Well today officially sucked. Thought we had still another week before our power bill was officially due but nope the power company changed their rules suddenly and wont give any extentions. If I had known that I would have budgeted it to be paid this week. I go grocery shopping and all the food prices just keep going up and our paychecks are not matching that same rate of increase. I watch the news and see more and more criminals who are out stealing to make money from people who are actually working to buy the things those people are stealing. They said on the news that if someone comes to your door to answer it because they have a rash of burglaries where if the door isnt answered the criminals kick in the door but then say that sometimes even when someone is home and answers the door they just tie the person up. I dont know it just doesnt seem fair. I know life isnt always fair but gosh we have sure had some doozies lately and yet I still try to keep happy and say well at least we still have this or that but Im just tired of it right now. Im stressed and angry and Im not even sure who Im really angry at or why Im angry. Ughhh just doesnt feel good at all
somewhat...not really though. Just kinda angry because I feel like Im drownding here no matter how hard we try to get ahead we really just cant. I try to do the right thing and it just isnt enough. Then I see people who I know never doing the right thing...doing the wrong thing pretty much all the time and they seem to skate through life never getting caught with the attitude that you do whatever it takes to get what you want. Just makes me feel kinda Blah :thumbdown:
I understand hun I often feel like that if you ever need to vent you can always email me, or grab me on one of my IM's I am up most nights. I'm a good listener even if I can't help in any way. Hugs Crystal xx
I hear ya on "there just doesn't seem to be enough money" to get things paid. hubby and I do very well (he's a shipping dept. manager and I'm a LPN) but it seems like we're drowning too. and trust me, I've been thrifty thrifty thrifty!!! and just when it seems like we're seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, BOOM! we're hit by the train making the light!
the thought of burglars stealing of food from homes is really scary though.....:blink:
I'm usually around late nights too - just looking for something to do, so if you wanna hit me up to BS/vent/laugh, let me know
feeling better this morning...getting some sleep usually helps. I just really hope that its better then yesterday. Not sure it could be worse of course LOL. Dont get me wrong I am so happy to have what we do and we have plenty and my husband does well when he is paid properly. Its just at his job the secretary/bookkepper loses paperwork ALOT. She "forgets" to put cars on his flag sheet. She has claimed cars he flags have already been paid when he knows they havent. They change the amount of money he is supposed to get on a job after he gets the job. It sucks. We dont know until he gets his check how much it will be for. So we figure out the amount of money we think he will make and then get his check and itll be 100, 200 or 300 dollars less then what he was supposed to make. So then I am scrambling to redo the weeks budget and sometimes with the money not there there just isnt enough for everything.
Oh, that sucks about the power bill. It makes me so upset that people have to worry about having to pay basic needs like that. Inflation has gone up a ridiculous amount lately and I have heard its only supposed to get worse this winter.
well actually I cannot wait until winter time here. I can turn the air off and I rarely use heat so our bills get really low for about four months out of the year. Usually the way things work with our power bill they let us get an extension because we get the bill at a time when alot of other bills are due but they said this month there is absolutely no extension allowed and it has to be paid tomorrow(meaning today because they said that yesterday). Im not really sure why...the lady I talked to just said their rules had changed regarding that and we didnt meet all the requirements to get an extension but when I asked what it was we didnt meet she said oh those are internal reasons available only to us. What?!?! OK whatever. My husband will get an advance from his job and pay it today and itll be deducted on Friday. Next month Ill just make sure not to count on that extra week to pay.
and you are so right on inflation...I was at the grocery store and looked at cheese I usually buy to make grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch and it went from 2.49 or 2.99 to 5.18. It was less tehn a month ago that I bought a package. That is a huge increase. It goes the same way with nearly every single thing we buy
