“I never want to have to crowdfund again”.
Then don’t?
If she had to live on beans on toast and tinned tomato soup for a month to free up some money, then she wouldn’t be the first and she wouldn’t be the last.
If she had to cancel Amazon Prime and stop ordering tit to prioritise money for school trips, well, join the club!
If she had to go without a tumble dryer and hang things on airers and on cupboard doors and radiators and give school uniform a blast with a hair dryer before school, well, welcome to my world.
The level of entitlement and self-pitying is beyond me!
“Make do and mend”.
I feel this! I see you (sawubona.)
The weird thing is, it'd be easier, more satisfying and so good for her. I do mean *her*, and I'm not afraid to say "good for her" given what I've read.
A tough time isn't shameful, and it's pretty inevitable for most, in some form or another.
Contentment can be found. I wouldn't be proud begging, yet I'm prepared to ask for help. My "pride" isn't false and boasting, it's a deliberation on self-sufficiency and needs v wants.
I DON'T think poor people should live in fear or under conditional support; yet
Over and over we see these outliers demanding their rights to tat and junk and takeaways and we know they are on a treadmill of their own green.
Seriously, the
bleeping "beaded doorway insulation but not in orange" LOL. Sort yourself out!
[I hope I'm credited properly in the screenshot. (IamWooh, but not Woe.)]
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Also, we broke a kettle at the weekend... £20 from Argos and we'll be fine, and make it work by spending £20 less on other stuff
My Breville kettle was drowned in a proper river flood that rose to a significant height in my SECOND STOREY. I let it dry for three months, cleaned and sanitised it, held my breath and prayed to the Kettle God, been enjoying cups of tea and pots of coffee ever since.
Grifters like Sarah (Jack, Bex, etc) could never. #WoohWins!
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LOL earlier I said green and meant greed. #IamSarahJJay bahhhaaaaaahhaaaa