Is anyone here s**t poor? - Page 4

I put stuff under my bed, it saves floor space.

I'm shit poor, but dependent, so I get to see how shit poor I'll really be after I graduate. Getting insane bills month after month makes you really value turning off lights, leaky faucets, just little common sense things that annoyed you as a child.

i am actually shit rich. took 4 dumps just today. i am a shit baller.

Yes all over Manhattan. I just looked at a $2495/mo 1Br APT. next to the PJs...They're probably paying $800/mo

Christ you are a fucking idiot.

Yeah I'm totally serious.

Never been that poor. Always managed to have a place meant to be a residence, with running water.

I take it your sole family breadwinner has never been a street musician. My mom knows how to pick em.

I'm what most people would consider 'poor'. Sap stories aside, the $500-600 a month in health insurance and medical bills doesn't help. Thank god I'm crafty at hiding this fact.

Not shit poor i guess considering i have a nice apt, have internet/cable/dvr, and eat pretty well. I am pretty frugal though. Probably urine poor though or shart poor though.

I'm not shit poor but I'm feeling a bit pinched lately. My earnings have been flat while my expenses have gone up. I don't think I've seen a raise in about 3 years. My kid is getting older and his schooling and other necessities seem to cost more each year. I'd start my own business (law practice) if only my health insurance wasn't tied to my current job.

Presently I own two non-fabulous vehicles (both paid-for), a modest house (affordable fixed-rate mortgage) --but I can't afford to replace or improve any of these things. If you asked me three years ago would I be making more by now I would have said yes. I'm not overextended but I have some anxiety over how I would deal with an interruption in income or having to replace a vehicle, roof, furnace, or similar.

I can easily envision a perfect storm type situation that would make me pretty damn shit poor.

I think I agree with this. I'll call it "fresh out of college poor."

That will be me in a few months. Excited yet anxious.

While it sucks to not have your parents paying the bills anymore, there is something completely freeing and exhilarating about being on your own in terms of money. I mean, I don't get to work and just blow all my money on the shit I want to do anymore, but it feels awesome to actually pay my own bills, even if it means I only get $50 "play" money a month.

I didn't actually go to school for a long time because I was so poor I'd get in a lot of fights over it. My mom enrolled me in "home schooling" which basically means that I roamed the streets shoplifting and selling the stuff for food money. Also when I picked up my drug habit and lost my virginity. Hung out with a lot of unsavory people. I sleep on a hand-me-down futon on the floor. And even though I don't really LOOK like a "Westerner" I guess I pretty much am. I'm not obsessed with an elevated bed. Though eventually I'll probably end up getting one. Just for appearances sake.

Being poor was not a cause to get into fights where I grew up. It's not like anyone was rich. I mean, not having to put plastic over your windows in the winter, or having a car with a working heater, were status symbols.