$28 a week and failing miserably

Posted on | February 26, 2009 |

for all of you who have been inquiring about my $28 a week post, please cease with your pitying glances and offers to take me to lunch/donate leftover pita bread and hummus to me (unless it’s edamame hummus – my fave!)

i am happy to report that i am now gainfully gainpartly employed at codegreen solutions, and not so happy to report that i have been going over my allotted budget for 3 weeks straight now.

although it is difficult to pinpoint what exactly has been putting me over the edge, this 14K gold melting love ring that i bought from yayoi forest may be a clue. (in urkel-esque voice) did i do that?

in fact, i am ashamed to say that i have been relapsing to my piggish ways quite a bit since finding a new job. is it possible that what happened to alternative energy as soon as gas prices came down is now plaguing me on a much smaller scale?

luckily, although there were a few splurges here and there, i was able to eat nothing but 99 cent cans of corn and soup for about 3 days. note to anyone who is seriously strapped for cash – 1 can of soup can go a loooong way. don’t allow campbell’s to tell you that you can only make two servings. i successfully squeezed 5 large bowls of soup out of one tiny can by just adding water and salt. just be prepared to divvy up the already meager 7 pieces of carrot that come in a can a bit further.

in any case, i am going to do my best to get back on track being a responsible piggy. that being said, i’m amending “$28 a week” to “$33 a week.” wish me luck!

Comments

3 Responses to “$28 a week and failing miserably”

Anonymous
February 26th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm

http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking
johnny
February 26th, 2009 @ 11:17 pm

sono yubiwa choo kawaii! I think it was worth cheating.
Yiyi Zhang
June 18th, 2009 @ 9:10 am

Read this article in the metro the other day that reminded me of this post -

This guy, Jeremy Marie, is hitch-hiking across the world on only $7 a day. How daunting!

Here’s his website:
http://lembas.ovh.org/en/index.php

I don’t know if he’s inspiring or just an incorrigible mooch. Ah, the French…

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