Bryan lost his job about three months ago. He was lucky to find a decent paying job within a month of his lay-off. Yet, things have been tight around here.
When we left our first "real" jobs to move to Omaha, we were living paycheck to paycheck and barely scraping by. My teaching job at a private school paid peanuts and with a mortgage (less than our mortgage now) we barely made it. It was awful. I hated living that way. And I feel like we're back where we started five years ago.
Bryan has been working his tail off between his full-time job as a sales supervisor and free-lance writing during his "free" time. We're still barely making ends meet. We have made many changes to our budget, but it is still a tough feeling being so restricted in what you spend.
We don't go out to eat more than 2 times a month and when we do, we spend approximately $10. We have started buying some food items in bulk. We cut our cable costs. And there are some things we don't buy at all, like lattes. And I love lattes! Bryan was just commenting today how nice it would be to go to a sit-down restaurant and be able to eat what we want. Maybe we could get a beer too!
So, I'm venting... I want to buy ONE new shirt for summer. I don't want to have to agonize over buying a $10 CD of nursery rhyme songs for Jack. I want to take Jack to the zoo. I want to have another kid before Jack and kid #2 are too far apart in age. I want to have a little fun in life.
I know it's temporary... I know there are people that are FAR worse off than us. We should be thankful that Bryan has any job and that we are working together as a family.... Yet, I feel better after whining a little and getting it off my chest.
Thanks for listening, friends.
4 comments:
I am so sorry you have to deal with this. We have been living paycheck to paycheck for a while, because we are trying to get out from underneath a mountain of credit card debit. Sucks.
It does suck, doesn't it? Venting feels good though huh?
Oh, honey, it sucks. Trust me, I know. We need to have a phone conversation. I'll try to be in touch soon. Love you. xoxo
{It does feel good to get it out though, huh?}
so very sorry friend. truly. i hate the guilt factor of buying things. especially now that i don't work, it's silly and my hubby would never say this, but i feel like it's not really my money.
and ps - on a totally different subject...did i know you lived in omaha?? i feel sooo out of the loop!!
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