I'm tired of being poor!

welcome to the club!

My preggers daughter was crying last week and angrily telling me she was tired of paying for everything and I had to laugh and tell her we are all going to owe someone for something even after we are dead and gone from this world...look at the positive side of life, there are always small ways to make a bit of money from odd jobs. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And the economy most likely will get worse before it gets better so this is just a training exercise now, its time to get as self sufficient as possible so we will survive and thrive later...there is a lot of material out there that people toss away and waste- waste not, want not...all my coops and fencing came from scrounging what others deemed unusable and unwanted except one. All it required was to keep an eye out, be able to cart it home and repair or rebuild w/it, straighten it out, get it off construction sites and dump sites before it was totally demolished and make it into something usable.

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Oh, I didn't take it that way at all, so no worries. Thanks for the tips!

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It's on dvd?

Must check Netflix

I know this is a link from 2009 and it is now 2012 but.... Nothing has changed except I am so sick of being poor I want to scream! My husband finally has a job after being laid off 4x in the last 3 years. Drastic cut in pay. I work from home FT/PT and I try to make up for what his pay doesn't cover. My wonderful husband also makes cute chicken coops and sells them on Craig's list so we can have a little extra here and there. an I know I should be thankful that we still have our house, but I fear every time the mail man comes... It's never good news anymore. I feel like a rat/hampster in a wheel going nowhere. Lately to make myself feel better I started rearranging the house, cleaning, just to have a change. I can't buy anything but I am making due with what we have and making it work.
I'm just frustrated and need to VENT! When I talk to family they always think I want money from them, but that's not it at all. I just want to VENT....
We pay some of the bills, I give up on paying them all and still we never have any money left over. With gas going on $4 a gallon I just want to cry. We're already spending $700+ a month on gas going to work/ kids to/from school/ tolls/ and our son's one free activity he does once a week. sigh....

I've even thought about painting house-numbers on the curbs for people for $5 ea.
It's so bad I even put in an application at the hamburger place... Not bad if you're a kid but i'm almost 50 ok I'm 43 but still.

Thanks for letting me VENT and your understanding...

Hi: Noticed that you were from Central Florida also. We are a bit South of you but wanted to tell you that we really liked your web page. The tractor coops look great and we liked several other things also. Wish I could give you some good news that things will be better soon but I really do not know. The economy seems to be getting better but the "better" has not trickled down to the average people who had lost jobs for so long. And gas prices just seem to be an additional burden that can break the bank entirely. The best you can do is to just keep on doing what you have been doing to survive and live as well as you can. I really liked the idea of moving the furniture around to give oneself the illusion of something gifferent. Good luck...

Awww Thank you for being so nice and for the nice comments. That really meant alot and was very sweet. It made me feel alot better.
THANK YOU

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I was really surprised that anyone even read it being on page 5 and all. I just really wanted to vent and I googled my feelings and it came up.. Funny hm
It was ironic that it was a chicken sight since we are a chicken lovin family.
Thank you again, reading their posts made me feel like I wasn't so alone, and I thank everyone who posted for that. I just want the economy to get better... I am just over it.

Have a Sunny Side Up Day, and thanks again <3