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I am not looking for assistance, I am just having a bad day

Lady Christie
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Posted by Lady Christie

on Jul 19, 2007

You know day in and day out I do everything I can to save a penny and to make a penny only to feel hopeless, and useless. There are times of the year when it just gets to me and school is just right around the corner and now it is getting to me. I hate just barely making it, I hate taking water out of my washer to flush my toilet to save money on water, it's ridiculous and it is a pain in my hiney. I use the rinse water from washing dishes to water my garden as well as using bathwater. I think I spend more time hauling water to different parts of my house then anything else.

My house is so cramped with people and mostly necessary stuff that it just always looks dirty and cluttered. God knows I tried having a garage sale a month ago only to not do well. I have thought about ebay but I just don't have the time for it. I have three kids, babysit three kids and my house has turned into the neighborhood hangout for my kids friends.

I just feel like I am going crazy, just once I don't want to worry about money, just once I would like to say I have enough, I just want to catch up on all my debts from years ago and just not worry. I get the aching feeling in my gut all the time, it won't go away. I look at my bills day in and day out trying to figure out where I could save a dollar.

I have done all that I could to make money, I have sold cheesecakes, I have done odd jobs, now I have a website ( which isn't exactly rollin in any money). I'm not poor from lack of trying, we try all the time.

To make my problems worse I have to look at my neighborhood I live in, there is a nine year old girl taking her parents crack and giving it to her little friends. Kids bikes are getting stolen on a daily basis. A drug dealer has been shot and another one was hauled off to prison and he lived right across the street from the playground. People are breaking in to other peoples houses now a rapist moves in. But I have learned how to keep my family safe from the bad things but my stepdad is part of the drug task force who is hauling these drug dealers off to jail, it's no secret who my stepdad is almost everybody knows it so now I have to worry about retaliation on my family.

God knows I'd love to move, If I could I'd move in a heartbeat, I just can't afford too. I have always said I never wanted a lot out of life I just want to be happy.

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7. Lady Christie posted on Jul 25, 2007

Thank you for your kind prayers ekikaseven they are always comforting to read. Christie

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6. ekikaseven posted on Jul 25, 2007

Lord, Bless LadyChristie, Comfort her. Calm her. Provide for all of her needs. Keep her and her kids safe, healthy and well. Amen.

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5. Lady Christie posted on Jul 25, 2007

Ok well my day of course started out bad I had to take my youngest to the hospital because her eye was almost swelled completely shut. Now Yesterday and the day before she had a little rash on her face, and her eye was a little swelled but I said it was an allergic reaction and kept her on benadryl, which sorta kinda worked. From experience I knew not to rush the kids to the doctor right away for a rash because chances are they'll go away. Well this morning her eye looked so terrible and my gut said it's something she came in contact with but my brain said go to the hospital. I did and it was an allergic reaction to something, the only two things we could pinpoint was chickens or poison ivy. But I feel better about that. Now with this whole car thing have I ever said how much I hate echecks, if not I hate echecks. Well this gets me; in Feb. we knew we needed a new egr valve if not we wouldn't pass the echeck so we had it done spent $300 but the problem wasn't fixed. This time we spent $200 or close to it and still didn't fix the problem. Now if you spend $350 to fix your car and it doesn't get fixed you can get a waiver but only if you spend that amount 60 days prior to getting echecked or after it has failed. So you screw yourself for trying to prepare. Then I had the bright idea we'll just buy the $100 part show the reciept and then take the part back, wrong they look for the part. Yes that was dishonest of me but hey I'm human. So then my gut was hurting, I'm having a panic attack and my sister in law called. She has a few acres of land and sectioned off a few pieces for her kids for when they became adults they could just put houses on it. Well she had the idea to figure out what needs to be done to a piece of land in order to get an address, turns out only the desire to build and you can have an address, it doesn't matter when you just have to want to build on it. So she said we could use that address and register our car and we won't need to worry about the echeck or getting the car fixed immediately. Talk about a load off my shoulders. Ok so now I got through one obstacle I wonder what the next one will be.

Lady Christie
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4. Lady Christie posted on Jul 24, 2007

Thanks for the prayers they are much appreciated. Unfortanetly for most assistance we make too much money, they don't consider the debts we are paying for from the past. I know there is a way to get through this and I always find my way, it just gets exhausting doing it over and over again.

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3. sandy6 posted on Jul 24, 2007

Dear LadyChristie , Don't give up, We are all praying for you. is there a community service in your town that can help, or catholic charities,red cross that can help you, God please bless Lady Christie and her husband with financial help. many blessings

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2. Lady Christie posted on Jul 24, 2007

Just when you think things can't get worse, they do. My husband got the car hooked up to a diagnostic thing. Well it could be numerous things that are throwing out this code, the most expensive being $300 and nothing under $100. We need to get the echeck by the end of this month or we won't have a car. Ugh I don't know why this is happening. We just don't have enough money to keep trying things until we fix the problem. I'm going to scream.

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1. Lady Christie posted on Jul 24, 2007

You know I have to wonder do I have more bad days then good? My husband took the car to his brother in law to get fixed, he fixed the problem, some processor thing I don't know all I know is the total came to $200, money we didn't have to begin with. Now the check engine light came back on again and we need to get it fixed because we have to get it echecked. This sucks. Everything was going as good as it could be, no major bumps in the road and now this. If it's the egr valve again like we suspect it's another $175. We have till the end of the month to do something. God I hate this, my gut is in knots. You know and I am not a selfish person, I give where and when I can, I help where and when I can. I just feel like saying what about me. When do I get a break. I like to know what I have done to deserve one bad thing after another, if I am being punished for something I wish I would know. I try and have hope, I try and have strength and courage but I can't keep doing this over and over again. I am tired, god am I so tired.

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