Broke in Leith
Well I am having a pretty shit time of it just now. I am always skint, but my skintness has reached an all time low. Our heads aren't above water, they are 3000ft below sea level, and my feet are stuck in sludge. Between us, Alan and I have three jobs, but are living on toast.
The fact that I now work in a particularly affluent area of Edinburgh only highlights this more. The ladies of leisure I meet reek of money. They shop in Waitrose and have handbags that cost the equivalent to three months of my salary. When I go to the cashline at lunchtime, there is always a woman in front, taking out a massive wad, no doubt to buy more ridiculously priced organic vegetables and a couple of bottles of wine from Peckhams. I don't hate these people, don't get me wrong, I am just sort of confused. I mean what is the score George Doors?
I know that most of my friends are struggling away too, with the daily challenge of how to make dinner for under £1 but I just don't get why. We are nearly middle aged. Why is it such a struggle for us and a picnic set from Harvey Nicks for everyone else? This wasn't in the brochure. Life does indeed suck.
But I do like a challenge.
You know those maths puzzles they gave you at school? A bit like this?
Tamara has a dozen organic apples.
If she gives her neighbours, the Castletons, 6 apples
Will they invite her to their masquerade ball?
It should have been more realistic
Sarah Has £8.68 to last her until Friday.
It costs £2.30 a day to get to work and its only Monday.
She needs toilet roll (0.99p)
Cat Food (0.29p x 3 per day)
Milk 0.99p
And fags £2.70 per day
There are still cuppa soups and some ready meals from last year in the freezer that she hates, but bread would be nice. (0.24p)in LIDL.
How can Sarah last till Friday without selling:-
a) everything she owns on ebay
b) drugs
c) herself?
posted by Swanieslunch @ 1:41 PM
10 Comments:
just a thought
1) Walk to work
2) halve how much you smoke per day.
3) feed the cat scraps instead of proper cat food until you can afford it.
4)only do the toilet at work, save on toilet paper.
Before i forget, if you can raise the £8.50, go and see Back to the Futon in underbelly. Fantastic show. :o)
It's no good pleading poverty while you can afford to feed an addiction like smoking ;-)
ach, fuck all that shit. just come home and we'll all get through it together. russ has two jobs, he'll keep us all. luv ya x
So. Yeah. Cheers like.
I think.
I am replying in work cos my phone is cut off. lol
And im now smoking mayfair lights,
but i refuse to use items of clothing to wipe my arse with, and I'm a bit kenneth williams when it comes to public lavs.
Jodes, ill be home soon. lol x
Mayfair lights are fine. That's what I smoked.
Oh, and on that note, I have been smoking a bit again. I think it helps me get through the boredom of being skint. And before Emma or Dundee hit me with the 'saving by stopping', it gives you something to do while you are skint. Let's face it, £2 I spend on a pack of fags is hardly gonna get me much out there. Not even a single pint, so .... anyone for as mayfair? ;op
I hate getting caught on the internet in work. Don't do it much, but getting caught is pure pants.
oh no! sorry tell them you were helping a friend in need or something.
lol.
shmowkin!
Sofi's is garbage. Social climbing wankers, and far too dear. Have you seen what they charge for a HALF PINT!
Try the Port o Leith Bar. You can get anything there. Even work.
You re right Peter, there are lots of wankers there. But thats what i find amusing.
Wanker watching.
But I also fancy a barman, and alan fancies a barmaid, so everyone is happy.
It is also just too easy to go there, its downstairs. 10p more onto there prices and i will switch pubs.
Don't think it will be the port o' though. I'm not really a hit in there. They think I'm CID.
You're so close to Stewart my radio co-presenter. He's at that end of the Banana Flats. The first ever drugs I took in Edinburgh were in a Henderson Street flat. Memories...
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