I am struggling with payments to car and home insurance (have to have), health insurance, (have to have), electric bill, (have to have), food, (have to have)! Etc............
I am trying to buy some Christmas a little at a time (a little has become normal lately since Ronnie's lay off!)
Sometimes I wonder how we'll get by week to week. When we use to be able to look ahead a little, it's hard to do right now.
The company that my husband worked for is so greedy that they don't even worry about their employees, at all! It's all about the all mighty dollar, the owners, the CEO, the managers, are all greedy.
When they laid 150 people off permanently in November 08, they took away so much from all of those people who worked there! No retirement, a poor severance , and not much of a future to look forward to anymore.
Commerical, life's become so commerical.
The stores have the Thanksgiving items sitting right inside the swinging doors, waiting for the Halloween products to be pulled the day after. Some are already putting Christmas decorations out because the Halloween decorations are almost sold out, @ our local Dollar Tree anyway.
The holidays seem to just all run together, not giving you a chance to recover before you feel the need to buy for the next holiday, the day after one has just ended. $$$$$$$
Don't get me wrong, I love all the holidays! I don't celebrate Thanksgiving for the reason it came to be, I celebrate it as a time for family and being thankful for them and what we have.
I love Christmas, I believe it's my favorite holiday. But, why does everything cost so much? Do you have to spend all that money for all those decorations, gifts, wrapping paper, a tree, decorations for the tree, food for the big dinner, plates, napkins etc,,,,,,, Is it all necessary?
When we had the extra money it was a little easier to do, but, not to understand how we got where we are now.
Why can't we go back to the simple life, making our own Valentines cards and those little boxes to put them in. Why can't we go to the woods and cut down a tree for Christmas instead of going to a store and spending $30 to $100 for a tree??
Where'd all these kids come from @ Halloween? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love seeing all of the little trick or treaters coming to get candy. But use to we could buy 2 or 3 bags of candy and at the end of the night, we would have candy left to eat. And that was on a busy Halloween night. But now I can buy 4 of the big bags of candy and I end up having to turn my porch light out because I ran out of candy!
I am always generous but, I bet we have 100 or more kids who come to our house at Halloween. That's a lot of kids!
I hope things one day get back to being simple. Let's try to make it simple again. Stop driving everyday just to be going somewhere. Grow some tomatoes, and some okra, a few things to cut your food bill.
Eat at home more often. Instead of going and buying a steak dinner, an appetizer and drinks, Cook a steak on the grill, make a salad(go all out), and nuke or bake a potato(especially in the summer, I nuke mine :})
If you have a deck, or even just a dinning room table, light a candle, have your steak dinner and a beverage. Yummy!
Eating @ Home=3 times compared to going out.
And if you decide to have some Arbor Mist with dinner, you don't have to have a DD.
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