how i lived for a year on £1 a day

curlytop12

heard about this book ( by kath kelly),thought,mmmm sounds great,very MSE.

looked on ebay- there's one copy only-priced £302 !!!!!!!

am i missing something?:o

Tixy

?? Maybe its personally hand written in blood?

However amazon have a copy available from green met for £1.62!

Hovel_lady

Excellant book.
Definately worth spending £1.62 (plus postage) on

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052710/How-cash-strapped-teacher-beat-credit-crunch-living-1-day-YEAR-drunken-bet.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1053033/How-I-lived-1-day-year.html

curlytop12

....off to look at amazon!......

curlytop12

yay! got one,£4.42 inc postage.

when i've read it,it'll be put back for sale!

THANKYOU

Mort

"With her rent and utility bills already paid for the year". So it's really £1.00 per day plus several thousand pounds paid in advance.

I suppose that would not make such a catchy book title.

barbarawright

Mort wrote: »

"With her rent and utility bills already paid for the year". So it's really £1.00 per day plus several thousand pounds paid in advance.

I suppose that would not make such a catchy book title.

IIRC she lived in a bedsit or possibly room in shared house and had no telly or heating in her room. The £1 a day was for everything apart from rent/heating (don't think she had a phone and definitely not internet) though I think she allowed herself prescriptions if needed. Clearly her situation wasn't the same as everyone's - single, no dependents, job in teaching where there were quite a few freebie buffets, but she managed to have a great social life without spending anything and without scrounging from friends. And she even managed to travel to hitchhike to France within her budget. I liked it - made a change from the usual 'how I moved from London to the Isle of Mull and had lots of chicken-related fun' sort of downsizing book.

determined_new_ms

Mort wrote: »

"With her rent and utility bills already paid for the year". So it's really £1.00 per day plus several thousand pounds paid in advance.

I suppose that would not make such a catchy book title.

come on though that's still something massive! I doubt even the old schoolers can manage a £1 a day!

keys_2

I have just copied on play.com to see if I could buy it and look what came up


http://www.play.com/Search.html?searchtype=allproducts&searchsource=0&searchstring=how+i+lived+for+a+year+on+%C2%A31+a+day

sure I saw this book in a shop a few weeks ago ...Not for that price thow obviously :rotfl:

Mort

But using her logic I could write two books, one for yesterday and one for the weekend before last.
Yesterday I lived on 40p because I only bought one Klix machine coffee and the other weekend I was ill so we stayed in. Mortgage, rent, utilities, petrol etc... were all paid for on different days during the month of January.
Perhaps I will make it two chapters in one book called "How I Survived for 3 days on 40p".

curlytop12

Mort wrote: »

But using her logic I could write two books, one for yesterday and one for the weekend before last.
Yesterday I lived on 40p because I only bought one Klix machine coffee and the other weekend I was ill so we stayed in. Mortgage, rent, utilities, petrol etc... were all paid for on different days during the month of January.
Perhaps I will make it two chapters in one book called "How I Survived for 3 days on 40p".

have you read the book then?and you didn't like it? thought it was a con?