Have you ever been dead broke?

[esart]

I've sunk to pretty low levels of poverty before. Your original post: for sure. I like to think that Bukowski was a hustler. And I was a hustler too. When things were that bad, I just did whatever I needed to do. The luxury of heavy drinking and drugs were just above that level (temporary roof/some money for food). Street day was not a drinking day, it was probably a horse racing day for him. For me it was ... well, I won't get into that. But you do what you need to. Sleeping outside is no fun.

 

[Ambreen]

Recently I canceled the rent contract for this flat. Six weeks time left to find a new apartment. My neighbour here is a small drug dealer, which means noise and crowds of people day and night.

Hope you'll quickly found what you're looking for !

Post Toxic, by homeless, do you mean sleeping outside or staying in hotels/squats/friends' homes ?

 

[Mark73]

Post Toxic took too many narcotics and has passed away.

No, I didn't stay at hotels. How should I've afforded paying a hotel room?
By dead broke I mean dead broke.
Before, I had checked out an old church with a smashed window when I knew the unavoidable end was coming. For some reason, cash registers were stored in there and I slept under the long assembly belts. The window was barricaded officially one day, so I had to look for another place.

That place was everywhere outside most of the time, sleeping at friends' homes was maddening.

 

[liquor store]

:eek: a broad experience, I guess.
and right, sleeping at friends' homes is such a thing.

 

[Ambreen]

And no help from family ? Or maybe they didn't know you were dead broke.

Gosh ! Some here have gone/are going through really trying times ! You dudes must be so tough and resourceful after having experienced/experiencing all that !

A few years ago, I often planned to spend the whole night outside to worry my parents after we had arguments. I never did it because I was a faggot. Now, I just realize how silly I was to think to such a thing.

 

[Mark73]

I believe I've said enough on the topic... won't be more digging in the past.
The time is now.

and I want a jaunt in green with a big picnic basket

 

[Black Swan]

yes, I have been flat broke, with a baby.
I pushed a Safeway basket with my baby and delivered unwanted advertisement papers for a few weeks to make a few dollars so I coud buy a few onions , carrots and a handful of beans. You do what you have to do.

 

[Jennn]

I think, it's more stylish to starve & struggle as a poet than to starve as a nobody :)

Sweetheart......EVERYTHING is more stylish when your a poet!!!!
Don't you agree?

 

[liquor store]

i do.
i wish i were a poet.
it would also be ok, if at least women would believe it.

 

[informal]

well shit i don't know why i just read through this entire post being i'm about to be there (again) any day now and i hate thinking about the struggle! I've got too much pride to stay at my aunt's and I've worn my welcome out at friend's places a while ago (and yes it is maddening! especially when they lock you out in the pouring rain). My next option once I get the boot from the parents house (again) is the homeless shelter and then some sort of Military job. The homeless shelter is murder, they'll practically kill you for a dollar there. There's always the option of Friend's Hospital if you tell them you're about to commit suicide but then that's where the pride comes back into play again. it's getting cold and I refuse to spend another night in a flea infested abandoned car...

 

[liquor store]

You command my admiration for being tough enough to face all this. Pride versus basic needs, I know this inner battle, which is often staged to breaking point.

 

[rev.drian]

pritty much, went looking for coppers (coins, to those who arnt from the uk) on the floor so i could go see cannibal corpse that night, but i found out I got put on the guest list and spent the money I had collected on beer.

 

[Marx Renoffski]

how the hell do you homeless guys get your hands onto a computer with an internet connection?
Lived on the street myself for about three months (was never really thrown out, I was fucked up and on a great big drinking binge). Got by raiding night shops and sleeping in a friends' car. Was a hell of a time but in retrospect, quite needed that time in my life.

 

[Mark73]

There are public computers in this world and informal doesn't post often.

 

[bogthing]

Yes, as a kid I was a runaway. Lived for quite a time on the streets in various locales, including NYC. The experience left it's mark on me, and occasionally still get the pangs of fear associated with that time.