Things you've done when you've had no money.Apart from the usual survival rations of beans, white bread and Doll Noodles™, we've all done things to compensate for having no money. Personally I spent 6 months barefoot to save on the cost of shoes. What pathetic things have you done when the cash ran out?
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chthonic, Fri 8 Oct 2004, 9:34)
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hurricane.Okay, I guess this isn't an "I survived for three months on ramen and ketchup packets" story. But still.
We're twenty-four hours from Andrew: big, big hurricane that struck south Florida in the early nineties. Catergory five. People's roofs got blown off, houses got flattened, etc.
So we see this thing coming. Oh my, what do we do? Why, the only thing we can do: Duct taped the windows.
Because shutters are expensive. We'd just moved in, we didn't have the money.
The good thing about ducttaping your windows is, unlike with proper hurricane shutters, you can look outside and see your neighborhood get destroyed.
Amazingly, not one window was broken. A lot of other stuff, trees and things, were destroyed, but not one window got blown out.
(, Mon 11 Oct 2004, 4:11, Reply)
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