September 6th..
Well, fall is arriving here in the far northwest corner of America. I know technically it won't be here for weeks, but this morning it was so warm under the blankets, and just a bit chilly in the bedroom. I did NOT want to get up! To me that spells fall..
Another unexpected expense cropped up this week. One of the windows got broken by a flying branch in the first heavy windstorm
It's an 8 ft. by 3 ft. window. We located a double paned vinyl window of the appropriate size on craigslist for $85, and we're paying $100 to have it put in. We think we could
probably do it ourselves, but we just don't know how yet. So we'll have this one put in by a pro. (who's agreed to give us both a discount AND a lesson on window installation!)
$185 to replace a window that size is amazingly cheap, but it's going to put us behind the eight ball. I begin to worry.
Hubby is already nearly three weeks late going back to work (he was supposed to return around the middle of August), and there's a rumor that the company lost the bid on the job he was supposed to go out on. So now we don't know when he'll go back to work. Winter is
not the best time for construction work.
At 2 months and 1 week out we're down $2700 in income so far, and I'm starting to really see the effects. The savings are dwindling, albeit more slowly now that we're spending most of our days "no-spending".
Frankly, I'm getting a little scared. We've been OK for so long now, that I'd managed to "forget" how scary it is to be poor. Of course, my new definition of poor is partly to blame. If I only have $1500 in the bank I'm broke. But we'll get through it!
On the positive side, the stockpile is still kicking butt! All the bills are paid now until the 20th of September when the new ones come in. The school shopping, and winter work wear shopping is all done and paid for. We'll have a new, more energy efficient window in the livingroom ( I doubt it will "pay for itself", but then again it might, LOL when compared to a great windy hole in the wall!)
Sorry to be a bit whiny, but the money dreams have started again. Does anyone else get those. Where something terrible is going to happen in the dream and you just don't have the money to fix the problem?