The 1 week £100 challenge

[maddave]

Vango sleeping bag £20

Viking knife £3

Builders tarp £7

50 metres garden twine £3

Bow saw £4

Cell foam mat £4

30 Tea lights £1

8 'Bic' type lighters £1

2 size 10 cans Lidl Chicken and noodle soup, use empties for a hobo stove and pot £2

New mobile phone with £10 of credit £18
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produ...c_2/3|cat_15701358|Mobile+phones|14419095.htm

£63 so £37 left for food.
Mac cheese 45p
Value beans 11p
Value hot choc 70p
Value bars milk chocolate (100g) 23p
Tinned hot dog sausages 39p
15 fresh eggs £1.50
Margarine 60p
Cheap bread 35p
Value cheese £3
Corned beef 99p
Toilet roll x 4 pack £1
Pack of playing cards 50p

Now that's the way to do it !!:You_Rock_

 

[wattsy]

That rules out Tesco for the under 25's, you can't buy a knife unless you look 25

you can its just that if you look under 25 they'll probably I.D you. they can't slap on age limits over the legal limit

 

[spiritwalker]

£100 buy a black market shotgun or uzi nine millimetre sod the woods i could get a mansion and anything i wanted :-D

failing that a knife and bear grylls knife and book :-D

 

[Minotaur]

£100 buy a black market shotgun or uzi nine millimetre sod the woods i could get a mansion and anything i wanted :-D

failing that a knife and bear grylls knife and book :-D

Always thought myself nearest Asda Walmart.

 

[FerlasDave]

That rules out Tesco for the under 25's, you can't buy a knife unless you look 25

Tescos is a joke for buying things!

I went into the store with SWMBO and a mate, I went to buy a DVD labelled 18 and because my mate didnt have ID they wouldnt serve us because they class the group as one customer. I left the shop and walked back in on my own which legally and common sense tells that I should be classed as a customer on my own. They still didnt serve me because I came in with friends before! I asked to see the manager and she wanted me to go to her office to discuss the matter. I said no and that I would discuss the matter infront of other customers unless she had something to hide and I told her exactly what I thought of her store and her stores procedures and suggsted she should be far less prejudice against people or she would lose customers. at which point I slammed down the £3 for the DVD suggested she serve me before I call citicens advise.... 15 seconds later I left the store with the DVD.

Rant over, sorry guys

 

[forestwalker]

Lets change the rules - No money, no friends, no mobile, oh and no money...

Not so simple now is it???

Lets have the total tits up scenario....

Here and now (lots of snow and -25C); I'd die unless I was quite well equipped to start with.

In warmer times; make a bowdrill for fire, build a shelter, drink from a creek, look for edible plants, set some traps. For a week or two you can survive with no food or tools, more or les easilly.

 

[Miyagi]

Best of luck to you.
But I can't help but think that restricting yourselves to just £100 for a week isn't that much of a challenge. There are people who week-in/week-out have to manage on MUCH less.
£40 for a week's worth of food!? Hardly roughing it or testing yourselves.

On a slightly pedantic note, where exactly, during your disaster, are you going to sell your mobile phones for £100? And then pop along to the shops to buy stuff to survive said disaster?

Mmm...the more I think about it, the more the original thread sounds like a p**s take. Very funny. And I'm sure all those people who genuinely have to survive on less than £100 a week will be laughing with you.

Quite frankly Durulz, I think mosnan's "disaster holiday" is an insult. It's like that TV prog with the three lads in a campervan "roughing" it.

mosnan, lose your job, your house, everything else you own, stay in a hostel (if you're lucky) being stolen from etc., then come back and tell us how you got on.

You've probably never missed a meal in your life.

if you think your jaunt is a disaster scenario, then you're nothing but a daydreamer.

I'm being polite, but won't type what I really think of your nonsense.

(and breathe....)

Fair enough for trying to carry less and doing it cheaply.

Why not try an E&E ex' with your mates over that week? If there are 3 of you; 2 days on the run for you with your mates chasing. Then swap. On day 7 compare notes, have a feed and get bladdered.

The one on the run has to use what is carried in pockets/coat only. Keep within safe limits - mobile fone for emergency, space blanket and whistle.