Money struggles
I just need to vent about this, I don’t even know what to do anymore... My husband and I have had money struggles Since we moved in together, neither of us are the greatest at saving money and he is awful when it comes to impulse buys. We’ve been working on improving that but made some mistakes along the way (credit cards) We now have too many bills and not enough money coming in. I had quit my job to stay home to help cut daycare costs and while it did help we are still struggling. We even got on food stamps and have Medicaid to help us out but we just have too many bills and if I were to go back to work we would have even more bills because we’d have to pay for all our food, health insurance plus daycare. My whole check would literally go to those expenses and we would still be struggling to pay the bills we have now. I feel so bad having to utilize government help but I feel like we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t and I just don’t know how to get out of this hole. My husband’s “brilliant” solution is to get another fucking credit card to pay some bills this month so we can have the money to buy Christmas presents for our kids. The problem with that is it’s a temporary solution and it’ll just add yet another bill and we’ll still be in the same fucking position next month.
I just don’t know what to do at this point, we live in a 1 bedroom apartment to save on rent, we can’t give up a vehicle as my husband is literally gone 12 hours a day (7a-7p) I can’t even get an evening or overnight job because he has a 90 min commute on top of the hours he works. We pay a small fortune in tolls and gas for him every week and he doesn’t even get paid for the full 12 hours he’s there! Meanwhile I leave the apartment once during the week because we can only afford $20 a week for my gas, sometimes $10 and he gets at least $100 each week. But he loves the job and refuses to give it up, even though I’ve told him countless times that him working closer to home would save us money and allow me to get a evening/night job while he would stay home with the kids. We don’t eat out, we’ve worked on not spending unnecessary money, hubby and I even skipped out on birthday, anniversary and Christmas gifts for each other but it’s still not enough. I just don’t know what to do anymore 😭😭😭😭😭
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