You can tell you're BR when...

So_Sad_Angel

xocbc wrote: »

When...

Curtains are drawn all day, phone unplugged and the door is always locked

You have a 2 foot high pile of red letters from assorted scum agencies

When you hear a car door shut outside and !!!! yourself in case its a baliff

When every time you go to the bank machine you wonder if RBS have withdrawn your overdraft and you can't get your wages

When you buy from Shoezone

When Farmfoods own brand freeflow mince (98% fat or something) is in the freezer

When Regal kingsize are too expensive

When you pump the car tyres up to 36psi and drive at 56mph, paying more attention to the fuel guage than the speedo

When you find any excuse NOT to have to go on work christmas lunch/night out because you can't put £20 in the kitty

When, after stealing your next door neighbours potatoes out of his garden, you wonder how roast cat would taste (ok that one's not serious hehe, my cat is alive and well, sitting on my keyboard as I type)

When the pre-paid meter is using electric faster that you can feed it

When you fall out with the GF because she takes more than 3 mins in the shower due to meter above...

When GF is unhappy that two jumpers is necessary before I will even look at on switch for central heating

When Tesco Value seems expensive

When you have to take a sickie because you can't put fuel in the car until payday

When u finally realise reality and just laugh at the £30k tax bill instead of crying

Classic post ...thankyou!!

Puzzledbubbles

When you discuss bancruptcy with non mse'rs and use all of the acronyms = BR, OR, IPA, BRU etc in conversation and assume they know exactly what you are talking about.

When you find coupons for ANYTHING interesting - i dont have children, nor do i have anyone in close proximity who has young babies yet that coupon for nappy cream will be kept until it expires "just in case"

Puzzledbubbles

DON79 wrote: »

when you are pleased that you managed to shop and feed a family of four for a month for £77! Iceland and Aldi!

Wow, very impressive

Tobiwan_Kenobi

the first task of the day is to contact Job Centre Plus for the 5th time to see if you're likely to get any cash before the end of the month, after all I did sign on on 2nd March. Is it too much to ask?

dottydora

When your in laws are coming to staY and you and your som empty out the coppers in the jars and manage to scrape £3.43 to put in coinstar machine to buy some chicken and butter so they can be fed and you transfer 38p from savings account to the £1.07 in current account so you can buy milk on card! Just off to Tesco now! Fortunately pay day tomorrow!

Tobiwan_Kenobi

after another 20 minutes on the telephone to Job Centre Plus actually gets a result - I should get some money by the end of the month - Hurrah! Small victories mean so much!

missymugwump

This brings back memories thank for this thread its great

When your teenage kids ask you to sign as guarentee for something and you can't help them

When you creep back at night to collect any mail left in your reposessed house & find they have finally changed the locks & put a lovely sticker in the windows for your ex neighbours to read

When you don't care about the savings interest rate cause youv'e got none

When the novelty of moving rented house every couple of years wears off & you crave a place to call home


When you go to the coinstar machine & accidentally push the donate to charity button & realise you have to live on fresh air for a few days (you would be surprised how many people do it)


When its 3 years later and you realise how lucky you are that despite being made redundant you dont owe anyone and can manage easily on your jobseekers due to your new budgeting skills

Lost2

when you have pains in your stomach and think it is period pains
then you relies that you are far to old for them

sieve

When you pay for everything using either cash or electron

lisamummytoarchieplusbump

when id theft doesnt worry you