re: College Poverty Stories

Microwave popcorn sustained me.

You could furnish your El Cid apartment for free if you cruised down Burbank at the end of the semester.

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socks for wash cloths.

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What the frick? You didn’t just use your hands with soap?

Would wash with pumice to get the invisible ink off my fingernail to sell plasma 3 or 4 times per week. $20 per prick. Godamn, that’s depressing to type out

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Man I ate like royalty at LSU

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The 459 and then the 5

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You call that royalty?

Didn't pay for cable but I used an extra coaxial cable for a TV antenna and taped it to the wall with scotch tape and stuck aluminum foil on the end to get better reception.

I did have a job making about 200/wk so my budget was 800/mth.

I don't remember meals being that big of a deal. With trips to sams where I loaded up on easy mac and cheese, frozen chicken breast, tuna, and redbeans and rice, along with the 60 load boxes of detergent, paper towels, and trash bags.

Winn Dixie trips with $1 frozen totinos pizzas, canned veggies, 10 for $10 dollar lipton noodle packets, tuna helper, Ramon noodles, PB&J, and cereal.

I did line my pockets with ziplocks a few times when going to the greatwall and stuffed them with eggrolls and chicken on stick (minus the stick).

I could easily go back to that life if it was just me and I often wonder how much money I would have if I did but with a wife and 3 kids, it ain't happening.

I was fortunate to have a pretty steady supply of fish and game. Dad would take us more for entertainment value than anything else. But eventually I began chasing dear way more then deer and that’s when it required some creativity.

Would lift silverware from dining hall. Always carried gallon ziplocks in my book sack. Mr Ghatti’s buffet was hit pretty regularly. Usually after a trip to donate plasma. We probably missed a great opportunity to make a college cookbook. Never realized how many combinations one could make Mac and Cheese, ramen and hormel chili.

was never dirt poor but i do remember starting a new job and having to wait 3 weeks for my first paycheck, and i had to ask my new boss for $10 to borrow.

I remember going to wal mart and getting 10 of the knock off Totinos pizzas, which were like .89 cents each. I remember feeling so low eating those for 4 days in a row until pay day

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Why did no one in this thread get a job?

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Every MF in this thread had a job.

I spent part of my time at LSU living in a unairconditioned dorm. My only source of cooling was a ceiling fan turning at 5 rpm.