Do you literally mean literally? You live on peanuts alone for most of the time?? Wouldn't you get scurvy?
Are you sure you don't eat pizza as well?
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[Albion] What's your equivalent of spending £100m in a week?
- Thread starter billhems
- Start date
Are you sure you don't eat pizza as well?
- Apr 19, 2018
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Just been away for a few days with my 16 year old daughter and that certainly feels like I’ve spent £100m in a week.
Yes. I dunno, I guess? Coffe, cigarettes and peanuts probably isn't sustainable. I've lost around 30 kg the last year. Had a bit too many to begin with but starting look a bit bony now to the point where change is required.
My can-afford-pizza days are long gone.
GloryDays
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Doing a big shop
- Oct 17, 2008
- 12,908
When I get paid I spend like a Saudi Prince for two days on takeaways, alcohol and luxuries like a new game I want: then I panic and save all month.
No pizzas?…?!
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
f***ing he'll mate. Are you OK?
Things sound pretty bad.
Bloody hell. Are you OK mate?
Things must be pretty bad if that's your diet and all you can afford.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Apologies for a double reply. I thought I'd lost my Initial reply, but it's still there.
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
- 3,626
you won’t be buying one now either if you’re after one for 50p
CaptainDaveUK
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- Oct 18, 2010
- 1,519
Probably buying 1/2 dozen quite expensive suits for my daughters wedding. Seemed like an awful lot of money to spend on clothes to someone who is happy to pick up a second hand jumper at a charity shop.
Publius Ovidius
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2 cruises, ( one around Greek islands and one to the Caribbean in November):two hotel holidays in Europe , one golf tour to Le Touquet
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Isn't that a normal autumn for you?
Publius Ovidius
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Just November lol
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 71,878
And a mini-break in Sussex?
Yeah its ok. I got ripped off by a web hotel provider last year, meaning I've had a £2.5k debt to pay of while living on social welfare and the occasional writing gig.
But its fine, I'm accustomed to periodically living to various subspecies of cockroaches. It sounds, looks and smells worse than it is..
I'm getting a small culture grant to do a serious of podcast soon though and hoping to be able to use some of it to get a £100m-equivalent bag of food.
Thanks for asking,
Publius Ovidius
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YepAnd a mini-break in Sussex?
back garden, walk along the seafront, wakehurst, Nyman’s, Shoreham board walk to lancing and pizza at the perch, cofee at Shoreham fort….retirement is f***ing brilliant ( if it wasn’t for this sciatica I have got which is killing me with pain in my hamstring and calf)
- Apr 13, 2015
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I went out on a Sat morning for breakfast with the missus.... we headed into Taunton for a change,.. 6 hours later we returned home having bought a caravan for 16k, a 5 year old Audi Q3 for 19k and a new Corsa for 22k..... a bloody expensive breakfast trip, even in proportion probably nowhere near the Bloom expenditure.
Publius Ovidius
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Can your Audi q3 tow the caravan?
Last year, I was bidding, and won a Lambretta via the online jumble sale . . . . At the same time, I took a call and was offered a pandemonium of corrosion in the form of Scooters, 1950's French Lambretta from Troyes mostly. . . . . I spaffed £3k in a week 
5 weeks later I had a whiff over £3k back and the best one kept. For free.
I spaffed £3k turning the kept one into a weapons grade fast rally scooter . . . . And sold one I already had, as it wasn't original paint, or original UK registered from new . . . . ( these things matter apparently
) and got£4500 . . . .
I've no idea where we are now, but I have a better LAmbretta in original paint as opposed to restored and I am £2k up
best not mention hundreds of hours tinkering in the shed @ £1/hr That's where TB excels.
5 weeks later I had a whiff over £3k back and the best one kept. For free.
I spaffed £3k turning the kept one into a weapons grade fast rally scooter . . . . And sold one I already had, as it wasn't original paint, or original UK registered from new . . . . ( these things matter apparently
) and got£4500 . . . . I've no idea where we are now, but I have a better LAmbretta in original paint as opposed to restored and I am £2k up
best not mention hundreds of hours tinkering in the shed @ £1/hr
That's where TB excels.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Perhaps if you provided more detail on how you were ripped off, someone kind with some experience would advise you if there is a way to help?