Googling 'how to write first blog' is not the best start, seeing as it's grammatically incorrect but nonetheless I managed to retrieve the results I needed which explained that I need to tell you a little bit about myself. But very much like meeting someone for the first time, you never pour your heart out straight away so I'll save some more interesting stuff for later.
So instead of divulging my life story, I thought I'd talk about something which is on most people's minds: the incredible difficulty of trying to save cash in these hard times. This topic was sparked by getting on the bus home. After paying enough for the entire bus company to retire early just to get a seat on the bus, I was followed by others who were also disgruntled and erked by the high bus rates. As I took my seat, thinking in my head 'for the money I paid to go down a few stops, this bus had better be capable of flying over the traffic and dropping me off at my front door', a gentleman with an unnervingly airy voice stepped onto the bus and showed the driver a daysaver. As he flashed it (the buss pass, I mean) and walked past, the driver boomed 'Oi, wait, come back!' which grabbed the attention of most passengers who, like myself, hoped that we got a show as well as a bus ride home in an attempt to justify why we had all been ripped off. The airy-voiced man reversed and showed the daysaver to the driver again. As the events unfolded in front of our eyes, everyone on the bus realised that the daysaver was legit, minus the fact that the date on the bus pass had faded away. The fake daysaver hadn't paid off and so the man delved deep into his pockets, which seemed to go right down to his knees, and spilled a large amount of change on the little counter and managed to get a one-way bus pass. As he came towards us, he was shaking his head, saying 'I can't believe it... look, he wasn't 'avin' it, the bus pass' and most people pretended like they were paying attention but clearly did not want to be sucked into a conversation with a man who sounded like he was talking in falsetto.
But his attempt to get on the bus for free intrigued me and I thought 'what do I try to do to save a little bit in these hard times?' and the answer was 'nothing much, I'm far too lazy to think of all that'. I mostly try to get what I feel like and just be done with it. Obviously, I have some restraints when I see a cardigan in a high-street shop for £70 and I think 'Na, it's fine, I'll just walk with a t-shirt... it's ok, these goosepimples look quite retro'. So I'd like to leave the comments section open and invite anyone to provide me with some good money saving tips that aren't too difficult to adhere to, but certainly work. I know people do that 'I put a pound in a jar for every day of the year! And it's amazing when it's a leap year, feels like I've won the lottery!'. But I'm looking for something a little unorthodox to amuse me. Maybe something like 'rather than pay to take a piss at the train station, I just leap over the barrier' or better still, 'I just do it in my pants'. Something cool like that.
