are you a) broke as a joke or b) clocking crazy dollars?

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there is no in between

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

clocking crazy dollars, spending it all on beer and are now broke as a joke.
Im both!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

neither of the above is really true.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

A with a motherfucking bullet.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am so broke i cried about it this morning.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

(no joke!)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty broke. I type this in the big 3-bedroomed house in London, 400 yards from a tube station, north of the river, that my then-wife and I bought when we were together and earning similar amounts, less than three years ago. Not cheap. For the last 18 months I have been coping alone, only slightly helped by a lodger. Not much room to spare in that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

C.C.D. myself

sorry Jess - i've been there. trust me on this: Sell out!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm workin on it, baby!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i know you are and you will clock like a motherfucker when the day comes

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(i think the low point was when i realized that i couldn't afford a bus pass this month and looping in my head was amil's line from "can i get a?", the "how we gonna get around on your bus pass?" one.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

No one making my salary should be as broke as I am. But I am.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to sell my services (and soul) to a major military-industrial contractor who is advertising a proposals editor job at a fat salary range. But they haven't responded to my resume!

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

zimm zimma who got the wallet with my travelcard?

― zemko (bob), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to sell my services (and soul) to a major military-industrial contractor who is advertising a proposals editor job at a fat salary range.

Obviously j.lu you are hoping to work here.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there anything in Iowa on which to spend money?
;^}

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, you can buy Iowa!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

J.lu - you need a clearance, luv.

I am not exactly clocking the crazy cash YET, but in 10 mos. when my contract runs out I will

1. Have a TS clearance still
2. Know how turn computers on and off, and write documents

which is PlainSpeech for MAD SCRILLA NABBIN BABY.

WORD A HEY.

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 7 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

B-r-o-k-e.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 7 February 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

closer to b than a, but not by much.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 7 February 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know if this would work in your town, but when i was b.a.a.j. i used to drop a lots of nickels and dimes in the slot BUT LESS THAN THE CORRECT FARE to save myself like 50 cents a trip on the bus

it adds up!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i did that today. another benefit of living up here: girlfriends with lots of otherwise unusable CANADIAN COINS that slip unassumingly into the bus fare slot.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 February 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I am most certainly a. And, Jess, I've had the Amil line in my head many times before, as well. :(

― JS Williams (js williams), Saturday, 8 February 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

all assets and no cash..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 8 February 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

horribly horribly A. I have to cancel dr's appts and decide which of my meds i will skip this month.

My job is too stressful to pay so pitifully. :(

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i am very poor

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 8 February 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

All the po' ilXors to my place for a Ramen noodle and tall boy beer FAP!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 8 February 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

A, goddamnit, I still cannot buy GROCERIES. I haven't bought food for the home since December 31st

― Vic (Vic), Saturday, 8 February 2003 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

if i was clocking crazy dollars, would i be on a souped-up BBS on a friday night posting dumb stories about smacking golf balls from a boardwalk pitch-and-putt onto the beach?

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 February 2003 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

its beginning of the month, so i have money. ask me in two weeks - after my parents come home and i can go on shopping sprees - and i'll tell you b-r-o-k-e.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 8 February 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Po'.

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 8 February 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Mo' po'.

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 8 February 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I do okay, really, which is a Good Thing. But I work far too hard, which is a Bad Thing.

― C J (C J), Saturday, 8 February 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Less money, more problems.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 8 February 2003 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

there is no in between

Damn fukcingn right. Broke as a joke here, I'm afraid.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 8 February 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Living 'paycheck to paycheck' necessitates a paycheck.

There's broke and then there's broke; rate your poverty...have you:

1) Dumpster-dived?

2) For Food?

3) Shoplifted out of hunger?

4) Sold plasma for food/shelter/clinic visit?

5) Asked for 'pulls' in the produce isle?

6) Lived in a garage or on a friend's couch?

7) Lived in a vehicle?

8) Lived in a shelter?

9) Lived under a bridge/overpass or in an abandoned/condemned structure?

10) Collected cans for several hours a day?

11) Pan-handled/busked?

12) Honestly considered prostitution or incarceration as alternative means of income/security?

13) Practiced prostitution/intentional-incarceration?

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Saturday, 8 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Living 'paycheck to paycheck' necessitates a paycheck.
There's broke and then there's broke; rate your poverty...have you:

1) Dumpster-dived?

Yes, & will still do it if I find a dumpster (UK="skip") usually for firewood. Will frequently (in winter months) collect wood from broken fences for firewood.

2) For Food?

No, but have discovered that if u go into supermarket 10 mins b4 closing time, they sell all thee bread off for 10p per loaf.

3) Shoplifted out of hunger?

4) Sold plasma for food/shelter/clinic visit?

5) Asked for 'pulls' in the produce isle?

No, if this means what I think it means. I always check the damaged produce shelf tho, & will buy damaged cans, boxen etc in preference to undamaged.

6) Lived in a garage or on a friend's couch?

couch yes garage no.

7) Lived in a vehicle?

no.

8) Lived in a shelter?

9) Lived under a bridge/overpass or in an abandoned/condemned structure?

no, but copped out of paying any rent (by ahem disappearing/midnight flit) after living in unsafe & disgusting flat

10) Collected cans for several hours a day?

option has never been available

11) Pan-handled/busked?

no.

12) Honestly considered prostitution or incarceration as alternative means of income/security?

the former yes, the latter no

13) Practiced prostitution/intentional-incarceration?

no.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 8 February 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Ryan's perspective is a necessary one for me, if for no one else, in that my 'broke' is far from destitute. I'm a systems analyst working in central London, so hardly on a low income, but the after-effects of a broken marriage have left me with high expenses, and for various reasons (long story!) haven't been able to sell up and adjust appropriately. I don't have to count the pennies for food, and being broke really only amounts to watching my luxury spending pretty closely.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 February 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

boxen = box herd

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

it's the mental povertie anyway, away with yr legalities

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

i felt like crying a bit today when i got my paycheck.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(not in the good way.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm clocking crazy dollars! Finally!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Well...slightly crazy. Pretty damn silly.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Do it for the love, jess.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i'ma do you for the love, and they'll never find the body!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i had some crazy epiphany this week about turning my life around.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm both on account of all the crazy dollars I'm currently clockin' be going straight to debt payments from my earlier exploits.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I am...cozy. And cozy is good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You work in a record store=Ebay is your friend.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm gonna have to get another job. like a secondary, not a new one. well, a new one eventually.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43634&item=4007942531&rd=1

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I am broke as a joke, but just decided to sell my spare Pixies ticket to a friend rather than make £££ on ebay. This is my good deed for the day, though it's not entirely altruistic as I really want him to be there too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

broke, destitute, dirt poor, impoverished, insolvent, necessitous, penniless, penurious, poor, strapped, beggared, bereft, impecunious.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

PICK URSELF UP

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I might be ok.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh you would be, wouldnt you

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I kill you with optimism now.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

smug bastard

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

rob lowe, tom cruise, me aye.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

who is me aye? she sounds asian.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah; TO ANY PUBLICATIONS WHO OWE ME MONEY, PAY ME NOW OR ITS LOUISVILLE SLUGGER TO THE KNEECAPS COME NEXT WEEK.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

really really really fucking broke. but hey my wife did a wee bit of work over the last too weeks and now we are just really really broke.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty flush: my last post here was over a year ago. Since then I have sold the big house and bought a big flat instead. I made a profit on the deal, so have money in the bank; and my expenses are significantly lower so my monthly transactions generally come out ahead. On top of that I got promoted yesterday, which means a raise; and our union is just ending a long pay dispute, so we have a pay rise to come through soon (probably end of next month) backdated to August 1st last year, then another due this August.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

cozy as ned says.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Congratulations there, Martin! I know you've been feeling down so good thoughts on that end, but at least the day to day expenses aren't going to be a fret.

My coziness would be cozier if not for my addiction to things like flying out to visit friends and Folio Society books and all that. But hey, creature comforts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm sorry, but the premise of the querstion is incorrect. I have neither lots of money, nor have none at all. I am in the middle somewhere. Maybe on the frugal side of cosy, if we're putting us all on a line.

On the other hand, I can't afford to "fly out to visit friends", so maybe I'm poor and don't know it.

But if you're poor but don't know it, are you really poor?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll be even cozier when i reach the retirement age. in 42 years.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no in between.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

no one told me that you can't use Stephenson £5 notes anymore :(

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

incredibly, incredibly a. I no longer have my second job which I needed to feed myself and gas the car btw my monthly paychecks.

When my paycheck comes next week after I pay rent, a loan I had to get to fix my car, and enough of the bills to stave off disconnect I will have nothing left. Not a dime. (and tht list of priorties unfortunately doesn't even cover my medicines.)

i've absolutely got to get another waitressing/bartending job stat.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

when the paycheck comes in, I won't be clocking crazy dollars, but hey something's better than nothing. Oh, yeah, America owes me some money, can't wait for that to show up in my account.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm clocking crazy street cred that looks like crazy street-person cred

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I am thinking of selling my organs for extra money, but I suspect they aren't worth much.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the street value of said organs?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i didnt even make enough money last year to file income tax. also, no checks today...some editors are getting a visit from the wooden plastic surgeon

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"wooden plastic"?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's right. you want some too, pretty boy?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yes. yes please.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin that's amazing news! You must buy me a pint tomorrow to celebrate.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly, I feel as little like celebrating as I ever have in my whole life, Matt - but unfortunately that's another story, and one not to be shared here. I will try to be cheery tomorrow, and I will happily buy you and many other people drinks in celebration - because I will keep reminding myself that this is all good stuff, irrespective of other things.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I am both clocking crazy dollars and broke as a joke, thank you VISA and MasterCard and taxes and veterinary bills and my apparent inability to budget!

what the FUCK is that coldplay ep and why is it worth so much money and how can I bootleg and sell fake copies?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

jess, you didn't make enough to where you HAD to file, but could you still file and possibly get som $ back?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, the deadline passed anyway, didn't it?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah it's a done deal

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

laziness strikes again

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm neither (a.) nor (b.), really. If my spending habits weren't so geared toward the thrifty side, I'd so be (a.), though. I have to watch every single penny I send in order for me to be able to have at least a small cushion of money in my checking account every month and I will not resort to using credit cards to get me what I want. I'm hoping that sometime in the foreseeable future I will get to the point where I'm (b.), but even then I'd probably be extremely frugal.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 23 April 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

"The only excuse for being broke is jail." - 50 Cent

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 27 May 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this is my motto for the rest of 2005.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 27 May 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

my advice: become a shit rapper

i earn more than i ever have in my life but i'm more overdrawn than before in my life too.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(a)

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The company I work for needs to make £600,000 in the next month or we are finished, we might not get paid on tuesday.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Blinking heck Ed, sorry to hear that. How come?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

we're not selling enough

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to hear that Ed!

My wage is OK I s'pose, but I am flat broke. Buying houses at the height of a boom sucks!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

poor. and yes pinxor

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

PP OTM there. I'm looking to buy a house at the moment and nothing is affordable, not even on my crazy-high NHS manager wage :-(

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

and when you finally do it hurts like fuck. people kept saying the first year is hard very hard etc etc then its supposed to get easier. like fuck. i'm 2 1/2 years in.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are you looking, M?

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 May 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The original idea was that Mark S (and T & G) wanted to get me up their way, i.e. Walthamstow or thereabouts, because they felt I was a bit too isolated for my own good way down south in Streatham. But having narrowly escaped being ripped to pieces by slavering Rottweilers in Walthamstow Market one Friday night (chavs shouting "BITE THE BATTY BOY") just before Easter, I subsequently went off the idea somewhat. So now I'm concentrating my search in a general West London direction, as it's the London I know best and feel most comfortable with. Nothing doing in Chiswick or Ealing, Acton I'm not keen on, so I'll probably end up looking for something in your neck of the woods.

Also, about a month ago I went up to York and had a look at house prices there, but they were just as bad as down here.

I need to do something but I don't just want to live anywhere, especially if it means putting down a mortgage downpayment.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm (a) and jobless. Ouch. Although I might very well be (b) in a month, which would be nice.

Marcello, you are right to avoid Walthamstow. It's where I am right now, and I'll be happy to move on...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

**so I'll probably end up looking for something in your neck of the woods.**

It's blimmin expensive now. For example, even a 2-bedroom Victorian/Edwardian Terrace is pushing £280-300K in Twickenham. Richmond is totally offscale, as is Putney.

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 May 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank fuck I get paid today.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(Dr C xpost)

When I did the rounds of the estate agents up and down Chiswick High Road recently, the only things I could find even for £300K were glorified toilets in Brentford.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF?!? 300.000 pounds????

I'm neither. Not broke but not clocking crazy dollars either. The latter is something my parents do since I'm their slave. *sigh*

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

that seems like insane money. my house cost that in aust dollars and i'm still fucking broke. (you get some kind of extra pay for working in london don't you?)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

and are you still only buying 100 year leases or whatever it was?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed - London Weighting it's called. But bear in mind we are talking about London here, a city wherein "investment analysts," "management consultants" and other highly useful people earn £300,000 a WEEK or similar, thus it's a seller's market. I think the idea is that eventually only "celebrities" and City types will be allowed to live in London. People like nurses, teachers and firefighters will presumably have to commute from the Orkneys, or something.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Not much extra.

House prices out of London are going up pretty sharply now.

Avoid toilets in Brentford. I wouldn't dismiss W'stow entirely because you happened to meet some wankers there. There are wankers everywhere.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcello, you are right to avoid Walthamstow. It's where I am right now, and I'll be happy to move on...

Did you see Brian Harvey's ambulance?

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

there was this idea floated in the late 80's i think that decentralised working - brought about by the wunderful new computer age - would mean that cities would (once more) become the province of artists/bohemians etc. never fucking happened of course.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, only because all the "artists/bohemians" moved out because the yuppie ambulance chasers moved in, pushing up the prices.

(Dr C xpost)
Yeah, but when you're trying to get your head round a relatively unfamiliar place, it doesn't help. As it is I didn't need to walk all the way down W'stow Market - I could have got the train to W'stow St James and would only have had to go round the corner - but I don't know that I'd feel at home there.

Streatham is overflowing with wankers (closing time on Fridays outside Caesar's nightclub anyone?) but because I know the place I know to avoid them.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaz & Marcello - it's horrible isn't it? Especially since we're still paying the costs of the first house we offered on falling through! :-(
Marcello - I'd say move to Cambridge, but I recall that you don't like me Cambridge. ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I certainly don't dislike Cambridge - as a city I much prefer it (objectively) to, say, Oxford - I just don't know it, or anyone in it, that's all, so I'd feel as isolated there as I do in Streatham.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

am i broke? put it this way: i applied to do postgraduate study as a career move.

― N_RQ, Friday, 27 May 2005 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody hell Ed, are you okay?

I am broke as broke can be. In answer to one of the above questions: I have never shoplifted food, but I have shoplifted tampons. Only the once. I can go without eating for a while, but some things require urgent attention.

Jess - when you've finished kneecapping editors do you fancy coming over here and taking out extra rage on some of mine? I'd do it myself, but you're bigger than me.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sadly it looks like there will never be a shortage of editors who need..."correcting".

i am still owed about $200 from one place from last year. (also i got my tax bill this week ha ha.)

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 27 May 2005 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I share your pain. I've been waiting for £175 for at least six months. (I didn't make enough for tax last year either)

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It surprises me how cheap Walthamstow still is, even for renting. Stratford too, still has cheap properties despite the local boom, get 'em while you can it seems.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm fine for now and colette has been just sent me an application form for a part time job that I could do in my sleep. Plus we can try and do all we can.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm pretty comfortable at the moment. i have some spare cash to buy cool stuff with/for a rainy day, but with regards to ever purchasing houses, etc then obviously that's broke as a joke.

i hope to earn enough money to be able to buy a house and also buy sports cars for fun by the time i'm 30 though. 5 years to go!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

a sports car? you naff get!

― N_RQ, Friday, 27 May 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Ken C was about 60!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

broke as a joke d00dz, looks like 12 hour days in the computer factory for me

― fcuss3n, Friday, 27 May 2005 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just been promoted at work, but it's not that much of a pay rise, so i think i took home an extra £8 this month.

i'm not poor, but i'm certainly not making the big bucks-- i work for a charity, and won't ever make loads. i'm a bit in debt from loads of trips, but whatever.

I'm fine for now and colette has been just sent me an application form for a part time job that I could do in my sleep.

this reminded me of what people keep saying i should do as a job, which might make more money-- sort out people's problems! like a life concierge, or something. wonder how i could do that.

good luck with that, ed, if you want any insider info on who's doing the interviews, i think our IT guy knows them...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 27 May 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(a)

Col, I've seriously wanted to turn a life concierge-esque venture into some kind of viable business enterprise. It is needed!

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Friday, 27 May 2005 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

a sports car? you naff get!
-- N_RQ (bl0cke...), May 27th, 2005 11:43 AM. (later)

not A sports car, dude. sports CARS! it's totally not naff if you can afford it.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Ken C was about 60!

i'm just mature for my age that's all.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

this reminded me of what people keep saying i should do as a job, which might make more money-- sort out people's problems! like a life concierge, or something. wonder how i could do that.

get one van, paint it black, and draw one red stripe through it

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(and avoid aeroplanes)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

For ages and ages I was a), and so got into the habit of thinking like a). Now I'm earning quite a decent wage doing quite a decent job, although I'm not earning VAST amounts of cash, I'm still thinking I've got none, so when I look at my bank account online and realise I've got loads it comes as quite a shock.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it might be my inner-lentil-eater but i can't think of anythink naffer than sports cars. especially with personalized number plates.

― N_RQ, Friday, 27 May 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it might be my inner-lentil-eater but i can't think of anythink naffer than sports cars. especially with personalized number plates.

i think it's only naff if you make a big deal about them thinking it'd make you really cool or something. rather than you know, just a car that's fun to drive.

personalised number plates are only good for putting on really crap cars.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Broke as a freaking joke and there's no silver cloud because no one at all wants to emply me. :-(

Sorry to hear that, Ed. But that's what you get for teasing the Christians - they won't pay their bills!

I'm really trying hard not to think what happens if I don't get a job by the time my housemate comes back from his honeymoon. I have one more month's rent in my bank account, and that's it. What do I do then? Sell my guitar amps? I'd say sell my pedals, but I lost those. I'm just trying hard not to think about it. What would happen if I don't find another? Would I be homeless? Would my family take me in, even though I haven't spoken to them since the row over Xmas?

I utterly failed to get another job yesterday. I keep trying to think positive and all "Oh, sooner or later, someone will hire me" but what happens if they don't?

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I felt like I was doing ok, but that's because I was relying so heavily on my credit cards each month. But then recently I maxed my main credit card out and went almost a grand over the limit. I felt like I was financially irresponsible before, but now I feel like a total loser. :-( I'm going to have to become quite the hippie now that I don't have the card to fall back on.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The only good news is that I am so poor that I am officially below the poverty level, and qualify for nearly 100% financial aid for going back to University. :-/

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you going for a graduate degree, kate? in what?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Not a graduate degree. A BSc, because I don't actuall have one. In mathematics and statistics. (Yeah, sure, I'd rather be studying modular forms and symmetry breaking and complexity theory but think I'd be much more likely to get a Proper Job with Statistics than pure maths.)

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(That is almost certainly not true, Kate!)

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Birkbeck does not offer any degrees in pure fun maths. And I don't think I could handle a traditional university - besides which, I wouldn't get in!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

In fact, it's unlikely I'll even get in to Birkbeck. :-(

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

hey! what's this 'even'!

― N_RQ, Friday, 27 May 2005 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not completely broke although I am unemployed. I've got about another 6 weeks of comfortable living cash on hand. I except I'll have a job before that runs out and if not, unemployment checks.

we're looking to buy a house when our lease term on this one runs out. Our price range in Austin is under $200k which doesn't leave a whole lot of choices.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure you'll be excited about whereever you end up. Small houses are more cozy anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

not broke but more a) than b).

This time last year I was clocking crazy dollars. :(

― the black hand, Friday, 27 May 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

me too black hand. then i went back to uni full time. now i'm poor.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally (a) right now -- for a while there I had about $16 in my pocket, meant to last for an entire week, and kind of cringing over the imagined embarrassment of going to my boss: "You can either lend me $4 train fare, or give me the rest of the week off." The bigger picture is kinda dismal, too, but it's mostly just the transition of finishing school and getting back to real work.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my first paycheck today, which was a nice surprise. Also, I live at home so I don't have to pay rent. However, I have no social life. But, I still have tons of bills to pay. I don't know how this happens. Also, my landlord owes me over 2K in deposit money. I hope I will see it some day. (Still waiting on two freelance checks as well--3 months now.)

― Mary Mary, Friday, 27 May 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually pretty impressed that some people have admitted to clocking crazy dollars. I mean, it seems like most people, despite their income, think they're broke, because people tend to lead lifestyles based on the BEST their money can buy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(b) because i earned a lot of money last summer and at my campus job, was careful with my spending over the year, and still have plenty left to pay for next year's costs (which will offset my very low income this summer, because i'll be working at a museum rather than a bank).

(also, parents, relatively sane loans, and an amazing financial aid office are paying tuition, so i'm really fucking lucky that i only have to deal with paying for the amount of college that a summer job CAN pay for.)

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the most money I've ever had, although my "crazy dollars" are only good for 1. Not a lot, but enough to pay my cheap rent for a year. I'm saving a little every week and finally able to do student loan payments. I have no health insurance, but a good apartment, car, & other needs are taken care of. I feel lucky, although i work a lot. If I answered those "rate your poverty" questions upthread the answers could be scary.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

a) but supported by a b)

― minna (minna), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

doing ok, somewhere in the middle. as im renting, it leans towards b), but if i want to buy, its going to be a). but as marcello says, buying just seems impossible

i did see a shed in leytonstone that was just (20k) out of my price range. perhaps i could go in with someone else, and i could sleep on the roof

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://catalog.snoop2nuts.com/images/s2n/thumb_1072.jpg

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 27 May 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Early Payday,

Thank you. I am now clocking crazy dollars.

Love,
Future Republican

― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

A)rrrrrrrrrrgh

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you. I am now clocking crazy dollars.

man, my last post was so naive. i clocked way mad crazy dollars six months later.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

i've been clocking mad $$$ lately, but i am too damn busy to spend any of it!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

joek

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm making more than I was even six months ago (due to a work promotion), but I'm not exactly awash in cash. Thanks to a recently purchased house and that new payment every month (benefit: they factor in the property tax in the payments!) I'm actually left with less spending money than I had before. But it's a temporary thing. As soon as my checking account balance recovers, I'll be able to allot myself more and THEN I'll feel the positive effects of the increase in pay.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 13 January 2007 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

if its one or the other, i'm clocking crazy dollarzzz...but i can't manage my money worth a damn so i'll expect to be broke as a mf'in joke soon enough.

― mikebee (heywood), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

I only clock crazy dollars because the cost of living here in Ohio is so damn cheap. And I rarely buy anything, so I put a lot in the bank. Now it's gotten to the point where I can survive OK for awhile if I get fired.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

It saddens me to see so many people choosing A.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm clocking crazy dollars, but I don't manage it well at all and don't save a dime. (What I'm saving for Netherlands trip doesn't count.) Snrub, I'll see your Ohio cost of living and raise you a Mississippi cost of living.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

BROKE JOKE ;_;

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Broke in wallet, but late-winter nursery work looms, whereupon I shall be broke in the back.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

man, that kind of excites me -- i'm CCD San Francisco-stylee!

― mikebee (heywood), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

my money is not crazy but broke-as-a-joke days are i hope permanently in the past.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

C TO THE C TO THE D

WHAT A DIFFERENCE 4 YRS MAKE

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm doing pretty well. I mean, what's clocking crazy dollars? Is that a couple of grand every month? If so, well, that's none of your god damn business. :-) But I'm sure as hell not broke and xrossing my fingers a couple of thousand times I hope it never happens.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

broke in bank account rich in spirit

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm both, WADDABOUTAT? Just kidding.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you work for your parents?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

flat arse broke due to paycut, for the most part cheerfully accepted as inevitable in undertaking a substantial career change. still, bit demoralising i suppose.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Um, both. It's the American way.
The more we spend the more we save!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you work for your parents?

Yes, I do.They pay me pretty well.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

right after posting to this thread i hit up the ATM and discovered that it was, in fact, b.) after all.

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

C) stuck somewhere between

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I define "paycheck to paycheck" to quote some guy back upthread. I get really shit money and have really low overheads plus some vague self-control, so it sort of evens out

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

My mum-in-law & I went to WENDY'S w/ a bag of 350 unrolled pennies she collected. She spent about 10 mins. correcting her order w/4 people in line behind us, THEN demanded to pay w/pennies! Which they tried to refuse. She offered to count them all and they basically threw her chili at her and were all grumpy like "arrrgh whatever here's your food." Then she asked for a bunch of free crackers.

So I hang out w/a crazy old lady & we're both really poor and basically sociopaths. C'est la vie.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

awesome

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Impressive work.

I have a dizzying amount of money in my current account at the mo, but it's all earmarked for one thing and another, and when it's gone I shall be somewhat impecunious for a month or two.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

mo money mo problems

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

broke as a joke! if i have #300 in my account after paying rent i feel totally bling-bling which i realise is ridiculous. don't really mind though, i'm not expensive to run and i'm not responsible for anyone other than myself so...

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

energy bills make me crazy.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

God, how things change. I never did that degree. But now I'm clocking crazy dollars anyway. Now I just wish I could let go of the "ohmigod, I'm so broke" mentality and actually, like, buy some furniture and stuff.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am doing quite nicely now, despite spending an absolute shedload over the last few weeks but I'm expecting a nice big cheque at the end of the month (touch wood). 'Crazy dollars' might be stretching it a bit but I have no debts and more in the bank than ever before so I'm pretty content.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Man last month I was ballin out of control with the refund check and the stimulus check and a scholarship reward check and graduation money and an emergency fund I set up through ING.

Then I got hit with $500 in tickets and $2280 in fines.

Now I'm broke (as in like bank account is in single digits for the first time since my lean days) and nearly $3k in debt on top of my monthly car payment and increased summer energy bill and rising gas prices and jesus strike me down cause it'd be easier.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

sorry HOOS

what's the tix/fines for

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 July 2008 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

Broke but not as a joke, its serious yo. I'll be clocking crazy pounds tomorrow tho, hit me on the payside yeah! I always freak out about money but then I get mad paper suddenly just when I truly need it and not just coz I have a shoe fix that I need.
I really can't talk about money and be 'street' and English at the same time. FAIL.
Shame Hoos, I second mookie's question, I know a coupla decent lawyers (don't ask) if you want some advice.

― VeronaInTheClub, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

It's a long story, but in essence:

-Summer 06 I was pulled over for an expired registration. I was insured, but I didn't have my most current insurance card on me. I was ticketed for driving without insurance. A week later I was pulled over again because I hadn't had the time to renew the registration yet. I didn't have the first ticket on my person, so I was ticketed a second time for driving without insurance. The fine for each of those stops is $250/year for the next 3 years.

-Texas law says that being ticketed twice for driving without insurance is cause for your license to be suspended. I didn't get any notification because the city had the wrong address on file for me. When I was stopped for speeding (doin 55 in a 54, if you will), the officer told me (much to my shock) that I was driving with a suspended license. I paid the $300 fine on that ticket, then started the process of renewing my license today. $250 in fees, plus another set of $250/year for the next three years.

-Oh and I got stopped again last night. I've been having the gf drive me places to be on the safe side, but we made a 1 am Denny's run and I figured we'd be fine. On the way back my girlfriend saw a possum dart across the road and wanted to get a closer look. 1:30 am, no one around in the residential area, so I made a U to go back. Motorcycle cop parked under a tree in the dark in a residential area at 1:30 am, fuck you. Got ticketed a second time for driving with a suspended license, another $300.

So all told it's $2800 in fines.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

I'd be clocking crazy dollars if I didn't live in London with a wife who's too sick to work and ineligible for the dole. As it is I'm getting by OK but have no money to spend on stupidly expensive punk singles.

xpost yikes hoos :(

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

fuck

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

at any rate, i am not quite either. my dollars almost exactly pay the rent, but fail to cover my drinking habit.

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

Mookie I feel like this every fucking day.
Anyways Hoos...this is mostly American legal stuff (so I can only give vague answers till I speak to my friend) but the fact that they didn't give you proper warning and the city getting the wrong address is stuff you can pull up. I wouldn't just take it, these are big fines and if they've messed up by not notifying you properly then you should at least be able to drop one of the fines (maybe the first suspended licence one?) and have extra time given within which to pay. There's bound to be a loophole for the other two and have you double checked the statements they gave you? Is every i dotted? Because even silly procedural stuff on that shit can help you out.
I'm not as versed on US law but I'll get back to you when I get in touch with my mate, this seems all a little too silly. The possum story if you don't mind me saying tho, is jokes.

― VeronaInTheClub, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

dayum, my DWI didn't cost me that much

Never heard of the insurance thing - when I get pulled over without my insurance card (which is pretty much a yearly thing), it's a $10 fee to have it dismissed when I bring in proof of insurance.

― milo z, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

^^^Exactly. Something in the milk ain't clean Hoos.

― VeronaInTheClub, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

TEXAS

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

Well, it has to be dismissed within a certain period (two weeks, a month, usually). If HOOS let it go to warrant he's SOL.

And I don't know if it's a state thing or just the North Texas communities that routinely ticket my ass who let you get it dismissed easily.

― milo z, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

when I get pulled over without my insurance card (which is pretty much a yearly thing), it's a $10 fee to have it dismissed when I bring in proof of insurance.

-- milo z, Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:26 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

same here, but i was too young n dumb to know that two summers ago

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)

wtf hoos when did you catch Remy's luck

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

its like damn son

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

I was stopped recently for running a red light, and the cop totally made no big deal that I didn't have my current insurance card with me.

― libcrypt, Saturday, 12 July 2008 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

My insurance went up about $200/month with that driving w/suspended license conviction, and my (now paid off) monthly credit card payment was supposed to go towards that, but instead it's gonna be goin towards these bullshit fines for the next 3 years.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)

so yeah as i told j0 a bit ago i basically want to skullfuck debt right now

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

my electric bill and car payment were due today and i can either pay them or pay off the rent that i put on my credit card

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

which btw was late because the gf's job fucked up her paycheck so we didn't even get that in til we had a $150 late fee attached

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

would be a nice skullfuck

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

debt is a cunt

― carne asada, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:40 (seventeen years ago)

We just signed lease on a new place, and I just bought a fancy new fridge, but I even tho we both clock decent dollars, I'll be broke for a while cause I borrowed off the parents to meet the bond/rent/moving costs, so I'll be paying them back for at least 6 months, plus paying off a ridiculous credit card debt of about 6k (stupid computer buying lust), but hey I manage ok, and now have a lovely new house to move into so I'm good.

It always scares me though how all this hinges on one's employment: I got nothing in savings, so if either of us lose our jobs we're instantly thrown into a scary position which is what happened late last year for a short while. I really need to start budgeting better and saving a slush fund for emergencies again.

― Trayce, Saturday, 12 July 2008 06:20 (seventeen years ago)

so far into a) it's unbelievable

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

I've got a broke mentality.

Even though I'm now earning good money, I always feel like it could be taken away at any moment, and have really bad nerves about making any major expenditure.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:28 (seventeen years ago)

I owe plenty of money.

I act like I don't.

Hey, at least I managed to escape the jaws of student loan quicksand.

Who gives a fuck?

― Bimble, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:41 (seventeen years ago)

bobsix: thats exactly how I feel! Always like thr debt monster is hovering behind me, eager to eat me alive if I lose my job or land a major debt like hospital or theft or some crap. I worry too much.

― Trayce, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

joke.

i feel so silly too cuz all my friends wanna plan this vegas trip, for a bachelorette party, and i'm the shmo with no dough.

― Surmounter, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 July 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

right

― Surmounter, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

doing ok but this trip which was supposed to be like dirt cheap cuz my flight was paid for & first week's hotel paid for too... well... it is gonna cost me a lot more than i'd 'ticipated.

― s1ocki, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

The fine for each of those stops is $250/year for the next 3 years.

wait, how is this even possible? they're fining you in the future??

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

never mind, just googled it, WTF

As of Sept. 1, 2003, certain offenses carry an automatic surcharge for three years, including DWI-related offenses, no insurance, driving while license suspended and driving without a license. For example, the fee for a first-time DWI offender is $1,000 per year for three years.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck, I'll remember this next time I go to El Paso. I'll remember: don't go to El Paso; Texas laws are harsh shit.

― Abbott, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

I owe a frankly terrifying amount of money, it's not even funny.

I have a house and a business, in theory I'll be Croesus in a few years.

Now, brrrrr

― Matt, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

goddamn I'm broke. it would be great if my yearly salary increase kept up with inflation but it doesn't.

― akm, Monday, 14 July 2008 22:21 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flESd2vFXy4&feature=related

― Pompoussin (admrl), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

"broke as a joke" does not even begin to describe it. they need to bring back dickensian debtors prisons and put me out of my misery.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

on the other hand, this sandwich is delicious, so into every life a little sunshine must fall.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

Seems unlikely that The Rakes video influence on the Blackout Crew was anything but inadvertent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcIommZjMSE

― Bill A, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

slowly depleting, minimal income

― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

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