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| Sat, 04-29-2006 - 12:22am |
This is just NOT a good week.
Yesterday I found out my uncle has a serious illness, and although his prognosois looks good, it will be up to me to see him thru the doctor visits, surgery, etc.....There's no other family to do this except me. This is going to be tough summer in so many ways already, and then this came up. We don't have a doctor visit until June. I have already let work know I have this coming up thru the summer. We'll see what happens. This will be tough. I am worried that he doen't understand what the doctor is telling him. I don't want to have to make his decsions for him on this.
I got paid today,and I had a big list of things I thought I needed to buy, each item about $20.....I only bought 3 things off the list....the rest can wait. I have a daytrip tomorrow, so I have taken $100 cash to spend, and that will be THE LIMIT. I have to pay THE RENT out of this paycheck! I always feel broke faster out of this "pay the rent" paycheck.
Gas? I filled up yesterday. I didn't have to buy a full tank of gas since it was about half full....but it cost enough like I would have paid for a full tank! I was talking to a friend today who said she was spending $100 a month to just go to work. She was making plans to conserve not only gas, but all her money as best she could by using coupons, trading with friends on things they need, and I am stopping by with some items on Sunday to give her that I have decided to get rid of from my house purging project. (somehow this is not really a CLEANING project anymore....) If she can't use the items, she'll be trading them with other friends. She recently moved to a new town, and she had decorative items from the old house she sent to another friend out of state because she was decorating her kitchen similarly to the way my friend had done her old kitchen. (Apple theme) By saving on other stuff in her life, she can then AFFORD TO GO TO WORK!!!! That's awful!
I am trying to make gas a new line item on the budget just to stay aware of it. I really feel like this is going to be an item if not THE #2 item that could sabotage my efforts to pay down the debt. (The #1 item would be my own foolishness!)
I just trying to stay away from my credit card...a continuing effort....besides the car repair bill, in the last few weeks I have charged an overnight trip....but that has been it. I just DO NOT want to use the credit card. I really don't. Now it upsets me. I just want to see those numbers go down.
The housecleaning project kicked into serious gear 2 nights ago. I'll be focusing on it again Sunday afternoon. It's turning into more than just an effort to clean, purge,and reorganize.....It is sort of emotional, and aggrivating, and a walk down memory lane.....and I just DON'T want to spend and bring new stuff into the house (but that may happen tomorrow)..It's just that I see how much STUFF there is in this apartment, and I am drowning in it.......and how much of it am I still paying off???? Was any of it really a bargain?.................well, I'll muse on this project later...........
I keep saying this is going to be a dramatic summer in so many ways....it's begun already!
Going to go to bed and thing about a lot of things.............Littlesbigs

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Be kind to yourself, you are a wonderful person.
Love
Anne :o)
I thought out-of-date styles were called vintage clothes. I have never ever sold anything, instead I have given it all to charity or just away to someone who needed it. It just seems so much easier. Do garage sales do really well or are they just hard work. We have carboot sales, is it the same thing?
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Anne :O)
Whiz-
Except for my really nice children's stuff(I love gymboree & nordstrom rack!) I either "hand it down" or I give it to goodwill. I do itemize for tax purposes so I have receipts for all of my goodwill trips and take standard deductions. It is a lot less hassle and we end up about the same as if we had had a garage sale when it comes to tax time.
Loca
Little bigs-
So sorry about your uncle. That is really hard. He must be glad that someone is able to see him through all of this. But remember, just because you are the one that is physically able to take him doesn't mean the rest of the family can't help you out with gas and food expenses for all the trips and what not. I seem to remember a while back that your family all chipped in for another family emergency...this too counts as an emergency. Don't add the worry of paying for extra gas & food to the main concern of your uncle if you don't have to. Plus, there is generally parking costs at hospitals(when I had surgery in march it was $9 a day if you got it validated!!).
This too shall pass!! I always tell my friend that we are both due for something really good to happen to us(our moms' both died in the past 6 months, I have had brain surgery, she lost a baby...) I will add you to our list of something good is due:-)
Loca
Hello,
Regarding decluttering, I follow Flylady's method. You can find it here: http://www.flylady.net/pages/FLYingLessons_Declutter.asp
Sincerely,
Lindsey Schocke
Geeks on Tap: Mission Accomplished
Hello Whiz,
The reason I have all of this neat information / websites is because I'm very disorganized at home and *need* those Flylady routines in order to get the basics done. For instance, we are out of clean plates because I've slacked on doing the dishes. If I don't do a load of laundry tonight, I won't have any clean undergarments for work tomorrow.
Flylady sends out information like this and I just search through my emails from her to find it. I've spent 3 years decluttering the house and have 10 more boxes in the garage I haven't looked at in months. My DH was grumping on Friday because I couldn't find his favorite shirt. It turns out it was in the bottom of the laundry hamper and hadn't been washed since the last time he wore it.
Sometimes I feel like tossing all of his clothes into a bin and pulling out only his favorite clothes, so that he wouldn't get grumpy when he can't find something. He has been losing weight steadily for the last couple of years, so finding clothes in his closet that fit him just right is a challenge in the morning, since he doesn't like
Sincerely,
Lindsey Schocke
Geeks on Tap: Mission Accomplished
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