poverty 2.0

11/11/2008 12:00:11 PM

I spent $3 a day on food

I lost so much weight I was technically underweight

I ate food out of the trash can at work

I only get my haircut every 4 months, even though I hate the way it looks, because I'm too cheap to get it cut more frequently

11/11/2008 12:00:13 PM

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"the rent for the whole house was a little more than what Im paying now for a bedroom in brooklyn."

can I ask what you are paying?

I pay $600/month for a big room in Bushwick

11/11/2008 12:00:33 PM

i sold plasma a few times at the place behind the bell tower

11/11/2008 5:57:16 PM

i have moved on to post college poverty

11/11/2008 5:57:48 PM

i had a girl i was dating offer to pay my tuition one year, but i didn't take her up on it

a can of pork and beans supplies a pretty good meal for only 33¢

11/11/2008 6:00:23 PM

my old roommate and i wouldn't turn on the heater in the winter. it was an icebox in there .

11/11/2008 6:01:42 PM

Snewf, you really screwed your life up with the hacking incident (or at least put you behind a few years).

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 6:07 PM. Reason : w]

11/11/2008 6:06:53 PM

the only time I ever got to go out to eat was when sugardaddyqntmfred took me out.

11/11/2008 6:06:55 PM

^that is the way it is now, right?

11/11/2008 6:12:13 PM

Breakfast: peanut butter sammich

Lunch: Ramen or hot dog (or Golden Dragon if feeling fancy)

Dinner: hot dog or Ramen (Hamburger Helper cooked in the Ferry on payday)

Clothes and shoes were all outlet, all the time. Gas was bought in $5-10 increments.

11/11/2008 6:13:31 PM

yep.
I do work out side of the house but he brings home the bread.

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 6:14 PM. Reason : he]

11/11/2008 6:13:45 PM

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"i could never do that. being cold is the worst thing EVER."

It hasn't gotten that cold yet. But I do have several blankets and I wear a coat inside and all that, lol.

11/11/2008 6:27:31 PM

i only have one easy mac left.

11/11/2008 6:29:29 PM

Scholarship people piss me off

I graduated #10 in my class with a 4.3something gpa, 1360 SAT, shittons of clubs, and worked ~30 hours a week at a part time job.

I got a grand total of $500 in scholarships.

11/11/2008 6:43:30 PM

^ what college?

11/11/2008 6:45:08 PM

There have been periods where i'd only eat once every 2 days.

11/11/2008 6:51:31 PM

I'm 25 and still live with my mom while I go to college.


I drive an hour and 15 minutes each way to school because it's cheaper than getting my own place in Wilmington.

11/11/2008 6:52:02 PM

one year my roommate jimmy and i waited until it was around 42 degrees in the house to turn on the heat, it might have been 37 degrees.

11/11/2008 6:54:04 PM

^^^^ take a wild guess

11/11/2008 7:08:43 PM

shawna, how many days a week do you have to commute?

11/11/2008 7:15:12 PM

^^ Wake Tech.

11/11/2008 8:12:38 PM

I used to stab people, and rob them

11/11/2008 8:15:44 PM

almost everything i eat is food lion brand

11/11/2008 8:16:31 PM

I used to go to bars and buy drinks under fake tabs

I wasn't really poor, but I was pretty cheap

11/11/2008 8:16:58 PM

^once a cheap, always a cheap....

^^at least it is not at the Soup Kitchen....


[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 8:19 PM. Reason : w]

11/11/2008 8:17:26 PM

one time i brought a water bottle filled with rum up to a bar
just kept ordering diet cokes and pouring it in
i was so trashed that night

11/11/2008 8:18:15 PM

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"^once a cheap, always a cheap...."

I don't think cheap is a noun, but I pay for my drinks now. I really only did that at shitty places like Bogart's and Stool Pigeons.

11/11/2008 8:20:49 PM

I lived in my car for a bit and showered at Carmichael. It wasn't as bad as you would think.

11/11/2008 8:21:27 PM

Oh, and one time I got kicked out of some bar on Franklin Street for bringing in handfuls of $.50 drinks from the place downstairs.

11/11/2008 8:23:28 PM

lived with my mom when she moved to raleigh

11/11/2008 8:28:48 PM

i have a friend who got kicked out of his dorm in turlington and lived in the study lounge for about a full semester

he lost his room key earlier and they re-keyed it. he found the old key later, so he was still able to get into the building and the bathroom while living in the study lounge.

11/11/2008 8:31:11 PM

We knew we were moving out of a place in December and it had been a mild winter so we opted not to pay to have the gas connected that winter. My peanut oil solidified in my cabinet as my house dropped into the low 40's during a week long cold snap... I had a reading light directly beside my computer with a spotlight in it to keep me warm.

One of my favorite things to do is buy beer with change.

Last tuesday for the election I purchased 2 King Cobra 40's with the change from my center console

but probably the best was about every 3-4months I would purchase a case of beast light with the $10 in change I had saved...

I still drink Schlitz b/c it's $3/6pack and I'm living on my savings until late January

I have lived off peanut butter and jelly for extended periods of time, my sophomore summer I managed on a food budget of $25 a week which was enough to get burgers when food lion used to run $0.99/lb ground beef. great times... but that's probably not nearly as impoverished as this thread is directed to...

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 8:42 PM. Reason : $25/wk is pretty healthy]

11/11/2008 8:41:31 PM

Quote :

"Scholarship people piss me off I graduated #10 in my class with a 4.3something gpa, 1360 SAT, shittons of clubs, and worked ~30 hours a week at a part time job. I got a grand total of $500 in scholarships."

I couldn't get shit, being white blows sometimes

11/11/2008 8:49:19 PM

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"shawna, how many days a week do you have to commute? "

Three days for now.


But next semester it's dropping down to two. w00t.

11/11/2008 10:04:44 PM

I had to work the night shift for a whole semester wasn't worth it.

11/11/2008 10:33:10 PM

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"Scholarship people piss me off I graduated #10 in my class with a 4.3something gpa, 1360 SAT, shittons of clubs, and worked ~30 hours a week at a part time job. I got a grand total of $500 in scholarships"

Being white blows, doesn't it?

Fuck affirmative action in its sparking wiggle asshole.

11/11/2008 10:35:56 PM

I'm bout to go look for some scholarships to apply for.

Preferably ones where I have to write an essay.



People should want to give me money

cause I'm fucking awesome.

11/11/2008 10:36:48 PM

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"Snewf, you really screwed your life up with the hacking incident (or at least put you behind a few years)."

how well do you really know me?

couldn't I have screwed my life up in any number of different ways?

the state did rob me of a year of my life though

11/11/2008 10:46:28 PM