You know you're broke when....
 

You know you're broke when fill in the blank ...

It wasn't me...
 

.You run out of Kool-Aid and decide to drink plain water and sugar mixed together, because you can't afford 30 cents for a pack of Kool-Aid. I love my Kool-Aid, but I haven't been that bad off yet :D.

in college
 

you search your car for loose change so you can get a even $2.00 in gas.

...you start making up recipes that use only the food you already have in your house

...you start categorizing things by how much you think you could get for them at the pawn shop

. . . hafta get a payroll advance.

. . . hafta get another payroll advance from another place to pay the other pay advance off.

. . . you continue this insane behavior for 2-3 months.

. . . you are broke for 14 straight days because you had to use all of your paycheck to pay off that last payroll advance.

. . . all that's in your 'frigerator is condiments.

. . . you don't even have ice.

. . . you roll ALL your pennies and go trade them in.

. . . you usin' newspaper for toilet paper.

somebody's azz is broke for real....
 

:o :eek:



doesn't that mess up the toilet (flushing and all? :confused: )

LMAO

"Top Ten Signs That You're Broke...."


10- You start eating "condiment sandwiches" (i.e. ketchup and mustard on empty hotdog buns, mayonaise on white bread)

9- You see that ramen noodles are on sale, 10 for a dollar, and you only get 8.

8- You mix bacon bits and water and convince yourself that its a real meal. (I've actually heard of this done before :eek: )

7- You fight your roommate for loose change found on the floor.

6- You go out to eat with your friends and make a full meal out of iced tea and the "free" dinner rolls.

5- You start patching up the furniture with safety pins, paper clips, duct tape....

4- You start using jelly jars as glasses. (*Guilty as charged)

3- You start saving and re-washing paper cups, plates, etc.

2- You cut the car off the middle of traffic to "save gas".

1- You owe 17 different people money.

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When you borrow from your kids' piggy banks!! http://www.plauder-smilies.de/faga1.gif

when you have to borrow to get your car fix and then your car not is also due

LMAO, NO........ THAT'S GHETTO. LOL
You run out of Kool-Aid and decide to drink plain water and sugar mixed together, because you can't afford 30 cents for a pack of Kool-Aid. That's GHETTO TOO.

when you don't have enough to buy your favorite 5 dollar combo at wendys, instead you go to the 99 cent menu.

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You search your closet for a skirt, dress, shirt, or anything that may still have the tags on them so you can take it back.

-- you honestly think that ketchup and ramen noodles will taste like spaghetti if you season it right

-- you don't use electricity until the night time

-- the only thing in your refrigerator is batteries and baking soda

-- you start to wonder if there is any kind of food that you can make with just baking soda

-- you eat cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

-- at a restaurant, you order water with lemon and try to make lemonade with all of those sugar packets on a table

-- you ask everybody that you know, friends, neighbors, coworkers, for a dime until you have enough to order a pizza

-- you have less than a dollar in your bank account

-- you will use any paper product in place of toilet paper, notebook paper, envelopes, receipts, bills, etc.

-- you go to a department store and steal fresh tags so that you can put them on clothes that you already own and take those back to the store (I've seen it done)

-- you try to pawn stupid stuff e.g. paper clips, lotion, socks

...you are really wondering when your girl is gonna pay back that $.75 she owes you

...you will do whatever it takes to get to the party before 11:00 (cause you know the price goes up $2 after that)

...you start looking in random places for loose change (i.e. under the seats in your car, at the bottom of old purses)

...you decide you're not REALLY that hungry... and just go to sleep

Guilty as charged! :D

LMAO@YOU,
I can just imagine you giving up and going to sleep. LOL LOL

....... Aldi's groceries are too expensive for your budget

....... you start to buy your food from Family Dollar and/or Dollar General

.......you bring tupperware bowls to an All You Can Eat chinese buffet so that you can sneak some food to take home to eat later.

.......you won't cut the air/heat on in your car during the summer/winter because it will use up all your gas

.......you start to press your new growth until you can afford a new relaxer kit from Wal-mart

.......you won't turn the heat on in your apartment during to winter to keep your bill down. instead, you wrap up in a bunch of blankets and get in the bed

........you drink water to keep your stomach from growling

Girl, thats some mess!! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!:)

1. When your "budget" only allows you only $3.00 a day to spend "foolishly". (I'm at this stage right about now because we're in the process of getting a house). :D

2. When you "time" your long-distance calls.

3. When you decide that you can't go to a meeting, outting, or whatever across town because you're down to one third of a tank of gas.

4. When you stop going to the movies and wait for it to come out on DVD or VHS.

5. When you decide to give your 3-year-old son a haircut because you want to save money by taking him to the barber shop.

6. When you cook CHICKEN three days in a row (stewed, fried, baked).

These are just a few. I'll haveto think of more.

Low Down Dirty BROKE
 

You know you are BROKE when....

-You can't pay for attention :D

-You lunch consist of 1 item a day from Wendy's .99cents menu

-Rice is your main course

-You wake thinking it is payday Friday on the Monday after you just got paid.

-start CREATING meals like #1LL special. What is in it? Your guess what be as good as mine......

you use a check or credit card to pay the parking ramp becuase you don't have any cash or change to your name... (i've actually done this... so sad)

I love this thread...
 

...you go fast food restaurants just to steal ketchup packets and straws.

...you start putting water in your child's cereal because you can't afford any milk.

...you start using dishwashing liquid on your bath sponge because you're out of soap.

When you see food on TV and say your going to get that when you get paid

When you open your refrigerator and its empty and you go back and look in it again like something has magically appeared.

(if your a smoker)When you use old cigarette butts and toilet paper to role yourself a cigarette

When you go to the store to buy groceries and come back with bread and bologny:p

JUST BROKE......
 

Ya'll are some broke Ace's.

LMAO.

.....WHEN YOU USE OLD CIGARETTE BUTTS and TOILET PAPER to role yourself a cigarette"


.......you start to press your new growth until you can afford a "new relaxer kit from Wal-mart oh HECK NAW..."

When you go months with out a perm.... talking about I'm going to go natural, You are really broke. LMBO

"You can't afford to get your acrylic nails done again so you just try to hide your hands from people as much as possible"

Or if your nail breaks, and you paint it the same color as the rest as if nothing ever happend. LMAO

YA'LL GOT ME LAUGHING TOO-DAY

You know ya...
 

Broke when....

1. You add water to your shampoo to wash your hair.

2. You go door to door asking for loose change to wash.

3. You turn your too short pants into capris......not me though I am 4'8" :D

4. Sprint ignores ya.

5. Ya buy clothes @ the dollar store.

6. Ya steal toilet paper out one of the bulidings to bring home.

7. Ya take food out the lunch room and recook it into your own creation

You start looking for every possible book you can sell back.

You start paying your credit cards off with those checks that other credit cards mail you. (thank God, I have never done this).

I have actually done the order a drink and eat the free bread thing...but only if others are eating...I would feel guilty otherwise...who am I fooling, I still felt guilty!

"Grocery shopping" in the all you can eat dining hall (fruit, crackers, other things that will survive the backpack trip).

Sneaking food from your roommate when she isn't there (one of my roomies actually did that to me!).

Selling plasma! (I actually know people who have done this!).

You guys are too funny!

Here are some more...

1. you go to Costco/Sam's etc. on Sat mornings....not to grocery shop, but to get full on the free samples

2. you change your long distance service just so you can cash the check they sent you in the mail.

3. you eat things that don't normally "go together" because that's all you have (i.e. tuna and spaggetti, hot dogs and green beans, etc.)

4. your idea of a great present is a bus pass

5. You began to complain about crass consumerism in our society when friends talk about what they have/bought

6. You go from floor to floor in your office building looking for someone who's having a baby shower/retirement party, etc. and crash the party just to eat the food

7. You lie to the person who maintains your office's snack machines and tell them you lost 50 cents so you can get money to actually buy a snack.

8. You go through your closet looking for spare $$ that you may have left in a coat pocket.

Wow....I've been broke too much in my little life LOL I've done all of the above except 6 & 7 (I've thought about it though!!)

.... you have to eat hamburger helper without the hamburger

.... the dishes haven't been washed in weeks because they haven't been used in weeks

.... you waste a whole day at the laundromat because one of the machines is washing for free

.... you drive a mile further down the street for gas that is $.03 cheaper

.... you and your roommate keep gettin AOL's 2 month trial memberships and turning them off after a month and a half just for the internet connection

.... you get mad at homeless people asking YOU for change

.... you become a vegetarian because you can't afford meat

.... you charge people for rides like a taxi

.... your rent is paid for the month two days before the next month is due


I wish I could say I never did any of these things. Unfortunately all these come from experience. Its good to have money now. :(

- When you search all over the house and gather up everything that you can find to return to a store, knowing you've worn some of the stuff already, but try and make the excuse that you washed the item and it shrunk so you're returning it...

- You know you ain't got any receipts for any of the stuff you're returning, but will fight with the store manager until you get your cash back.

We know to much about being broke don't ya think?

You know your broke when you use a fork to eat cereal so you can save the milk.

You know your broke when you eat a honeybun and save the raping so you can lick it for dinner.

You know your broke when you ask the bum on the street for a nickel

You know your broke if your being robbed and the robber gives you five dollars

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ok ya'll... all I got is 1...

you know you're broke when you are washing your dishes with clothing detergent or shampoo...... (guilty of this :rolleyes: )

Entirely toooo funny ...
 

This is by far the funniest dayum thread on GC. I thought it needed to be moved up, because I've been ROTFLMAO since the first post. :D I don't even have anything to contribute because everybody said it all. I hope some new ones come later as a result, though.

LOL LOL this is too funny and something that I am guilty of. I was at a friends house and her daughter was gone for the weekend. We knew she left her little purse at home with a few dollars in it so we are searching the room. Little did we know she had broken some glass in there that day and did a bad clean up job. Well I step on a huge piece of glass and the blood was literally gushing out of my foot. I'm laying on the floor cracking up and it seriously looked like a crime scene...Guess that's what we get for stealing from a 6 yr old.

You know your broke when....

your on your 5th day of Ramen noodles for dinner.

you and your dorm roomate are so thirsty on a saturday night that you go from door to door looking for anyone who is still there to give you some change to go to the vending machine. Luckily finding someone who gave us a diet coke and a bottle of water.

you go to taco bell drive through w/ a zip lock baggy full of change.

you know you are broke when...

you run out of every cleaning supply and use windex for it all.

single. ply. toilet paper.

you put those last 3 fish sticks and 4 french fries on a napkin-sized piece of foil to cook.

you empty out the vacuum bag to reuse.

that last corner of vodka and a good cd is all the party you really need

you have vaseline in a piece of foil in your purse for your lips, hands, whatever needs it most.

you have stopped laughing at the bootleg names of off brand cereals (i.e. rainbow rings, flakes 'o honey, sugar snaps) and can rattle off all the variations of the original cereal in ABC order.

eta: one im guilty of... at Christmas when they are doing the charities or the Salvation Army bucket, you roll your eyes and say "someone need to come take care of ME!"

You know you are broke when.....

-You are too afraid to sign a promissory to return MY money!

But guess what...you signed it! So......if you do not repay me I WILL SEE YOU IN COURT!! If your word were good we wouldn't be here. I was nice and gave you until Saturday, September 1, 2007. If I am not paid I will take ALL OF YOUR INFO to the court house (yeah, your SSN too!) on Tuesday, September 4, 2007!!

I will keep your note near and dear to my heart!! It is the best note you have EVER given me!

Nuff said!

ummmmm............................okay?

LOL, there is CLEARLY a story behind this.

LMAO this thread is hilarious! I'm guilty of this too. I borrowed $20 from my daughter's piggy bank like a year ago and she is STILL reminding me that I owe her that money PLUS she wants interest! LOL!

Yeah there is a little bit of a story behind it, but the most important parts are posted above.;)

1908 u sound like my sister. she keeps a little tablet in her purse of IOU's. from a 50 cent soda to a pair of shoes, it is on that tablet! and she doesnt want ten dollars here and there, you better give her the whole amount as you recieved it! i will never forget the time i gave her two tens instead of a whole 20...girl hurt my feelings.

I was being nice by not getting it notarized. I'm talking $300. That might not be a lot to some of the GC ballers, but right now I am unemployed. I still have some money, but this person has pushed the LAST button.

At least there is no interest.

just thought of 2 more...

when you know how to bathe in 4 cups of hot water from the gas stove, because either your water is off, or you power is off (i only know how because of hurricane Isabel a few years back lol!)

you only eat out on "kids eat free" nights, and hope to god the waitress lets you slide with that one extra kid (my parents always did!)