Brewstew - Being Broke 

“I wouldn’t recommend being poor.” Good fucking advice

"I wouldn't recommend being poor" *Poverty rate drop to 0%*

I grew up poor and this video just hit home so hard. One time I lived with my brother because we rented a apartment together. But for the first few months money was tight I mean tight. We went days without food. I think the lowest point was when my neighbors got kicked out and my brother and I broke into their place and raided their fridge and cabinets for any left over food they had. I'll say this after two weeks of having little to no food that box of spaghetti noodles and sauce was the best thing I have ever tasted. Thankfully things picked up shortly after but that was a rough period in my life.

Man this shit was so real, I kept laughing at how real this is. A lot of nights eating rice and ketchup, and using the cold shower to clean my ass. My favorite tho was once when we got pizza. There was a place downstairs that sold pizza for ~60 cents per slice, back when the exchange rate was better. Some basic math means that a whole pizza was about $5. My friend and I dug through the whole flat and managed to scrape together exactly how much we needed. We were so happy skipping our way down to the pizza place to get a WHOLE pizza. We ordered, and then we are getting ready to pick up our pizza. But these fuckers wanted another 60 cents for the box, which we just didn’t have. They were saying they might just give us back our money, but we were not having that. So I grabbed some newspaper from the register, put them on my arms, and told them to load it up. They thought I was joking at first, but we weren’t playing. They loaded that fresh-hot, greasy-ass pizza directly onto my arms and I carried that shit like baby Jesus back upstairs

tyler: cant afford a box of hamburger helper also tyler: *buys electric toaster oven*

“McDonald’s napkins and coffee filters”I felt that😔

Ramen and Mac and cheese has saved me from starving many times.

He's been on his own since 17? Underneath the humor is some real pain.

"your not wiping with me buddy, no siree. " I died

The dollar store is a magical place for a poor person

Back in the 2000s a Sears catalog went a long ways if you had no toilet paper

Unfortunately I can relate to this story. When I was 14 sadly the electricity company dismantled the meter at our house due to unpaid bills. We didn't have electricity for the next 2 years. I had to charge my phone at my cousin's house or where my sister worked or whoever was nice enough to charge my phone. The only upside of the early 2000 phones were the battery life which lasted about 2-3 weeks on one charge. My dad made a makeshift charger from batteries and he used that to change some of the phones in the house except mine as somehow the Nokia 3210 didn't want to take charge from batteries. Summers were warm and okay even without electricity but the winters very cold. My dad used a tiny log burner furnace to keep the house relatively warm but the temperature never succeeded 14 Celsius in the house. Having a shower wasn't a thing either as that would probably cause hypothermia due to the ice cold water from the taps, so the family got used to partially bathe next to the log burner with some water that was warmed up on the burner. We haven't had the gas installed in the house due to major expense problems at the time of the construction so my dad used a gas barrel which we changed whenever it ran out. All in all we somehow managed to survive that 2 harsh years even with my parents worse than average income. So yeah, being broke is no fun at all.

I volunteer at a local church food bank. We get lots of young people coming in that aren't homeless for a meal. If you're hungry and need help, look for a local soup kitchen or food bank. Just remember to give back in the future once you're out of your rut.

So it's clear he's never heard of the magical food called ramen.

On a mission today to rewatch all these videos and leave a like.

I remember being in the same situation and I would call my parents and grandparents twice a week to see if I could come over for dinner

You can't feel hungry when you're asleep 😂😂 I've been there

"I wouldn't recommend being poor"

I've never been that poor, this has increased my work drive. Thank you.

Dude i feel your pain, I came up with all kinds of creative ways to get by being poor. When they would shut off my water I would poop at the grocery store across the street once my toilet filled up...it got bad one winter and i didnt get it turned back on till spring and by that time i had given up on the toilet so when judgement day came I had to throw rubber elbow gloves on and transplant everything from the toilet to a 5 gallon bucket and we are talking about 3 month old piss and shit. it was a def low point in my life. When we would run out of heating oil I would set up my big one room tent in my living room and move my couch and tv inside it...I had this one plug in space heater that would heat the tent really well as it was rated for 40 below so it kept the heat in nicely. I live in Maine so the winters get brutal...In the event that my power got shut off I would just run an extension cord from my neighbors through one of my windows to one of those heavy duty power strips in the kitchen so i could keep my frig plugged in and would run more extension cords to the living room to keep a lamp my tv and my gaming system and internet on...good times...Food was a bit easier for me because ever since i was 16 I have known about the "chip spot" in my towns industrial park..This was the local Frito Lay distributor and they had a dumpster for all the outdated chips and cookies...They did have a fence around this dumpster but me and my room mate would just climb over and unlock it...We would fill the bed of my truck with bags of chips...it was great...did that for almost a decade untill they made the fence so high you couldnt do it anymore..ya man being poor sucks but i will tell you one good thing it did for me...no matter how many years its been since i lived like that I dont forget it and appreciate what i have now

If he only knew how valuable that book idea would be in 2020

“Like it’s the last helicopter out of Vietnam” 😂😂

Wow, as broke as I've been in my life, I've never been "gotta flush with Mountain Dew" broke. 😄 This video is priceless.

Legendary man, even when he was poor he never sold his Holographic Charizard

“I wouldn’t recommend being poor” -Brewstew 2018

This is how it feels being a middle class person in 2023

Tis better to be broke... ...than broke in. ✌️😔

“Aw well looks like we’re fu*ked” lol

When u get hamburger helper and can’t afford hamburger meat

The thing is though if you pee enough and the bowl gets full enough it’ll flush

That titanic joke aged like milk

Can’t ya just steal the toilet paper from a public restroom?

0:45 lol that's some accuracy right there

mad respect to him for not selling his pokemon cards

If Tyler actually wrote and published How to Poop When You’re Poor: What to Wipe With, What to Flush With, he’d make a fortune in 2020

Sound's like jail would've been a better option.

Getting kicked out of my mothers house and this kind of gives me hope that even though it’ll be hectic I can make it alone this young

I would tighten my belt by 1 loop. Helps with hunger pains a lot.

Very accurate. Most of my friends lived with their parents til their mid 20s. I was out by 18. I was broke til I was almost 30 lol. Lot of cereal

1:01 yes, but you can't sleep when the duplex is haunted

Toilet paper is a luxury now

_"I WILL GLADLY SHIT IN SOME MOUNTAIN DEW, BUT I WILL BE DAMNED IF I DON'T HAVE ANY INTERNET!"_ I'm stealing that quote for whenever our WiFi goes out from now on.

"Your not wiping with me buddy! No sirry! " lmao

"Bring in the vacuum"!!

How broke are you ?? McDonalds icecream machine.

Nothing pairs like brewstew and a red baron pizza with a nice beer

Just had my water shut off and thought to rewatch this

“You start looking at how fluffy your cat is...”

Before he was Brewstew, he was... Brokestew 🕶️ -Yeah, I know, I'm not funny.

I think we all had a cast iron frying pan that left chunks of metal in our food. It's part of life, and now you and me.

This is so relatable

“Being poor sucks I wouldn’t recommend being poor” “Well boys we did it bieng poor is no more”

The ghosts kept dropping their nickles

BREWSTEW THIS IS SO RELATABLE SOMEONE THOUGHT I COULDNT BREATHE CAUSE I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

No more warm showers? That sounds like hell.

The only good part about being broke: If you're on a diet, you're in luck Edit: why does this have so many likes

It's a great day when you get dismissed early from school and Brewstew uploads a video.

I’m old enough that I’ve wiped my ass with corncobs. No shit.

im gonna cry i remember watching all your videos after school everyday

“Toilet paper was rare” This man was ahead of his time

It’s always a good day when brewstew uploads.

Wiping your ass with coffee filters 🤣 bro true life. Those times are rough.

2:39 bruh, thats why you buy electric everything, hook it up to a massive steam turbine buried in your basement and just run the house off that.

They did not even have hamburger meat lol

"Being poor sucks. I wouldn't recommend being poor."

One time when I was a kid my mom told us we were going to have a living room campout! We built a huge fort with couch cushions and blankets, and since we were "camping", we couldn't watch tv or turn on the lights. Instead we had all of these candles and flashlights, we sat by the fireplace and played board games, and we all slept there that night on the floor in the living room, even mom and dad! I thought it was so special. It was like 10 years later when I looked back and realized we did that because the power got shut off. My parents were keeping us warm together by the wood fireplace so we didn't all freeze (we didn't have central heat anyway, just two small electric heaters we moved from room to room wherever we were, usually one for my parents and one for mine and my brother's room). It broke my heart when I realized that, but a million thanks to my parents who gave me a treasured memory instead of a sad night. It must have taken a lot of strength and love to put on a smile and play with us when they were probably so stressed out.

Tom is a true friend. He'll always be there for you

I DIED after he said he used flat mt dew to take a dookie

if everyone pees in the tank after a while you'll have enough for a flush

Using newspaper as toilet paper sure brings me back 😂

I feel like we can all relate with that toilet paper crisis, at least once

As a broke 20 year old living on my own this made me bust out laughing Edit: Thanks for all the likes.

We all laughed at him when he found alternatives to toilet paper, but little did we know he was a visionary

Sorry to spoil the mood here, but you at least had a friend. Broke with no one even to speak to, trust me, life loses all meaning.

I love teh way the mic & audio sounds. It's honestly charming.

" I've wiped my ass with so many things I could write a book about it" Well that book might come in handy cuz toilet paper is GONE now cuz of coronavirus

I bet he’s looking at the likes and views on this video and thinking “Man if this doesn’t get to 100k views we can’t buy water this month.....”

I'm living this nightmare seriously

That being hungry with no money really hit man.

Poor people unite! Might be able to afford rent between us all...

That toilet paper 🧻 bit was pure gold 👌

>Past Brewstew is broke and hungry >Dumps bottles of clean water to make a toilet flush

Tyler: *Internet was the most important utility for us.* Me: *How are you going to only pay internet if you have no electricity?*

You should of pissed in the tank instead of the toilet bowl

bro looks like a chili pepper 0:56

At least you got your daily iron intake.... 😂

Hamburger helper $0.75...

The relatability physically pains me

Remembering my 20’s! 😂

This is the funniest thing ever. IT made my day. Thank you.

Painfully relatable, plus the rats that refuse to pay their side of rent. If you're gonna be a chef, you can cover a bill at least. C'mon. Keep it up, Brewstew!

“Toilet paper is a luxury” Yeah...it sure is

I have a gas oven that's used as a range top and storage. Table top convection toaster oven cooks food better and doesn't heat up the whole house.

This video gave me COPD cuz I can't breathe 🤣🤣🤣

You were in the “Great Depression” and relied onto the “New Deal.”

“Alright being poor sucks” what a interesting way to start something

Titanic-2 Rich people-0

Ramen, tortillas, hot dogs and koolaid carried me thru my 20’s

I've had to leave buckets outside to collect rainwater to flush the toilet, doing it at night with no electricity was the really tricky part.

Brewstew: I was broke and it sucked Me: So that explains the stick figures