Can you Imagine how someone could live on minimum wage?

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they wouldn't even have time to think, only work.

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I've lived this, and actually still do live at a
low income level.
It is possible to live at a low income level
if you are compelled to if you are single and don't have to
support a family and you deal with it realistically.
1. Get food stamps, use low cost stores such as Wal-mart, Aldi
and buy rice, beans, carrots, tomatoes and fix your own chicken
and fish. Try not to waste money eating out at restaurants or fast food.
Buy from the value menu if you must buy fast food

2. You can buy reasonable clothing and shoes at Thrift stores.

3. Drive an older used car which is easy to maintain, such as a GM Ford or
Chrysler from the 1980's or 1990's. If you can use a bicycle
or public transportation, do so.

4. Get energy assistance from your state or county if possible and use layers
of clothing during the winter months so you can allow your inside temperature to
fall into the fifties or forties. Keep thermometers (you can buy them for $1 at
the dollar store) near your pipes and turn on your heat if it falling below 40° F to
avoid the devasting and crippling expense of frozen pipes.

5. If you smoke Quit. Cigarettes are $5.00 per pack in my state and more than
$7.00 per pack in many others.

6. No cell phone or cable TV. Unfortunately, it is hard to go without internet but
get DSL from a company which charges less than $30 per month and get lifeline
assistance on your landline.

7. Seek very low cost housing.

8. If you are single and have no kids, stay that way. Don't bring kids into this world you cannot
provide for.

9. One true challenge is health care. One may be able, as a very poor person to access some
local resources and clinics for checkout but one
unfortunately does have to skip recommended
preventive procedures . If any organization offers a health fair, you get your butt to it so
you can get your blood pressure and cholesterol
levels checked. Try to take care of oneself ,stay clean,brush teeth so that emergency dental care is not needed. Walk or bike for exercise and try to avoid junk foods and items
that impose headaches and health challenges.

If you are not in an expensive large city such as San Francisco or New York and
you are single, this is possible.

As a poor person, if you have any wisdom, you make the same choices as
middle class person who is recovering from heavy debt does, sacrifice and spend wisely.

Would it be smart to bike to the Sharks game from San Francisco?

SFBoy

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good exercise man. but u better plan out everything properly so u wont miss the game or something

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Traffice in Vietnam? is it a good thing?

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Take a leaf from Vietnam http://blogs.straitstimes.com/2009/12/29/take-a-leaf-from-vietnam
December 29, 2009 Tuesday, 03:59 PM
Loh Keng Fatt says we can learn from the Vietnamese' traffic manners.
IT'S sad to read of more pedestrians being killed even as this is the time to celebrate the year-end and usher in another year of hopes and promises.

People die when they jaywalk and dice with danger on the roads.

Sometimes, they are the victims of motorists who speed and do not exercise the utmost caution.

The old are particularly vulnerable.

Some 11 of 31 pedestrians killed from January to September this year (2009) - or 36 per cent - were aged above 60.

I just came back from Ho Chi Minh City, a sprawling city of some eight million folks where no one seemingly pays heed to traffic rules.

At some road junctions, there are no traffic lights which means anything goes - both for the motorist and pedestrian.

So you see someone blitely pushing his cart right into oncoming heavy traffic.

You see bikes, cars, trucks, buses and bicycles all converging on one another - many with horns blaring - and seemingly not inclined to make way for one another.

But in my four days there, I did not see any close shaves or heard the loud impact of metal upon metal.

Just when you thought there must be a collision, somehow, like air currents, the vehicle or pedestrian manages to skirt around each other in the nick of time, without each skipping a beat.

I am not saying this is the way to go for Singapore roads but I also realise why the chaos in HCMC do not translate into tragedy.

I can think of two reasons.

The Vietnamese seem a lot more patient and good-natured, unlike the manic desire for speed here. While the Vietnamese may sound their horns, it is more to alert others of their presence - and not to bully others to give way.

Certainly, I did not see anyone giving dirty looks or making aggressive, angry taunts.

Another reason? Everyone seemed very clued in on what was happening around him, and reacted in the splittest of second, without any drama.

Being vigilant means that you are more likely to negotiate a traffic problem and scenario much better than, say, a Singaporean who thinks it is a loss of face to slow down for a cyclist or pedestrian.

In fact, I thought the traffic in Vietnam resembled a ballet, unchoreographed it might be but still a marvel of precise thought and swift action.

Singaporeans surely can take lessons from this, even though we have better highways, overhead crossings and many rules in place, including those targeting drink drivers.




comments?

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No! I am Vietnamese and I've been there most people there ride motorcycles and traffic can make you feel extremely sick and make you throw up car transportation can be very dangerous over there!

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