/poverty/ - Poverty & Thrift

>>>/hope/ seems nice

Amazon Mechanical Turk

This one is legit. No idea how much money you can make per hour, but I'm *guessing* it's below minimum wage.

>>1019

thanks guy. below minimum wage is more than nothing, this is useful

I don't have the current link but a company is paying freelancers to go set up TVs, mannequins, etc Try shoppers guide or paid to shop .

>>233

This, they can be had for $159.00. They're big, ugly and heavy as fuck but they do the job! I have the 9mm, 40s&w and the 45apc.

I built a 12 Gauge Shotgun using 2 pieces of Steel tubing for a total of $13. All I had to do was go to my local hardware store and buy 2 pieces of stock black pipe that fit a shell and over the barrel, buy a threaded end cap and a firing pin. I then took it to my local fabricator shop and they charged me $3 for the welding. I now have a working 12 gauge for myself and it works fine. It's been fired around 5 times now and it's holding up. If you can buy a REAL shotgun then I'd suggest that, but this design would work in a pinch if needed.

Where would I look to find used guns for sale?

>>973

If you live in a more rural area, you can find quite the variety of firearms at estate and yard sales.

I want an SKS and a Ruger LCP so bad.

The LCP has a cute little laser light!

>>969

Orwell was a socialist that fought with the Trotskyists in the Spanish Civil War you dipshit.

>>976

He fought with the POUM beside the Anarchists, who were betrayed by the Comunists. You have not read "Homage To Catalonia."

I'd rather stay poor than live under the boot of Communism or Socialism. Literally every state that has ever been Communist or hard Socialist has been an oppressive authoritarian bloodpit that scores of people die inside of.

I don't want to use force to make everyone around me work to the bone but so I don't have any chance of me being poor.

>>995

A couple times while I've been out there, I've had some crazy run-in encounters with transients and mischievous high-school kids. Since my camp spot is farther away than the others out there, I tend to get a lot of solo foot traffic by my spot.

The scariest times out there are at night, and it's not the other campers I have to worry about. its the transients that come and visit at all hours of the night. The main path is about 15ft away from my camp and it goes right past me.

Anyway one night I was at my friend Jeff's camp out there and we were smoking bud and telling stories when this convoy of 4x4 trucks -8 of them, drives by as usual. They usually like to drive at night and all around the creek to have fun but this time was different. All 8 of them stopped and parked by my camp about 50ft away. I told Jeff I had to go and walk back to my spot to make sure everything is okay.

When I got up to my entrance bush at my camp, some of the trucks turned their lights on full blast and they were pointed right at me. I froze for a split second then ran into my camp and hid. When they drove back by, They were shining flashlights into the bush my camp is in, looking for me as they drove past.

Cant say that didn't scare me, too close for comfort… I now have a Shotgun out there to keep me company :)

HOME - $1000/mo

Mortgage, taxes, home insurance, basic maintenance, home improvement savings

UTILITIES - $300/mo (actual, average)

electricity, water, heating oil, sewer bills, garbage stickers; most utilities on a budgeted payment plan

ENTERTAINMENT - $160/mo (actual, average)

Cable, Internet, XBox Live, Dropbox, WSJ subscription

TRANSPORTATION - $300/mo (budgeted)

oil changes, fluids, regular maintenance, brakes, tires, gasoline, insurance, AAA membership, etc.

FOOD - $100/mo (budgeted)

does not include junk/fast food

OTHER - $10/mo (budgeted)

American Express, fees, "couch cushion"

DISCRETIONARY - $800/mo (budgeted - minimum over the last 6 months)

smokes, booze, junk/fast food, and other completely unnecessary bullshit

TOTAL - $2670/mo

If I were to quit smoking and drinking, cut out my bullshit spending, practice smarter grocery shopping, try to conserve my water/electricity/etc., and halve my home improvement savings, I could easily live comfortably on about $1700/mo.

>>997

Update from this last post I made; -had to test fire the shotgun I made and It worked fine the first time. but the second shell I fired off blew up. The end cap I had welded and threaded on the firing tube part blew off the back of the tube and blasted a hole in my sweater. the wad and bird-shot propelled out the back end of the gun and snagged my sweater on its way out after the steel cap blew off. I got really lucky; didn't get injured and I still have my hands. I wont be trying that again lol. We took video of me firing it off. I'll post it if any of you are interested I guess.

>>1000

I'd be lucky to even make $1000 a month.

Cost of living is impossibly high these days.

live on for how long? A month? a year? ten years? After a point deferred expenses become impossible to ignore. Car maintenance, medical and dental bills, occasional moving expenses, and so forth are inevitable. And eventually I'll be too old to work, so there's retirement savings.

Ignoring long-term needs, $800 per month. Considering long-term needs, $1300 per month.

>1 pair of $30 shoes.

>Most expensive shoes I've owned as an adult, All the other ones were <$20 and fell apart in a few months.

>>982

This is why you have to splurge on shoes.

Same deal with headphones.

Buy shit, get shit (that falls apart 10x faster). It's not economically sound decision-making buying cheap shoes. You can get away with buying cheap jeans or cheap underwear, but not cheap shoes.

>>992

This. You can get quality shoes when they are on sale quite cheaply and they'll last a long time. I have a pair of casual shoes (Dr Shoals) that cost me $30 on sale. They'll probably last at least 5-10 years easily. Walmart has a sale on them usually in the spring so try and get them then. Note, where I am, that prices for things are higher than they are in the US. They may even be cheaper at your local Walmart.

My previous pair of expensive shoes I had to get was with my Highschool uniform ran me $80. I still wear them for more formal things, but they've lasted me 11 years now.

I've easily spent hundreds on cheap running shoes that end up falling apart after 6 months. I think in total in the last decade that has run me at least $400, if not more, in the last 10 years. Same with Winter boots that end up being trash at the end of each winter season.

TL;DR >>992 and >>982 got it right.

Currently, I own 6 Pairs of Shoes (Casual 1, Casual 2, Running, Gym, Formal, old piece of junk shoes that are falling apart and only use when going to my dug out basement because it's gross and were free anyways), and one pair of boots.

Also >>691 Makes a good point. Thrift stores often have great deals on things like this.

for toasty dry feet, invest in a pair of muck boots. you can usually find some cheaper on amazon, but they are seriously worth every dime you spend. i have had one pair for five years now, and another for a few months, and i can't imagine going through winter without them ever again.

Danq

>>918

Was this a huge lot or something? That still seems pretty expensive.

>>917

they usually need a little fixing up, nothing major, just stuff like removing the carpet and replacing it with tile, and replacing the fridge with a big boy fridge and stove for an electric griddle, and maybe getting a window unit if you live in a hot area ( cheaper than hiring someone to work on the antiquated specialty ac's they can have).

also make sure to find out how the septic system works, some of them cant be permanently hooked up to the septic line; you have to wait for them to empty and then flush them out with a special connector that lets you hook a water hose into the line.

>>919

thats not unusual, the one i lived in was 350$ with power, water and cable up until the recession. original owners sold and the new guys jacked it up to 500$/mo.

>>924

Geez. You can split a mediocre apartment with one person and pay 500/mo.

Anybody here try going living on the road full time? How was it?

I live in a park model in an annual resort. The snowbirds come down for the winter but plenty hot in the summer. $3200 a year plus electricity, water, sewer, trash. varies from $60 to $300 a month.Depending on how much electricity I use.

growing some mustard greens right now…they taste amazing…bite into a leaf and get mustard flavor

>>951

sounds good, will attempt

>>784

It'll keep may weeks in tupperware or plastic wrap in the fridge. Lose the can though, and try to keep it in as few pieces as possible (more surface area = faster spoiling). If it's suspect, you can trim the outsides with a veggie peeler and just use the inside piece.

>>937

i would hope that people who post here would see through the lies, but i doubt it. the other issue is these professions not really advertising themselevs, like, at all. its only been within the last years that ive seen the electricians union doing any kind of advertising.

but the fact of it is that skilled construction work ( ie pipefitters, millwrights, electricians, machinists, etc ) is damn hard but very satisfying and well paying work. i encourage anyone here looking for work to apply at local unions they can find, barring steelworkers and ironworkers, those niggers are crazy.

>>956

>what is showing/minimum hygene

Have you ever even been homeless you fucking faggot?

>>959

Is there a highschool with a pool nearby?

In my area there are several HS' with gyms open to subscription/membership. It turns out cheaper than a conventional gym, but doesn't give you 24/7 access to hot water showers as many conventional gym memberships do.

Because socialized medicine would require either a redistribution of where tax money goes (that being, Out of defense contractor pockets), Or corporations actually paying taxes. Neither of which will ever happen.

>>983

Daily reminder that socialism/communism will never work because white ethnostates are impossible

Daily reminder that the only countries that have successfully done this are now being invaded by third world mud apes (and have been for the last 40 or 50 years).

Daily reminder that leftism ironically destroyed socialism.

Took it before I even left gradeschool.

Never had a credit card tbh

I don't have any debns I'm just poor

>>980

>tfw this should make you richer than people with debt, but your own refusal to live far beyond your means like debtslaves just makes you look, feel, and act even poorer than they are