ANSWERS: 54
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The toilet paper is yesterday's newspaper.
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If you have to eat your own hand.
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The cats turn in to cannibals, and start gnawing on the dog.
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There is an unusual absence of new shoes and purses.
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Snuggles fabric softener becomes Puffy Fresh fabric softener >:(
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Empty fridge, and most of my stuff on ebay! lol.
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When I get my gasoline credit card bill and it's over $150.
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My dog now carries a tin cup around his neck, instead of a whiskey barrel. Does this give you a clue?
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When the labels in the cupboard all say tesco value instead of brand names!
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The mice go out and get jobs. ( no our house doesn't actually have mice!)
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2nd Answer: When the garbage man knocks on the door and begs for something to recycle.
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The Nine Lives and Friskies starts looking tasty.
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You start looking for metal money rather than paper
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1. I'm there more often, no fun money :-( 2. I'm looking for items to sell on EBay. 3. The fridge and freezer are almost empty. 4. No snack foods to be found. 5. No lights on and the heat is set at 58 degrees.
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First and foremost, we no longer take "Sunday" drives as we used to..gas is too expensive for that. We also don't subscribe to as many magazines or newspapers. We plan/plot/figure out the most efficient way to get our errands done..we do this logistically..as if a false step, a double-back, is a crime! We religiously recyle at places that give register tapes that you exchange for money..we think hard and long about the "need" for anything..we compare more than ever to make sure we are getting the best return on investment! :)
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My husband even breaks down and puts on a jacket while in the house instead of cranking the heat.
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FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son". FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was right. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor! FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Cardboard box? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Aye. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you. ALL: They won't!
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1. the electricity is turned off 2. the gas is turned off 3.the water is turned off 4.THERE IS NO BEER!
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When I'm cooking ramen noddles for breakfast, lunch, and supper.
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When you start knitting sweaters out of cat hair.
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You're using the unused container of Rogaine you tried 6 months ago that cost $50.00 as a dessert topping because it's near it's expiration date;)
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With gas prices so high, instead of a Sunday drive we have a Sunday "sit in the car and stare at each other." We have a video we put on the screen that makes us think we're going somewhere.
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I had to get rid of "Movie View" on my cable provider. It's not a hardship, I never watched the movies anyway, but I am too broke to pay for things I don't use. And I had to start leaving the credit cards at home.
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You're trying to pay for things with lintballs from your pocket;)
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Tension in the air and arguments.
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when your using newspaper instead of toilet paper.. OUCH!
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We haven't tiled the shower yet And someone needs to get an outside job:-(
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Vienna sandwiches, with stale bread, and beef bullion soup.
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Gotta use firewood again! ;-)
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RAMEN NOODLES.... yum. :-(
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Me having to work street corners at night to support my kid.
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The rats move out;)
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When there is too much month left at the end of the money. : )
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Not much is different. Ive always been tight on money. I have been buying less dvds though.
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Water faucet in kitchen has a drip. Should have repaired it, but didn't. Now there's a bucket under the drip. Use this water to take on a trip. Morale of this story? If i had repaired the drip a year ago My water bill would still be low Its tripled and thats my story.
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when your mom is refusing to go out from the house because she owed the store owner money for sardines... awful!
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when my food cupboards are bare?
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My dog gets part-time work on a newspaper round.
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You have to switch to amateur-phyllactics, because the prophyllactics are too expensive......cheap fu**er!;)
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Re-using the tp.
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When I'm buying nothing but generics :(
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When "road-kill" really begins to sound interesting. And, the real kicker............... "When you have to use your trash can lid as a satelitte dish".
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When the toilet handle has been removed due to it only being flushed once a week to save on water LOL
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On a more serious note, when I am giving up food so my daughter and husband can eat. Please don't misunderstand. This is not forced on me. I give up my food so they can eat. I would rather starve than see my family go hungry.
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Spouse demands money for sex and its ala carte.
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Why is the Dollar not backed by anything? (silver, gold,etc.) ooooopps! This is an error, so sorry. It is a question, disregard.
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There's few pennies in the penny jar.
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The more possessions I have, the less money I have left.
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When I have to sell carnal knowledge to supplement my income. I accept unscrupulous people as house mates to help pay rent. I lose weight.
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Running out of food, unable to pay the utilities and phone bills. 3-day notice to pay rent or quit.
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1) There is no money for fun and things that aren't a must. 2) My food is simple and we can't offord things like fruits (strawberries for $5.00 a box) 3) My house is freezing because we can't offord the outragoiuse heating costs. 4)Can't offord clothes
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Reusing toilet paper;)
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When you notice how much smaller you are after a while of food constantly losing the gas/cigarettes/food battle.
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When your creditors have to take a number and line up at your front door waiting for payment.
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