Aug 14
Anyone else feeling First Act Jack Skellington lately?
"I've grown so tired of the same routine."
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Anyone else feeling First Act Jack Skellington lately?
"I've grown so tired of the same routine."
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I may be lower man on the totem pole at work, but without that low man, the rest of the totem pole won't stand as tall.
One of the sides (I don't know if it's an upside or downside) of being a forgotten middle child of the 1980s is learned helplessness. My entire life has (and continues to be) a series of "Damn it, what now?" followed by "Well, shoot, I don't have the resources to fight this, so I guess this is my life now."
It's a strange mix of depression and resilience that is heartbreaking from the outside, but after living & fighting & failing (and after removing that awful 4-letter word "hope" from my lexicon) this way forever, I am in a perpetual state of survival for no reason other than to survive. I don't think I've ever experienced comfort, let alone thriving. What the hell is that like, anyway? I think if I ever had a taste I would assume it was a fluke and wait for the expected bottom to drop out where it apparently belongs for me.
My budget has become so tight that my grocery list has become a wish list.
Does anyone else find it painful to pay for a membership (especially a discount or rewards one) only to find that you don't have any money left to use that membership? For example, you pay the subscription fee for Amazon Prime, but since you paid for it, you now don't have any money to order anything. I'm sure there are others. I'm not going to admit how many I have right now. It hurts, though. 😜
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[Simply venting here...move along, no response or comments necessary]
So, I paid $300 in March to get my car's AC diagnosed, found out it was a busted hose that no one locally had in stock. I put that cost (and the oil/filter changes) on my card. It took me 2 months & extra payments to pay that off so I could pay for the actual repairs. Note that the part turned out to be on backorder nationwide (of course it was, it was a JEEP part ::eyeroll::). They managed to get the part & I maxed out my card with the $1000 charges. One week later, the air-conditioner is blowing hot again. We're now fully in Florida summer.
I do not have another $1300 for new repairs, nor do I have any money for heat exhaustion hospital bills. All of my cards are maxed out as I moved stuff around to pay for the initial repairs. A new car with payments is definitely out of the question until the cards that help float us get paid down.
Meanwhile, manchild Musk is about to become a trillionaire because of shady bullying surrounding the Space-X IPO and unprecedented placement on indexes. The kismet of this universe and timeline is SERIOUSLY out of whack.
[End venting, distracting myself with my paid work, which I do like & appreciate, though I know it won't pay enough to get me out of this hole for many months to come.]
::sigh:: and ::quiet cry::
The economy sucks. We all know it. This leads to a rise in content creators trying to tell people how to a) stretch their dollars at the grocery store and/or b) eat right (healthy, for weight loss, whatever) on a budget. Some creators focus on individual adults, some center on feeding kids, some even consider the whole household (imagine that! everyone living with you might want to eat ::eyeroll::)
I see a woeful gap in most of this content I've encountered. Apparently, everyone in their respective audiences lives in a large home with a full-size kitchen & garage.
I don't.
I have a less-than-1000 square-foot apartment with a kitchen that barely fits one person. The 1970s fridge holds very little and the freezer that's part of the fridge has maybe a 1/3 the storage space of the fridge. If you could call the shelves a pantry, then we have a smidgen more room for dry goods. That's it. I see the kitchens these creators are using. My whole kitchen would fit in their pantry. I don't have an extra walk-in or even deep body-size chest freezer. Buying bulk means I get maybe 2 things at Sam's and my kitchen is full. Not stocked, only full. We do have additional shelving in the area where our table sits. However, our building cirrently has a very serious mouse problem, so we have to be careful what we put where or we end up losing much of it to the little bastards.
So, sorry, not sorry, but your videos about grocery hauls, month-long meal prepping, and bulk cost-savings will be nothing more than mere "huh, okay, neat" for me personally because, not only am I apparently much more broke than you, but I also have almost no space to put anything, nor do I currently have the time or energy or physical stamina to do these "simple" cooking tasks you demonstrate in your videos. Your 10 minutes translates into closer to 30 for me because I live in a slide puzzle space with no more than a semi-functional oven/stove & a modest microwave with almost no counter space for working on anything. That's it. I don't have an air fryer or toaster or blender because there's simply no space to put them, so I'm not wasting the money on them.