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| What's the brokest you've been? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 23 2009, 03:20 PM (550 Views) | |
| CrashTest | Jan 23 2009, 03:20 PM Post #1 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Broke as a joke, what's the most broke you've been? |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 23 2009, 03:23 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Flat broke and homeless. I do not recommend it. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 23 2009, 03:25 PM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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I was so broke we used to have to go outside to change our minds. |
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| Improviso | Jan 23 2009, 03:30 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Told ya' he was broke |
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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| dolmansaxlil | Jan 23 2009, 03:31 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Not as broke as my parents, who once lived on nothing but dry popcorn for a month because someone gave them a huge bag of it and that's all they had. I remember as a kid searching the house for pennies so we had enough money to buy bread. But we did find enough, and we were in a house, so better off than many. Never homeless, though had it not been for my parents at one point I'm not sure where I would have ended up. But in my adult life, though I lived below the poverty line for quite some time, I never would have considered myself "poor". I've seen too many people in far worse situations to think that I was ever in that bad a situation. |
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Jan 23 2009, 03:31 PM Post #6 |
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Fulla-Carp
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what happened? Mommy's teet run dry?
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| "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 23 2009, 03:34 PM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Y'know, Crash has come back around and has not been doing any of the things that met objection. Seems the least we could do to give him a break. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Jan 23 2009, 03:45 PM Post #8 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Hell, I never objected to his antics in the first place. He got the shaft I tellya! |
| "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." | |
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| Dewey | Jan 23 2009, 03:54 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Right now. Having to take a big chunk out of my already microscopic retirement savings just to pay mounting debt and not lose our house. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Frank_W | Jan 23 2009, 04:03 PM Post #10 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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After my discharge from the Army, the Missus and I were so broke, we lived on Cup Noodle for a month. While cleaning the house one day, a ping pong ball turned up, so one night, bored and with nothing to do and no money to do it with, we spent a couple of hours leaned over the dry bathtub batting the ping pong ball around in a weird game of hockey/soccer/foosball. ![]() Funny thing about that time, though: Looking back on it, we laughed a lot, we were (and still are) in love, and even though the lack of money was a worry, we were happy.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| 1hp | Jan 23 2009, 05:03 PM Post #11 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Amen to that Frank. George Bailey - the richest man in town. |
| There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................ | |
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| brenda | Jan 23 2009, 05:18 PM Post #12 |
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Hubby and I had $20 left to last for at least two weeks, and that had to go to buy gas to get to work. I couldn't even go buy groceries, so I rummaged through the foodstocks we had and made an odd casserole that was actually pretty good. It lasted about three days, and then I had to rummage to find other possible meals. It was a culinary adventure! I make it every few years now just to remind us where we were and how far we've come. Frank, yep, those were not bad days. We had a heck of a good time working on the house, growing our own veggies, and just being together. The ties that bind. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 23 2009, 05:46 PM Post #13 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yep. Money can't buy happiness. Sometimes it is better when you don't know what you're missing. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Free Rider | Jan 23 2009, 05:57 PM Post #14 |
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Fulla-Carp
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My brokeness got so bad that I basically commited financial suicide..I've lived on 1 can of bargain brand chili and a big bag of rice just barely holding off the feeling of starvation. I've gone years without health insurance, no dentist visits, no car insurance, nothing. I know poor very well...and I'm kind of ashamed to admit that. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 23 2009, 06:45 PM Post #15 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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You'll pull through, Dewey. If anyone could it's definitely you.
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Jan 23 2009, 06:56 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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On a lighter note -- one college trip to the Jersey shore with a bunch of friends. We spent all our moeny on the rental of the house and gas to get there. We had lots of beer and vodka. Food ran out after about a day. After a week there, I was tan and thin. And hungry. Very hungry. I'll never forget how hungry. My boyfriend, who had a job, showed up on the last day for a visit. He was a bit scared when I attacked the sub he bought me like a pit bull. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Bernard | Jan 23 2009, 07:46 PM Post #17 |
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Senior Carp
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$0 (period) and no job. Thank god for the few friends I had at the time. |
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| Optimistic | Jan 23 2009, 08:06 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Being single and having no body to care for but my own, I'd have to be incredibly broke before I got to the point that it truly worried me. At this stage in my life, having to pinch pennies almost seems more like an adventure and something to commiserate over with friends than it does something to stress much over. Add a family to care for, though, and I can't imagine the amount of stress. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| NAK | Jan 23 2009, 08:55 PM Post #19 |
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Senior Carp
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I'm embarrassed to even post this alongside some of yours, but you asked for it. I've been broke, but never down and out. Just broke to the point where all my money was going to paying off bank and credit card debts and such, but I always had money for food and shelter. Just no pleasure cash. Aside to Dewey, AL is right on, your path will be made level. I'm positive you can pull through. |
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| bachophile | Jan 23 2009, 10:00 PM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Four Yorkshiremen Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable. Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah? Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah. Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine? MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea. GC: A cup ' COLD tea. EI: Without milk or sugar. TG: OR tea! MP: In a filthy, cracked cup. EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness." EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof. GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING! TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor! MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph. EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US. GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake! TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road. MP: Cardboard box? TG: Aye. MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt! GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah." MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'. ALL: Nope, nope.. |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| kluurs | Jan 24 2009, 05:00 AM Post #21 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I had to take an unopened box of cereal back to the store to have money to take the train to work... Ate Velveta cheese sandwiches for work every single day. Boss gave me a raise because she couldn't stand to look at them. |
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| apple | Jan 24 2009, 07:49 AM Post #22 |
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one of the angels
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my first year of college... my tuition and board was paid, and I had 30 dollars to last till Christmas when I was hoping to get some Christmas money. Everything I earned went to books. I bought a bus/train pass and had maybe 2.50 left over.. which I saved and bought a beer on the train traveling home... ticket bought by my brother. How 'bout that for priorities? On Sundays, no food was served in the dorm so I ate crackers and apples that i got during the week. It seemed very normal to have literally no spending money. The 2nd semester wasn't any better. It was one of the best years of my life. |
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| Optimistic | Jan 24 2009, 08:01 AM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Apple, how common was credit card ownership/usage at that time? I'm wondering how many people's situations described here would have been a little different if they had a credit card (if they hadn't already at the time). I know a lot of my friends couldn't pay their bills on time if they couldn't charge it. Sometimes the bill comes before the paycheck, and credit helps with that lapse. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Frank_W | Jan 24 2009, 08:10 AM Post #24 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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When we moved into the first house we lived in, after I left the Army, there was no heat. It was in the dead of winter and the house was built to tropical codes. (This was in Japan.) Ergo, no insulation in the walls, and central heat is unheard of for residences. The futons we had were summer-weight. It was so cold in the house, ice crystals would form on the insides of the windows, and more often than not, the last thing we felt as we tried to go to sleep, was how painfully cold it was just to have our faces outside of the quilts. It was spring by the time we could quit sleeping on the floor and buy an actual bed and bedding. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 24 2009, 08:13 AM Post #25 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I floated on credit for awhile when I had a job-related accident and couldn't work anymore, but I was never homeless or anything like that. I still paid my bills although the medical sh!t from that experience is still messing with my finances. Prior to the accident though, I was much happier then than I am right now. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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