The realisation that I can't get out of debt this next month.
I'd planned on having the most boring month on record, but I'd forgotten that it's 3 of my friend's birthdays this month, so they'll cost me money. I'd consider claiming illness to get out of them, but that would only work for 1, and that's the one I want to go to the most. Not good at all.

Alt: There's been no instance of schadenfreude that I can remember for a while now, how boring.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:35, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Haven't you been saying this
consecutively for quite a number of months now? 'Oh, this month I'll be really careful with money and get myself out of debt...' and then 10 days later 'fuck, I'm skint'. Not even I am quite that bad, how do you do it?!
(berk, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:37, Reply)

I was in a position at the end of November where things were going well, then Christmas came around and fucking spanked me
Also, I'm a retard who managed to piss my best chance of getting onto level ground up the wall.

I'd planned it for February, as it was always going to be a fairly dull month, as there are no birthdays for my in February. Sadly, I do have 3 friends at the end of January.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:40, Reply)

That sneaky Christmas, how dare it creep up just after November!
Happy Candle day though dude.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:55, Reply)

Oh, yes, happy Candle day.

( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:07, Reply)

try not drinking for the entire month except those three nights
pros: save money, get pissed easier on those nights
cons: impossible
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:42, Reply)

It's not impossible at all
I drink fewer than three times a month generally. That said, I have almost no social life, but it can be done. Or if you do go out, just drink soft drinks, make your lunch at home and stop spunking money on subway and lucozade every day.
(berk, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:46, Reply)

Yes, if you start from a position of rarely drinking
then drinking rarely is entirely do-able.

It's much harder if you start from a position of drinking 2 or 3 times a week...
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:46, Reply)

Still bollocks I'm afraid
I used to drink - and smoke- much, much more than I do now, until I realised it had gone from making me feel great to making me feel icky, and that it cost a bloody fortune, so I cut back. Easy as that. Decide to do it, and do it.
(berk, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

Amen to this

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

Aye, that's my aim
And on those nights, I should be able to get away with not drinking on 2 of them, I hope. Worst comes to worst, I'll take a tenner to one of them, and leave it at that.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:49, Reply)