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If you like in a dump in the coldzone like me, put painters tape around the edges of your doors to the outside, on the inside of the door. It wont stop cold, but it will stop airflow from outside.
The Unofficial Kiwi Poorfag Resource Thread - share recipes and resources for your area (both government and personal) here
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Dashi broth. It's cheap and comes in little packets. Fish is traditional, but you can get seaweed and mushroom dashi as well.
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The best poverty foods I ever came across were
But honestly if food is a large part of your living expenses and you're poor, just sign up for food stamps and WIC if you can and go to food banks in any case. You can eat better than most people who pay for their food and spend your money on whatever else you want/need.
- tamago kake gohan
- requirements: rice, eggs, soy sauce, rice cooker
- make the rice, crack an egg on top while it's hot and mix in soy sauce to taste
- secondhand rice cookers are dirt cheap and if you take multivitamins you can get your weekly food budget to $5-$8 (one egg ($0.15) + 200g rice per meal ($0.20), 2-3 meals a day)
- whole milk and instant coffee
- requirements: instant coffee, whole milk, hot water
- put 8-10 cups worth of instant coffee in a large cup and add just enough hot water to dissolve it, then add a liter of milk
- all the fat and caffeine keeps you from getting hungry
- still around $10-$15/week
But honestly if food is a large part of your living expenses and you're poor, just sign up for food stamps and WIC if you can and go to food banks in any case. You can eat better than most people who pay for their food and spend your money on whatever else you want/need.
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People keep asking me for my 'gourmet' mashed potatoes recipe
It's literally just $1 bag of instant potatoes that I mix cream cheese and a little sour cream into. It'll get you full pretty fast too and honestly feels like you've had a full baked potato without all the hassle and in maybe two scoops a person
It's literally just $1 bag of instant potatoes that I mix cream cheese and a little sour cream into. It'll get you full pretty fast too and honestly feels like you've had a full baked potato without all the hassle and in maybe two scoops a person
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Fuck buying the little packets. Get'cha some cheap nori in a bag from an asian market. It comes heavily preserved in salt and in enormous sheets you could build a fence out of or use as a paddle for an unruly teenage brat. You only need to use about 6-8" of a sheet per 2 liters of water. Lightly brush the excess salt off your chunk of dried seaweed, toss it into your water, let it sit for 4 hours, then bring it to a simmer for 10 minutes. Fish out said seaweed and congratz, you now have seaweed dashi for much, much cheaper than the packets (and those chunks of seaweed can be reused - I've pulled 5 batches of dashi stock out of a chunk before it completely disintegrated before).
ETA: When I'm talking heavily preserved nori sheets, it's stuff like this shit, not that flimsy crap you use when making sushi.
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tetrahedronwombatshit
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Chinese chili oil is one of the best condiments to have to add some flavor to any dish.
Chinese chili oil recipe:
3+1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
5-6 cloves
3-4 cardamom pods
1 stick of cinnamon
4 star anise
2 dry bay leaves
1 cup chili flakes (I use mild stuff but you can use hotter flakes)
1 cup neutral oil
Dry roast your spices except for chili flakes, let them get fragrant but not burnt. Heat the oil until it's gently boiling. Add the oil to the spices, and let them sizzle on low heat for 5-6 minutes. Take the oil off the heat and let it slightly cool for 2 minutes. Put your chili flakes in a heat-proof jar, and pour the oil through a sieve on the chili flakes. Add the extra 1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns, add the cinnamon stick, and two star anise pods we previously used. Let the jar cool to room temp before capping and storing it in the fridge. It never goes bad and lasts for months. A tablespoon of this oil is more than enough to flavor a bowl of rice.
Chinese chili oil recipe:
3+1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
5-6 cloves
3-4 cardamom pods
1 stick of cinnamon
4 star anise
2 dry bay leaves
1 cup chili flakes (I use mild stuff but you can use hotter flakes)
1 cup neutral oil
Dry roast your spices except for chili flakes, let them get fragrant but not burnt. Heat the oil until it's gently boiling. Add the oil to the spices, and let them sizzle on low heat for 5-6 minutes. Take the oil off the heat and let it slightly cool for 2 minutes. Put your chili flakes in a heat-proof jar, and pour the oil through a sieve on the chili flakes. Add the extra 1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns, add the cinnamon stick, and two star anise pods we previously used. Let the jar cool to room temp before capping and storing it in the fridge. It never goes bad and lasts for months. A tablespoon of this oil is more than enough to flavor a bowl of rice.
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Heads up to the uninitiated: Sichuan peppercorns are numbing.
You have not been poisoned.
There is nothing wrong with the food.
That's just how they do.
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Most of these have been already covered but I'll reiterate and expand.
If your not on SNAP and may qualify. Do it now. Spent months barely squeaking by with side cash. Took 12 hours to get accepted and then a few days to get my card. Now I eat better than I was working a cushy office job.
Skip buying premade food, it's expensive, and full of absolute garbage. It doesn't take much effort to learn to cook, start small and build up.
Buy a cast iron pan or my favorite carbon steel pan. Pressure cookers can greatly speed up cooking rice/beans/stews/etc, they can also tenderize cheap tough cuts of meats into quality meals.
If your on SNAP stock up your pantry with canned goods, your freezer with meat. Even after you no longer qualify or you get taken off benefits you will have a food stockpile. Amazon accepts SNAP, buy some freeze dried food from there and throw it in the pantry.
Buy ham the days after Thanksgiving/Christmas/Easter. Pork is one of the cheapest proteins out there, especially after the chicken and egg price increase. Pulled pork is delicious and very versatile. Whole milk is also a great way to get some calories in you.
Baking soda/vinegar can be picked up on SNAP which have tons of cleaning and person hygiene uses.
If your household water is too hard to drink (my well water gives me the shits due to much iron). Get some potable water containers for $20 bucks or reuse gallon water containers and fill them up at friends/family houses with their tap water vs buying water bottles. Also very handy in an emergency situation.
Learn how to work on and fix your shit. Buy a 3/8" ratchet set, open ended wrenches, screwdriver with interchangeable bits, allen keys, and hammer. You will be able to do basic maintenance on your car or household appliances with the thousands of guides on youtube.
They will pay back 100 fold. Impacts are really nice as well when working on cars, but those aren't that cheap.
If your appliances start going awol (flashing lights, cutting on and off, behaving unexpectedly), unplug and replug the device. If that doesn't work google the issue with your appliance make and model to see if there is a common issue with that model with similar symptoms. If you can't find anything, replace the control board. Can usually find replacement boards for under $100 on ebay, just match the numbers. It'll be cheaper than 1 hour of a maintenance man to come out and simply diagnose.
If it just isn't turning on check fuses, power, etc. If all else fails replace the board and return if it doesn't work.
Fixed a family members chest freezer with a $10 relay and a dishwasher with a new control board $75. My stove that tried to burn my house down for $30. All work flawlessly now.
Menards has used appliances for $50 which are taken out of homes when people "upgrade". Buy the lowest tech one, as it will most likely last the longest. Your local ghetto probably has a used appliance shop sitting on someone's lawn as well.
Don't pay for media, there is a million website you can watch tv/anime/movies online for free if your short on space. Or you can pirate them.
cs.rin.ru is a great resource for cracked games. It is where the repackers get all their content fitgirl, dodi, etc. Download clean steam files, apply crack, or steam emulator and your off to the races.
myanonamouse.net and libgen for your book needs.
Wear more clothes in the winter and less in the summer. I tend to keep my house at 80 in the summer, and 60 in the winter. Your body will adjust over time. Open windows when the outside is colder/warmer depending on what your trying to do. Can't beat fresh air.
Last one is buy little cigars instead of cigarettes. Some states tax little cigars as cigarettes so it doesn't make sense to buy them as the price isn't much cheaper than cigarettes. But in some states they are taxed like cigars and are dirt cheap. I pay $11 for a carton of smokes.
If your not on SNAP and may qualify. Do it now. Spent months barely squeaking by with side cash. Took 12 hours to get accepted and then a few days to get my card. Now I eat better than I was working a cushy office job.
Skip buying premade food, it's expensive, and full of absolute garbage. It doesn't take much effort to learn to cook, start small and build up.
Buy a cast iron pan or my favorite carbon steel pan. Pressure cookers can greatly speed up cooking rice/beans/stews/etc, they can also tenderize cheap tough cuts of meats into quality meals.
If your on SNAP stock up your pantry with canned goods, your freezer with meat. Even after you no longer qualify or you get taken off benefits you will have a food stockpile. Amazon accepts SNAP, buy some freeze dried food from there and throw it in the pantry.
Buy ham the days after Thanksgiving/Christmas/Easter. Pork is one of the cheapest proteins out there, especially after the chicken and egg price increase. Pulled pork is delicious and very versatile. Whole milk is also a great way to get some calories in you.
Baking soda/vinegar can be picked up on SNAP which have tons of cleaning and person hygiene uses.
If your household water is too hard to drink (my well water gives me the shits due to much iron). Get some potable water containers for $20 bucks or reuse gallon water containers and fill them up at friends/family houses with their tap water vs buying water bottles. Also very handy in an emergency situation.
Learn how to work on and fix your shit. Buy a 3/8" ratchet set, open ended wrenches, screwdriver with interchangeable bits, allen keys, and hammer. You will be able to do basic maintenance on your car or household appliances with the thousands of guides on youtube.
They will pay back 100 fold. Impacts are really nice as well when working on cars, but those aren't that cheap.
If your appliances start going awol (flashing lights, cutting on and off, behaving unexpectedly), unplug and replug the device. If that doesn't work google the issue with your appliance make and model to see if there is a common issue with that model with similar symptoms. If you can't find anything, replace the control board. Can usually find replacement boards for under $100 on ebay, just match the numbers. It'll be cheaper than 1 hour of a maintenance man to come out and simply diagnose.
If it just isn't turning on check fuses, power, etc. If all else fails replace the board and return if it doesn't work.
Fixed a family members chest freezer with a $10 relay and a dishwasher with a new control board $75. My stove that tried to burn my house down for $30. All work flawlessly now.
Menards has used appliances for $50 which are taken out of homes when people "upgrade". Buy the lowest tech one, as it will most likely last the longest. Your local ghetto probably has a used appliance shop sitting on someone's lawn as well.
Don't pay for media, there is a million website you can watch tv/anime/movies online for free if your short on space. Or you can pirate them.
cs.rin.ru is a great resource for cracked games. It is where the repackers get all their content fitgirl, dodi, etc. Download clean steam files, apply crack, or steam emulator and your off to the races.
myanonamouse.net and libgen for your book needs.
Wear more clothes in the winter and less in the summer. I tend to keep my house at 80 in the summer, and 60 in the winter. Your body will adjust over time. Open windows when the outside is colder/warmer depending on what your trying to do. Can't beat fresh air.
Last one is buy little cigars instead of cigarettes. Some states tax little cigars as cigarettes so it doesn't make sense to buy them as the price isn't much cheaper than cigarettes. But in some states they are taxed like cigars and are dirt cheap. I pay $11 for a carton of smokes.
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tfw the wifi at the plasma place blocks KF 
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The internet archive has a lot of media that is passed copyright. I personally am not against piracy, especially if the person has to live on a tight budget. But if you do feel bad this is one place you can go.
Verizon and all other major carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc) have an affordability program. All of the major cell phone companies are providing internet services. Depending on your plan it can make the internet service free and the cellular service dirt cheap. Their 5g internet is generally better than and cheaper the low tier Xfinity, Comcast’s, cox. century link, etc before accounting for the affordability program.
Even if you don’t qualify for the affordability program their internet services are generally cheaper than cable, especially if you have a plan.
They also all have media packages With Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, direct tv, etc. imo they’re better than cable because cable companies aren’t used to competition which is reflected in their customer care and pricing.
Verizon and all other major carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc) have an affordability program. All of the major cell phone companies are providing internet services. Depending on your plan it can make the internet service free and the cellular service dirt cheap. Their 5g internet is generally better than and cheaper the low tier Xfinity, Comcast’s, cox. century link, etc before accounting for the affordability program.
Even if you don’t qualify for the affordability program their internet services are generally cheaper than cable, especially if you have a plan.
They also all have media packages With Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, direct tv, etc. imo they’re better than cable because cable companies aren’t used to competition which is reflected in their customer care and pricing.
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Catman from cat town
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Whenever I’m looking to buy a wine I’ll go to my local grocery salvage store and scan wine bottles with the Vivino app. I’ve found a 300$ bottle for only 12$ before. It tasted amazing too.
Sometimes retail wine stores will just send expensive wines to grocery salvage stores because one bottle of a case was broken or no one bought the wine. In general, you can find some expensive brands for cheap at these stores.
Sometimes retail wine stores will just send expensive wines to grocery salvage stores because one bottle of a case was broken or no one bought the wine. In general, you can find some expensive brands for cheap at these stores.
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If you're a student, odds are you can get an official windows office license with every program by applying/registering for it with your school's email. You can find it by simply googling "student microsoft office".
Bonus tip for poorfags that might or might not be applicable to you depending on if your area has this:
On Facebook there's, at least where I live, a lot of groups dedicated to poorfags where people exclusively trade things. So if someone has a sofa they need to get rid of, they first put it on there & ask for something like a bottle of diet coke & a loaf of bread for it.
Bonus tip for poorfags that might or might not be applicable to you depending on if your area has this:
On Facebook there's, at least where I live, a lot of groups dedicated to poorfags where people exclusively trade things. So if someone has a sofa they need to get rid of, they first put it on there & ask for something like a bottle of diet coke & a loaf of bread for it.
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Journey Ed was where I got my student discounts. $1000 stats program for $10 and not even bare bones was helpful during dissertation
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If you live in a populated area people just give shit away for free. I recently furnished an entire house with nice furniture that I got from various people completely free, and it only took a few hours. The only expense was renting a U-Haul truck to move everything. I spent an hour the night before and an hour in the morning messaging people about their ads and working out the logistics. That afternoon I rented a U-Haul truck and drove back and forth picking up and dropping off furniture
I got a fridge, a couch, loveseat, king size bed, desk, office chair, bar table with barstools, random chairs and tables plus other stuff - and it's all nice, high quality stuff that's outside the average person's price range. The little bar table I got has a slab of marble on top. It's heavy and I know it wasn't cheap.
There was some down time in between scheduled pickup times so I stopped at a few Goodwills along the way and got basically everything someone would need for the kitchen. I
There was a huge bag of brand new silverware for $6. Just test out the electronics before you buy because they're broken most of the time.
Also speaking of ways to save money, "donate" your broken electronics and other garbage to Goodwill instead of paying to take them to the dump. It's a tax write off and it gives the employees something to do.
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Good thread idea!
I'll drop this here because it's saved my ass a bunch of times.
https://www.getwriters.online/
The internet runs on content, blogs, news sites, articles, advertising, and all that shit.
It all needs competent English-speaking creators to make it. A lot of this stuff is written by AI, but it doesn't seem to have completely swallowed the market yet.
If you're browsing the forums you presumably have a keyboard and internet connection, and that's all you need to get a couple hundred bucks on an article.
If you lack credentials, forge them
If you lack familiarity with the subject, lie
If you lack insight on the topic, google it and research it.
If you feel like your writing sucks, just submit it anyway.
Most places will take a bad piece of work in front of them ready to go, rather than go through the trouble of heading back to the freelance pool to try and get it again.
These guys need their content rapido as fuck.
and they're usually ready to throw a couple of hundred bucks at just about anyone.
I'll drop this here because it's saved my ass a bunch of times.
https://www.getwriters.online/
The internet runs on content, blogs, news sites, articles, advertising, and all that shit.
It all needs competent English-speaking creators to make it. A lot of this stuff is written by AI, but it doesn't seem to have completely swallowed the market yet.
If you're browsing the forums you presumably have a keyboard and internet connection, and that's all you need to get a couple hundred bucks on an article.
If you lack credentials, forge them
If you lack familiarity with the subject, lie
If you lack insight on the topic, google it and research it.
If you feel like your writing sucks, just submit it anyway.
Most places will take a bad piece of work in front of them ready to go, rather than go through the trouble of heading back to the freelance pool to try and get it again.
These guys need their content rapido as fuck.
and they're usually ready to throw a couple of hundred bucks at just about anyone.
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Yeah I got some Augason Farms powdered butter, dried veggie stew blend, and dried cheese. Got quite a few of their veggie stew blends as veggies will be the first thing I lose in a emergency and stews are easy and versatile. Their dehydrated potatoes are not that great of a deal when you can buy cartons of hash browns that are already dried for much cheaper. Though they will last much longer than carton ones, think 15-25 year shelf life is what they advertise.
Most of their stuff isn't that great of a deal. Their dehydrated eggs are expensive when comparing historical prices of last year, I'll pick up some when they come down further. I go to wally world and buy dehydrated milk as well to stock up on. Rotate them out as I run out of milk pretty quickly and always need it for some random recipe.
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I've done this, too. Being able to transport is a big plus. Often by the time you've messaged with your "hi, I'm getting a U-haul can I pick up the table tomorrow" the seller will be disgusted with the whole furniture selling affair and cut you a deal.
The in-town, small U-hauls are worth it for a day. Even better than annoying a friend with a truck; for that low rental price you get a vehicle that's much easier to load, and don't potentially burn a bridge.
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Reminder, ladies and gents: always check your bank statements. That's how I discovered that Amazon Music randomly decided to bill me for 'membership', even though I've never been on that website in my life.
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Yep, but especially in these times people don't always feel right giving stuff away for free, especially lower income households. FB trading groups are a good place to source stuff like furniture or sometimes even clothes etc for the price of 2 or 3 snacks from the grocery store.
Where I live that stuff isn't tax deductible BUT it's a good idea to get one goodwill-esque store and stick with it, preferably a somewhat smaller one. I've found that if you bring in stuff often enough they're willing to cut you deals on things or even give you stuff for free if it's small enough. That's how I got a full tupperware container of utensils & some coffee cups for 50 cents.
Also, maybe purely exclusive to my country, BUT there's certain stores/places that are a government supported "learning environment".
My local bring-in shop, basically a goodwill, is one of these places. They only "employ" autists that are autistic enough that they can't go to school normally or function at a job right away, but aren't so autistic that they're completely retarded.
The government support means they can operate at a theoretical loss because they're more a sort of therapy/intern exclusive business & so they sell stuff in the store extremely cheaply. Think brandname(fossil, seiko, etc) watches for a flat rate of 40 euros, TVs for 20-50, etc. The most expensive thing they've had was a dining set for about 60 euros, included 4 chairs and a nice old fashioned hardwood table.
This specific one also has a built in cafe where you can get a bite to eat for 2 people for about 10 euros which is extremely cheap.
Same goes for non-autist places, such as going to a barber's school to get your haircut done for half to a quarter of the normal price etc.