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casavant
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You know you're broke when:
- "eating out" consists of ordering off the $0.99 menu at Wendy's, then you feel guilty for splurging- "I could have bought a pound of ground beef and two bags of rice with that."
AND
- You put a couple extra packets of mayo on your double stack, not because you particularly like mayo, but because there's, like, 100 extra calories in that, and it's free for the taking. Ha ha- those fools!
- beans and rice become an acceptable staple for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- you begin to consider mini-thins a cheap, effective alternative to food. You make yourself feel better by thinking, "Well, I've been wanting to cut up anyway."
- "Aldi" becomes your favorite grocery store.
- You narrow down your CD collection to the ones you've listened to the most in the past 3 months. You sell the rest to the music store, feeling eternally grateful when they give you $3.00 a CD. You then head directly to Aldi for some beans and rice.
- you view the loose change in the couch as "savings" that you don't want to touch until you really need it.
- you do your grocery shopping going by how many calories of food energy you will get to the cent.
- You try not to train quite as long, because that means more caloric expenditure.
- the guys at the pawn shop down the street know you by your full name- after all, you stock half their inventory.
- Red Dog beer is "the good stuff".
- you pay close attention to making slow starts and stops, because high RPMs mean more ga$.
- you buy a sewing kit to mend your clothes, and actually use it, taking newfound pride in your excellent workmanship.
- you thank God you had the foresight to get that bounced check coverage.
- anytime you come across free food, you gorge yourself until you're about to burst, thinking, "Hey, with the extra stored fat, I'll be able to skip a couple of meals.
Yup, I'm glad I get paid on Friday.
- "eating out" consists of ordering off the $0.99 menu at Wendy's, then you feel guilty for splurging- "I could have bought a pound of ground beef and two bags of rice with that."
AND
- You put a couple extra packets of mayo on your double stack, not because you particularly like mayo, but because there's, like, 100 extra calories in that, and it's free for the taking. Ha ha- those fools!
- beans and rice become an acceptable staple for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- you begin to consider mini-thins a cheap, effective alternative to food. You make yourself feel better by thinking, "Well, I've been wanting to cut up anyway."
- "Aldi" becomes your favorite grocery store.
- You narrow down your CD collection to the ones you've listened to the most in the past 3 months. You sell the rest to the music store, feeling eternally grateful when they give you $3.00 a CD. You then head directly to Aldi for some beans and rice.
- you view the loose change in the couch as "savings" that you don't want to touch until you really need it.
- you do your grocery shopping going by how many calories of food energy you will get to the cent.
- You try not to train quite as long, because that means more caloric expenditure.
- the guys at the pawn shop down the street know you by your full name- after all, you stock half their inventory.
- Red Dog beer is "the good stuff".
- you pay close attention to making slow starts and stops, because high RPMs mean more ga$.
- you buy a sewing kit to mend your clothes, and actually use it, taking newfound pride in your excellent workmanship.
- you thank God you had the foresight to get that bounced check coverage.
- anytime you come across free food, you gorge yourself until you're about to burst, thinking, "Hey, with the extra stored fat, I'll be able to skip a couple of meals.
Yup, I'm glad I get paid on Friday.
