# Please place all SDMB subscription complaints in this thread, you cheapskates! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-place-all-sdmb-subscription-complaints-in-this-thread-you-cheapskates/235100 "2004-03-18T22:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 229
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-place-all-sdmb-subscription-complaints-in-this-thread-you-cheapskates/235100/229 "2004-03-20T17:49:14Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > If your situation in life is such that you do not have $5 to spend on something you want and you don’t have any friends who would give you $5 for something you really want. . . well, maybe there’s a good chance what you have to say is not worth too much either. Maybe you should be looking for a job or at making some friends out there or meditating about your situation in life. I suppose there could be exceptions but I am hard pressed to come up with one because anyone who posts anything worth reading would find someone here to sponsor them with no difficulty. > > If I were in such situation here is what I would do: I would go out into the desert and fast and meditate for 40 days and 40 nights about why my life sucked so badly. At the end of the 40 days and 40 nights I would probably buy 5 gallons of gasoline, douse myself in it and set myself on fire alive in bonzo style. You Sir are a prick. Grade A #1 asshole. I haven’t worked in over 2 years because of a medical condition, don’t have a bank account with my name on it nor do I have a credit card. What I DO have OTOH are 2 HUGE student loans that I’m paying 57 dollars a month on, 2 small children (one of which is disabled) that need food, clothes, medication, NUMEROUS doctors visits every month, a pair of broken glasses that I cannot afford to get fixed, a shut off notice for my lights and the miniscule paycheck my husband gets to pay these and other sundry bills. We recently finished paying off three MAJOR bills so this MIGHT be getting better soon but I’m not counting on it. We sold the car last year to pay off some medical bills so I have to take the bus or walk everywhere. No looking for loose change there. You want to talk about going out and “finding” money? Well the last 5 dollars I “found” went to a gallon of milk and some bread to feed my kids. IMHO you and other asshats like you need to think before you go spouting shit. Not everyone that posts on this site have the money to go out to McDonalds to eat or buy chocolates or even new clothes. Yeah I have problems but that doesn’t mean I should > [@](#): > > go out into the desert and fast and meditate for 40 days and 40 nights about why my life sucked so badly. At the end of the 40 days and 40 nights I would probably buy 5 gallons of gasoline, douse myself in it and set myself on fire alive in bonzo style. What I get from the SDMB is a little bit of sanity in my insane world. Sometimes, when I’m hurting and physically can’t walk out my door, I come here and can escape for a little while. I can have an intelligent conversation or just blow off some steam. I can get in touch with a LITTLE smidgen of reality. 5 dollars doesn’t seem like much when you have 500 or more in the bank but, when you have gotten all the change out of the couch and the piggy banks and your still broke, it’s a LOT of money. When it means the difference between feeding the kids or paying for online pleasures… Guess who wins. ☹ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-place-all-sdmb-subscription-complaints-in-this-thread-you-cheapskates/235100)._