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If you only had a tenner left

PearlyPearly Posts: 345 The Mix Regular
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If you only had a tenner left before your next pay day, what would you spend it on? I think for me it would have to be Oyster top up, boring but well at least I'd be able to get to work!

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I wouldn't spend it unless I really needed to.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Depends how long away the next pay day was going to be.

    If it was a while away i'd obviously have to buy myself some food to keep me going or petrol to get to work. If it was say two days ago then i'd just keep it and save the money.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Presuming I had petrol, I'd get some trashy cheap magazines, like love it, a cheap bottle of wine, go to the supermarket just before it closes to get some reduced food and have a nice cheap night in!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    when is payday?

    I'd probably buy cereal + milk (£3)
    a newspaper every day (assume 1 week) (£3)
    Then maybe a bar of soap if i run out (99p)


    and then I still have £3.01 remaining .... obviously I would have already purchased my monthly oyster card ;)

    see, easy eh.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Use it to buy bread and a filler for lunch at work, bus fare and fags.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Go to Lidl. You can feed yourself for a month on a tenner in there.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    5 pills! Hehe. Idk. It'd be gone really quickly though and I probably wouldn't even remember what it got spent on.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    tenner on red.

    double or nothing
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Train ticket to Leeds = £6, then keep the change :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Addict wrote: »
    Go to Lidl. You can feed yourself for a month on a tenner in there.

    Just what I was going to say :thumb:

    I'd probably have to hit Netto though for some bargains, it's closer than Lidl and I'd need to be saving my petrol if I only had a tenner.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    briggi wrote: »
    Just what I was going to say :thumb:

    I'd probably have to hit Netto though for some bargains, it's closer than Lidl and I'd need to be saving my petrol if I only had a tenner.
    Do they still have...is it JobLot? I remember my mum used to shop there and I'd religiously peel the labels off the food as a kid, in case my mates saw them!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    VinylVicky wrote: »
    Do they still have...is it JobLot? I remember my mum used to shop there and I'd religiously peel the labels off the food as a kid, in case my mates saw them!

    Teehee, I know exactly the place you mean. Yep, it's still there and doing a roaring trade :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'd go to Aldi and buy a large quantity of food. My travelcard comes out of my wage at source, so I wouldn't need to worry about that.

    Having a tenner left before payday is a luxury for me:(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I've about 65p in the bank till payday (a week tomorrow), and I'm too embarrased to go in and ask to withdraw 65p.

    I just survive on alcohol and life, man.

    But I'm borrowing £20 off my mate tomorrow so all is good :yippe:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kermit wrote: »

    Having a tenner left before payday is a luxury for me:(
    me too :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    would depend how much food i had in the cupboards.

    If they were a bit bare, then id go and buy basics from the shop. Milk, pasta, bread, butter.
    I think i could probably get a weeks worth if i shopped blue stripe.

    If my cupboards were full, then id probably just put the tenner in my purse and not go anywhere all week.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I walk most places, unless I'm feeling lazy.

    I'd go out and buy potatos, chickpeas, onions, bread, parsnips, carrots, brown lentils, vegetable stock, milk and rice (or quinoa if I can find it cheap).

    I have a lot of herbs and spices with which I can cook and I'd live off curries and lentil dishes, which will keep my healthy and my tum tum full :)

    I eat fairly cheaply anyway and our cupboards are hardly bare. Maybe I'd buy a newspaper, the Independent is cheap at university.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    all the newspapers you can read online.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    8 cans of fosters and 20 lamberts, comes to £9.47 at spar. bargain
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Perhaps one £10 lapdance!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    koe_182 wrote: »
    8 cans of fosters and 20 lamberts, comes to £9.47 at spar. bargain

    They should be paying you to drink Fosters!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    DoubleCherry wrote: »
    5 pills!

    Lol I was gonna say that, or a gram of speed or something lol, nah I'd only do that if it was the night before pay day.
    Otherwise hmm maybe a couple of pints down the pub and some baccy or something.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    give over, i quite like fosters, im not fussed with lager, i'll drink owt apart from stella.

    i have a order of preference tho, i usually go Ayingerbrau, Carlsberg, Fosters, Carling, Grolsch, Kronenberg, Stella(boo)

    thats out of your standard lagers anyway.

    useless info for you there, but im bored.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Aw, I'm just messing. It's weird though... I can't abide Fosters though, and I love a nice cold pint of Stella. Diff'rent strokes and all that :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Stella is only nice out of the tap though. I'm lucky as my local does Hofbrau extra cold, Export and Premium. Now that's some good german lager.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Stella Tastes Liek Flowers
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    food!

    well... if I had none left. If my cupboards are as stocked as they are at the moment, I'd probably have no reason to spend it.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    that's easy, a tenbag of course ;) would take my mind off being broke!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Senor Miguel wrote: »
    that's easy, a tenbag of course ;) would take my mind off being broke!

    wtf is a tenbag? and shouldn't you belong in scotland, where than language is probably from? :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    BritJames wrote: »
    wtf is a tenbag? and shouldn't you belong in scotland, where than language is probably from? :p

    lol i dunno where it came from, a tenbag is half a henry more or less...
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