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As if anyone on 4chan even knows what it's like to be really poor.

I live on about $800/month right now. This is the poorest I've ever been. Shitsux, but tons of people have it worse, and it ends (hopefully) when I graduate.

>>7603963
How poor is that? "Can't buy food" poor or "I steal toilet paper" poor?

>>7603963
thats not bad if you have roommates to split rent with, and if you don't need a car. you end up with more than enough for groceries.

>>7603950
I've been homeless for close to a year, stealing and cheating because I didn't have enough quarters to rub together.

I refused to eat leftovers or garbage so I chose to starve and eat once every two days and drink water from hoses in peoples' gardens.

Is that poor enough?

>>7603986
My car insurance is ridiculous. I pay $200/month. I have a DUI on my record that goes away in September, but for now nobody else will insure me.

howthefuckisthiscommentnotoriginalblox

-1500 GBP or something like that. But that was at uni, when it was pretty abnormal to be above 0 for most people.

Also now technically 15,000 GBP in student debt, but it's sitting in a savings account earning higher interest.

>>7604004
You are a genuine poor person.

I know what it's like to have to go into a bank and have to withdraw my last pound, and it still not be enough for the bus fare to work.

Still, though, I've always had enough food to get by and a roof over my head.

I saw a post on some forum about how a father had to whore himself to gays to pay his kids medical bills. That sounds pretty poor.

>>7604004
But how do you internet?

I've seen plenty of poor times. Been huddled around a battery powered heater in the middle of winter in northern michigan because out heat was shut off when I was a kid. Had to take back a digital camera to the store like 2 months after I bought it because I went flat broke in Honolulu. Been without heat for months and had to try my best to clean my ass with cold water.

Now I get free money from the government. I don't want to live on it forever but I want to hoard enough of it to get a proper start once I give this real life thing another shot.

>>7604061
Probably from a library.

Living in the woods in a tent, traveling by bicycle. I woke up one morning with no food, and no money at all. Fortunately there had been a party nearby around a bonfire circle a few weeks before (far enough away from my campsite not to be a threat) and I knew there were many beercans lying about. I spent some time collecting the cans into a garbage bag (I always kept several at my campsite for storing/waterproofing my clean clothing etc.) and secured the bundle to my cargo rack on the bike with a bungee cord. Walking my bike out of the woods, I pedaled to the nearest liquor store and turned in the cans for about $1.50.

I used the money to buy a little bit of food for breakfast, which I ate at a Mcdonald's where I used the trick of having a day old Mcdonald's coffee cup to get a free refill.

Top that shit.

>>7604061
I've BEEN homeless.
I'm in a house in a different state now.

>>7604090
4chan at the library? Lol I used to take my laptop up in the library and look at porn on /b/ back in the good ol days while there were kids running around. The danger made it more fun.

right now i have no money havent been able to find a job since November have a college diploma in a month or so (along with the debt) and am supporting my gf who is a lazy stoner
i am literally saving pennies for food money and i do small jobs / labor for friends for a few bucks

>>7604090
ive been so poor, i had to go to the public library to check my email, but since i didnt have a card and couldnt apply for one since i was homeless so i waited till someone that hadnt logged off, got of their's.
eventually i found my real parents who were very rich and i depend entirely on their wealth now.

>>7604107
Oh, sorry about that.

Also, what kind of things did you do throughout that time?
Could be pretty helpful for others if they end up homeless any time soon.

>>7604107
this is
>>7604093
Why didn't you steal food? Worked for me bigtime. I know about the water hose thing though with me it was lawn sprinklers on the corporate park outside the woods where I was camping. Good for refilling my bottles in a pinch. I remember waking up in the middle of the night in my tent, badly dehydrated and staggering out to the back of one of the office buildings in the middle of the night and getting a badly needed drink from the tap by the sprinkler head.

So this is what the average living standard in the US is like?

If any of you bums are Milbert Miles . I'm still going to make sure you pay what you owe!

this thread is fucking funny :o
i live with my parents in texas
im 12

>>7604136
I usually just hanged out at the library to read. If I wasn't there, I was at the mall.
You'd be amazed at just how easy it is to steal or pickpocket in a mall. I liked to watch people go by and try to imagine what they were thinking.

I slept next to a rat infested dumpster that didn't smell bad at all, it was used for cardboard. I still have tons of scars all over my face and arms and chest because of it.

I didn't steal food because food is harder to steal than a generic electronic appliance, believe it or not. I used elaborate, stupid methods of manipulation to steal a trinket worth $200 (usually by exploiting customer service) but I don't have the dexterity to snatch a sandwich in front of 20 cashiers and cameras or the balls to rob a store.

I'm so poor I cant afford a house and 2 cars (one for work, other for leisure)

This thread is a hilarious contrast to last Friday, when I ordered pizza and when they got my order wrong, I got a new one for free and kept the wrong order.

>>7604232
You're full of shit.

k9

>>7604232
>I still have tons of scars all over my face and arms and chest because of it.

From the rats? Gross, bro.

>>7604352

did they scamper on you?

>>7604232
I'd have stolen food.
Most of the food in stores usually gets wasted anyway.
I'd aim for the ones that are going out of date first.

While in the store, i would act as if i was with someone else.
I'd take some stuff and hold it in hand or a basket.
Near the checkout, i would make it look as if i was told to take the stuff back.
I would then hide some of the stuff as i am taking the things back.
Do that across a few stores, nothing of value, quite literally, would have been lost.

And the worst part is all the food that is binned, it ends up getting taken to a landfill somewhere, probably not to be seen for decades again, instead of being re-used on the farms as nutrients.
Shit like this caused desertification.

I live in a studio apartment, I have no car, I'm in the process of selling most of my shit on Craigslist so I can afford a moped so I can hold down a job (which I also don't have atm) and I just barely manage to make enough doing odd jobs for family friends that I can pay for rent and utilities each month.

Shit sucks. I've applied for unemployment benefits and will be using most of it for transportation, so I can apply to places further from my apartment and pay for groceries. I'm still gonna have to do incidental work for the usual suspects to make rent, though.

>>7604352
>>7604367
yes, considering it was the only place where the cops never checked, it was relatively safe. i've been to clinics, i'm clean for any diseases or infections, just scars.

why do you think i never camwhore anymore?

>>7604389
i didn't steal a lot of food. since i didn't have much to do besides wander around, i made a lot of acquaintances and most people didn't mind dropping $2 for a quick meal for me.

i've been dangerously close to selling myself or an organ but never went through with it. the idea itself doesn't bother me, but if i started that trend i'd probably have kept going. i've seen what the meth addicted hookers on the streets look like, no interest in becoming that

When I was 16, I moved out of my blue collar bubble of Wilmington, Delaware, and lived out of the back of my car, under an overpass in San Antonio, Texas. Family issues are an understatement.

That was 7 years ago, and it feels like a distant memory these days.

>>7604397
get a bike mang

i had to decide whether to smoke my last cigarette... or eat it

>>7604453
Oh wow. I need backstory on this.

>>7604466
This.
A bike will be significantly cheaper.

Get an electric + pedal one if you want, and have a recovery system setup to recharge batteries on hills.
But if you have no hills, shit sucks man.

Of course, a car would still be better to have anyway, even if it is a small one.
You can sleep in a car.

I murdered my parents for food, that's how hungry I was.

>>7603914
lost my job, got denied unemployment, missed the appeal date

gotta pay rent in 10 days, which will be the last $200 out of my life savings

got another month to find a job or i'm out on the street

hate sitting here on the couch waiting for a fucking call that i know i won't get
sigh
i should kill my roommate, take his drugs, and sell them
hmm

6 months without income of any sort, couldn't even borrow money so of course I ended up homeless squatting in an abandoned apartment.

Still recovering healthwise (the stress was unreal), but I've got my own house now without any mortgage and live off about $2000 US a month.