How did you spend the days when you were most short of money?

When I saw a topic on the Internet, I suddenly remembered bitter memories and couldn't help writing down my own answers.

Apart from being known as poor when I was a child, after I came out to work as an adult, although my salary was not high, I never experienced a particularly embarrassing moment until a certain year after my marriage. That year, my family life was in trouble.

During the National Day holiday in 2005, I searched my whole body and searched everything, but only found 20 yuan cash. At that time, there were no credit cards, no flowers, and a passbook was used to pay wages. There are only single digits left in the passbook. My husband went on a business trip and left no money at home. There are three people left at home, my father-in-law, me and my children, 20 yuan, to support the National Day holiday and wait for my husband to come back. Fortunately, there is rice and oil and salt seasoning at home. Throughout the National Day holiday, people went out to travel and shop and enjoy the holiday, but the three of us had to stay at home. Fortunately, there is TV to watch. I went to the supermarket and bought the cheapest vegetables. I ate it for two days at a time, which was simply counting the leaves in the pot. I went to buy food twice. Cook rice porridge at other times. Next, pour a little soy sauce and vinegar and mix well, so eat. Fortunately, the children are very sensible, don't cry or make trouble, and follow us to drink rice porridge and eat noodles. Just looking at the elderly, thin, drinking like that with a bowl of rice porridge, I feel sad and guilty. I have worked hard all my life, and I will follow us through such a poor life when I am old. I can only look up and swallow my tears, that's all.

In those days, I was stuck at home, cooking for hours, telling myself in my heart: I can't let myself fall into such a passive and helpless predicament any more, I must stand on my own feet, increase my skills, improve my technology, make money and let my family live a well-fed life. Twenty dollars, three people, a week later, this kind of day can no longer appear!