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Expensive rent - will I break myself?
Posted by anonymous about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
11 responses
If my take-home salary is £1730 a month, and I’m thinking of paying £720 a month in rent (excluding bills), will I end up a broke, crying mess?! We (myself and my housemate-to-be) saw the bestest place last night and are going to put an offer in today, but I’m highly irresponsible when it comes to money ...
Can you help me make a quick buck?
Posted by anonymous 11 months ago
Last active 11 months ago
6 responses
It’s that time of year again… When I take stock and realise I’ve wasted another 12 months chasing worthless career ‘opportunities’. I’m broke and deflated and yet again unable to buy the people I care about the sparkly new things they deserve for Christmas. Pft. I run my own...
Anyone know anything about computers and parents?
Posted by faith about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
3 responses
I’ve been bugging my parents for ages to help me pay for a new computer (mine is shit, in case you hadn’t realised by the multiple posts about it crashing all the time from PREVIEW BOX). I’d just about managed to persuade them to stick a desposit down on one for my birthday. So imagine my surpri...
Anyone have any experience with eBay?
Posted by faith about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
15 responses
Two weeks ago, I bought a couple of fairly small items for a present for someone. It was posted on the 15th Feb from the USA. Does this seem like an unnaturally long time to wait for a parcel? The stupid cow I bought from hasn’t communicated with me well at all, and accused me of “missing the postR...
Has the hamburglar got me?
Posted by RandyWhorehol about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
10 responses
Help me city! Bored this eve, I got aroung to doing a bit of internet banking. Realising that yet again I have much less money than I hoped until payday, I examined my transactions in great detail, which is when I discovered someone has stolen a bit of me- well at least £3.88. There is no great coincidence that̵...
Anyone possibly interested in a brand new Toshiba?
Posted by faith about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
1 response
Turns out I won the competition I wrote for- so come March when the computer ships to the UK, I’ll be the proud owner of a spangly new portege R400. Only problem is, my rents bought me a laptop for my birthday anyway (see earlier post by me), so I don’t need the toshiba (its a bit small for me, would...
Online social networkers wanted for market research. £60.00 offered for your time.
Posted by Strawberryb81 about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
18 responses
Hi, I work at a market research company and we’re looking for people who use social networking websites (like FCL, Myspace, Flicr etc) regularly on a laptop or desktop or through mobile internet. I naturally thought this would be a great place to look. The interview would last up to 2 hours and would take plac...
premiumMoney for nothing, and chicks for free
Posted by Twiglet about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
13 responses
Hi there, I went to Egypt and i have 50le (egyptian pounds) left – about a fiver in sterling. Dont see the pint in changing it back as after commission it will be about £2 and sod it I am in a generous mood so if anyone is traveling to Egypt (or knows someone who is going) and wants let me know and its yours ...
Anyone fancy a particularly well-paid job?
Posted by rhodri about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
16 responses
Well, yes, don’t we all. Fortunately, there’s a way out for at least one lucky bastard, as myself and Iain Aitch spotted in a Fulham Broadway recruitment centre last week. I love the fact that people are so cagey about what they earn. There was a time when it was impolite to ask people how they vo...
What would you do with £250
Posted by wenttomow about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
36 responses
A very long story but I recently spent a week in hospital, as it was a NHS hospital my health insurance company are going to give me £250. All my friends have told me I have to do something for me with the the money, really treat myself (as it was quite traumatic and I deserve it, who am I to argue!) Now I know...
Has anyone experienced the milk of human kindness recently?
Posted by Ben about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
10 responses
I was just about to get on a bus at Earlsfield yesterday, and had withdrawn some money from my pocket to pay for said transportation, when a lovely young lady pointed out that I had dropped a fiver. How kind – made me go all warm. I suspect this sort of thing happens all the time – anyone else had sim...
premiumWhat happened to the decent riot?
Posted by pottytime about 1 year ago
Last active 11 months ago
8 responses
I was looking through some old photos the other day – well, today, actually – and realised that we haven’t had a decent London riot for some time. The photos I was looking at were ones I took at the anti-globalisation and basically being well-off riots on June 18th 1999. See So – we had t...
premiumFight the high cost of soft drinks
Posted by pottytime about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
30 responses
Now that I am having to go on the wagon, possibly for a very long time, I know that I am going to get extremely cross at the prices pubs charge for soft drinks. I find this extremely irksome as pubs are always complaining how much duty etc they have to pay on alcoholic drinks and yet soft drinks are rarely much chea...
THE CAVENDISH CHRISTMAS QUIZ - £100 prize!
Posted by Shirleyjane 11 months ago
Last active 11 months ago
0 responses
Just to remind you that it’s our CHRISTMAS QUIZ tomorrow night (Wednesday 19th)and the prize for the winning team is £100!!!! Entry is only £2 per head and you can have up to 6 per team. Don’t worry if your general knowledge isn’t up to scratch as they will be plenty of questions where a guess is the only answer…...
Has anyone else 'upgraded'?
Posted by aboutthisboy about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
18 responses
Hi, When browsing through the shiny new FridayCities site, I decided to ‘upgrade my account’ for a fiver so I could harass..sorry…chat to some people…but nothing has happened! Has LBL run off with my money, or is this a feature that isn’t actually working yet? Help!
What IS Kudos is really for?
Posted by faith about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
11 responses
Hello Fridaycities lovelies- so, is this is what Kudos is for! Great idea! We can finally use it to get things we actually want! As per the other post, I was beginning to think it was an ego type thing- but its not! Good job FC!
If you were rich what would you do?
Posted by iamanartist-co-uk about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
15 responses
If I had endless amount of money I would: (Obviously make sure everyone had fresh food, water, shelter etc, but THEN…) - buy the house I rent and tell my landlord he’s a dick - buy all the supermarkets, close them down and subsidise local shops - subsidise all farms to make them organic and as kind ...
So you think you're lucky? Punk.
Posted by Juvey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
27 responses
OK, so not strictly about London. OK, so nothing to do with London in the slightest (unless of course you won a trip to London, and have never left) but I was wondering how lucky you lot are. I’ve never won a thing. Not even a Pavarotti from the lottery, and what with me about to give my annual charitable d...
My travel card, debit card, £20 note, sanity
Posted by faith about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
4 responses
I very stupidly lost my travel card (a zones 1-5 monthly one). Its in a red southwest trains holder with a blue debit card (barclays) in it, a student 18+ oyster card and a £20 note. If anyone finds it, I would possibly marry them. I only bought the travel card a week ago and its still valid. If at my local stati...
What stupid practices do we still tolerate?
Posted by BoutrosBoutrosBoutros about 1 year ago
Last active 6 months ago
87 responses
I may be getting on a bit but I’m not that old, yet I can easily remember lead in petrol, smoking on the buses and the tube, cars without seat belts nevermind child seats, blatant sexual/racial/religious discrimination in almost every walk of life, and early closing.I am sure you can think of plenty of other l...
