Budget

 

Bill & Dar at their Log house in the woods. Below is Bill when they visited our motor home while we were in Wisconsin.

For today

Sherry and I have always tried to live on a budget. Like most folks, methinks, several times in our lives it has been close.  WE are able to smile now, but once  I went to the bank and borrowed $60 for 6 months.  The payments were $10.25 a month for the 6 months. Even those payments were a little hard. LOL

I read some tough statistics the other day. Spending $100 today buys the same as $12.71 did in 1970.  Now that hurts my feelings.  I remember thinking in 1950 my mama saying in 1912 you could buy or sell eggs for a penny apiece. milk between 25-35 cents a gallon.  That was tough to believe, now you and I are seeing much worse than that.

The economist was saying normally this difference in 1970 and 2026 would take a hundred years, but inflation has speeded up.

Being honest we do not have to budget as many of our peers.  I feel fortunate and wonder how someone rents or makes a house payment of $2000+, buys a car/truck, buys gas, pays utilities, eats out and buys groceries.  For the first time in our lives we have paid a weekly grocery bill over $200.  That is not every week, but no week is less than $100.  That is  old folk.

The cost of living is out of sight that is for sure.  I started working at 50 cents an hour, now younger family members earn from $20 to $50 an hour. WOW.

I hope you are well.  I am doing good and Sherry is also BUT handling blood pressure that goes up and down like a see/saw (Is that how you spell that?)   Above is all, God has been good to us.  

Nite Shipslog

PS:  I love all your comments and thank you for taking the time, Yesterday I got a surprise, A note from Bill and Dar.  I have mentioned them many times but mostly a few years ago.   They live out in the woods of N. Wisconsin, and also have a log cabin (house) further out in the woods. They built it as a team. Bill cut the logs and Dar skinned them. She wore out a 'pull knife' doing it. I just wanted to say thanks DAr and YOu guys, sisters & and that sweet mom of yours is mentioned often here..