After years of poverty, What is your "I am doing better" story?

[AU5]

I know some of you passed through a lot and are now successful but at which point did you realise that you are now doing better?

For me I am still not where I want to be but:
- When I could have long-ass phone calls, talking slowly and my fingers not on the end call dialogue
- Did shopping for the house at the supermarket without mental calculations of the items and worrying if I could afford the coffee or not
- got into matatus without first having mkutano with the conda
- bought me new Non-mtumba Tshirt for the first time
- Opened apps like IG and Youtube without worrying about the mobile data getting depleted

 

[emali]

got into matatus without first having mkutano with the conda

yangu ilikuwa hapo kuingia supermarket bila s budget... list tu ya vitu za kununua.. nakuchukua zingine zenye ziko kwa "promotion" bila wasi wasi mwingi

 

[shocks]

Kuingia java / art caffe without making a short prayer that the people I'm meeting will be reasonable with their orders / pick up the tab. Kusota is a bad thing, worry kama hii can make a first time client meeting go sideways.

I'm still very stingy with my mobile data, mimi hungoja nifike home before watching vitu kama last week tonight

 

[Mongrel]

yangu ilikuwa hapo kuingia supermarket bila s budget... list tu ya vitu za kununua.. nakuchukua zingine zenye ziko kwa "promotion" bila wasi wasi mwingi
[/2QUOTE]
I am

watching you mate

 

[emali]

I watching you mate

vipi fellow ndeiyan?

 

[Pamba 1]

Huku nikama kwa peasants, kwa mca kila member ni billionaire.

 

[emali]

Huku nikama kwa peasants, kwa mca kila member ni billionaire.

hili swali pale kwa mca.. ni ngejibu vingine... eti ile siku niliingia DT dobie na jioni ni park merc s class mpya kando ya jaguar ya wife... pale kwa double garage.. . nikaenda kwa hacienda kuenjoy ka champagne... na bado sina deni la mtu

 

[It's Me Scumbag]

Inakaa hiyo ya supermarket iko na watu wengi me included.
There was a time bar bills didn't mean nothing... But then I grew up.

 

[RANDY $]

Mimi at some point i felt my local barbershop wasn't upto my standards..and I decided I needed to upgrade. The first time I went to a barbershop in the mall I didn't bother to ask the price.... the whole time I was sitted there i didn't flinch all I was thinking about is i want to come here often.... damage was ksh.600.... did that for 6 months until I came back to my senses and crawled back to my barber.

 

[Masgwembe]

The second time I boarded a private plane nikajikuta in another country....wueeeh what a feeling.

Yaani mtu aliona mimi anipandishe ndege haina those long, boring boarding procedures eti ni kazi nimeenda.

Many moons later and I'm still doing it. God is great!

 

[mzeiya]

Siku nilianza kuagiza mutura ya chwani ama sevente mbob at a go instead of kula in instalments ya mbao mbao

 

[Anglututu]

As for me, my angle is a bit different, the moment I started earning fully legit income.
No deals, as the call them 'mra' or 'gonga mtu'...
Materialistacally, the day I was chatting with my boys and innocently mentioned the price of a pair of jeans I got and the reaction in their voices...
Although I don't look at it as having made it.
Until the day I will be self sufficient living off my hardwork, no employment, not worrying about the next month's bills...
Then I'll have made it..

 

[AU5]

yangu ilikuwa hapo kuingia supermarket bila s budget... list tu ya vitu za kununua.. nakuchukua zingine zenye ziko kwa "promotion" bila wasi wasi mwingi

Mkutano na conda ni muhimu bwana otherwise budget itaharibika

 

[AU5]

Kuingia java / art caffe without making a short prayer that the people I'm meeting will be reasonable with their orders / pick up the tab. Kusota is a bad thing, worry kama hii can make a first time client meeting go sideways.

I'm still very stingy with my mobile data, mimi hungoja nifike home before watching vitu kama last week tonight

Hii kitu ruined a date for me bwana. Dem alikuja akiendesha gari then aliniangalia and just told me to pick anything atalipa. She then insisted nijibonde vizuri. I still regret not persuing her juu ya msoto

 

[AU5]

Mimi at some point i felt my local barbershop wasn't upto my standards..and I decided I needed to upgrade. The first time I went to a barbershop in the mall I didn't bother to ask the price.... the whole time I was sitted there i didn't flinch all I was thinking about is i want to come here often.... damage was ksh.600.... did that for 6 months until I came back to my senses and crawled back to my barber.

Hizo kinyozi za 500+ I understand they need to pay rent for those locations, lakini mimi wacha tu ninyolewe an maboyz was mtaa tukisikiza reggae an niwalipe 70

 

[AU5]

Siku nilianza kuagiza mutura ya chwani ama sevente mbob at a go instead of kula in instalments ya mbao mbao

wewe wacha jokes, mutura ni mbao..mbao..mbao till point utashiba

 

[JazzMan]

Siku nilikuwa na mipango mingi sikuweza kujipikia, kazi ilikuwa kununua chipo kuku quarter, ama pizza za mtaani for a whole week na hiyo cost haikuniumiza.

Iliniuma ndio lakini haikuumiza mfuko.

Sijawahi rudia juu mashida na kihara ya stress zilinifunza kuwa stingy. Now I have a full head of hair.

 

[AU5]

Siku nilianza kuagiza mutura ya chwani ama sevente mbob at a go instead of kula in instalments ya mbao mbao

this is how Mutura should be eaten

 

[Mwalimu-G]

an niwalipe 70

Hii ni ile una-treat-iwa na ile spirit ya purple?

 

[It's Me Scumbag]

Hii ni ile una-treat-iwa na ile spirit ya purple?

My former kinyozi had a curious mix... Some real lemon or lime was thrown into action. Curiously, I never even felt itchy or had ingrown hairs.