty pissed off at being poor.

Why are so people so keen to deny it?

* Not these days personally - but I've paid my poor dues.

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Utilities will be cut off if I don't pay 585 dollars today
Rent is *still* due (900 dollars) from last due date (i.e. for March, must pay by 30th to avoid eviction) and then of course it's due again after that in a few days
Just finished recording yesterday, owe 350 to the guy for my 1/4 of the cost, but I can wait to pay that
Owe each of my 2 sisters one hundred dollars, one of them is ok with it and the other is kinda PO'ed
Have no glasses (they broke), can't afford to get new ones and can't drive, see, etc
...But also can't drive because my tags are expired and I can't afford new ones (it's 60 dollars).
My cat needs a vet visit to get neutered, he is driving everyone insane.

Did I mention I also have unpaid parking tickets and am supposed to be trying to get my license un-suspended?

I just don't know what to do. At all.

speak to yr utilities company. explain the situation. ask to pay back in smaller instalments. be honest with them and ditto.

ditto landlord.

if you were in the UK i'd be saying "get thee to the citizens advice bureau", but i've no idea if a similar service exists in the states. i assume it must?

and the landlord might require a lot of pleading.but surely they have a heart beating in there somewhere?

Forgot to mention: I am 200 dollars overdrawn at the bank, and they are on my ass.

Or, can a parent bail you out? Sadly, everytime I've been in a situation you've described, I have to go to mum & dad, usually. But I am lucky, I guess, in that my parents will do that for me.

Talk to yr utilities co. and see if you can get on a level pay program. It won't help right now, but it will in the future (it helps me anyway to know I will need exactly $X for the heat/power this month, it makes budgeting a lot easier).

Good luck at any rate.

Sell all of your stuff - you can't afford it. Remember people starving in Africa have no clothes or CDs.

Isn't that a euphemism for prostitution?

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these were shitty times that are now over!

life is so RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

richymuzak

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/meandfatjoe.jpg

Do you remember money

on january 20th i will have $6,000

today, i have 74 cents

Can't you get a sub against it?

hahahahahahahahahahahaha, no.

oh, erm, ok.

at least you're laughing :)

yah i mean cant sum1 lend you some cash for a couple of weeks?

i mean who, my sugar daddy? no thats not how im livin.

i have a gas card so that is cool! and i have lots of groceries. i think i can kick it

food, heat and roof over head, you'll be fine.
the thought of getting $6k would keep you warm if the gas card runs out.

have food, have heat and have roof

recipes are gonna be interesting for the next 2 weeks tho

Rice has saved me in the past. Beans on toast i'll only eat next time i'm poor (in a week or so).

nuevo cuisine

i have so many beans and so many pastas, also i have all kinds of baking supplies

It's amazing when stuck for cash how resourceful you can be and then when you get straight, you forget.

i know! its terrible. im going to try to be really thrifty this semester.

have you wine? Very important.

i dont think its a big assumption to make that youd know at least one person that cld spot you some grocery money or w/e dude!!!! but obv if youve got it handled youve got it handled

last spring i was so broke i was eating the most disgusting shit - one night i started making pasta thinking i still had some shitty sauce left & by the time i realized i had already used the sauce the pasta was done. not wanting to waste it i ended up eating pasta w/carrots, green onions, grilled turnip & celery w/ sour cream. it wasnt that bad really altho i had to eat for lunch the next day too

tried making spanish rice w/sardines tho & that was a p terrible mistake

omg i forgot alcohol

Oh I think I have had that experience nearly every January and August since 2004. I am living out of the pantry right now.

pasta, peanut butter, soy sauce: voila satay. You can eat too much of that though, trust me.

fuck january and august! let us support each other psychologically and internetically through the lean times

being poor pro-tip: do not try mixing rice wine w/kool aid in order to get a buzz its p soul crushing

Roxy if I cld torrent you some of this tortilla soup I froze back in December and am defrosting for tonight's supper, I totally would.

No beer is the hardest part ;_;

food torrents needs to happen for this very reason

Ugh and there's one beer in the fridge and its Abbott's... Financial Aid you are such a harsh mistress...

I think I drank that last night in a fit of ~decadence~

I didn't, love you 50¢ beer

http://www.artzberger.com/BeerCans/newcans/canpics/NameTag0910.jpg

^^^bigger than life size

wait is viceroy...

he's the guy I am married to

omgggggggggggggg! hello

i have some large highlives in the fridge and i would torrent 2 u

I've got $30 in the bank... hoping I get my tax forms real soon so I can get my return

Here's to tax returns! The best thing about February!

got my first w2 today; there's hope.

i did not punch a clock once in 2010

knowing the college department I work for I will probably get my W2s on April 16th.

Add me to the list, please. Although in my case I make enough money so you should probably all kick me and throw rocks...it's just that it goes out to pay off loans and/or rent faster than I can earn it.

Haven't bought a shoe or a bra or a lipstick or a pair of tights or a book or CD or anything in a year. Cigarettes, though, I have to admit I've spent a pile on those.

i am basically sorted for money, been in my job for years and got a good deal on my rent with the ppl i share a house with. would be a stretch to buy my own place or get married/have kids, but happy for the mo, living what you might call the "student-luxe" lifestyle at 29.

knowing the college department I work for I will probably get my W2s on April 16th.

You're in luck! Tax Day is April 18 this year.

I found a dollar earlier today and with some scrounged change I was able to buy myself a tallboy. woohoo!

oh man I remember when I was polled by gallup or whoever the TV ratings people were back in the day (Nielson?) and I was broke. Every day they would send me a dollar (cash!) to remind me to fill out my book. Long story short, "Get a Life" was cancelled but not because of me and I had a 40 ouncer on the house.

lol highlives

i just want to post this

aaaahahahahahahaha hours cut to 24/week and already i could barely keeping my head above water lolol

ty

homestretch homestretch lets dooo this

"HIGHLIVES"

high life rules...10 for a 30 rack of bottles.

theres a new kind of beer at WALGREENS that is 3.50 a sixpack and tastes like schlitz

Bf hasn't worked since early Dec and he would Suffer Torments if it would get him a job...meanwhile even knowing that he's miserable, I'm borderline jealous that he gets to stay home on a snowy day and make coffee and putz around.

Rox, you can make it!! So close to untold riches....

whats it called Roxy? Schitz?

Jealous of people buyin' beer from Walgreens.

They have beer at Walgreen in Missouri now, but no 3.50 sixers.
Kinda stoked that I can pick up Stroh's at Hyvee.

no grocery or pharmacy in Ma. sells booze.

Used to get keggers at Osco in Mo. I was amazed at my cousin who'd get faced on USA VODKA bought at some Kentucky drugstore.

RIP Como Osco ;_;

Jealous of people buyin' beer from Walgreens.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains),

???
I used to get beer at Walgreens in West Memphis because they had a good import selection and better prices than TN.

Maybe Crittenden County's on border rules or something. There are three Walgreens within two miles of me and about the strongest thing you can buy is that weird ass canned Arnold Palmer drink.

that arnold palmer drink is delicious!

^^^

the walgreens beer is called Big Flats

WTF.

Pictures please.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/12/img00113-20101221-2303.jpg

"it's the water that makes it"

i got a small advance towards my loan this afternoon, actually, by going to the bursar's office and acting crazy, basically. it's a small amount but it will tide me comfortably through the last few days preceding granthood. immediately bought the above and some groceries, got gas and got my tags renewed (they had been expired FOREVER). i'm cool til monday = GRANT DAY

PREMIUM BREW
Genuine Brew

i have determined that trader joe's name tag (2.99/6-pack) beer is actually more tolerable on its own than its pricier friend la playa (3.99/6-pack). however, the addition of a slice of lime to la playa edges it over the name tag.

you know, if you feelin splurgy!

splurgey? i dunno.

hey y'all, 2% less social security will be withheld from your paycheck now.... so.... less poor now... poorer in retirement? but really it's ok because it's not like we were gonna get any of those social security dollars anyway.

Yesterday when buying food with my EBT card I had this weird feeling that I was doing something wrong — it was hard not to shop with my own budget. I guess I'd better get over this.

considering blatz

been a while

Feeling rich when you are poor is an art.

"it's the water that makes it"?? dude, pure theft from olympia beer:

http://diversioncansafes.com/otherimages/exp/52009s.jpg

wags of my acquaintance would occasionally use a sharpie to cross out the word "the"

Feeling rich when you are poor is an art.

Yes, but you have to actually build/grow a rich life, inner and outer, for this to be possible. ILXors in general are class acts in this arena. I would put anyone on this thread up against any other random 1st world-living person.

huh, in nyc "name tag" is called "red oval"

guys 40s are a lot more expensive than they used to be

big flats brewed by Gennessee.

today's review of finances makes me so freaking pissed off. i am earning more than i have in my life, but am somehow in what feels like the worst financial situation i've ever experienced. fuck this.

i was thinking this just today. Gf's in college but she took me to lunch cos i'm skint. Payday was yesterday.

I wish I lived somewhere with $3.99 six packs of beer. A six pack here averages $10 and smokes are $15 a pack. Ugh.

$15! for a pack of smokes, damn

ugh

FUCK being jobless

Actually my 30-smoke packs have been $19 in some shops :/

the only way i'm ever going to be well off is if i dedice to become famous instead of being a lowly journalist for my sheer love of news and strong sense of public service values

lol

dedice?? wtf

don't kid yerself, it's your spelling holding you back son

selling out ain't as easy as it sounds

Neither is spelling out.

i just went into the kitchen, where my new roommate, whom i hadn't yet really met, turned out to be making a sandwich, and i'm in sagging jeans and a black t-shirt from my friend's ninth grade play that says HOUSE OF SNAKES and a rumpled red collared shirt over that, and i haven't shaved in a while, and i'd just woken up from falling asleep in front of netflix instant watch, and i was in the kitchen to take a swig of orange juice from the carton, and the new roommate said "are you the writer?"

the writer of House of Snakes?

i hope silver skein is making 6 figures now

the writer of House of Snakes?

i wish. this play was utterly insane.

the shirt also says:

THE POWER OF LIFE
THE POWER OF DEATH
THE POWER OF REDEMPTION
THE POWER OF RESURRECTION
THE POWER OF JUSTICE

HOUSE OF SNAKES

wait i say big flats was 3.99? cause its 2.99.

the way our apartment building works, i pay all the bills and rent and then everyone pays me back
long story short.....
im broke yall!!!!!!!!!!

its my last finals week ever. i need to be spending money on ridiculous amounts of coffee and desserts!!
support me emotionally

thx

Don't give up
'Cause you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good

my bf just remembered that someone gave us a chipotle gift card for xmas, we are eatin giant burritos rn

so your interest in those lifting tumblrs was not merely sociological huh

Where I live most people have shifted to those little cigar things that cost about $2 a pack. I quit smoking actually, it got to the point where it was shameful and I was only doing it to manage stress and stay awake.

Anyway the cherry ones weren't bad. Someone also turned me on to chocolate cigarillos...like for after dinner. That is about it.

Could use a good bottle of wine, though...

so your interest in those lifting tumblrs was not merely sociological huh

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haha i was going to post something about this but declined

The poor need a new cheap anodyne drug to replace cigs. Tobacco always used to be the cheapest way to smooth down the ragged edges of poverty. I suggest we go all-in for replanting tobacco fields with qat (aka khat).

there are periodic scare stories in the london press about the sizeable somali expatriate population's predilection for khat and its supposed cause of paranoia or whatever, mostly similar to skunk panic stories

I'd guess long-term amphetamine addicts wouldn't be so ravaged if they had a qat habit instead. I have always been really intrigued with this drug, would love to give it a go.

Since we have caffeine already, maybe khat wouldn't be the best replacement for cigarettes. Maybe some pharma company could design a drug like soma in Brave New World. The main requirement would be cheapness, but in order to be acceptable to society the effects would need to be fairly mild and not debilitating. It's too bad that coca leaf chewing got ruined by its over-refinement into cocaine.