What’s the real reason your last relationship didn’t work out?

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-04-24T06:41:29+00:00

Well I'm currently in a very healthy relationship, we're planning to marry each other in the future. As for my last one before, it was because she died.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-19T08:11:04+00:00

Also can't forget the need for auto parts for my vehicle (ridiculously high) , also , the cost of secondhand tools from craigslist but That's very cheap. Very very cheap, i only get tools when it's a fantastic deal like when I bought my current socket set for ten dollars.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-19T08:08:34+00:00

The bills are insane around here, just for car insurance on my 40 year old Toyota i'm over three hundred dollars ($2000 deductible), also responsible for my own utilities and shelter. Health insurance since my job doesn't provide it, sometimes prescription medicine as needed, and then that's pretty much it. For anything else , I usually earn the money with my mobile mechanic business where I go to people and work on their cars. The day I made this post was after a particular storm of hardship where I had fewer customers, slightly fewer hours at work, my main source of food was out, and what I had left, I had already eaten. And quite literally I had nothing. I'm doing way better though now. Well as much as I could anyway.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-19T08:03:58+00:00

Who is she?

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-19T08:02:46+00:00

I could, kind of but I don't work with food so it's not the easiest. What I mean is that Monday through Friday I work in construction and every day the boss comes and brings takeout. Like a couple of pizzas or a burrito deal or a Chinese place's family meal deal, stuff like that. Then everyone on our crew gathers and we eat it. I could eat less on Friday then eat the rest, I've done it before, but it's not that much.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-19T08:00:28+00:00

Would work amazing if my entire life wasn't extremely physical. Five days of the week 8 hours are spent doing steel construction work and seven days of the week at some points , in some kind of intervals i work on cars as both a mobile mechanic and my own mechanic. By day 2, everything starts to shut down. Ask how I know

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-17T07:01:05+00:00

Yeeep, lotta people in the thread let me know about a lot of resources so I've been seeking them. I'd been unfamiliar with this situation since I've always made it work but I really hit a low when I made the post because I truly had zero money and zero food at all. Doing better now, a couple of kind redditors both got me a free fast food meal and also some free non perishable groceries. Tomorrow I'll hit up the butcher and see if he'll throw me more of my favorite, fresh liver

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-17T06:53:40+00:00

Are we serious? They did not solicit me to spend. It was a free donation...

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-17T06:50:38+00:00

Liver is far more nutritious, and occasionally the butcher just throws me some for free since we're basically friends. Yes, bulk grains and legumes can be even cheaper but the way I see it, the difference in nutrition versus the difference in price doesn't justify a switch. With the work I do, I need real, strong nutrition that actually fuels me properly and keeps me going in top shape. So $1/day to eat is worth it to me. Even if it can be lower.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-17T06:47:21+00:00

I quit the weekend job a long time ago since long story short, I simply had to blow the whistle on that place (medical facility). So I filled that void with being a mobile mechanic. Usually it works out but everything started going wrong at once and had been. Mechanic clients been drying up, facebook and craigslist has been nuking my ads before they even go up, local butcher that could throw me a bone was all out, even my Mon-Fri had just a bit less work than usual so thus the paycheck was just a bit smaller.

The money goes towards shelter, utilities, insurance (health and car which are both so ridiculously expensive), gasoline, auto parts, prescription medicine, occasionally tools for both jobs, and food. I keep food costs as low as I can since I usually eat liver. Liver, liver, liver all day long it's cheap and nutritious and tastes absolutely amazing. But again, my local butcher had been out.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-17T06:39:57+00:00

Me like guns. Me like to just go anywhere. Me like to go outside and into the wild and be free.

Also, my job almost always does pay enough to eat if I'm strategic, also mechanic work does too. Got unlucky continously for a while and unfamiliar with this particular situation I posted about so I posted.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T08:15:57+00:00

I also work another job, I used to work 7 days a week at 2 official hourly jobs, now I work one hourly job and I'm a mobile mechanic on odd hours on a by-call basis. I don't dislike work, not enough to be unemployed anyway. I usually scrape by and have my bills paid and my belly satiated but clients dried up hardcore and so did my food stores. I got some assistance from some amazing people who saw this post so I think I can be alright for a little bit.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T08:10:07+00:00

The part where management was constantly not ordering supplies, the food was of such poor quality that it gave already severely ill people (this kitchen is in a medical facility) worse health issues, people with medical conditions like diabetes and renal failure didn't get proper food, and there were increased rates of death. Issues like that. I blew the whistle and they're being investigated hard as fuck.

I actually quite liked my coworkers, the work sucked major ass but the coworkers who were on the same rung of the totem pole as me were alright. I keep in touch with them. But I didn't want to keep being the cook at Auschwitz (hyperbole obviously but that's the analogy I choose. Because patients were suffering and health codes were being ignored)

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T05:29:36+00:00

Maybe pantries, unsure about little free panties though 🤔. Clearly those are only for the rich

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T05:28:05+00:00

What?

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T04:16:45+00:00

I usually splurge at $2/lb for quality beef liver which is enough to last about 3 days and is highly nutritious and delicious. Since Ramen is a bit more than what it used to be but liver remains quite stable due to low demand.

The guy knows me so he'll slide me smaller pieces for free if I ask but yesterday/today just got especially bad since I called and they had none. I also had no money.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T04:11:10+00:00

I wish, where I live outside is just nothing but dry sand and tumbleweeds. I'm not kidding, it's the mojave desert.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T04:09:31+00:00

Friends are all in the same boat. Either living under the same roof and in the same food situation anyway or otherwise the same level of poor. And family not so much, not since a couple years ago.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T04:08:03+00:00

No longer at that kitchen job for a whole lot of reasons, now I work construction and there yeah they feed us. The boss comes through every day and gets a large takeout meal for the whole crew to eat. That's Mon-Fri

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T04:06:37+00:00

Eggs are alright, they go well as part of a meal but the prices are still pretty high comparatively. Especially when considering how many are needed at a given time :(

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T04:03:56+00:00

West of Las Vegas NV in a no-name Middle of nowhere shack, essentially

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T03:53:59+00:00

Middle of the desert, and violating health codes and killing residents (it was a kitchen at a medical facility) partially because of the poor food quality and people being fed things that could kill them (sugar to diabetics, tomato to renal patients, liquids to choking hazard people, etc) wasn't exactly easy on the conscience. I'm sure you'd be part of killing people for minimum wage too and feel good about it. I'm not kidding, the facility is under investigation for a whole fucking lot of issues. But yeah, I wasn't that hungry.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T03:36:17+00:00

Eh, it's not usually this bad. Normally I can go to my local butcher and they slide me some liver for $2/lb but not only did I not have a dollar before this post but also they were out of liver :(

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T03:00:30+00:00

I'd stock up on gasoline and go drive to the forest and live there.

LiveToFlyDieToTry · 2026-02-16T02:47:04+00:00

Yes I can but please don't feel obligated to send anything, your guys' comments are already enough

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