What's the brokest you've ever been?

rockbeast · 18-03-2014 06:48PM

Any spare change?

Anyone?

Please...

GHOST MGG · 18-03-2014 06:48PM

Living in the worst excuse for a bedsit ever with only a batch loaf to eat for the whole week...the early 80s recession was ****.

Duggy747 · 18-03-2014 06:49PM

Had no money and no food in the fridge or the house, except for a box of Saxo Stuffing in the cupboard.

I ended up eating the whole thing, horrible Sausage and Cranberry flavour that was probably gone off.

rockbeast · 18-03-2014 06:50PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Had no money and no food in the fridge or the house, except for a box of Saxo Stuffing in the cupboard.

I ended up eating the whole thing, horrible Sausage and Cranberry flavour that was probably gone off.

Posh ba$tard!

I once had to eat a Saxo box I was that hungry:p

orangesoda · 18-03-2014 07:01PM

Now, £500 in overdraft and only £5 a week for food the next month. I'm just finishing university so probably is common

Gryzor · 18-03-2014 11:46PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I love this post! Add in a faithful dog and you could turn it into an award winning short film!

Had he been there, I may well have eaten him :eek:

Ficheall · 18-03-2014 11:49PM

Gryzor wrote: »

Had he been there, I may well have eaten him :eek:

And AFTER you've eaten him, you find the money in the electric box. It's bringing a tear to my eye already.

Stereomaniac · 18-03-2014 11:52PM

I am lucky enough that I have always been able to stay with family, but been stuck there then.

anncoates · 18-03-2014 11:58PM

Once on college years ago, I went into the bank the day before I got paid and attempted to withdraw the last of my account out. Think it was something like 6 or 7 pounds.

Tommybom · 19-03-2014 12:01AM

Got a days work in oz but only had enough money to get me there. It ended up being 25k away. Nice walk back

Muise... · 19-03-2014 12:01AM

rockbeast wrote: »

Posh ba$tard!

I once had to eat a Saxo box I was that hungry:p

Saxo solo!

Rightwing · 19-03-2014 12:11AM

I've never had a shortage of cash, but I always give to charity or someone in need. Then these maggots on the rehab and crc boards milking the system really turned me off.

Reading the stories here, well 2 things stand out, health is most important and always help someone out if you can.

beano345 · 19-03-2014 12:15AM

When I was living in a car in oz,pulled over to go into a supermarket to spend my last $3 on food.when I came back out the car was stolen,and I was left sitting on the curb with a bag of ice melting in one hand and a bag of noodles in the other,plane tickets clothes passport all gone!

orangesoda · 19-03-2014 01:02AM

beano345 wrote: »

When I was living in a car in oz,pulled over to go into a supermarket to spend my last $3 on food.when I came back out the car was stolen,and I was left sitting on the curb with a bag of ice melting in one hand and a bag of noodles in the other,plane tickets clothes passport all gone!

what happened after that? Youve left us hanging like a home & away episode ending

beano345 · 19-03-2014 01:16AM

orangesoda wrote: »

what happened after that? Youve left us hanging like a home & away episode ending

The supermarket rang the cops who brought me to a hostel were I got work picking fruit the next day, 2 days later it was St.Patrick's day and I'm hammered in a bar when the cops ring saying they found my car behind a bank in town,so I stumble down and their dusting boxes of cornflakes and whatever's left of my belongings for fingerprints, once they'd finished they said its all yours and head off.they'd only left when a security guard pulls up and has a light shone on me asking me what I'm doing near the car,so I take a drunken step towards him to explain and he pulls a gun on me telling me to stay were I am while he rings the police!....true story.

Sam Kade · 19-03-2014 01:18AM

whirlpool wrote: »

I'm talking debt, unable to pay bills, buy food, keep the electricity on, ending up homeless, etc etc, not "omg I was so broke after that night out that I couldn't even afford a latte with my lunch the day before payday!!"

Most broke

£18,000 in the red back in 97 :eek:

SirCreepalot · 19-03-2014 01:27AM

30.000 in student loans. .42 in my current account. I guess that means I am broke. I don't understand why I don't feel broke but I don't, feel broke that is

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Novella · 19-03-2014 01:29AM

SirCreepalot wrote: »

30.000 in student loans. .42 in my current account. I guess that means I am broke. I don't understand why I don't feel broke but I don't, feel broke that is .

30k in student loans!? Where did you go to college, if you don't mind me asking?

SirCreepalot · 19-03-2014 01:38AM

Novella wrote: »

30k in student loans!? Where did you go to college, if you don't mind me asking?

In Dublin. International student fees. 17.000 per year for a two year masters. Add living costs and you get 0.42 euro in my current account

and 0.00 in my savings account.

Reading this thread makes me feel like I should be worried but I'm not. As long as I am healthy, I am sure I will make it back at some point and pay it off.

czechlin · 19-03-2014 01:58AM

Some of those stories are crazy and fair play to all!
I've been tight a few times but thank goodness nothing major. I've always been able to pay my rent, bills and food. Even have money for traveling. In a process of budgeting to save now. It sucks but it has to be done. The thought of being utterly broke really scares me. Although I wanted to go to college full time I just can't put myself trough it. Will have to bite the bullet and find some alternative to what I wanted to study that can be done while working.

irish_goat · 19-03-2014 02:24AM

beano345 wrote: »

When I was living in a car in oz,pulled over to go into a supermarket to spend my last $3 on food.when I came back out the car was stolen,and I was left sitting on the curb with a bag of ice melting in one hand and a bag of noodles in the other,plane tickets clothes passport all gone!

$3 left for food and you buy a bag of ice??

rockbeast · 19-03-2014 02:44AM

Bought boards for €2,000,000

Lost it all on betting advice on the rugby forum

Sold it back to boards.ie that same day...for 25c

I feel bad about it to this day

I never felt worse but I knew I had somewhere to go to complain about it:pac:

Nino Brown · 19-03-2014 03:17AM

Lot's of first world "I was broke" stories here! There was few days when I was touring foreign countries that I had no money, until my parents wired me a few grand to tide me over...what a mare. I'm not really sure that qualifies as broke.

stevek93 · 19-03-2014 03:35AM

I was sharing a house last year with a friend, being a poor student I was waiting on the social welfare to process my back to education, full time student so no time for work. 3 months it took for my claim to be processed. Basically what happened staff behind counter took my forms for BTA but for whatever reason they were never sent to the main office.

If it wasn't for my friend buying food paying electric/heating bill I don't know what I would have done. Not a cent to my name for the 3 months, remember hated full days in college would have no money for lunch basically had to wait to get home to have something to eat, had been nights where went to bed no food whatsoever. You see what annoyed me about the whole situation is social did not give two rats only advice they could give was to ask St Vincent de Paul for help.

unkel · 19-03-2014 03:37AM

Nino Brown wrote: »

Lot's of first world "I was broke" stories here!

Indeed. Students who were so broke they couldn't pay back their car loan or fill it with petrol. People so broke they couldn't afford to go to restaurants to be fed for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They must have been starving!

Watched "Cinderella Man" the other day. No that is being broke when you have to send your kids to family or they would die of cold / starvation. Some of the self-pity in this thread is revolting.

stevek93 · 19-03-2014 03:45AM

unkel wrote: »

Indeed. Students who were so broke they couldn't pay back their car loan or fill it with petrol. People so broke they couldn't afford to go to restaurants to be fed for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They must have been starving!

What annoys me the most is all that is a luxury, spoilt brats who was handed everything as child, multiple choice of cereal for breakfast, remember my mother putting the tesco corn flakes into the Kelloggs box so we as a child thought we were eating Kellogg's lol.

chrissb8 · 19-03-2014 03:47AM

In response to those people who say money isn't everything.....Money doesn't make you happy but without it you're awful miserable. To be honest I think money makes you happy. Not buying things like clothes etc. but having the freedom to fund experiences and opening up avenues in life. I can only imagine what being broke is like.

stevek93 · 19-03-2014 03:54AM

chrissb8 wrote: »

In response to those people who say money isn't everything.....Money doesn't make you happy but without it you're awful miserable. To be honest I think money makes you happy. Not buying things like clothes etc. but having the freedom to fund experiences and opening up avenues in life. I can only imagine what being broke is like.

Is true. In relation to that post above talking about self pitty is revolting what makes me sick, its that monitory of people who haven't been through hard ship. Revolting that you cannot afford to feed yourself keep the house warm never mind buying clothes etc.

mikemac1 · 19-03-2014 03:55AM

Spent time on the dole and was 6k in debt. Got a job and I had one shirt and one pair of slacks for work. Washed them most nights so that was ok

It was casual Fridays in the office and I didn't even have a decent pair of jeans I could wear and not the 10 euro or so I needed to get them from Penny's

And so for casual Fridays that month I had to wear my shirt and slacks every Friday and tell everyone I "forgot" the dress code.

Took me a solid 14 months to clear that debt. Was a slog but got there

cruais · 19-03-2014 03:58AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Spent time on the dole and was 6k in debt. Got a job and I had one shirt and one pair of slacks for work. Washed them most nights so that was ok

It was casual Fridays in the office and I didn't even have a decent pair of jeans I could wear and not the 10 euro or so I needed to get them from Penny's

And so for casual Fridays that month I had to wear my shirt and slacks every Friday and tell everyone I "forgot" the dress code.

Took me a solid 14 months to clear that debt. Was a slog but got there

Fair play

What's the brokest you've ever been?

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