So… i was a student traveling abroad w/gf in hong kong. We decided to check out Macau for a day so we took a ferry. As the story goes, I majorly fucked up and I overspent the ammount needed to get the ferry back (~$100USD i think, only had about $45). So I took a gamble… seriously. I went to a casino and bet everything we had in 1 go on a roullette table. All on black, we won (@$90 now), still not enough to get back. Again, all on black… we won again(@$180 now).

You would think i stopped here. At this point my GF was no longer pissed at me and more relieved but I said ‘fuck it, we missed the ferry so lets pocket 100 and have fun with it… we are sleeping in the street tonight anyways’. So now we start at 50 and decide to try Sic Bo (another card/dice game). We are both pretty good at math so we though lets run this for as long as we can. We ended up leaving with a modest $4k USD or something, stayed in the nicest hotel suite, and just went hog wild until sunrise for us to catch the ferry. Good times.

I worked three jobs for a year straight with no days off.

I quit smoking and saved the money every day until I had enough to buy a TV. Would have been a good way to incentivize myself to quit smoking and not crazy but I started smoking again immediately after buying the TV.

Ata canned sardines for a week.

By Wednesday I was beginning to make mistakes at work.

By Friday I had more mistakes in that day compared to 3 months of workday. I was having a hard time understanding instructions and documents.

I did it to save lunch money.

I’m a miser so I’ve got a couple:

Carried a microwave by hand for an hour on transit rather than have it delivered for like $10.

Rushing to hike up a mountain before sunset rather than taking an $8 gondola ride, I survived but my buddy who was with me had a sore foot for the next week.

At the time I was making minimum wage at Burger King, but I bought the first generation iPad with 3G. I went one month of eating nothing but ramen and free food at work to afford it.