supl on August 31st, 2009

When restaurants around the country stop offering free food promotions for the unemployed to stand in line for all day, there’s always comfort in knowing that the free heart attack in a bag can still be obtained fairly cheaply. For the most part, it seems most fast food chains are hellbent on luring back the [...]

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supl on August 7th, 2009

Remember the good ol’ days of childhood when we were giant brats and refused to eat anything that wasn’t on the kids menu? Vegetables were a big no no, meats were refused unless in nugget form, and peanut butter and jelly went together better than the adults’ wine and cheese. There were those phases were [...]

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Continue reading about #132 Eating Cheap Classics for Dinner

Ever have one of those days when a dirty clothes pile has gotten out of control and then realized when folding laundry that comfort clothes suitable for tasks ranging from sleeping to painting to hard labor outnumber regular clothing 5 to 1? Out of embarrassment and/or shame, the jobless will head straight to their closet [...]

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Continue reading about #99 Attending Clothes Swapping Parties With Sub-par Offerings

supl on May 28th, 2009

Regretting signing up for a gym membership is not an exclusive problem for the unemployed but it’s something 100% of gym card-carrying unemployed people have in common. It doesn’t matter when the gym membership was purchased, whether it was a three year contract signed during peak physical health, acquired when a previous employer was subsidizing [...]

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Continue reading about #89 Regretting Signing Up for a Gym Membership

The minute the unemployed lose their jobs, they lose all motivation to maintain their appearances and quickly fall victim to not caring how they look because they have no places to go and no people to see. As they gravitate towards assembling an unemployment suit, they’ll take advantage of their flexible attire by lying in bed or [...]

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Continue reading about #46 Feeling Ambivalent About Unemployment Weight Gain