We are so broke!

I think the last time I was like that was a couple of years ago and we used to be like that all the time and it is so horrible. Of course now hubby no longer has a job there is a good chance that we could end up like that again by the end of the year! But hopefully something will come up before we go back to the dark days.

We've been that broke here and there. Though when I was about 19-20 I recall being so broke I took the change from the bottom of my purse to pay for gas to get to work and we lived out of a food pantry. I'm glad you were smart enough to save your soda cans. My hubby thinks saving cans is foolish but to me why not use the money to your benefit rather than than the city you live in. Though since hubby had to get a new to us vehicle we will definatly be experienceing it as the payment is more and there's no over time this week (only offered o/t 2x a month) and that overtime makes all the difference. Otherwise like many I'll be making some sacrafices to make sure that my kids get what they need. I'm ok with going without, it's what a mom does.

Have been there a number of times and generally it was because of my own financial irresponsibility. You indicate you have "babies" and that at this point in time your income is limited - have you looked into the WIC program?

I'm pretty broke right now and have to go until the end of the month to get paid. If I am careful then I can just manage it to payday but no frills will be bought - just basic. This means that I forego my coffee and bring from home and a sandwich from home too for lunch. But it can be done and many people do it daily. I've been flat broke many times in my life adn somehow you get through it. You were resourceful enough to do what you did to get milk for the kids. That was great - you solved the problem. Keep strong

I try not to manage to make myself broke like that. I really want to save money for emergency situation. Somehow I afraid that might happen too. I hate to spend too much on something that is not worth or I might not use again. Well, try to save some money, and not to overspend them.

OH my gosh, I know the feeling. We have had to scrape up pennies to put gas in the car. I know the filling station attendant was probably laughing at me when I left. Usually though we take all of our change to one of those coinstar things they have in the grocery stores, dont know if you have one of those where you live at but it saves you the embarrassment of having to count change out. I especially hate it when there are like a lot of people behind me waiting and Im sitting there like "Okay thats 72, 73, 74........" I hate that.

fortunately God is so good and merciful to me... i don't have to experience being so broke in my whole life... so far, it is still good... neither me nor my hubby have ever been jobless before... both of us have a full time job and we don't have any child yet... so life still pretty good on us... we don't have a luxurious life... but we have a happy and ordinary life with God as the head of our family... take care and have a nice day...

we are often like that just before payday! hubby gets paid on friday so thats not too bad and i will be getting some child tax money (we get a sum of money every month from the government to assist in raising our kids - the amount depends on how much you make.) and that will be coming on the 20th, but of course we have our mortgage to pay...well you know the drill.

I get pretty broke once in awhile. I luck out though usually and just when I am getting really broke I get a bunch of toffee orders in a row or a nice sized child support check. My son gets the money for the cans unless I really need it, then he gets an IOU for the money. Right now we have about 6 big black trash bags full of cans he is waiting to turn in. Hoping aluminum prices go back up some.

Not Totally broke yet, but I'm on my way - the reason is, I have a separate savings account that I have withdrawn from once to catch up on bills and I'm hesitant to go back now. Again I'm behind in my bills, a couple years back, I use to didn't have to keep up with how much money was left in the bank, now I'm watching every penny. Yesterday I checked my account and I was overdrawn for the second time this month. I have my electric bill and other bills that are overdue and no money to pay them. On the news they announced that people who are behind on they're electric bills will have to pay by Friday or services will be cut off. Everyone is having hard times right now; and as I'm typing this, I'm hearing on the news - which is breaking news of a Bank robbery and one of the suspects has been fatally shot. I pray to God things will get better real soon.

i can understand what you talked ,yep ,all the things just part of life,we had accepte,but nothing i can do for me,

HI Kats: I go through this ordeal each and every week/month I get paid on the 3rd of the month and I'm usually broke by the end of the day after all my bills are paid; Pfftt! well bills that I can pay I should say the most important ones; I can never save up change as I use it all up for necessities for myself, I'm always needing to buy my pets some food, yeah they gotta eat too they have plenty of dry food but my spoiled ones love canned food too; It sucks to always be flat broke, scraping together anything and everything I can; We turn in our soda cans too My Dad does also!! Shoot there are times we even cash in his change to get by; I will be buying milk and bread myself later today, since my earnings from mylot are now showing up on my debit card; Tain't much but that $10.71 will be all spent today; Life is hard for us all and not really getting any better that I can see???

i can relate. the other day i was couting pennies!! had to get some cheese from walmart and the lady was pissed I paid in change. I was like excuse me times are hard and i dont see a sign that says we cannot accept pennies!!! What nerve she had.

There was a time we were so broke we didnt have any money to get out of the airport parking after seeing our daughter off at the airport - we tried every credit card we had and it kept declining - i had to tell the lady we simply didnt have the money and she let us go...anyway, it was one of those 'phases' we went thru...I believe that as long as you try your utmost not to dwell on your 'brokeness', something will come thru for you...because whatever you focus on in your mind..becomes your reality...so really try to focus on the fact that 'miracles' happen all the time and somehow, somewhere, if you keep focussed on the positives, it will definitely happen...

Once I was so broke, I sold my garbage can for $3.00 and was able to eat for a couple of days, then the food ran out and I was so hungry I ate my house plant! Let me explain: My house plant was really a huge sweet potato in a big jar of water and it was beautiful! It had huge, long shiny green vines that went all over the place and I loved my plant but I was so hungry I kept thinking of a pan full of hot buttery sweet potatoes. Well there was NOTHING at all to eat in my house so finally after drinking lots of water to stop my hunger pains, I took my sweet potato out of the water and examined it and was surprised to find it quit firm and in perfect shape, so I cried as I cut off all the beautiful vines, peeled it, cut it up and boiled it with a little brown sugar and some butter till it was tender and the juice was thick and I ate it! That was the best meal I had in a long time! I went to bed full and happy! The next day I looked into a food bank and got 3 bags of food and that helped me till the temporary agency I worked for FINALLY sent me out to work! (When you work for temporary agencies, sometimes you don't get any work for weeks and that happened to me)! That is why I was so broke I sold my garbage can and ate my house plant! I didn't know about food banks till the guy down the hall told me about it. Too bad it was a day AFTER I ate my poor house plant!

I have money right now but I won't have a lot of money in a few weeks! I have summer classes coming up, no real good paying job and I'm probably going to end up getting an apartment to live in a new town this summer in hopes of getting a good job after I graduate school which happens this summer. I already know it's going to be tough and it's really making me question how this is going to work out and whether or not this is really a good idea!

Good thing it is payday for me too... since rent is due and my husband has not sent money yet... but after today... i would only have around 500 php in my pocket and that is equivalent to like $25... and that should last me and my daughter 15 days... and it is her birthday next week... well, i am really hoping that my husband will send money soon... I don't have enough plastic bottles or cans to buy the thing we need...

Honestly, I had experience it almost every month. Life is just so hard because only my husband is earning for our existence and like you, we are trying our best to let both ends meet evey month but when you have kids to fed and tuition to pay in school every month, It is not easy. I had also experience what you have been through and maybe more than that but still we survived up to this moment.

as far as i can remember. that was 2007... thats the time that i felt im 6 feet under the ground already.. but i didnt give up, and prayers helps me a lot. and now im okay. not 100% but 90%

actually right now is the most broke I've ever been. My girlfriend and I are living in her mom's basement, I just got laid off from my job in the Aircraft manufacturing industry, and my unemployment money has not kicked in, AND at the same time we had to use the last of our savings to go to my last $600 credit card settlement payment... so I have no money, I am having to bum off my parents, her mom, until my unemployment checks start coming in, which is like 2 weeks from now. My girlfriend is working making 250 a week, but we also had an emergency with my dog, $250 later, were broke! so looks like Raen noodles and easy mac for a week...