I have literally no money!

beancounter1978

Also, someone's mentioned drinking water as a quick way to fill up (very temporarily) - hot drinks do that even better. And your work lunches - if you have a thermos flask, get cheap tinned soup and take a flask of that with a couple of slices of value bread.

dollydumpling

Hi - I'm going away for a few days but if you PM me your address today I can pop £6 of Luncheon Vochers in the post tomorrow morning. I got them from pinescone so I won't notice them gone!

fatpiggy

Definitely use work or MacDonalds for free loo-roll. Think about asking at the local market for bruised veg and fruit (I say it is for my horse!) . A market butchers would probably let you have bacon bits for free or next to nothing. Make soup out of anything and everything as it fills you up for much longer. You can wash your hair in the short-term with washing up liquid and you probably don't need to wash it more than every other day. I got a huge French stick in the supermarket for 19p last week and I have no doubt you could buy bread even cheaper than that if you go at closing time.

For future reference, send off for every freebie you see on this site! - particulary useful for moisturiser and shampoo in my experience.

Unfortunately I think it is a bit too early for blackberries at the moment. When I was a student doing field work I lived for days at a time on potato soup with cheese on top and wild bilberries from the hillsides I was working on.

brokeinwales

beancounter1978 wrote: »

Without wanting to offend any sensibilities, I knew a girl in college who considered loo roll to be a luxury...she used a washcloth and rinsed it out wherever possible, and for everything else she used the public loos after class!

oh my life...

Daffykjs

I stole a loo roll from work last month (to avoid a spend day on my challenge, hehe).

Boots own shampoo is about 90p and it lasts for literally ages!!

goodluck.

Fire_Fox

'Eat healthily on 50p per day'
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1157641

'Cheapest way to five a day'
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1798823

I am a qualified personal trainer working in the NHS and have have taken nutrition modules at degree level. My advice would be to limit your exercise for the next two weeks rather than let your body fat drop too low - honestly it would be healthier.

You would lose 5% of your aerobic fitness with two weeks of inactivity, but for maintaining fitness it's more important to do intensity than quantity. Twenty minutes of exercise at your usual intensity twice a week and you will be able to maintain your fitness - so take your running shoes and run part of the way home some days. Do you know anyone you could borrow a bicycle from to vary your fitness routine and get to work quicker?

clairelg88

you could get a crisis loan from the social fund, its not just for people on benefits

ct24

debtmuncher wrote: »

with paypal there are charges are they not same for postal orders? thing with money though is biw might run to the nearest pub with it lol!!:beer::rotfl:

we have all been the position of having no money but for most of us we have the local support in the form of family or something. so because i got extra special support i am more than glad to return the favour to someone else in need of it.

if you send money as a gift with paypal there are no fees.

debtmuncher

ct24 wrote: »

if you send money as a gift with paypal there are no fees.

ah fab! dont use paypal, have an account i think that dh uses but its yonks since i have last used it.

MrCarrot

I would just buy a big bag of porridge and loads of tins of 7p beans. If there's any money left over buy some bread.

It won't exactly be tasty but it will be enough for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Enough to fill you up, plus it will provide adequate carbs, protein and fibre. Think of it as a challenge, getting through the next two weeks with £3.

Someone mentioned nicking loo roll from McDonalds - maybe you could also take some of the minature milk cartons in the process lol.