When life hands you lemons add alcohol and stir!

[mishka422]

Gabe's help? There isn't any. His new job (just a week and a half now) pays next to nothing and he has his bills to pay. Sometimes he picks up stuff at the store for me when I need something.

We have a farmer's market here twice a week but the prices are just as high as the supermarket for vegetables so it doesn't help. I was shocked at that but it is what it is.

Grocery costs here are crazy. I thought California was bad, but it's just as bad here. The only exceptions to that rule seem to be milk and eggs. Bread, unless you are ok with basically eating glue, is minimum $2.50. Best rate we ever get on ground beef is $4.99 a pound. How does that compare? I'm always curious.

You know the weird thing, Comcast won't do internet only here. You have to have a bundle to keep their internet plus I'm stuck in a contract until next February. UGH!

I'll keep plugging away at it. I just can't see going to a food pantry because we spend too much on groceries. I just have to find other ways to do better. I don't buy bunches of coupon stuff just because I have them (I only buy 2 Sunday papers that they bundle here for 50 cents more than the single copy) but I use them for the stuff I use all the time. I get free body wash, toothaste, toothbrushes, and deoderant all the time. I love that because I hate spending money on those things when I need that to go to food items.