re: What's the poorest you've ever been?

My sophomore year, 1982. My roommate and I were both unemployed and completely broke and facing not having the next month’s rent/homelessness in the face in a couple of days. We managed to scrape together enough to buy a 12 pack of some cheap arse beer (as all good young students will) and were walking to the store to buy the beer when we found a roll of cash--about eight hundred bucks. We were able to pay the next month’s rent, and both got jobs within a couple weeks so I bounced off the bottom and never looked back.