it's about priorities
My bloke and I had a candlelight dinner recently - not because it was romantic (I was drinking my Lidl wine from a "World's Best Grandma" mug - and I can assure you, a child has never passed my lips) but because his electricity meter had run out yet again.

To be fair, he's a penniless musician so it isn't tightwad behaviour, it's the necessity of surviving from gig to gig. No, the tightwad behaviour is because although we had to sit pretty much in the dark without even being able to boil the kettle, he always, always, always has enough money for weed.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:34, 19 replies)

As a student
I would survive for weeks on nothing more than bread and water.

Bare essentials would be considered indulgent luxuries, due to my utter poverty.

My little jar, however, would always be filled with the stinky green stuff.

Sometimes one has to prioritise.
( Moey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:39, closed)

Indeed
- and I learned early on that I am not his priority.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:42, closed)

Good Grief CHCB
You're not going out with my ex- are you? That sounds hauntingly familiar...

"Sorry Rakky, I can't afford the £1 bus fair to come and see you. Hang on, let me just skin up..."
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:46, closed)

I learned early on
that this was why my relationships never used to last very long.
( Moey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:47, closed)

^^^^^ both of these
you might have thought I'd have learned from being a teenager that penniless stoner musicians do not good boyfriends make. Ha! I reach my 30s and rinse and repeat.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:10, closed)

A child has never passed your lips?
You ought to at least try it, they taste like Monster Munch.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:52, closed)

I didn't mean
those lips
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:59, closed)

Good grief woman!
It's far too early to mention such things!

*gasps and gets all in a fluster*

So, how are things anyway mrs?
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:01, closed)

so-so
Mr Sexmonkey. They could be better, but money can't buy you happiness, eh? EH?

^ that's not entirely true. But I would need a lot more money to properly disprove it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:09, closed)

Ahh...
I'm sorry to hear that things aren't as fantastic as they should be for you.

Money definitely CAN buy happiness though, just last week I spent £50 on three Happy Endings at my local massage parlour.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:12, closed)

I don't believe in happy endings.
Photos, or it didn't happen.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:14, closed)

You really shouldn't ask
as you know that I probably will now.

Next week I'll gaz you pictures of my erupting flesh-Vesuvius. Unless you'd like me to post it on off topic?
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:15, closed)

didn't you
get pics removed from Photobucket trying this sort of thing before?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:21, closed)

I did
but now I use B3tards.

Ta-da!

You've given me an excellent idea for what I should do next, this time there will be inanimate objects in the picture, so that those who felt cheated by the last ones will have the sense of scale they so desperately needed.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:23, closed)

weed
it's a well known fact that weed will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no weed.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:05, closed)

I like this.

( Moey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:08, closed)

Heh Vipros
I was about to post exactly that.

Stoner sound engineer (one up from a musician ;) ) newly on the market here if anyone's interested...
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:20, closed)

That's stupid.
If you have money and no weed, you can buy weed. So money can get you through times of no weed jolly nicely.
( Bob Todd whee, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 13:15, closed)

No
occaisonally there's a weed drought and not even the dealers have any, this is times of no weed, at these times you can't get any no matter how much you pay and are reduced to searching the floor below where you usually skin up for what could possibly, in a good light, be either a tiny bit of weed or some dust.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 15:57, closed)