Rummage through the pockets of Thrift Store clothes for change? Ever hide meat under a salad because the salad bar was cheaper than the hot bar?

I begged on the streets of Madrid playing a congo drum. Not my finest hour.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

I remember deciding fuck being broke one day when I was leaving ninth grade and I needed to make a phone call. I had four nickels and I asked some old man if you would be nice enough to give me a quarter for four nickels so I could call for a ride. I very clearly said four nickels and that I was one short. He said, "sure," I gave him the change he counted it and said "there's only 20 cents here." I told him I knew that and I told him that, I was just a little short to make a call for a ride home. I don't even remember what he said but the look he gave me was just so fucking cold; I will never forget it. Over a nickel. I decided right then and there that I'd never be in a position to depend on anybody for SHIT.

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Slept outside in a park on the same vacation

Off?

a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday


you do not seemed to have been enjoying none of it.

you were simply off work.

You ain't right, man.

Went to sleep at 7 pm on a friday in college so I could dream about food

cuz i had barely enough money 2 feed myself

End of the month was HARD.

try .091 worth

I remember being shocked that I got like 40 something miles out before the car died


Don't wanna do that to your car on a regular basis or anything tho

comes on...

but i got a better broke gas hustle. say you expect to have money on a friday. what you do is go to the gas station on a wednesday and charge your gas. all they'll do is charge your account $1. the rest of the charge won't hit til Friday when your money will be there...

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

got back to work some 10 minutes later.

We covered by the Blood which never loose it's power



http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

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more than a few times.
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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

What a shocker

....

Added in some coloring to change the color, mixed in some cologne, added a a few ounces of water and hustled body wash online.

Made a killing for an undergrad too.

1. Taken an item from Grocery store A

2. Return Item to Grocery store B.

3. use money from return to put gas in car.

Let's say, hypothetically of course, that someone were moving in and left their couch touching the sidewalk and someone else just happened to come through while they were chilling and swiped said couch/insert furniture.

Let's take it a step further and say someone sold said fair used furniture to a store.

every time i go to chick fil a, i'm leaving with a bag full of plastic spoons, forks and hot sauce packets.

when i stay in hotels, i scoop up little bottles of lotion and body wash.

i sneak food into movie theaters.





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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

but I keep them at work for lunch.

bring them home and put them into an airtight container.

every
time.

I wish i might would pay 9.50 for a burger and fries, when I can just lug in this curry chicken and rice in some tupperware in my backpack

It pains her to go to a mall and buy stuff. She grew up dirt poor in Southeast DC and refuses to waste money today on damn near anything yet her pockets are now deep. I tried to buy her a new ford explorer. She said bump that, she wanted a Ford Fiesta because it got 40 miles a gallon. So that's what I bought her and she loves it. I'm fortunate to have a woman like her.

My ninjaz dat been thru da struggle know da fuck I'm sayin.

I feel ya.... at one point $.79 at Wal Mart, but that shit got the best of me (alcoholism -> cirrhosis).

Now I'm about that $.99 Arizona Mango tea lol

>Now I'm about that $.99 Arizona Mango tea lol

Just kidding, but probably the lowest thing I've ever done was live for a week off Toast-Chee crackers. You can get a box of those things for about a buck each in some places, and during a particularly bad time in college I did that a few times. It's not a big deal to me-as long as it's temporary.

slept in the car
slept in a park
waited for a market to throw their leftovers away to eat.

bunch of other shit

Via the Craigslist "gigs" section. I didn't know she was a stripper until she brought the CD to my parents house where I was living at the time. This was a few years ago when I was out of a job.

I was also flipping things on Craigslist and eBay constantly...my best come up was a Palm Pilot that my bud gave me because it didn't sell at his yard sale. I got $45 for it on eBay...that was a good day, haha.
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Walked in through the back...and the manager saw me. I was drunk, not really caring. But being super cheap. She was like "um, sorry honey, you have to enter through the front."

Go to the hospital cancer unit and take snacks out the Family Nourishment kitchen.

That's just how we rolled in Brownvsille back in the 90s. Pizza shops and bodegas accepted them. How was I to know the Colonel wasn't down with the plan.

I almost forgot about tokens as currency

RE: What is the brokest thing you have ever done?

upon its initial run through the process. Dealt with the fees later. In the meanwhile, we ate.

I got so bold once I got cash back off the check so I could get some gas!

160 and Broadway cause I ain't have money for a swipe.

I left one job and was working at the new gig, but my last check from the old job was coming in the mail that day.

Didn't know anybody at the new gig, and wasn't about to ask to borrow money. The new company was supposed to pay for my transit while on work hours, but they didn't. So I used my get home swipe to get back to the office.

Straight hill after like 80th and Broadway, haha earned my stripes that day.

with an opted-in debit card.

I figured since they were going to go ahead and charge me for every purchase
that went over balance, I might as well just make it one big purchase.

So I bought a bunch of groceries to last me until my job started (2 weeks away)
and got cash back to put gas in the car. *college struggle*


I keep my cards opted out now, lol. But that really saved me back then.

to the person in front of me. i didn't have any Metro money, so when the opportunity presented myself...i had to take it. and it was awkward cause you'd have to be really close up on the person in front of you. now when i see other people doing it, i just laugh.
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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

then put drinks on overlimit Credit Card.

id check out the textbook from the library, or borrow somebodies & make copies @ my job.

either way, i learned what needed to get learned.

only downside, is the classes where they'd be like turn to xyz page in your textbook. i'd be looking real dumb those days. oh well

also was the king of ordering plain fried rice from mama san. that & a mystic = $3 and i'd be full for most of the day...& then would go to sleep

between that & walking everywhere i went, no wonder i was under 200

also the king of paying shit off in weed. i dunno if thats broke or not but its 100% ghetto


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

" check out the textbook from the library, or borrow somebody's & make copies @ my job.

either way, i learned what needed to get learned.

I didnt see it as broke I saw it as smart

Fuck them textbook mayne
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Imagine the alternative. Spoiled kids who were handed everything have no idea how to fend for themselves

i think the brokest i've been were

coinstar

walking to work cause i couldn't afford to drive AND eat....

on an out of town day trip with a homeboy who KNEW i was broke, i watched 3 sets of people eat when i had no money in my pockets, including a family of 5 while i just drank water....THEN...he got lost on the way back home and we ended up over 50 miles off course and HE asked misc people i either didn't know or rarely spoke to in that city for money (turned out he was broke too).....

Fuck your fort!

kev

the colors were NEVER accurate!
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