Saturday early morning

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Saturday early morning
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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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Registered: 11-09-2004
Tue, 05-02-2006 - 2:13pm

Hello Whiz,


The only reason I don't also have 15 years worth of clutter to get rid of is that we've only been in this house (our first) for 6 years. Before that, I lived in a dorm or a shared apartment and didn't have *any* storage space, so I couldn't accumulate more than a shelf of books.


> Looking at your bio---How long did it take to learn caligraphy? Did you take a class? Does it require special tools? Did it improve your handwriting?


I did take a calligraphy class or two, (a one-time class, one or two

Sincerely,
Lindsey Schocke

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