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I'm back. Thankfully the suspension was overturned. (Thank you to the power of 10) I am not sure, but I think someone took something I said in another topic as suicidal, but I swear it wasnt the intent of what I said. Seems something similar happened to TC, and again thankfully it appears to have been overturned as well.

Mistere_Man posted...

I'm back. Thankfully the suspension was overturned. (Thank you to the power of 10) I am not sure, but I think someone took something I said in another topic as suicidal, but I swear it wasnt the intent of what I said. Seems something similar happened to TC, and again thankfully it appears to have been overturned as well.

Awesome! Happy you are back.

@MrDrMan
@Mistere_Man

I have like 20 of them so I'm happy to give one. Just let me know who it should be DM'ed to. HelloFresh is the service btw. I always order from them when they send me crazy discounts since I ain't paying full price for their food. It's a rip off. And every order they give me codes.

Just FYI, it is part of a subscription service. So what you do is pick your meals for the first box, then skip next week and the week after to give yourself plenty of time to cancel otherwise they gonna assuming you buying the next box.

Once the free one gets delivered, just cancel the subscription and you are good to go!

And I just double checked to see if they still active. They are.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ee2a67eb.png

I apologize, but I dont understand the question. You have 20 what? I dont remember asking for anything, but my memory is terrible so I again apologize if I am just forgetting.

Mistere_Man posted...

I apologize, but I dont understand the question. You have 20 what? I dont remember asking for anything, but my memory is terrible so I again apologize if I am just forgetting.

Oh lol. I thought you were TC haha. Sorry about that!

SF_Okami posted...

Oh lol. I thought you were TC haha. Sorry about that!

Oh no problem.

SF_Okami posted...

@MrDrMan
@Mistere_Man

I have like 20 of them so I'm happy to give one. Just let me know who it should be DM'ed to. HelloFresh is the service btw. I always order from them when they send me crazy discounts since I ain't paying full price for their food. It's a rip off. And every order they give me codes.

Just FYI, it is part of a subscription service. So what you do is pick your meals for the first box, then skip next week and the week after to give yourself plenty of time to cancel otherwise they gonna assuming you buying the next box.

Once the free one gets delivered, just cancel the subscription and you are good to go!

And I just double checked to see if they still active. They are.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ee2a67eb.png

So basically I just get the free box and then cancel?

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Super_Slash posted...

So basically I just get the free box and then cancel?

Yeah, exactly. But it also gives you an option to skip your next delivery. You should do that immediately after making the account for the following weeks so you have all the time in the world to cancel after you receive.

SF_Okami posted...

Yeah, exactly. But it also gives you an option to skip your next delivery. You should do that immediately after making the account for the following weeks so you have all the time in the world to cancel after you receive.

Ok I'm down for that

Code sent. Hope it helps fam.

I was debating whether I should make a topic giving out these codes since they just taking up space and someone might as well use them, but idk if people would really care.

I think I'm just going to log all my shit here.

How does one survive on $30 for an entire week? The food voucher will help, but it can't be delivered until next week.

This is crazy. I got an interview with Sonic tomorrow which I guess is something, but I'm not expecting anything.

fwiw nothing is free with hellofresh or any other delivery service I've seen
that money off is spread between several orders so it's only like 50% off or something on any given order
it's rarely ever actually a good deal
the only one I've seen that I would personally consider worth it is everyplate when they do their $0.99/meal giveaway, but that's only for one week at a time and even then the delivery fee brings it up to like $3-$4/meal or something iirc

Super_Slash posted...

I think I'm just going to log all my shit here.

How does one survive on $30 for an entire week? The food voucher will help, but it can't be delivered until next week.

This is crazy. I got an interview with Sonic tomorrow which I guess is something, but I'm not expecting anything.

Do you live close to an orchard? You could go pick whatever the smallest size they offer. Many orchards will let you eat your fill of apples while youre picking them. Some have grapes right note too.

this: https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/16olze4/how_would_you_feed_yourself_for_a_week_on_30_or/ is only a year old, but shouldnt be too out of date. The short answer is to find cheap (maybe marked down or damaged), calorie rich foods. You dont have to worry too much about nutrition for a week, assuming you can get over the jump, you just need enough calories to make it.

Super_Slash posted...

I think I'm just going to log all my shit here.

How does one survive on $30 for an entire week? The food voucher will help, but it can't be delivered until next week.

This is crazy. I got an interview with Sonic tomorrow which I guess is something, but I'm not expecting anything.

Ill Venmo you $20 tomorrow. $10 to cover shippin, $10 to help out. Wish I had more to send but Im helping my fam out with some medical bills.

MrDrMan posted...

Ill Venmo you $20 tomorrow. $10 to cover shippin, $10 to help out. Wish I had more to send but Im helping my fam out with some medical bills.

Sounds good.

Winterking posted...

Do you live close to an orchard? You could go pick whatever the smallest size they offer. Many orchards will let you eat your fill of apples while youre picking them. Some have grapes right note too.

this: https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/16olze4/how_would_you_feed_yourself_for_a_week_on_30_or/ is only a year old, but shouldnt be too out of date. The short answer is to find cheap (maybe marked down or damaged), calorie rich foods. You dont have to worry too much about nutrition for a week, assuming you can get over the jump, you just need enough calories to make it.

I definitely don't live near an orchard.

My suggestion on making it last would be to get some bags of rice. You can get them at a dollar store and they last like 5-10 meals. Pair that with some cheap protein and its a decent meal. Ive got a weeks worth of meals out of $15.

I wanted to ask but you were suspended for the period, but now you aren't.

Do you happen to have any kind of budget drafted which accounts for all money coming in vs what's going out?

MrDrMan posted...

My suggestion on making it last would be to get some bags of rice. You can get them at a dollar store and they last like 5-10 meals. Pair that with some cheap protein and its a decent meal. Ive got a weeks worth of meals out of $15.

If you care about nutrition for the longer term, coupling this with dry beans will get you a complete protein AND is similarly inexpensive.

Will_VIIII posted...

I wanted to ask but you were suspended for the period, but now you aren't.

Do you happen to have any kind of budget drafted which accounts for all money coming in vs what's going out?

My girlfriend is the only one with income, so not really. I'm on her dime.

This is probably like the first thing you thought of but. Whats your GF do? Could you work with her somehow?

projectpat72988 posted...

This is probably like the first thing you thought of but. Whats your GF do? Could you work with her somehow?

She's a cashier at Walmart. I've been applying but so far no luck.

Super_Slash posted...

How does one survive on $30 for an entire week?

That's been my food budget for a while, it's doable if it's just for you and you can stand to eat the same things a lot.

A 12 pack of ramen is ~$4
A big bag of chicken nuggets is ~$13
2 pounds of spaghetti, two jars of sauce, and a big thing of parm is ~$14

If you have an oven, you can make a lot of bread for $20. Small pizzas are ~$1.50.

Super_Slash posted...

My girlfriend is the only one with income, so not really. I'm on her dime.

I think that would be a start. Figure out how much you absolutely need to have to get by per month, what her average income is, and then go from there.

Super_Slash posted...

She's a cashier at Walmart. I've been applying but so far no luck.

Hopefully Sonic, or something else, pans out soon. 3 people on one Walmart cashier income does not sound feasible.

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

A 12 pack of ramen is ~$4

As someone who just passed a kidney stone, I would really hope you two can find stuff other than ramen...

bsp77 posted...

Hopefully Sonic, or something else, pans out soon. 3 people on one Walmart cashier income does not sound feasible.

She gets social security too but only once a month, and because she's working she will eventually lose it. The bills take up all of the SSI.

I don't mean this in a patronizing way or finger waging way but do you have anything at all you can cut out to gain margin? Like cancelling Netflix and using something free like Tubi for a period

Will_VIIII posted...

I don't mean this in a patronizing way or finger waging way but do you have anything at all you can cut out to gain margin? Like cancelling Netflix and using something free like Tubi for a period

The only subscription we have is Crunchyroll, and that's tentative

Sorry if I missed anything inside of the posts that have built up here, but my two ideas:

Factory work, or work for a general contractor if you're physically able. The latter is risky, but I've found they can take a shot with anyone who makes an upfront honest impression. Just make sure they don't sound sketchy. Even small ones can become pretty accommodating. If you're working at the job site you can likely get arranged for rides.

Super_Slash posted...

She's a cashier at Walmart. I've been applying but so far no luck.

Has she tried talking to her boss for you? If you're this desperate they could probably find SOMETHING for you to be doing. Hell even a greeter or something....at least temporarily.

Also if you like Peanut butter and jelly that stuff can go far on a cheap budget.

If you know anyone who will take you to a Costco or a store like that you can get jumbo deals on cheap stuff.

A regular store will sell you an average size PB for like 6-7$$ (last I looked). Meanwhile a Costco you can get 2 jumbo sized ones packaged together for like 10$ or so. You spend more initially but it goes very far.

Call centers have high turn over too, if that's an option. It's not the best job but I thought it was better than fast-food and retail work

Once upon a time, hospitality was a fairly easy job that commanded a better wage and working conditions than fast food.

Are you willing to post your resume (while removing personally identifying information)? Some objective eyes might help and I've been on the interviewer side more recently.

Will_VIIII posted...

Are you willing to post your resume (while removing personally identifying information)? Some objective eyes might help and I've been on the interviewer side more recently.

Sure

Anony1125 posted...

fwiw nothing is free with hellofresh or any other delivery service I've seen
that money off is spread between several orders so it's only like 50% off or something on any given order
it's rarely ever actually a good deal
the only one I've seen that I would personally consider worth it is everyplate when they do their $0.99/meal giveaway, but that's only for one week at a time and even then the delivery fee brings it up to like $3-$4/meal or something iirc

Nah, these that I have are actually legit. I've given them to a few friends before who all have taken the free box and ran lol.

I have nothing to provide, it looks like its in better hands. I just wanted to say Im happy to see the moderations got overturned and so many community members trying to assist. Keep on trying TC, as long as you have hope you can make it through.

I've had somewhat a similar story, sometimes better, sometimes worse than you. You have to stay strong and motivated, with a goal and focus on the goal. Make a goal, fulfill and make another goal and so on.

I had an abusive dad, my brother left as soon as he was able to and one summer when I was 19, my dad apparently took the time to get all my clothes and stuffed it into a duffel bag, he told me to follow him as he walked out of the house with it, and he put it down. He then told me never to set foot in his house again otherwise he would beat me unrecognizable. It was actually past 6pm, no car, nothing. No phone (this was just right before everyone started to own cell phones) we actually moved sometime during me in high school so all my old high school friends were 30+ minutes away. My brother used to drive us to school. Anyway, so I walked to the park and slept there for the night, luckily I had a whole bunch of clothes in the duffel bag to keep me warm. The next day I tried to hitchhike that failed, so I ended up at a store, asked if I can use their phone, called one of my buddies. He picked me up. He still lived with his mom and sister, so I bummed on the couch just for the night but we called another friend who was living on his own with a roommate and I went over to his place and basically lived rent free for a few weeks until I got my first job, retail job. I couldn't live with him because rent would still be pricey, I did give him something like 200 bucks and long story short I saw my high school gf's friend who was shopping while I was working at my job, we chatted for quite a bit and she was looking for a 4th person roommate to cut costs of rent down, so I moved in with her and we eventually did hook up.

Man, I remember those days, I ate maruchan ramen and 1 slice of white bread many many times for dinner (dip the bread into the soup) if things were going great, I would crack an egg into the soup while it was cooking. Also the employee lounge, lots of times fellow employees would buy a pack of bagels and creamcheese and set it on the table for anyone who wants it, somedays the one bagel would be my dinner. I should say what I was doing with my money, I got paid 600 bucks per paycheck (twice a month), and I would save one paycheck, while the other covered 400 bucks rent, and I would have just under 200 bucks a month for food and whatever. I should say my overhead was low as utilities were covered (at least as I understood I wasn't paying any utilities) and like I said, no cell phone. But I still had to stretch that for a month. Originally I took the bus to work but that was too costly so eventually I bought a used schwinn for I think it was 75 dollars, and I would bike to work everyday. It sucked major ass in the winter. I remember when we would splurge and take to the bus to the movies and watch a movie. I actually look fondly on those days I was poor. After 2 years of saving and living like a monk, I got a job at a hotel which paid more (780 bucks per paycheck lmao) but continued to save for a little over another 2 years. What was I saving for? I bought a house, a small POS house at the age of 25.

I'll end my story there because people don't like what comes after that. Lmao. But I had razor sharp focus and goals that got me there.

projectpat72988 posted...

If you know anyone who will take you to a Costco or a store like that you can get jumbo deals on cheap stuff.

it's true.

i buy my meatballs and chicken there monthly.

also to note. it's really rough getting by on 30$ for food in a week if just for self.
if it was 60$ for 2 weeks, i would buy rice and chicken. eggs and the cheapest sauce one could have with chicken.

This is $30 for a week for three people, and my brother has specific dietary needs.

You could check with meals on wheels they provide food and other services if you qualify.

Man this is completely unsustainable. I just don't think I can do this for much longer. Our dryer not working is making me really depressed too ;_;

I can't make it to the laundromat today. I have clothes that need drying and I only have $2 in my wallet. Ughhhh

On the job front, I would recommend applying to local regional banks for a bank teller job... they're literally always looking for people with customer service experience.

Whether or not your experience included money handling, you can just lie about it and also talk about any cross-selling you did and tell stories about times customers came to you with complex issues and what you did to resolve them.

Lot of stability in bank jobs ever since the Wells Fargo scandal made all the banks cut back on "goals" so not much stress and there's many different paths you can take if you want to move up. A lot of them don't involve sales if you don't like sales (i.e. administrative assistants or operations specialists for private banking, wealth management, commercial bank, treasury management, etc.)

This is basically what I've always said to anyone I've known who's had a retail job anywhere and was looking for something with more opportunity and also didn't want to go back to school or learn a trade and the ones that followed through had positive experiences.

Out of curiosity what is the dryer doing, I mean does it work at all? For example if it comes on and doesnt spin it is probably the belt came off or needs replacing. I am asking as it could be a simple fix.

Mistere_Man posted...

Out of curiosity what is the dryer doing, I mean does it work at all? For example if it comes on and doesnt spin it is probably the belt came off or needs replacing. I am asking as it could be a simple fix.

Sounds to me from earlier posts that the heater stopped working.

You can get a spare and replace it yourself (even I managed to do this once with a YouTube video showing me how). But you still need the money for the part, and there's no guarantee how long the drier will last once things start going wrong. (I got another year out of mine).

Mistere_Man posted...

Out of curiosity what is the dryer doing, I mean does it work at all? For example if it comes on and doesnt spin it is probably the belt came off or needs replacing. I am asking as it could be a simple fix.

It spins but doesn't heat up. I got it to work once but that was apparently a lucky break. I'm okay with trying to install a new heat element, but obviously I don't have the money for it (they're like $25 at Home Depot).

I dont mean to be a jerk by suggesting this, but this actually happened to someone I knew so I have to check. Is the dryer set to no heat by chance? My family had a house we used to rent out and a tenant complained about the dryer not working so we had to call a repair person and it turned out they had accidentally switched it to no heat dry somehow.

This same tenant later complained power was out in several rooms so I asked if a breaker had been blown, they assured me no breakers were blown, so we call an electrician and it was a breaker was blown. $150 to flip a switch.

As far as I know there's no setting like that.