Sucky Weekend

I think I said before that we are better off financially than we were in 2007. Not by leaps and bounds, but we do not struggle nearly as much as we did back then. However, we do still have our occasional times when we are down to the bare minimum in the cupboards (stuff like beans and ramen noodles) and the gas is low so we can't go anywhere. Now in all honesty, it could be a lot worse and some people would make a fest out of ramen noodles or beans but I guess in this society most of us are spoiled in our taste buds and we want what we crave.

< For example, here we are, Memorial day weekend and broke as hell. Like I said, we're better off than we were but we haven't quite been able to build up a savings yet, it's something we're working on but things tend to randomly come up. Our truck is actually not working at the moment (husband went to turn the key and it broke off in the ignition barrel), so we can't go anywhere until we get paid so we can get it fixed anyway, we are down to the bare minimum in the cupboard, I saved out just enough of the "good stuff "(crackers, bread, cheese, yogurt, cookies) to put in my son's lunch Tuesday and Wednesday until we get paid. But here we sit, it's about 90 outside with humidity at it's worst, so we don't want to be outside either. It's a small house and my husband and son are home the next two days because of the holiday. It's not been fun, let me tell you. We're all bored, so every hour or so someone says "I'm hungry..". Me, the food addict of the house is trying not to concentrate on the fact that we don't have a lot of options for food right now so whenever someone says that, it drives me up the wall.




It just really goes to show how important it is to really tighten your budget sometimes. I try and buy as much groceries as I can, two weeks worth when we shop but sometimes it just doesn't work well. It's a learning process. My mom tried to add a few bucks to our Subway card for us (my mom is awesome and tries to help when she can) but for some reason the "reload" card option is no longer on the Subway card website. Go figure. So basicly it's been a "woe as me, i'm bored as shit, my life sucks' kind of weekend when in reality we really DO know we don't have it that bad at all. We're just stir crazy and bored. I wish our truck was working so we could go for a short ride and walk around the grave yards and at least pay our respect.