Things you've done when things got desperate!

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Just wondering why people on the forum think that humans drinking human breast milk is weird?
Isn't it more weird to drink breast milk from another species? eg: cows breast milk?

jubarnes26

Have just spent nearly an hour reading everyones comments they are so funny. For my own part.

Rummaged under & around the sofa to buy smash,corned beef & beans or & I still love this pasta with salad cream.

Lived off £2 a week buy buying 1 loaf of bread butter and cans of beans from Aldi when I bought my first house.

"borrowing" my stepbrothers wages when he went on hols and asked me to collect his wages for him, cos my lodger had unexpectedly moved out & left me with a bill to pay. (remember the days when you actually used to get cash ??)

and (quite ashamed of this) pawning a ring that I found in a nightclub I worked at. The lady came back, someone else remembered seeing the ring and I obviously had to get it back & i also lost my job.

Reading all the posts I feel very fortunate now, although like everyone we have debts but I reckon if I lived alone i could clear the debts by resorting back to my beans on toast days. Bit harder to persuade my other half who has never lived alone that not being able to play golf one week is NOT being skint !!!!!!!!

JCD_Capulet

I'm taking up an old job talking smutty for pennies per minute :eek:

Tigertiger

In my poverty-stricken youth, my Mum would eat the white of a boiled egg and give the yolk to my baby sister - she couldn't afford a whole egg each when Dad lost his job.

Neighbours gave us coal for the fire. The dust was mixed with plaster to make fuel balls.

She bought me a school jumper for a penny at a jumble sale - miraculously in my house colours ( it was a posh state school), but everyone else bought theirs from the school office, so I was teased and bullied about where it had come from.

When I met my future husband, I put cardboard inside my leaking shoe to cover the hole, giving money to him to buy himself some shoes, as he was even poorer than I was.

His similarly-afflicted cousin ate Pal dog meat, as it was then made from whale.

When we had twins, I dressed them both as boys, although one was a girl, because one of my friends gave me her sons' cast-off clothes. I used to lie that I had two boys to strangers who asked.

A neighbour gave us a lamb bone once for our dog, and there was enough meat on it for our supper.

We rose to dizzy financial heights, then after 33 years of marriage, he traded me in for a younger model.

Since then, I have fallen into difficulties again, and

Lied about my age to get cheap bus fares.

Obtained bargains at the charity shops in upmarket areas. ( Henley, Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross are to be recommended.), then sold them on eBay.

Fed my previously spoilt dogs on Chappie mixed with pilchards in tomato sauce - they love it.

Used children's paint powder to cover scrapes on shoes.

Used haemorrhoid cream for my puffy eyes after crying - not a new idea, I know, but the amusement value is cheering.

Having finally got a job ( hard at my age), I celebrated with a curry - bliss. But one of said dogs grabbed my chicken leg and ran off. I prised it from his jaws, washed it and ate it. :T


Take heart, fellow paupers, it can only get better.

Skint_Catt

"Used haemorrhoid cream for my puffy eyes after crying - not a new idea, I know, but the amusement value is cheering."

Does it really work? If so I must try!

JCD_Capulet

Skint_Catt wrote: »

"Used haemorrhoid cream for my puffy eyes after crying - not a new idea, I know, but the amusement value is cheering."

Does it really work? If so I must try!

If it works for all puffy skin I'll buy a gallon and slap it on my belly and hips! :rotfl:

jackieb

Great first post, Tiger. Welcome to the board.

Mariel

What a fantastic thread! Thank you everyone, I was having a boring day at work until I read this.

*Louise*

Skint_Catt wrote: »

"Used haemorrhoid cream for my puffy eyes after crying - not a new idea, I know, but the amusement value is cheering."

Does it really work? If so I must try!

It does work, it's a trick models use - but not advisable for use every day as it's quite strong and can damage the delicate skin aroud the eye.

Keep it for special occasions;)

newcook

Some of these have really made me chuckle!!!!! Got a bit choked when I read the coffee one though
Yep - done the nicking toilet roll from work thing. And the toilet roll/sanitary job...
I walk past a train station on my way home from work and if the shutters are down in the 'reception area' it means that you can only get tickets from the machine so will get home for 5p rather than spend £1.40 on bus fare...
I occasionally borrow a couple of pound from the lottery we do at work (I always replace it)...
A few years back (before cash machines were as upto date as what they are now) I would always be eagle eyed when walking past a machine incase someone forgot to take their money (it happens! Have come across £20 winking at me a few times!)...
I used to work in a pub and was always keep to do the tidy up at kicking out time incase someone left behind their cigs - I also used to pour myself a drink or 4 and put it down as wastage/spilt drink/wrong order so I didn't have to pay for it...
Have used my annual leave a few days before payday as I had no money to get to work...
Have took a reduced sticker off a nearly out of date item and put it on same product but with more shelf life...
Have used the franking machine at work for my own post (but always print it on the sticker and cut off the company logo so whoever I send it to cant call work and tell them!) and I use the work phone for private calls...
On occassions I have been and asked the boss if she wants me to get her a sandwich as I know she will offer to buy mine...
I only order stuff from avon when it says 'buy anything from page x and get this free' and I order something that costs £1 and save the free gift for a present...
Have turned all the nearly used shower gels upside down and poured all the dregs into 1 bottle (do this with hair conditioner aswell)...