Reply to: How would you deal with a drop income or being out of work?

[MaryPoppins]

Rent is 150 a week
Travel is £25 a week
Food is £25 a week
That leaves £50 to PARTY

And yes >90% is saved

£50?

I thought you were a binge drinker. That'll get you a pint and a half in the big smoke, I've heard.

[DeludedAussie]

Where are you living a bus shelter, I think I’m tight and I could never find anywhere to rent for £250 a week. So DA you are talking bullsh1t.
Also you did not include entertainment in your calculations, from earlier posts that was your bigest cost.

90% saved, in your dreams mate.

Rent is 150 a week
Travel is £25 a week
Food is £25 a week
That leaves £50 to PARTY

And yes >90% is saved

[Churchill]

All in 10p pieces of course.

Aye, they'll all spend!

[Cliphead]

You are David Gates and I claim my 5 English pounds, none of that Scots dodgy stuff!

All in 10p pieces of course.

[Churchill]

If the work dried up and the warchest emptied I'd be busking during the day (paid rehearsal time), and gigging at night.

You are David Gates and I claim my 5 English pounds, none of that Scots dodgy stuff!

[Cliphead]

If the work dried up and the warchest emptied I'd be busking during the day (paid rehearsal time), and gigging at night.

[fullyautomatix]

I did this a week ago. After 8 years of permiedom I handed in the notice. Not sure what I am going to do and have not looked at any contract jobs either. Spending months without money coming in is scary.

[MarillionFan]

EO would be coming up with stories so implausible that they'd have to be believed.

Thanks EO. You seem to have -neg repped me three times & signed it every go :

[Ignis Fatuus]

Some. Some would make good spies and some wouldn't.

Sally Anne would get pissed on the first night and blurt out not only her mission but say where Lord Lucan is hiding.
Wilmslow would be spotted setting up a massive CCTV camera and dropping Rhyponol in everyones drinks.
Zeity would start grabbing flies with a long lizard tongue and showing off alien tech.

Good spies would be

Cojak would blend into the background playing 'Cleaning Windows' on a Ukelele.
EO would be coming up with stories so implausible that they'd have to be believed.
AtW would pass as a typical dodgy waiter with ridiculous false moustache.

The best spy would be

[MarillionFan]

When you think about it, and reinforced by some of the stories in this thread, I think we the CUKers would make excellent spies.

Some. Some would make good spies and some wouldn't.

Sally Anne would get pissed on the first night and blurt out not only her mission but say where Lord Lucan is hiding.
Wilmslow would be spotted setting up a massive CCTV camera and dropping Rhyponol in everyones drinks.
Zeity would start grabbing flies with a long lizard tongue and showing off alien tech.

Good spies would be

Cojak would blend into the background playing 'Cleaning Windows' on a Ukelele.
EO would be coming up with stories so implausible that they'd have to be believed.
AtW would pass as a typical dodgy waiter with ridiculous false moustache.

[PAH]

When you think about it, and reinforced by some of the stories in this thread, I think we the CUKers would make excellent spies.

The constant living out of a suitcase hotel to hotel, sometimes country to country. The aversion to staying in one 'job' for long. The (sometimes) exuberant lifestyle the contracting money affords. The level of lying, scheming, and downright fantasism that goes on day in day out on the forum.

Plus, I know my family wouldn't think it out of character if I turned up in an Aston Martin (I've pissed enough money away on fancy cars over the years). Maybe if I started knocking out bad guys at dinner parties, depends how drunk I was.

So MI5, MI6 et al. Come and get us, we need a plan B. We can't be any worse than Johnny English.

[SueEllen]

Where are you living a bus shelter, I think I’m tight and I could never find anywhere to rent for £250 a week. So DA you are talking bullsh1t.
Also you did not include entertainment in your calculations, from earlier posts that was your bigest cost.

90% saved, in your dreams mate.

His living as a lodger in someone else's house or he's doing what Aussie's are known for - 3 in a room.

Anyway since he's been in trouble with HMRC according to other threads where he's tried to evade tax he's had to live this way.

[MaryPoppins]

Where are you living a bus shelter, I think I’m tight and I could never find anywhere to rent for £250 a week. So DA you are talking bullsh1t.
Also you did not include entertainment in your calculations, from earlier posts that was your bigest cost.

90% saved, in your dreams mate.

WAPS

[alreadypacked]

Not so hard - Assume you earn £650 a day - That is 3250 a week - I can live comfortably on £250 a week.

So I set aside 90% of earnings as savings

Yes I ride a bike to work and eat at cheap places but its a good life

Where are you living a bus shelter, I think I’m tight and I could never find anywhere to rent for £250 a week. So DA you are talking bullsh1t.
Also you did not include entertainment in your calculations, from earlier posts that was your bigest cost.

90% saved, in your dreams mate.

[ChimpMaster]

Not so hard - Assume you earn £650 a day - That is 3250 a week - I can live comfortably on £250 a week.

So I set aside 90% of earnings as savings

Yes I ride a bike to work and eat at cheap places but its a good life

£650 is not anywhere near the norm methinks, even for London. I always thought £450 - £500 was the more likely average.