Helpful tips for Financial stress and hardship

Thanks @Former-Member I couldn't get app to work but there is another one w yellow logo same name that does work.

it shows usual $1 choc bars but I set it to 'food' and dearest first shows me frozen fish $5 down from $10 thats better lol

Oh My dole just went up $27 /fortnight for cpi which never used to apply plus getting $50 pf soon for turning 60 lol

so was on $770 pf inc rent relief will be $850 soon

just wish they would let you keep more of anything earnt

declaing After Tax income would be a huge help

oh. Just realised am jobless again so will contact advocacy mob who wanted to take pore ole @ Tab to MPs to make case for putting dole up ha har

they dropped me as was working

So sorry to hear about the job @TAB, that just really sucks 🙁 I don't know if you've heard of these guys, but sounds like you might be up for a bit of advocacy? The Unemployed Workers Union are really awesome. It's free and they do a bunch of advocacy and support of people who are unemployed

Great tips @Former-Member !

I agree! The tips here are great! @hanami @Former-Member @Shaz51 @tyme @TAB .

To be honest, I’m a real waster. Often because I live on my own. When I buy ingredients to cook with, I use so little. The rest often gets stored for a bit, then I toss it. I never bother scraping anything clean, because I actually don’t want that much. I just throw things out.

I really need to come up with better ways. But it feels rude to give people things that are opened, or to ask people for a bit of tomato paste etc. So even when I buy the little tubs of tomato paste, I only use a little…. You may say to freeze it, but there are only so many things you can freeze!

I think that's Okay @BPDSurvivor lol

.. just dice it .. lol .. !!..

hopefully you have the necessary assistance to help with said Disposals okay when the Time .. comes.. lol

I've tried 'saving food'... @TAB . It absolutely doesn't work. Like I've had a bag of onions sitting on the bench for a month. They started to sprout lol... when I buy a little bag, I use one or two, thinking I will use more.

So I started buying 1 or 2 onions.... a poor lone onion is still sitting on the bench...

Arghh, in the end, people end up giving me meals. I don't beg or borrow. They just give me their 'left overs'. I've just finished a stroganoff meal.

What do you do with cooking for one @TAB ?

I throw out heaps of veg. Was rotten red onion other day prob bought 2 wks ago might be 12 months old going rotten who knows. I cook once a day usually plus dont have oven anymore just 240V combo hotplates on top of 'oven'/grill not a lot of heat in it Hotplates functional.
microwave frozen veg , bbq chook from supermarket lots canned fish . Eggs chops

ok takeaways lol @BPDSurvivor 😺

I’ve got three meals to eat now @TAB . Someone gave me chicken biryani yesterday, then I have a rice and vege meal as well as tuna Patties… thank God I don’t have to cook. I feel like I’m putting on so much weight though. I really need to spend my holidays exercising and getting back into the routine of exercising. I’ve slacked off so much since lockdowns ended.

i was seriously the healthiest during the lockdowns here in Vic.

Yes routine is important @BPDSurvivor

I keep breaking mine with work and appointments and injuries

anyway I haven't been accountable

am trying an eating/exercise plan started today

still getting my head around it

I struggled with exercise and health this year and last year.