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Things you've done when things got desperate!

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  • bigspenda_3
    bigspenda_3 Posts: 32 Forumite
    immoral_angeluk wrote: »
    The people at the reduced section at tesco know me by name and ask how my girls are :rotfl:

    *they don't really.. but they may as well do!*

    I'm the same at the ASDA "whoops" bargain section !

    I save a packet on my food shop now !

    I've perfected the art of knowing what times of the day to go, how to "get in there" when theres a crowd and strategic politeness/nudging etc . :D

    It's a good time now because they re flogging off all their festive packaged stuff.
    Proud to be dealing with my debts
  • debrag
    debrag Posts: 3,426 Forumite
    CAFCGirl wrote: »
    1. Eaten pasta with rock salt and vinegar on for three days straight as I didnt have any money for food!:p

    That I am always going. mostly pasta with ketchup, salad cream or cheese. Usually 2 weeks after I get paid. It's that or Noodles at 8p lol
  • moneysavingmumofone
    moneysavingmumofone Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    Ive done the toilet roll thing as no money for sanitary towels:o
    oh has *borrowed* toilet rolls from work
    scrabbled around the house for coppers:o
    ordered a phone from the catalogue and sold it on ebay to pay the bills *twice* :o
    'They only had one cow!'
  • kaznelson
    kaznelson Posts: 463 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    When I was a kid we never had any money, one memory was doing my homework next to gas oven with the door open as this was the only light in the house cos the Electric had been cut off!! When we did have electric we would only had one bulb and would have to take it from room to room!

    We had to use old clean rags as sanitary towels and pin them underneath.

    My mum would sneak me on the bus and and make me curl up and pretend to be asleep so she would get away with paying a kids fare.

    Use to "borrow" next doors milk and blame it on the bad kids in the area!

    Checking down the back of the sofa for coppers.

    We couldn't afford a fridge so had an insulated wooden box for milk.
  • linniestorm
    linniestorm Posts: 347 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    I went down to the bank today and paid in the change from my purse and two bags of hastily scrabbled together coppers as I'm three quid short in my account to cover my phone bill DD on Tuesday, don't think the ebay money is going to make it by then! They gave me some funny looks!
    1st LBM (Pre-Career Change): 01 March 2006 Debt Free Date: 28 April 2008 | Worst Debt: £7244.36

    2nd LBM: 10 December 2019 Current Debt £25,322 [April 2020] | Worst Debt: £27,444
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    linniestorm wrote: »
    I went down to the bank today and paid in the change from my purse and two bags of hastily scrabbled together coppers as I'm three quid short in my account to cover my phone bill DD on Tuesday, don't think the ebay money is going to make it by then! They gave me some funny looks!


    They'd rather you let the DD bounce and went Od so they could charge you Linnie!

    Well done you for being so organised!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • moneysavingmumofone
    moneysavingmumofone Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    linniestorm wrote: »
    I went down to the bank today and paid in the change from my purse and two bags of hastily scrabbled together coppers as I'm three quid short in my account to cover my phone bill DD on Tuesday, don't think the ebay money is going to make it by then! They gave me some funny looks!
    well done, dont let the bank have your money:beer: two cheques i wrote to provident bounced so now ive got to pay £60 charges as well as giving provident the cash!! :rolleyes:
    'They only had one cow!'
  • rog2
    rog2 Posts: 11,650 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    moneysavingmumofone wrote: »
    well done, dont let the bank have your money:beer: two cheques i wrote to provident bounced so now ive got to pay £60 charges as well as giving provident the cash!! :rolleyes:

    Ouch! Is that on top of their 170% interest? :eek:
    I am NOT, nor do I profess to be, a Qualified Debt Adviser. I have made MANY mistakes and have OFTEN been the unwitting victim of the the shamefull tactics of the Financial Industry.
    If any of my experiences, or the knowledge that I have gained from those experiences, can help anyone who finds themselves in similar circumstances, then my experiences have not been in vain.

    HMRC Bankruptcy Statistic - 26th October 2006 - 23rd April 2007 BCSC Member No. 7

    DFW Nerd # 166 PROUD TO BE DEALING WITH MY DEBTS
  • moneysavingmumofone
    moneysavingmumofone Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    rog2 wrote: »
    Ouch! Is that on top of their 170% interest? :eek:
    yep:rolleyes: Provident, NEVER again!!!!
    'They only had one cow!'
  • moneysavingmumofone
    moneysavingmumofone Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    *stupid* Things you've done when things got desperate-got a provident loan!!!:rotfl:
    'They only had one cow!'
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