copperstar

I notciced gas and oil prices are back on the rise.  In fact, the same gallon of milk that I bought last week for $3.58 a gallon cost me $3.61 today. I know most people don’t even notice things like this.  I also noticed the same amount of people coming in and out of the gas station arms loaded up with mt. dew, tobacco, and candy.  Well, if you are fortunate enough to be making good money how high will everything have to go before you feel it?  I truly don’t need to be as tight as I am, but I am trying to prepare.  It drives me crazy that my husband is not the least concerned and thinks he deserves all the extras.  I guess this is typical in a relationship, each person going to one extreme.  I just wish I could be the woman who stays home all day and then complains because her man who is busting his rump to make all the money is a “tightwad”. 

I just don’t understand a lot of people.  I just always did everything.  I had 3 children, one right after another, when I was way too young, but I learned to survive.  I also had them single for 10 years and still managed to bring home all the money, and go to school and now I hold 3 different licences in 3 different careers.  I will never be out of work no matter how bad the economy gets.  My husband on the other hand has one skill and one skill only: machining.  And I have seen too many local companies going out of business lately outsourcing the work to other countries.  I’m just saying that it is survival of the fittest and if you are afraid of change, you won’t make it.  You have to keep rolling, keep changing, keep learning new things.  I just always had the goal of being financially secure by the time that I was 35 and I still have 4 more years to go.  And I now make more money than I ever thought possible and I am home all the time.  And I’m still here with my family. 

I feel really bad for young people just starting out.  I have no idea how they will make it.  I had no support from my family when I got pregnant at 18.  And no support from his father.  But I did what I had to do and every job was a stepping stool to get me to the next place which was more money each time.  And I never, ever paid for school.  I was always sponsored by a company that wanted me to work for them.  Hey, if you do good work you will always be in high demand.

And if something happens to my man I will be fine.  He never carried me financially so it wouldn’t be a big adjustment.  Take my advice.  Take ahold of your future.  No one else is going to help you because no one else is going to have anything to give.

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