Tell them you're sorry but you need the phone right now more than a TV. If they give you crap, tell them the money you would have put toward a TV was spent buying groceries to replace the ones they stole. If they still won't leave you alone, find new roommates.

Stand up for yourself!!!

Try Extreme Couponing.

You should move or something because you'll have no more money

Flatmates?

Kick their asses out!!!

So basically you said you have to decide, but you can't afford any of them... So you really just solved your own problem there champ... I'd suggest you get a better job, stop buying so much food since apparently that is just depleting your funds, and get a new place to live.

Based on accounts and evidence It seems that there is a simple and definitive solution to your problems: grow a f*ckin' pair.

It's been said so I won't repeat it. Ah, what the hell grow a pair!

If their eating your food thats your contribution to the tv buy the cellphone. Sounds like you have douchebag room mates