$10/week room, '59 Chevy, night job at a bakery working 14hr shifts and being paid for 8, never ever failing to pay child support -- then the Chevy broke down, couldn't get to work, lost job, losing the room was on the horizon, lived on bread and peanut butter for quite a while before my luck began to change.

Mostly, though, I have had a charmed life, the most recent part of which has been stellar!