poorest moment of my life (so far) was when my boss over paid me then laid me off and i had already spent the money. Was in debt about $500, but happy ending, guy wasent to flsh with paper work, so i didnt have to pay him back. However as a first year uni student i am already in debt a couple of grand, bust i dont have to pay that for ages, yeah HECS

when i had 5 dollars. me and my girlfriend went to weis and bought buns, goober (peanut butter/jelly stuff), and we stole some plastic silverware. we made sandwiches. bum picnic for the win.

I enjoy being 19, having a 150.000 euro mortgage and therefor paying 1000 euro a month, while making about 1/4th of that.

I was homeless for a couple of months. No source of income at all. Every weekend i'd go to my mothers place to get some food and shower. I didn't have the heart to tell her what was going on.

I managed to score a couch to sleep on at a friends house. That lasted about 2 months when i finally managed to score a job.

All ended well. Still kind of poor because i don't have the ability to save money due to alcohol and nicotine addictions.

OP here. Several summers ago I got fired from a job that had severely cut my hours a month prior to that. I was already struggling to keep my head above water, so I had to blow all $2000 of my credit card on rent and utilities for the next two months. All the while, I begged for money from my parents just to eat. I survived on rice and frozen veggies for those 2 months. I didn't leave the house except for when I had to, to avoid temptation to spend. I bummed my roommates XBL account to play Halo 3, which I did all day. I became a complete recluse.

For over a month I had less than $1 in my savings and checking accounts. Felt like shit, man.

I had to craigslist what little I could just to buy razors to shave for a job interview. Got the job, begged for hours, got my ass out of that hole.

>Argentina, 1989. Hyperinflation fucking us hard, about 1987% anually.
I remeber at age 5/6 my mother telling me that "you're now a big boy, you dont need milk any more".

I realized at age of 21 that the whole 'big boy thing was because If I drank the milk my younger brothers wouldn't have the oportunity of have something to drink/eat in the whole day.

This one time my bro had to lend me five bucks for lunch, I had left my wallet at hime.
Fucking embarassing.

Eating out of trash cans and sleeping under a bridge when the mission was full.

I went to take 30 dollars out of the bank to pay my debt to a girl, and it said insufficient funds ;_;. I only had 26 dollars

'Sup, bros. Cheap McStingy here. I save just about every penny that passes my way. I eat the cheapest of cheap food and whenever I possible I take precious stuff out of dumpsters to sell second hand just to make a little extra money.

With not job, and never having worked a day in my goddamn lazy boy existence, I've already managed to save 3,400 dollars within four months. Feels pretty good, man.

Now imagine if I actually had a job.

>>6405207
i'm from argentina, i was born that year

OP here. Just checked my online bank summary. Looks like I again have less than $1 in all my accounts. This is depressing.

I'm $50,000 in debt after college and currently attending graduate school. My stipend is $18k/yr.

>>6405145
What are you doing with a 150,000 euro mortage at 19?

Stupid fucks living beyond their means. I can't stand them.

>>6405267
how old are you op

blox

lived in alleys, parks, play grounds, abandoned houses just because im a heroin/cocaine addict and i sucked 6 dirty dicks in a row

>>6405244
>At first, I was Ctrl+F "argentina" but then I'd :(
Why don't you post on MSN threads?

>>6405282
think he meant 150.00

>>6405282
Hey, it was a financial plan that allowed me to live for 300 Euro's a month in a 28 square meters apartment, with my own kitchen/bathroom. Until the company went bankrupt.

700 dollars in debt the first year of college. Currently 0 debt and 50k in savings at 28 years old.

>>6405287

Male or female?
dontblawksacuriousanon

I was going to go screencap my bank account, but apparently my bank closed out my checking account for being overdrawn for too long.

So... yeah. There's that.

>>6405290
i don't like chatting because i can't keep up a conversation :(

On thanksgiving day 2005, I got evicted from my apartment for being $3,200 short on rent (800/month rent). Apparently my girlfriend had been pocketing the money instead of paying rent. I looked in my bank acount, bitch had spent my $6,000 savings down to -$900. My checking account which had $1,200 was at -$600.


I decided to marry that woman (shes bipolar so it makes life more fun).

I sold took cans to the recycling place today for some spending cash until monday.

Do I regret my decisions? Sometimes, I would have 40,000-50,000 saved up had I been on my own.

But shit is exciting, I'll never know what is going to happen next.

$10 for an entire week, with no way of getting another cent.

I walked for an hour and a half to the cheapest grocery store I know.

I bought 3 dozen eggs, a kilogram of frozen hoki fillets and a kilogram of tomatoes.

At home, I had only lemon pepper as a garnish and, using those 4 ingredients, I ate for a week.

I was SO fucking sick of it by the end.

Right now. My dad died this year and we have nothing. Waiting for social welfare for months now.

>>6405373

Got Change?

Badump tish.

>>6405388
you are a bad person

>>6405388
I don't get the joke.
overmyheadblox

>>6405352
lulz

i too was involved with a bipolar woman, she told me i'll thank her in a few years for leaving me. i still dream and think about her everyday but it looks like she may have been right

>>6405352
Now I know I'm not alone any more.
Crazy girls FTW!

>>6405407

Obama the socialist promises change

Poorfag dad dies, gets no government aid.

Make change joke.

badum tish.

>>6405399
I know.

It was worth it.

>>6405418
I'm not from Obamaland, sorry.

>>6405418
what a fucking nigger faggot you are

I'm unemployed right now and living off my savings. I have $2000 still and am going to be looking for a job after Christmas holidays. I would be looking right now, but I'm visiting family during the holidays, and most workplaces are hiring only so they have people working during the holidays. This is basically the poorest I've ever been while over 18. I've never been in debt.

I've never been poor.
Since I inherited 18K when I was 18 I've had at least a 12,000 quid buffer in my bank account.

>>6405411
>>6405416


Ya, I will never really truly decide if I am better off with her or if I will be happier without her. I am kinda introverted, and well crazies make shit come to you.

Maybe one day I'll outgrow the bitch. BUt fuck its so good.

>>6405456

having 12,000 doesnt necessarily mean you aren't poor. For instance, if my parents woke up with 12,000 tomorrow I think they'd jump in front of traffic.

If those fuckers would only send some of that cash my way.

top ramen ftl

>>6405492

Ok. The poorest I've been is only have 12K in savings.

If i knew how to link responses in my posts on 4chan, id say to the guy who has the bipolar girlfriend, how has she not killed you yet? From owing money to the mob or getting into an arguement and stabbing you? Or better yet how have you not killed her instead?

No way in hell I'd ever be poor.

Have about 3,200 in the bank while saving 500 a month. Making about 35,000 a year with only about 19,000 in living expenses.
Life is good.

>>6405373

Don't worry, honey. Things will get better.
Btw dinners ready.

This thread is now about making people feel bad about being poor.

Ultimate troll is ultimate. (Ultimatetrollblox)

No money in my pocket. Living in a youth hostel, cleaning for rent. Free tea, baking bread & s/whichs from peoples jobs which were about to go out of date for nourishment. Felt good. Fucking good.

Happiest time in my life and i didn't have a goddamn cent to my name!

I have gone eating only plain rice for 5 weeks before when I couldn't afford food

but I was smoking a pack a day during this, so I did it to myself

>>6405516


I am the guy with a bipolar wife and I am here to help a newfag out, you click on the number in the post and it magically appears in the reply box.

To be quite honest, I never got an answer from her about where the money went to, so I dunno what the fuck.

A couple times she's thrown knives at me held a knife to my throat, shit like that.

One time I got so tired of her shit I was thinking about strangling her in her sleep. So I put my hands on her throat to see what it was like, I really liked the way it felt, it returned a lot of power to me, so I started squeezing harder and harder, after it got kinda firm on her neck, she wakes up, looks up at me and said: "If it will help you, I won't stop you, goodbye"

I stopped adding pressure but I left my hands on her throat. I began to talk to her about how I really just wanted to snuff her life out, she told me if I wanted to talk about it I'd have to loosen my grip a little as it was getting tough to breath and talking needs breathing.

So we talked about our feelings with me semichoking her. I felt better knowing that she completely submited to my will and a lot of my frustration went away.

I really love her.

23 here, I'll be 24 tomorrow though. I'm currently 20.000 dollars in debt for film school that i didn't finish, unemployed, can't get a job, and basically homeless. I'm living with some larping friends right now, and because I'm broke as shit, they're feeding me, as well as putting me up in their home. Tomorrow I'll celebrate my birthday by going to Disney World, alone because they let you in free on your birthday. Maybe that will be a good note to go out on.

>>6405565
I think the appropriate reply is "jesus"

this moment, right now is the poorest i've ever been.

my rent is $650, my bills total $150, and i'm on unemployment for $295 a week. that leave

3 weeks ago, 35 dollars in my checking account....

no cash on hand

>>6405565
She sounds like an anime character.

>>6405612

Nope, just a bipolar mexican.

When I was homeless and living in a car with 3 of my friends, but then we got ran into and the car was wrecked so I slept outside behind the mall.

>>6405644
Is she hot? I would do this for a hot chick.

Working full-time, with my living expenses (rent, food, bus travel to work) actually resulting in me having a negative income. I would often have to take a 2 hour walk home, sold my SNES every couple of months (I'd keep buying it back again) and pick up half-smoked cigarettes from outside shops :( Yes, I should have given up smoking, but it was pretty cheap back then.

I also hated where I lived and my friends never came to visit me, even though they all had cars.

Eventually I got kicked out of the house because they wanted one of their friends to move in and I found a much cheaper place, 10 mins walk from my workplace and the landlord grew his own weed and was barely ever there :)

>>6405565
I think I'm in love with your wife

>>6405661

Yep and the sex is fucking as crazy as she is.

I have $4.75 in a savings account. My bank closed my checking account because it was $600 overdrawn. (50% of that was overdraft fees)

I have a roughly a dollar and some change until Friday.

I have a wife and a two year old.

I work 70+ hours a week.

shit sucks

>>6405673

We've known each other since we were in middle school.

One day we went to visit our old high school at night and she let me fuck her ass on the basketball courts.

Never came so hard in my life. Sometimes I masturbate to it still.

right now, no job, been applying like crazy, no calls, failing school too.

>>6405683
70 hours per week? What the fuck do you do?

>>6405694
I'm honestly considering going to a manic-depression self-help group to pick up a girl right now

>>6405714

You'll alternate between loving it and hating it.

If you approach it like you would on an actual roller coaster, you'll enjoy it much better, just sit back and enjoy the fucking crazy ups and downs as they come at you.

But first, hide all your money.

Seriously give it to a trusted family member to hold onto for the duration of the relationship.

I have had no money and no place to live and stayed in an empty office on a university campus for over a week.

Not eating for 3-4 days at a time.

I've been to the point where I would offer to go to the store for my roomates, so I could steal a single slice of bread on the way home without them noticing.

Getting a job at a restaurant specifically so I could steal food to eat on a daily basis.

That was about 8 years ago. Now I'm rolling. It's why I never feel bad for homeless people or people begging for money, you can work yourself out of poverty if you put your fucking mind to it.

>>6405744
what do you do now that has you "rolling"?

I moved to a new town and knew nobody, was homeschooled so I had no friends. Mother in law kicked me out and I have spent almost a months living on the fucking STREET under a bridge in my teens, I was about 15 then and had no SS number so no work. This went on until my father came home from his buisness trip and came looking for me.
She told him I ran away and he was so mad he didn't even listen to me. After a week when he cooled down I explained what happened but I don't think he believed me.
At least I made some friends but I almost got raped baww.

>>6405735
what's a good pick up line for somebody like that? I checked the local 'scene', theres a self help group meeting tomorrow sometime about 9 o clock, it's not far from my home

>>6405352
Enjoy coming home to her being ejaculated on by the entire semi-pro baseball team in your living room.

Since most of us in this thread have been poor at one time or other, why don't we post tips on how to get by? Like the guy who said he stole slices of bread and worked at a restaurant.

>>6405759


Step mother you fucking cave man.

mother in law is your wifes mother.

Step mother is your dad replacing your whore birth mother.

>>6405775
Good point good sir, now rape a dog.

>>6405763
I have no living room, so crisis averted

>>6405763

Her being a mexican, she HATES niggers.

I used to be a PC dude until we got together, now everything is wetback this and nigger that.

She may or may not cheat, I know bipolars have a super high rate of infidelity, however, she really gets off on me hitting on other chicks or chicks hitting on me.

For my upcoming birthday I am gonna have her get a lapdance for me at a nudie bar and maybe get head immediately following.

She's totally down for a ffm threesome, but I would rather just watch her with a girl or have a girl eat her out while she sucked my dick. Since we can't really agree on what to do we're waiting until a compromise is met.

I used to steal Jamaican jerk seasoning from a housemate to put on my toast made from my 25p shitty white loaf :(

>>6405775
You quoted the wrong post
The right post is the one above
The wrong post is the one after caveman

>>6405808

First time ever on 4chan I had an impersonator.

Clearly this poster is not me because I type in all multiple lines.

but I did actually laugh irl at your comment. We also do not have a living room so crisis averted.

>>6405822

you are correct.
I fucked up.

>>6405826
How goddamn sad is someone that they impersonate posters on r9k? And I was ashamed of how poor I am...

>>6405565
I think your choking story just gave me an erection.

Now. I'm a student so every day I get a little bit further into debt, but at least I'll be earning a fair amount when I get out

I think I had a little less than $3 in my bank account for about a week and a half, due to a very low paycheck that went towards rent and food, leaving me with shit. Felt bad, man. :(

>>6405573
going to disneyworld alone on your birthday, this is both sad and awesome

when my father took my mothers money and ran to central America (she didnt have a job because she was a stay at home mom). We got kicked out of our apartment and we were living in the car eating icing that we had never once used when living in said apartment. We were living off of that for a week until one of my mothers friends found out about our situation and decided to buy us food and take us in.

OP here. I honestly was not expecting so many replies. I'm 22 btw for that guy who asked. I hereby declare this a poorfag advice thread. I know we have threads like these every once in a while, but I think if we all share how we got OUT of our situations, it will help inspire everyone else.

tl;dr how2notpoor?

Well, when I was in college I got a pretty rad job, and made decent pay. I then decided to quit school and just work. The problem is that when I got laid off it took me something like 6 months to find a job. Degree or no degree it next to imposible to find any sort of job, but my interviews would have gone much better if I did have a degree. Ended up burning through what I saved up over the past few years. Had to move from my nice place to the ghetto that is Humbudlt Park to save on expenses. I pretty much lived on rice and beans/lentils for quite a while. Had to craigslist pretty much everything I owned except for my computer. Shit was really fucking hard. Ending up dropping a ton of weight... that's good I guess?
Debating if you are going to eat or let it slide so you can come up with rent fucking sucks.

>>6406080
eating icing for a week??

fuuuuuuuuuuuu