When life hands you lemons add alcohol and stir!

[mishka422]

Thanks.

Gabe knows exactly what is going on. I've been very diligent in showing him the bills. He gets paid weekly thankfully but it's only a small amount and not enough to cover the electricity bill.

VC - I'm actually attending Dave's course through my church right now. The budget was a total joke to my cousin and I. We both ended up slightly suicidal by the time we finished and and realized that we are underwater by a MASSIVE amount every month. No wonder our savings have both completely dried up.

I haven't been able to pay the credit cards, only the basics and not even all of those. I prioritized it according to Dave's 4 walls platform. Housing first, food second, transportation 3rd, utilities last. Less than halfway through the utilities I'm out of money. Not really much else that can be done about that.

The truly stupid thing is, I make an ok amount of money. My expenses are just too high. I can't afford to move and I can't move out of the area for my son's school. That would be a disaster. I have to stay put at least 2 more years to get him out of school.

As far as the grocery shopping, I do all of that and I coupon to get free deoderant, toothpaste, cleaning products, etc. That all helps.

I'm definitely NOT talented at making anything! I SO wish I were. I've tried my hand at several things but they all come out looking like a kindergarden kid did them. LOL Sad but true.

Called the power company - they aren't allowing budget billing for anyone any longer. The water company doesn't even offer it. My natural gas bill is pretty low and I have an excellent locked in therm rate. I don't have a home phone, only cell and it's WAY too high but I'm stuck in a contract that I can't afford to pay to break.

There is a new Walgreen's store being built in town but they aren't hiring quite yet. I'm hoping that needing to staff a new store will be to my advantage.

Working on it! Keep ideas coming, I'm sure I can find a way to work in some of them.