Things you've done when things got desperate!

doodledo_2

What a fantastic thread.

I have just read through it all and chuckled my way through the posts.

The scary thing is I have done so many of these things. Including the toilet roll thing :eek:

I remember when we first bought our house and we were skint I would go round my parents when they were out and nick stuff from their freezer for tea. My mum has one of these bottomless freezers that you could hide a body in lol. I thought I was so cunning but years later they told me they knew I did it.

taplady

Am glad this thread has been bumped, its great!:T

notanothergreyhair

ZTD wrote: »

It would be better with a long-term relationship - become a lease boy...

I have tried that - I found that the PPF would be much higher for one-offs

ALWG333

what a lot of memories!!

when the first wife cleaned me out (divorce) I had to open up the tea bags and roll the contents in a rizzla for a smoke, also had about 6 months of just eating a slice of toast with sardines and an egg on top (I was told that was all the nutrients you needed for 1 day !!)

.......and i recall a friend of mine falling on hard times who dated a young lady (not sure i should go on with this!) ...anyway, in the absence of contraception, errrrrr! (......plastic bread bag.......) definitely not a tip, he has 3 children :-)

balmaiden

Isn't it nice to know your not alone!!!!!!!!!!!!

A story my friend tells me of when she was 6, little brother just starting school, her mum told her that she was "big" enough to take her little brother to school. Well neither child liked this arrangement and little brother cried every day for weeks When my friend reminded her mum of this "cruelty" when they were grown up, her mum confessed that she quite literally had no shoes/ slippers of any kind and no money to buy any. So was housebound untill hubbie came home and she could borrow his boots to go to the shop.

No clubs, loan sharks etc in those days.

Chezza71

Brilliant thread! I also cut out un-franked stamps from envelopes and soak them off!

The other day at work we walked across to the shops for a lunch-time breath of fresh air and I found a packet of 6 tomatoes which had been left outside the shop in a shopping trolley but were trapped between the child's seat and the next trolley - iyswim - and it was a trolley that you needed a pound to release. I've got one of those tokens which you can use instead of a pound (even though you get your pound back!). So I untrapped the tomatoes and they were very nice too!! Even though a couple of them were a bit squashed they were lovely fried up!

spinningsheep

Wow, I have spent all evening looking at these posts, excellent. Some great ideas for money saving here. I have to say ive done lots to survive when ive been skint, anything so I haven't had to ask my parents to bail me out, just a stupid pride thing I suppose. A few years back, I went right off the rails at 16 and left home (before I was kicked out).After 6 months I couldn't face going home and speaking to my parents and I am ashamed to say I did things for money in Blackpool,where I ended up living,that I would NEVER do again. Im sure you can use your imagination as to what.I guess my self respect had pretty much gone by that point. I did what I had to in order to keep a roof over my head (a dodgy gay B&B i'l admit) but there we go. Im so glad im back on the straight and narrow now and dealing with my debts that I think my time of reckless living was responsible for. And now, my parents and I have a fatastic relationship and im on the verge of buying my own house.

Quincifer

Such a funny thread haha!
I used to do the taking public loo roll thing all the time (and often in clubs for later on in the night when theres never any left and then forgetting its in my bag til the next morning!)
I still very often pick up every single penny I see on the floor, having an eagle eye sometimes pays out - I found a £10 note once.
There have been a good few times when I've just not eaten for a day or two to save money (usually at weekends though when I can just sleep all day to keep the hunger at bay ha!)

x

Squirrel29

I've done the stealing the loo roll from work thing and living off breakfast cereal for a couple of weeks - quite healthy actually and I lost a stone too :j.

A friend of mine moved into a house and discovered used tampons drying out in the airing cupboard :eek:. I've been very skint in the past but nothing has made me go to such extremes!!

skint_spice

Squirrel29 wrote: »

A friend of mine moved into a house and discovered used tampons drying out in the airing cupboard :eek:. I've been very skint in the past but nothing has made me go to such extremes!!

euuuurggghhh! just no!