1. don’t have to worry about retirement — just work right up to death
2. no losing ass in stock market
3. unaffected by luxury car recall notices
4. shopping at goodwill = timeless fashion
5. don’t have to balance annoyingly large bank accounts
6. low, low tax bracket
7. don’t have to take stressful, tiring vacations
8. pesky relatives don’t ask for money
9. burglars break in, look around, leave
10. cheap beer still gets you plenty drunk
the whole stock market thing is the truth. All these folks freaking out and its the main story on the news…meanwhile my wealth has stayed exactly the same.
pretty nil but unchanged.
Preach it sister!
(my lord, there are so many buttons on this comment form I feel like a grandmother programming a VCR!)
yeah, front page of the paper has all these yuppies looking like they just lost their asses, and i’m just as well off as yesterday.
sorry about the buttons, i’m a bad feature junky. bad, bad junkie. oh well, you guys are all techies right? no twelve o’clock flashers here?
Now if we could only figure out how to rationalize the disadvantages of being poor like eating ramen noodles and potatos every day and writing checks the day before payday and hoping they don’t hit the account until tomorrow. No matter how much money I make in my life I’ll always be poor because I have this uncanny ability to spend exactly my entire paycheck every two weeks, like clockwork.
BTW: Your Spongebob Squarepants skin gets the thumbs up from my friend’s 7 year old girl. She says it should be Powerpuff Girls though…
i could do a PPG theme. but i first want to do a rocky horror theme. and before that i have to finish coding miss b‘s new MT site, with the design from davezilla. *sigh*
and that was bran that gets the glory for the wonder that is the spongebob skin.
and ramen noodles are great uncooked. crunchy snack foods. yum.
and i get a huge rush of accomplishment playing the bank float. i am the mistress of check-kiting. the queen of cashflow. mmm-hmm.
and fosters is always on sale. yay cheap beer.
Numbers 4 and 8 are my favorite. Shopping in Goodwill brings in a close one, though. Although, I think that stuff should be even cheaper there. It used to be before shopping at Goodwill became “fashionable”. I did it way back when the “workers” were frigging volunteers and people were absolutely ashamed to walk in the store. Heh.
it’s gotten pretty snooty at my local goodwill store. all decorated and spacious and airy. thrift stores should be cramped and musty and cheap.
there are still a few downtown like that. i love them. half off the clearance = dollar clothes! mmm. bargains.
Rock on, sister.
i am the mistress of found/hand-me-down furniture and furniture refinishing….viva la poverty!
Re Item #9: many years ago my apartment was broken into and the burglars took all lose cash, a calculator, a few other relatively unimportant items. Why didn’t they take more? Because there wasn’t more to take.
When the police came to take a report, one of the cops said “hey, they probably figured out there wasn’t much here when they saw the Che Guevera poster on your wall.” I love San Francisco P.D., they know their revolutionary heroes.
They took the loose cash, not the lose cash.
close enough, really.
and the SFPD guys sound really cool. but do you/they really think burglars know revolutionary heros? oh, well, yes, probably they do, around there.
If you buy frozen stir-fry, you can serve it on top of fried ramen noodles and beat the price of Chinese take-out by $5 or so.
yeah, but then you’re like, cooking and stuff. they’re crunchy snack foods right out of the package!
oh, yeah, i know, it’s good to be creative and poor. but you can be lazy and poor too, just fine!
oooh, goodwill! mine is still cramped and musty and wierd … hooray! and i found this groovy, wool, red white & blue cape there! with gold buttons up the front and slits to stick your hands out of. i had to have it, i don’t know why…
i don’t drink australian beer!
oh, well, it’s always on sale, and it is acutally drinkable.
last night, it was a little *too* drinkable. oy.
*Giggle!!*
agreed, but not on cheap beer…
dude. i’m talkin’ $8US for a twlever of Fosters in the cans.
cheap. yummy. drunk.
fosters it’s australian for getting really fucking drunk cheap. it is. i mean it.
Hey, this thread is a familiar subject, although I have to say that when you’re as old as I am–and really poor–somehow your priorities change. They change a lot!!
The best part of being old and poor is that you just don’t give a damn anymore about “things” — well, except wishing you could have more computer toys. Oy, do I salivate at the thought of more computer toys!!
But my apartment is exactly as I want it to be and I don’t care if my closet only has t-shirts, cotton blouses and slacks in it. Oh, and my Packers sweat shirt. And my sneakers.
I think it’s called freedom. And it is wonderful. See what you have to look forward to??? heh
Oh, I did splurge on an outfit for my granddaughter’s graduation last year from UW-Madison. Got a really neat print blouse and a blazer from my fav resale shop. Already had the black slacks and shoes. Voila’ — $12 well spent. hehe