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A Bristol teacher has proved that you don't have to earn a fortune to be able to make ends meet. Kat...
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A Bristol teacher has proved that you don't have to earn a fortune to be able to make ends meet. Kath Kelly spent a year living on just one pound per day. This money did not include the rent of her room on a shared flat or the utility bills(水电费), which were all paid in advance. 1.
The motivation for the experiment came from her concern about buying a wedding present for her brother and his fiancée. At the time she had an income of $10,000a year, which meant that she was fairly hard up most of the time.
2.If she spent less than $1 a day, she could not carry the money over. She also decided not to borrow from friends.
Kath was often attending free events, from book launches to gallery openings... 3. Buses were out, so every journey had to be made on foot or by bicycle, and as she couldn't afford phone calls, she would visit friends or leave them notes if she had anything to tell them.4. "Instead of meeting for lunch in a cafe as we used to, we'd take sandwiches and eat them on a bench in the park," she explains.
At the end of the year, Kath was able to buy her brother and his new wife a $1,300 life membership of the National Trust as a wedding present with her savings. 5.While helping out on a farm she met her current boyfriend and found true love at last.
A. She would attend any event that might have free snacks.
B. She made soups from whatever vegetables she could find
C. From the beginning she set some very strict rules for herself.
D. Kath's promise of poverty actually meant she went out more
E. Kath says her friends were great about the change in her lifestyle
F. However, it did have to cover everything else, including clothing and food
G. Besides achieving what she'd set out to do , Kath's experiment also had an unexpected result.
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