Seems that one of the major recurring ideas is
the idea of looking after the pennies, not the pounds. Well, along with thieving stuff.

Anyway, I can vouch for the first. It's surprisingly worth while.

At home, beginning of last month we decided to see how much difference it made. During October we didn't do any of the usual things - buy Coffee / magazines, go to the pictures or eat out. It's not how we would normally live, and probably not how we will continue to live. We just wanted to know how much it all costs. This is me, wife and 2 kids.

The answer is, for us - £600. That's what we had left over, as opposed to normally having fuck all, or sometimes an overdraft.

Eye opener.
(username failed moderation, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:24, 7 replies)

Movies? Eat out? I work, then I go home. All meals are hone cooked. I don't even go to the pub for a drink. I'm poor as fuck, with a degree and a job in IT. Someone is fucking me but I don't know who.
(tyrellsOwl, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 13:28, closed)

Yeah, well that's a
problem.

Maybe we need to have a money generating QOTW, but you can expect 90% of the answers to be the /OT chimps telling you to go and suck off old men in public toilets.
(username failed moderation, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 13:54, closed)

I feel the same way. Though I do save alot.
(skgorsky, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 14:30, closed)

Unskilled white-collar job in "shit pay" shocker.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 17:33, closed)

I'm a software developer, how is that unskilled?
(tyrellsOwl, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 9:51, closed)

Did you need to do an apprenticeship, or obtain any other directly work-relevant qualification, before you could do the job?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 20:04, closed)

No, finished university and went straight into work.
(tyrellsOwl, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 15:29, closed)