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- My haphazard, erratically updated blog about printmaking. Recent posts are for the Critical Debates module on MA Printmaking at Middlesex University
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7 comments:
Pretty much all I've ever bought is books and booze, so I'm holding up pretty well really.
I'm finding the buy less bit very difficult, shopping being a well known substitute for a relationship. My savings are shrinking before my eyes.
I was doing alright but now it seems I need to go for an eye test....
Well, I'm lucky, in that I have no property, few savings, and my job is relatively secure. I had little money to begin with, and have little now. But everyone else is now in the same boat as me so I don't feel so bad.
I can blame my lack of funds on "the credit crunch" rather than the fact that when I first moved to London I had no money and earned no money, so racked up big debts, and still have no money, as I'm paying them off.
I mean, I feel sorry for the folks who've lost their jobs. But I lost my job at the height of the boom, and noone wept for me. You just get on with it.
I'm feeling the pinch bigtime. I've had to stop buying guitars.
I have see-sawed between dire poverty Nov-March of this year due to two companies going down without paying me and then three jobs cancelled on the trot. The worst point was having to borrow £20 from a neighbour (good friend) to buy food as we had none. Ridiculous. Both of us are freelance and work in the media industry so very fickle uncertain times. The irony is all of a sudden we have both just landed big, long-term projects which means we are stabilised and back on track. Luckily last year I moved our mortgage to a tracker rate. If I hadn't have done that we prob would have lost the house. Scary but somehow I always kept a'light at the end of the tunnel' in mind and threw myself into my own film projects which have also paid off with development money for a feature. If I had been in fulltime work I wouldn't have had time to go for it so it all worked out for the best despite being very very hard.
Emordino - rah, books and booze! Which reminds me, I must join the library (for the first time since I was about 10) & stop spending money on books.
GSE, I know exactly what you're talking about. Shopping is also one of the things you can do on your own very easily.
Arabella, do you mean the teeny tiny writing? I don't know why it went like that.
Del, I'm glad your job is secure. I know what you mean, I lost every job I had throughout my twenties. Now in the middle of the recession I have a job for life. (But it feels like a prison sentence... Yikes)
Oh, Istvanski. Can't you set up a guitar exchange website? You could do a swap for a couple of months or something.
RoMo, you are my heroine. I doff my cap to you. I can't wait to see your own feature xxx
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