living on nothing programme

PasturesNew

I watched it and scribbled notes as I did (for those who can't be 4rsed to watch it)
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1393841

23rdspiral

ceridwen wrote: »

Errr....little sidenote - one can just find food on the streets.....over the last month I've found: 2 lemons, 1 orange, 1 leek and a can of lager. Waste not - want not thinks me and I've put them all to good use.:D I've found cheese (wrapped I hasten to add) and a melon before now. So - it does happen.

i found a jar of cloves outside St.Georges Hall in Reading once, felt sorry for the poor student who lost them, but as i was also a poor student, i figured it was ok - and 7 years later there's still a few left!

oliveoyl

Isn't available to watch online anywhere... I've had a good look but can't find it?

mrs_miser

So you,ll all be rather pleased to know part 2 is on tonight.

geordie_joe

mrs_miser wrote: »

So you,ll all be rather pleased to know part 2 is on tonight.

I'll be watching it, but not for the reasons I began watching the first one for.

I'll be interested to see just how far fetched it gets.

Caterina

At what time does it start? Thanks!

geordie_joe

Caterina wrote: »

At what time does it start? Thanks!

I was going to say, 8.00pm, so don't turn over to Eastenders after Corrie finishes. As I was planning not to turn over after Corrie.

Then I checked the online TV guide, just to make sure I had my facts right, and noticed that the hunt for the tightest person is on channel 4 at 7.35.

I had completely forgotten about that and would have missed it!

So that's the tightest person at 7.35 then turn over to ITV when it finishes.

curly_cabbage

I agree there was severl convient situations as detailed in this thread but, the lady that lived on £1 a day after rent and bills, intrested me but i didn't make a note of the title of the book.

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Primrose

I felt the programme was rather staged. He must have been given a lot of leads to follow up, otherwise the cameras would just have been following a man walking around on the streets for two weeks, and I very much doubt that many of the genuine totally destitute people on the streets would have had the ingenuity or capacity to research free options open to them in a similar manner. Yes, it gave a few interesting insights as to the limited options available in certain areas but a better experiment would have been to take five destitute people sleeping on the streets and see how they survived for 14 days. I suspect the result would have been rather different.

curly_cabbage

curly_cabbage wrote: »

I agree there was severl convient situations as detailed in this thread but, the lady that lived on £1 a day after rent and bills, intrested me but i didn't make a note of the title of the book.

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Just incase any body else was intrested the details of the book are as follows

Kath Kelly - How i lived on just a pound a day

I have found that our local liberies have a copy so i have reserved a copy.

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