i lived on cornflakes for a week.....

i dunno really......probably now with 2 teenage daughters taking me every last penny.......

At Uni reguarly living off 25p a bag flavoured noodles. You could get x4 £1.00.

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Originally posted by china:
when i was younger and had left home-i thought i was gonna make it big-i didnt
but i got a flat-with no windows!
and had to sleep on the kitchen floor in front of the cooker with the oven on and the door open just to keep warm through the winter and me and my doggy had to live on oxo cubes in hot water and bread for a while
luckily things improved (no-i didnt get a better oven!)
but i was like that for about 3-4 months
never again!

Poor doggy,was he all right?

probably now

Smartprice Noodles... Never again by God's grace...

When I was alot younger, I shared a bedsit with my friend and her cats. We literally had no money at all and survived on boiled eggs and salad cream. Another time, was we went over to Jersey to seek our fortune, but it didn't really work out and we didn't get work for a while. I remember we had enough money for an apple which we cut in half and shared. Our parents ended up sending us food parcels and my friend also ended up pawning jewellary.

Those were the days

Nothing's changed

When I first left home I had no bed and slept of a fluffy rug and beanbag. Then I went up in the world and bought myself a blow up mattress. It was great until it decided to go down in the middle of the night! Lol

In the late 1980s, living in the South East of England with London prices but no London "weighting" in my £5,600 a year pay packet.

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Originally posted by Senora Reyes:
At Uni reguarly living off 25p a bag flavoured noodles. You could get x4 £1.00.

Me too... Those things are calorific though I think its 400cals a pack and you know one pack does nothing to fill you up..... Now I hate the sight of noodles...

I don't know really, but I suspect it might have been when we (me and my sisters) were quite young, but at that age you just take it all in your stride and are under the impression that that's the normal way of things.

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Originally posted by pretty~cocoa~eyes:

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Originally posted by Senora Reyes:
At Uni reguarly living off 25p a bag flavoured noodles. You could get x4 £1.00.

Me too... Those things are calorific though I think its 400cals a pack and you know one pack does nothing to fill you up..... Now I hate the sight of noodles...

The calories were the least of my concern to be honest, I just saw them as filling the gap. Wouldn't touch them now though, they're vile.

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
I don't know really, but I suspect it might have been when we (me and my sisters) were quite young, but at that age you just take it all in your stride and are under the impression that that's the normal way of things.

Indeed

When we were kids, we literally had nothing. No hot water, no heating, second hand clothes, hardly any food and I know there were days when we all went hungry.

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:

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Originally posted by china:
when i was younger and had left home-i thought i was gonna make it big-i didnt
but i got a flat-with no windows!
and had to sleep on the kitchen floor in front of the cooker with the oven on and the door open just to keep warm through the winter and me and my doggy had to live on oxo cubes in hot water and bread for a while
luckily things improved (no-i didnt get a better oven!)
but i was like that for about 3-4 months
never again!

Poor doggy,was he all right?

LOL!
dont worry ILWY-the dog ate better than me

but thank you for caring about MY welfare

and smart price noodles are nice

i am still poor

Nothing but soup and beans for a month. At uni couldn't cook.

When we bought our first house in 1993. It cost £28k, it was pretty horrible but all we could afford at the time. We both worked full time in white collar jobs but our joint income was only around £12k per year. Most of our furniture, crockery, bedding etc all came from an elderly friend whose sister had just passed away. We bought a second hand brown Royle family stylee three piece suite for £50 of a friends mum and we cooked on a second hand baby Belling oven. Both of us had holes in our shoes and we couldn't afford new ones and at one point we were so poor my mum had to bring us an emergency rations box of powdered milk, flour, spuds etc. I didn't mind going without most things but I remember getting really upset when my mother-in-law accused me of wanting too much out of life. It was a horrible time, but I'm kind of glad we went through it as it's made me appreciate things more now.

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Originally posted by china:

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:

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Originally posted by china:
when i was younger and had left home-i thought i was gonna make it big-i didnt
but i got a flat-with no windows!
and had to sleep on the kitchen floor in front of the cooker with the oven on and the door open just to keep warm through the winter and me and my doggy had to live on oxo cubes in hot water and bread for a while
luckily things improved (no-i didnt get a better oven!)
but i was like that for about 3-4 months
never again!

Poor doggy,was he all right?

LOL!
dont worry ILWY-the dog ate better than me

but thank you for caring about MY welfare

and smart price noodles are nice

I was going to put a wink smiley at the end lol

Reading these stories makes me realise how lucky I've been

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Originally posted by Senora Reyes:

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Originally posted by pretty~cocoa~eyes:

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Originally posted by Senora Reyes:
At Uni reguarly living off 25p a bag flavoured noodles. You could get x4 £1.00.

Me too... Those things are calorific though I think its 400cals a pack and you know one pack does nothing to fill you up..... Now I hate the sight of noodles...

The calories were the least of my concern to be honest, I just saw them as filling the gap. Wouldn't touch them now though, they're vile.

True ..

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Originally posted by Smoke:
By choice: Hitching around Europe in the long summers of '67 and '68 on £1 a day.

thats sounds fantastic-not the quid a day bit, but mind you, you could probably buy loads with that back then couldnt you?

Just before moving to our own house from a dirty council house , there was too much of us and the area was horrible .

erm, how about now cos of the recession but we getting through. Some are worse, they have already lost their houses and stuff, so try to look at the brighter perspective, just hard sometimes.

When I was a student. I could buy an item of clothing each term. This was before student loans when debt was something students avoided if they could.

Probably in flat land in Stockport - I remember one meal was some currants and Bird's custard made with water. AND I was employed at the time!!

Slept in the back of a Citreon Diana (not a comfortable vehicle ) in Barcelona for a while until a brilliant family (I am still in touch with them) housed me for free – the kindness of strangers I will never, ever forget.



None of my past pov-probs even begin to compare with the stories I heard about my family during the depression – 1 boiled egg between a family of 5 for dinner being an example.

So, it's relative...

Hello Smoke

Ohh ... I remember those days .... with a young family .... but I always managed .... I just had to make the best of what we had.

I often think of those days ... it makes me appreciate the life I have now

Homeless at 17!

Studied for my A Levels whilst sleeping on a friends bedroom floor.

Homeless and penniless when I was student, living off stuff thrown away.

hmmmm well my story aint as bad as some here but,
when I got my first flat (council)it was just about a month after my mother died,(had been on the "list" for about a year)
I was so eager to get away from my father who I couldnt stand, that I moved into the flat with NOTHING, not a stick of furniture, I was also on the dole at the time,
I lived for weeks in the flat sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag on cardboard boxes,
I had a single burner camping stove to cook on and one saucepan, a plate knife fork spoon, and the "locals" didnt like the idea of a "scruffy biker" moving in so in the first week I had all my windows put through, my door kicked in and got beaten up by a mob twice,
but I stuck it out and ended up living there for 3 years,
my younger brother once spent 3 months sleeping in a tent in the local park, he would hide his tent in the day time and climb over the locked park fence everynight,
I was living in Ireland at the time so couldnt help him out,
life is GREAT now though, I am living in a brand new house in a lovely area with the woman I love and am self employed doing a job I LOVE,
STILL skint though, but WHO cares?,
life is good,

Crikey OHG that was a bit rough

Two things stay in my mind...

I don't think I can remember going without as a child but I remember going to school in winter and sitting crossed legged on the floor, trying to hide my shoes cos I had cardboard in the bottom of them..

The last time about 15 years ago, living with a partner in one room of a friend and going to the corner shop buying jacket potatoes and butter knowing the cheque would bounce... pretty dire..

but yes you learn to appreciate what you have now..

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Originally posted by Rev. Dim Dale:
Crikey OHG that was a bit rough

OH I have had smaller episodes of it being rougher, like having to burn some of my furniture to keep warm one winter, and only having some instant mashed potato and bread to live on for a week,
BUT, as the saying goes, what doesnt kill ya makes you stronger,
and there is ALWAYS someone worse off somewhere,

the day i scrapped a farthing outta turd.

Course WE had it really rough, we used to live in a septic tank in t middle of the road, and had to get up half an hour before we went to bed then work 25 hours in t mill AND pay t mill owner for lettin us work there, n every night us dad would cut us in half wi a bread knife,
try telling the kids today that, n they wont believe ya,

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Originally posted by old hippy guy:
Course WE had it really rough, we used to live in a septic tank in t middle of the road, and had to get up half an hour before we went to bed then work 25 hours in t mill AND pay t mill owner for lettin us work there, n every night us dad would cut us in half wi a bread knife,
try telling the kids today that, n they wont believe ya,

Err... I was just about to say that!!!

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Originally posted by old hippy guy:
Course WE had it really rough, we used to live in a septic tank in t middle of the road, and had to get up half an hour before we went to bed then work 25 hours in t mill AND pay t mill owner for lettin us work there, n every night us dad would cut us in half wi a bread knife,
try telling the kids today that, n they wont believe ya,

What's this from? 'Cause I really recognise it.

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Originally posted by mozart:
the day i scrapped a farthing outta turd.

And some of us had that for our Christmas pud so count yourself lucky

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Originally posted by Baby Bunny:

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Originally posted by old hippy guy:
Course WE had it really rough, we used to live in a septic tank in t middle of the road, and had to get up half an hour before we went to bed then work 25 hours in t mill AND pay t mill owner for lettin us work there, n every night us dad would cut us in half wi a bread knife,
try telling the kids today that, n they wont believe ya,

Err... I was just about to say that!!!

har har beatcha, gotta love the pythons

mum and dad were so skint and never had money left over for sweets and treats, so we used to scrape chewing gum up off of pavements, or take that that was stuck on the underside of our school desks