Live and let Live.... first words to pop into my head this Saturday morning. What a great day it is, I have half the day off from work.. I have been working non stop at my fast food and retail clothing jobs. Putting in 80 hour weeks all in the name of trying to catch up with my debts. To me it is the slave labor of the recession.. all the precussions of earlier years when I was just making it. Now I am barely keeping up with some sort of survival. What I really miss is spending time with my daughter. All I can think is to work, work, until I get a vehicle and take care of more problems haunting me from the past. One of the things, besides my daughter of course that keeps me going is I am accomplishing little goals. One by one the pieces are being put back together and my jig saw puzzle life is seeing head way. I can not wait to see the ending result. That's where I am able to go to school, do well, and make a secure career out of the deal. I can imagine the outcome... the beautiful picture that lies ahead. As for today, I am going to ride my bike clear across town to get my purse I left at closing last night. Hectic night it was at work. Closing by myself with customers non stop. The people I work for want you out of their at a certain time and if your not they write you up. So I do the same thing everyone else does... clock out 15 minutes after closing and work up to two hours for free to get everything done right and a good job so I do not get written up. However I am still happy to have a break today until I go back to work this evening. That is the best feeling to have some time off. If I keep my employers from not shorting my hours on pay day, it will be much easier to get ahead and I am happy to have a job. Times are different then they used to be. Good luck to all and I hope your pictures of what you desire in life comes true for you and your rewarded for all the hard work. On this note, we can do our best and that will have to be sufficient.
i am a mom, a college student, and a wife with a lot of bills. this christmas my children won't recieve any gifts from my husband and i because we are struggling to pay bills and pay our own way through school. i am not looking for any big or over the top gifts ijust don't want the kids to have a christmas like they had last year. we had no tree, no gifts, and our big christmas dinner was some cornbread, chicken noodle soup, and some candies i had recieved as a gift at work. i cried so much at the sight of my oldest sons sad expression that morning, but GOD is good because he sent me the best family ever. i tried as best i could to explain to my 9yr old about the money situation and the fact that we were about to be homeless at the time but he's a little kid who does not pay the bills so how could he even begin to understand? now that we are in an apartment and a little stable the bills have been piling up on us and once again our children will have to suffer. if you are reading this letter please don't feel sorry for us we are strong and love the LORD, we are just in need of some extra help just for the kids. i have not even asked what they wanted for christmas this year knowing i had no money but they both love music, board games, and skateboarding. my boys are 10 and 3.
I recently had a newborn about 3 weeks ago. Im struggling to pay bills. While my wife was away visiting her mother, I had to take a loan from a financial place. i dont want her to know about it. I owe about $1200 is all and I'm OK. Can Anyone PLEASE help. They're sending statements to the house now, and Im afraid my wife is going to start asking questions. I know this seems odd, but my wife gets real upset about money problems, I I don't want to cause a rift.
thank you so much.
Some of my info.. I'm 33 married 2 kids. I have a good job.. we're just behind and struggling right now. Im a good man and pride myself on hard work and family.
I'm a college freshman struggling to pay my way through college. I have bills upon more bills, and it's been very overwhelming. I'm currently in debt and have too many loans already. I volunteer, have an internship, and do well in school, making it hard for me to have a steady job. I'm no stranger to hard work though. I've worked non-stop since I was 14 years old, before I started college. My mother is single, and struggling herself. She works 3 jobs as it is, trying to help my sister and I through college. I'm a very grateful, kind and caring person. I'd appreciate anything anyone could offer me. It'd be good to know that good samaritans still do exist.
I started a successful, small business and was given the opportunity to take over another. I prayed about the second and wanted to do the right thing. Everything pointed to the fact I should do this, so I did. After several months I realized that I was mislead and that numbers were misrepresented to me. I've always tried to do the right thing but lost the second business already (eight months into it). With three kids to support and a daughter getting married, I am in need of desperate financial help. I see people paying 12 to 20k for football tickets, MLB teams paying multi-million dollars just for teh right to TALK to some player, untalented, offensive musicians making millions and I wonder how, or why, we bust our ass to struggle from morning to night and they continue to flourish. What ever happened to hard work paying off? I've worked hard and am extremely disappointed now. If there is ANYONE who can assist, please. I never thought, for one moment, I would do something like this but here I am. Anyone? Me at kiko15002003@yahoo.com
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