GigiBowman
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- Oct 21, 2008
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I'm seriously wondering if I can afford this year. Unlike the past, it's like 15, nevertheless...
Oh, I agree with you. I'm having Thanksgiving for the first time in like 20 years...and I'm scared. Number one, I'm so poor right now. I'm a real estate rental agent and every year it dies this time of year so i'm used to that but this year it died sooner and deader. I supplement being a Substitute Teacher...but even the teachers are not calling in sick like they used to!
My husband works for the phone company, has a computer business and is also a Real Estate agent.....
so between us we have a lot of jobs and we don't see each other much...we keep working and working and getting nowhere! Never mind that we have one in college and two that need to go into college next year and one in graduate school. (five daughters, one in heaven)...
Food is so damned expensive! and I'm feeling it....feeling the economy giving way and feeling myself being on the losing end. I just need to make it through the winter but will I? And will the spring be the spring I usually look forward to when Rentals kick back up and I can pay my bills again?
All I can be grateful for right now is the price of Gas going down has helped to keep me afloat. In July I spent $1,000 on gas.....if it was that way now I would not be able to go to work.
So Thanksgiving.....it's going to be a very old fashioned plain one. No fancy cheesecakes and multifaceted courses. No siree. It's turkey and cranberry sauce and stuffing. Take it or leave it lol.
And lots of prayers this year too!
(oh and Christmas is canceled. I told my kids this already. Bah Humbug lol)