Last night, the Butcher and I tore through the house, upending cushions to find enough money for him to buy us milk and cereal. We are flat broke until Monday. So broke that we were sitting around complaining about how broke we are until we remembered that we used to always be this broke and that it’s been years since we’ve run out of money before we ran out of food.
But if I did have money?
I would totally eat at a place called “Los Happy Belly’s.”
That name makes me happy just looking at it.
Perhaps an ol’ fashioned canned food drive is in order. Do you like Creamed Corn, Creamed Corn, or Creamed Corn?
I have way too much experience being flat broke. Our go-to “couch cushion change” purchase was a big box of store-brand oatmeal. It requires little fuel to fix, it stretches, it’s filling, and it’s dirt cheap. You can also powder up the oats to make flour for other things if you’re really hard up. If there was money after buying oats, we’d buy dry beans, flour, oil, and eggs (in order of “must have this” — eggs being the “luxury” on that list). In summer, we found the nearest farmers market, went late in the day, and bought up cheap bruised stuff and whatever the vendors didn’t want to lug home. Potato and cabbage go a long way and keep you filled up. I also have exchanged loading work for food, which was a total act of charity on the part of the farmer in question. But you know…farmers…if any people understand how easy it is to go under even when you’re working your ass off every day, it’s farmers.
Good luck.
If you lived up this way, I’d make you all dinner.
It’s all right. It’s actually kind of nice to remember that it used to regularly be like this and we managed and now it’s not. Plus, it’s just until Monday, which is much better than it being clear ’til the end of the month.
Two words: Ramen Noodles
Jes wanna make sure you got vittles, sugar plum. Don’t wantcha goin ter waste.
em…do you have a PayPal account?
Next time you’re hungry and without fundage, drop me a line. I’ll treat you to a meal at one of my favorite eatin’ places.
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