Earlier this week, @quenblackwell kicked off a fascinating Twitter thread, which turned out being equal parts funny, heartbreaking, and inspirational. “What’s the brokest thing you’ve ever had to do???” she asked, before sharing her own entry: “I paid for gas in nickels.”
Twitter was all too happy to share their own super-broke moments. And while some were fairly humorous, others were really sad. The only condolence, really, is that these folks made it through their brokest of times and are here today sharing their stories.
Necessity really is the mother of invention.
1.
Used my niece easy bake oven and cooked her lil cakes and cookies and shit to have for dinner 🙍🏾♂️
— Ralph (@HawkHENDRIX) January 30, 2019
2.
Went to sleep for dinner
— Lelo Feelo (@Leland14113149) January 30, 2019
3.
Me and my friend walked into mcdonalds he ordered two hot and spicys because i didnt have money when they called his order i grabbed his bag and ran out then they remade his hot and spicys We both ate .
— Xzavier 🥰 (@TheStruggleCuz) January 30, 2019
4.
I put 75 cents in my gas tank to get home and my car ran out gas as I parked
— hails (@haileyschool_) January 30, 2019
5.
my card got declined paying for a $3 bag of chips so the cashier gave it to me for a dollar
— kayla marie (@kaylaberinreyes) January 30, 2019
6.
gone hungry so my dogs can eat🤷🏻♀️
— Kennedy Marvin (@kquinn_16) January 30, 2019
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— Ruin My Week (@RuinedWeek) February 1, 2019
7.
I gave the weed man the coin star receipt 🧾 😩… I needed to SMOKE SMOKE
— Cordéro (@TheSonOfRnB) January 30, 2019
8.
returned an aquatic snail to PetCo
— gelt digger (@MsChickenTender) January 30, 2019
9.
I ate a ranch sandwich because I didn’t get paid yet
— ourKing_souf (@OurkingSouf) January 30, 2019
10.
collect all the weed remnants in my car for a bowl
— t (@teahnasaurus) January 30, 2019
11.
Couldn’t even get away with it but tried to buy a gift card with a gift card. For gas. With a grocery store gift card. Some true broke ho shit, then I went and cried in my car.
— #twentyMINEteen is the energy ✨ (@aubs_mcmae) January 30, 2019
12.
didn’t have any milk for cereal one time when i was a kid so my grandma had me mix water & sugar together to be my “milk” 😔
— ronda nicole (@polaronda22) January 30, 2019
13.
i deadass went to aerie with my mom once with my piggy bank in hand just to convince her that i could pay for my own panties now (secretly hoping she’d get embarrassed and pay with her card) but she straight up made me pay for panties with quarters at aerie. i was 13
— ling (@sushistomach) January 30, 2019
14.
going to costco just to walk around eating samples because i couldn’t afford to eat out
— Victoria✨ (@victorigiddings) January 30, 2019
15.
shoplifted a sandwich from a grocery store
— MEDICATE 🌻 STREAM & DL NOW! (@TheGabbieShow) January 31, 2019
16.
Only have 5 cents for gas and i was so upset and started crying that the gas station lady put $5 in my tank.
— Fuckisyoutalkinbout. (@__Raebaybay) January 30, 2019
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— Ruin My Week (@RuinedWeek) January 31, 2019
17.
during my first summer in LA, i was so broke that i’d put dents in lean cuisines at the 99 cent store because they’d discount damaged goods half off
— tyler oakley (@tyleroakley) January 31, 2019
18.
When I was young me and my mom were so broke that at one point she needed to buy new knobs for the sink cause they broke and we couldn’t use it but she could only afford one so she bought one and we had to take it off and move it between the hot and cold water lmao
— Alexxx (@SamuelTreece) January 31, 2019
19.
My sophomore year of college I went an entire semester with about $4 in my bank account. I lived off of packages of roman noodles my parents sent me in care packages, I would also walk into Taco Bell only to grab a handful of sauce packets so I could spice up the noodles
— Brett Peterson (@FatLisaSimpson) January 31, 2019
20.
had to split my purchase between a gift card, cash, and debit card once pic.twitter.com/mBaW3J1rM0
— lexa (@R1PLEXA) January 30, 2019
21.
i found an old used Buffalo Wild Wings gift card in the parking of an actually Buffalo Wild Wings before we went in, so I gave the card to the waiter and told her to keep the change from whatever is left knowing damn well there was nothing on there. Dipped before she got back
— Tyler’s Creation (@fvcklucas) January 31, 2019
22.
In college, I stole rolls of toilet paper from the library for my apartment.
— Josh Smith (@JoshCSmith) January 31, 2019
23.
Drank to forget I was hungry
— grayson aka cuspy (@grayson_isom) January 30, 2019
24.
Had my 9 year old sister pay for me
— Luz (@Luzvstheworld) January 30, 2019
25.
Pay for something with a dollar on my card and the change in pennies
— cookie (@snazzysnapsback) January 30, 2019
26.
Breathe. I got asthma, inhalers are ExPenSive as SHIT
— Maddie (@Maddiems25) January 30, 2019
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— Ruin My Week (@RuinedWeek) January 31, 2019
27.
Dumpster dive to sell scrap metal
— JDC🇨🇩🇩🇴🇺🇸 (@j05hc00k) January 30, 2019
28.
Paid 72 cents to buy gas so I could make it home. Went up to the counter and was just like yeah 72 cents on pump 7 don’t ask questions please.
— Amanda Willis (@AmandaWillis24) January 31, 2019
29.
had a hole in my black leggings so took a sharpie and colored a dot on my leg to fill it in
— 🌻 (@QuartPhillips) January 31, 2019
30.
I bought some hair oil from the store, filled it back up with vegetable oil from my kitchen and returned it. pic.twitter.com/JnJfsVPMQL
— pizza (@pizzaa36) January 31, 2019
31.
I once took a walmart recipe frok the trash and went back and returned all the stuff that I didn’t buy
— Saiyr (@satiresaiyr) January 30, 2019
32.
Didn’t pay my cell phone bill for months and only used it where there was wifi
— omniboi (@omniboi) January 31, 2019
33. And, finally:
the brokest thing ive done was getting a job
— josh ミ☆ (@baheo666) January 30, 2019