Women lives of £1 a day for a year

[CaseyV9]

Just read this: Daily Mail

"With her rent and utility bills already paid for the year, her budget had to cover transport, food, clothes and socialising."

Bloody hell, If I could just live of £2 a day on food I would save a crap load.
I'll have to get her book.

[SmileyUK]

Miss Kelly says one of her best tips is to hand out small gifts where you can - what you receive in return will usually be of a greater value.

In other words buy someone a stamp for christmas and when you get an lcd tv back you have gained!

[j1979]

http://forums.hexus.net/general-disc...live-poll.html

guess it is possible then!

[funke_munke]

Fair play to her! It's alot easier if you can afford to pay off your bills/rent etc but it can be done! I wish my garden wasn't bloody concrete I'd love to grow my own vedge.

[finlay666]

well £5 a day leaves her with £120 a month for rent and bills, possible in a really scummy area or in a tiny place, but not on a large home.

A lot of respect to get that kind of commitment level sustained though

[MadduckUK]

scavenged food discarded by grocery stores and restaurants.

yeah sod that then, dirty hobo

[Butcher]

My commute costs nearly £5 a day alone. Depressing.

[chrisq99]

My daily commute costs £15 a day in petrol!

[TAKTAK]

how?
why?
WTF?

would cost me £5 just to get to college if i didn't have a 'free' bus pass that cost £30...

[Andy3536]

A year without steak

[Norky]

Miss Kelly has written a book about her year of living frugally - How I Lived On Just A Pound A Day, published by Redcliffe at £6.99.

Well that's 1 week without food

[TAKTAK]

hang on....



looking at that... with the prices today, shes basically just buying 1 pea and 1 mushroom....


and by selling her book @ £6.99 how is anyone going to follow in her footsteps?

[Rave]

I used to get lots of food from supermarket bins. I still would, were it not for the fact that my new job makes it impractical (and the fact that I can no longer be bothered).

[SmileyUK]

and not to mention that its theft

[mediaboy]

Is stealing stuff that no one wants theft?

[Rave]

and not to mention that its theft

Pffft. The police saw me doing it once; they questioned me to check that I wasn't a nutter then told me to carry on. They have more important things to worry about.

In any case, it may be debatably illegal but it's certainly morally correct, so I'd do it even if there were any risk of getting prosecuted, which there isn't.