http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/living-in-poverty-my-story/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/living-in-poverty-my-story/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:04:37 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2193 For the first few years I lived out of home, I remember quite clearly my grocery budget - $35 a week. That number is burned into my brain. $35 after rent, bills, a weekly train ticket and whatever uni required that week. And that’s if nothing else came up. When you only have $35 to live on, essentials tend to fall by the wayside. In fact, they have to. This was my experience. I’d have a coffee once a week, and my aunt paid. I only went to bulk-billing doctors in my area, all of whom were overworked and uninspired. I barely exercised, except to rush between the places I needed to go. I didn’t buy shoes. I didn’t go to the dentist for 6 years. Eventually I dropped out of uni and went and worked fulltime in a cafe.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/living-in-poverty-my-story/feed/ 11