you know times are hard when

In_Search_Of_Me

you go round tesco & realise that cans of ginger beer are now a luxury you cant afford....me this evening! Made me buy a bottle of cheap wine to cheer myself up!

asp746

yrs ago when we were skint we'd just visit family around 4.30 - 5pm and just sit there and.....sit there until they caved in and asked us if we wanted to have our tea with them:rotfl: .

ha ha worked every time.

JCD_Capulet

When you eBay a pair of clapped out old boots you found in the street, and market them towards the fettishists :rolleyes:

Limana68

You know times are hard when you have to cut up sheets of newspaper to use as toilet roll..............................................:rotfl:

JCD_Capulet

Remember to crunch and rub them between your hands first! Makes it softer

tsharp

When you go on a crime spree just so they'll lock you up and feed you for free...

barnaby-bear

elantan wrote: »

well today i got my wages paid what i had to pay etc (council tax) and i'm still in the red ....anyone wanna share

We found a tyre dumped in the street and sold it to a garage for £4 to be sold on :eek:. Ebayed any lost hub caps found in the road.

We got up in the middle of the night and went to the 24 hour ASDA because we knew they someone who worked the night shift and discounting round happened then.

We volunteered at an old folks day centre club on the day they did roast dinner..... for the dinner.

Volunteered to help on deprived problem teenager summer camp for a month between rentals because saved a months rent and food (it really wasn't worth the hassle).

Hired out my peddle cycle to a language school student and walked 3 miles to uni. for a week.

Cat sat and ate the organic chicken breasts left for the cat and bought the snotty persian a tin of whiskas (look not a bad person it wasn't go-cat or something like that).

Wrote a really sucky letter praising a certain brand of chocolate in the hope that I'd get free chocolate.... it worked:cool: It didn't work for beer

Do I win a prize as skanky-bear?

trying-very-trying

Limana68 wrote: »

You know times are hard when you have to cut up sheets of newspaper to use as toilet roll..............................................:rotfl:

That doesn't save money, or face......when it blocks the toilet and you need to get the plumber out:rotfl:

KittyKate

Oh, I've been there! When I was at uni, and just after....

Stealing loo roll (huge industrial ones) because even pound shop paper was too expensive!

Leaving the holes in my jumper/jeans as a 'fashion statement'

Wearing shoes which had holes in the soles - soaking wet socks...might as well have not worn shoes at all..wearing flip flops in November as all my other shoes were duds..

Cutting my split ends off with the kitchen scissors

Eating korma sauce with rice as I couldn't afford veg or chicken!

Wearing a jumper in bed with 2 duvets rather than put the heating on (this has resulted in me being very cold, most of the time, even in summer!)

Walking miles and miles when I couldn't afford a 50p bus fare.

I could go on...I'm so very very glad I don't have to live like that any more. Ironically I only discovered MSE after I got out of debt, and I now know that if I'd lived then as I do now, I'd never have had to suffer. Lessons learnt!

Money~Bunny_3

JCD_Capulet wrote: »

When you eBay a pair of clapped out old boots you found in the street, and market them towards the fettishists :rolleyes:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: That's hillarious... and very enterprising!