It's harder to make a conscious choice to not spend money on a frivolous thing when your life is in tatters. Being poor is a constant drain on your mental and emotional energy. Will power is something we exercise when we feel strong. Its easy to choose because you can still get the other thing if necessary. It's easy to cook because you have the appropriate tools and appliances. It's easier to buy a lot of what is cheap to save for the future. My point is that its easy to save money when you have money. Maybe I'm just glad it's on sale because the last light bulb went out and that's not a weekly expense for me, so now I have more money toward new light bulbs. I can only buy what I can afford now, which is maybe one extra pkg, maybe no extra. When TP is on sale, I can't buy enough to last until the next sale. If you are lucky you have an actual Dollar Tree, where things are a dollar.īeing able to buy a lot of something when it's on sale sounds frugal. The stores in lower socio-economic neighborhoods called Dollar General, Dollar Store - all more expensive than Kroger. Not just being able to cook, but also being near a decent grocery that has reasonably priced food. Nor would most landlords look at someone who was evicted. I did not have the money together for a security deposit. In the end, I was able to get an apartment for $375/mo and found that my expenses were only a tiny bit higher than when I lived in the rooming house.īTW - I only got the apt because of a government program. 99 cent burgers a day, I was into much more expensive range. So I ended up buying fast food, which is both expensive and bad for you. And rules against any kind of heating device in the room.

Because I had no kitchen facilities in the room. It was shelter I could afford.īut it turned out to be expensive shelter. I was homeless for a couple of months and when I finally got a job, I found a rooming house the let me have a 6x10 room for 60/wk.

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