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.