I am the poorest man on ILX

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...after jess of course ha ha.
See, my wife and I got accepted at this housing place we were on a waiting list for for like a year, but the lease on our other place goes until September, so we're currently paying rent at two different places (until we can find somone to sublet it, which is impossible), which sucks. So now as soon as my finals end this saturday (yes i have a saturday final grr) i have to immediately start working non-stop day and night just to pay for my apartments! Damn! And even despite that, i'm probably not going to make enough to pay for them both, so i'm going to have to ask for an extension on one of them and then spend all june working more than full time while not having a cent to spend on anything but rent and then at the end of june i still might not have enough to pay july's rent!

oh so I guess this thread needs a purpose other than my whinging, so you talk about, oh, being screwed on rent, and/or working too much, and/or being really really broke. :)

(PS: I hear someone's trying to unload an apartment in Minneapolis and they'll let it go for real cheap if anyone you know needs one...)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(also messages that go "you aren't so poor! I am currently living in the space behind someone's fridge and letting people urinate on me for table scraps!" are welcome too)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

you get table scraps for that now?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it will pass. remember that when you get up in the morning. strangely enough, it helped me a lot to believe that, when i was behind in rent, power and phone about to be cut off and i had an infant son to care for.
it passed.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Check the small print on the rental agreement on the apartment you don't want any more ......... are you sure there isn't a break clause in it? You may only have to give a month's notice.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I had to go begging cap in hand for an overdraft extension yesterday as I haven't been paid... bah.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No one here is as poor as me (in ANY sense of the word) :-(

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

no one is as plur as me

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really poor and v tired.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't even talk to me about it. I want to cry just thinking about the amount of money I am owed. I have realised though that crying does bugger all good and that I have to do something about it.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You are owed money, Anna? That doesn't sound so bad.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It is bad when there is little prospect of getting the money back. Not that this is the case with Anna, I'm just speaking from personal experience.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to fight with my best friend about who was poorer (I think she won in the end because we had three bedrooms in our house, or something). Matt and I currently have one part-time salary between us, so I might beat her these days :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm skint and have a headache.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

I am almost laughably, no-idea-how-to-pay-the-rent broke, and possibly one of the most unemployable people in the world, by the looks of things.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Is jess prepared to try and trump me?

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hi adam!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

We're all going to hell.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

this makes me sad... the below is my real email address, please "reach out" tomorrow and let's talk.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

you can join me in hell adam!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Me three!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not stinking poor but I'm struggling and that stucks enough. If I was actually out of work or a student or up to my neck in a home loan I'd wear it - but I'm on a decent salary yet always skint, because half of it goes on my rent, and I cant afford to save anythign up to move somewhere cheaper. I'm also supporting a jobless partner, feeding us both, and anticipating a $1500+ tax bill in 2 months that I cant pay cos I have no savings and my visa cards maxed out.

If I lost my job now, I'd be FUCKED. I'm pretty depressed actually.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll live but i'm not thrilled about it.

i'm in school right now, and i have a part time job at the university where i go (it's the job i had before i went to school). the univ is under a fiscal crisis and is restructuring the costs of the health care plans for the second time in 3 years as well as freezing wage increases for this year -- including inflation-matching cost-of-living increases. the clerical union (which i am in) started their strike against these measures today.

i don't work tuesdays, i have classes all day, but tomorrow i am going in for my first day of scab work. i can't tell you how pissed i am about it, but i have no choice. my finances are extremely tight; one half-time clerical job and one quarter time TA appointment is already a pittance. losing either one for even a week and i have to choose between housing and food. i decided to live on my work and only take out enough loans to pay for school itself. i have no savings. neither side is giving an inch, this could go on a long while.

i want the union to get its demands but i can't participate, and i fear the strike will fail because of guys like me (strike participation has been reported at around half), ppl in already too precarious a position to credibly threaten not to work.

the professoriat is well behind labor, and many are refusing to break picket lines, even under threat of discipline to keep business running smoothly; i had a review session held in an church center across the street from campus, the coffee shops and bars are filled with classes. i went to get a beer with some colleagues and the manager of a pizza place was handing out flyers: half off your bill if yr on strike, for the duration. i wanted to hide from him.

so no, i'm not broke and i won't be. others will be soon enough.

(my only real consolation is that since i dropped from full- to half-time hours, i may not technically be a member anymore, and therefore not even be entitled to strike, but the dues are still coming out of my check and i wouldn't want them to stop.)

― i am fucking ashamed of myself, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

don't have kids! don't buy a car! don't buy a house!

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a horrible feeling. Demoralizing, debilitating, etc. But, it generally does get better, as has been said above. Even if you don't have a right to cancel one or the other of the leases, one can be pleasantly surprised at what one can get by asking. If you go and talk to the people you owe money, tell them your situation, and let them know you're doing everything in your power to pay them back as soon as possible, many people are surprisingly willing to work with you. They don't want you to default.

And, if you let your landlord know you're willing to be urinated on behind the fridge [as appears to be the case], you may even be able to get a month's rent for it, or at least dinner. I think that will buy you more than just table scraps, but maybe that's because I live in Germany! AHem...right then...

As corny as it is, it will get better. Also corny but true, avoid personal debt as much as possible, credit cards, etc. and keep your credit good. Other than that, all advice is crap.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, my situation got better. My old landlord did end up screwing me, but it's all over now. My wife is an indian, so she gets more money than she could possibly use for school; we're actually doing pretty well. It's nothing permanent though, this time next year we'll both be graduated and probably much poorer than we ever were this last summer.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 22 October 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah for being poor! And owing on student loans! And a car loan! And owing money to a bunch of different credit card companies! And paying for car repairs and your car still sounding crappy! And so on!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray for urination!

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm living on a concrete floor in someone's furnace room. I'm an illegal immigrant now that my pass is expired, so I can't get another job or assistance. I've lived on $500 since July. Luckily I still have $400, I don't owe anyone money except student loans, and no car or kids.

Why: I'm stuck working for free on a project I signed up for. There are no jobs at all in my type of work (thousands of jobless vets with decades of experience are competing for the handful that open up- the biggest company in the business just laid off everyone.) A friend offered me paid work across the border, with his independent project- unfortunately I wasn't told the pay was supposed to come through sponsors, but no sponsors showed up. I don't want to quit because 1) doing it halfway through would fuck up my friend's project and probably my future jobs 2) there's more of a chance this project might sell sometime soon, than my now drained savings would support me until I got another job back across the border 3) working free at least helps get one of those jobs that now require 5 or 10 years experience.

So, never ever trust a friend as an employer.

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

don't have kids! don't buy a car! don't buy a house!
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 04:55 (11 years ago)

p much said this to a fella at the weekend, six figures and moan moan moan about cash flow. he did not lol immediately.

― irl lol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 00:22 (ten years ago)

seems like a lot of people making six figures expect too much from their money, like its supposed to make their wishes come true or something like that. in my admittedly limited experience, money never makes so soft a bed as we want it to. you still have to deal with shit every fucking day.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 03:26 (ten years ago)

if you can't live well on 6 figures with kids then fuck you tbh

― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:19 (ten years ago)

This for anybody going through tough times
Believe me, been there, done that
But everyday above ground is a great day, remember that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTXJQ5ql5Fw

― niels, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:03 (ten years ago)

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