Things you've done when you've had no money.Apart from the usual survival rations of beans, white bread and Doll Noodles™, we've all done things to compensate for having no money. Personally I spent 6 months barefoot to save on the cost of shoes. What pathetic things have you done when the cash ran out?
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chthonic, Fri 8 Oct 2004, 9:34)
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Retail SpecialistWhilst young I've indulged in many neat little tricks to earn money.
In Year 6 I composed a short comical poem (now long forgotten and sold copies for 25p. I also leeched money off the rich Chinese loner in our class by letting him play Tetris on my Databank for £1 a go.
Between Years 7 and 9 I managed to sell off large portions of my PC game collection for anywhere between a half and a sixth of their actual value.
My parents also used to offer me 1p per dandelion head I picked. This worked fine in our suburban house with a tiny garden but when we moved to a new house in the country I hoovered up every single dandelion I saw and for two years could bank on a summer income of £50. But then they all died out, and they're showing no signs of coming back.
And then of course, there's the stalwart fallback when all else fails: scrounging off people at school like some cheap pikey bastard.
I've also been known to join the group of hopefuls who scrounge around under vending machines in search of lost coinage. Ah, those were the days.
(, Sun 10 Oct 2004, 14:10, Reply)
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