How Broke Are You Now?
 

I'm pretty damn broke.

Every month I have to decide what bills to pay.

In July, the water bill and the trash bill come due (quarterly) and it's a tight squeeze.

Plus, my Rx co-pay went from zero (last year) to 300.00 this year. And I still owe everybody for the cancer.

I don't know who to pay first.

Is v. disheartening.

Sorry Bri - that's gotta be tough to deal with.
Got nothing here for ya 'cept a cyber hug.

This plus fuck cancer.

Yeh good point Griff....
Got me thinking - Even when you win (beating the cancer)
You still lose financially. Trust me - I understand that end of things.

Pay the water bill first. You need water. If they stop picking up your trash, pop it in your neighbor's bin. And are they threatening to put the cancer back? Maybe you can pay them in trash?

So broke I can't even pay attention...

Ditto :thepain:

A lot broker than I was this morning!

Bri- sorry to hear about your financial issues. I know a lot about being broke. It sucks, but there are a few tricks that can save you a few dollars, here and there.
I have several ideas for meals, electricity, laundry etc.... If you or anyone else are intereseted, let me know, and I will print them out for you.

Paging Jim ... paging Lumberjim ...
where's that thread about money saving ideas???
ktxbai

Jaydaan - I PM'd you! that would be great!!

I think it would be great to see them here.

I remember there was a woman who started a newsletter called "Tightwad Gazette" that was filled with money saving tips. I think she claimed to have saved enough money to buy a house or something crazy. This was pre internet, I'll have to google her.

Damn squirell (why is your name spelled wrong?) probably ran off to play with his nuts ...

Anyway "The Tightwad Gazette newsletter, a publication written and distributed quarterly between 1991 and 1996. The focus of all of the material is on frugal living in some form or another."

Review:

The Complete Tightwad Gazette

Time for some Viz Top Tips...

Save a fortune on laundry bills. Give your dirty shirts to Oxfam. They
will wash and iron them and you can buy them back for fifty pence.
J B Cartland, Brighton.

Domestos is an ideal substitute for Blue Curaco, and far less pricey.
It gives any cocktail a bit of "oomph."
James Francis, East Glamorgan Hospital.

Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to
the object you wish to view.
S Goldhanger, Fulchester.

Why pay the earth for expensive jigsaws? Just take a bag of frozen
chips from the freezer and try piercing together potatoes.
B Reastford, Iranville, Notts.

Don't buy expensive "ribbed" condoms, just buy an ordinary one and
slip a handful of frozen peas inside it before you put it on.
D Duckham, Didford.

Always fart into the rings on top of your gas cooker. This will turn
back the gas meter, and save you pounds over a period of time.
C. Custer, Little Bighorn.

An empty aluminium cigar tube filled with angry wasps makes an
inexpensive vibrator.
Sister S. Berwick, Blackrod.

I c&p'd these from here, but there are many more out there....