Having lunch with a friend today, helped her empty her moms house cause she recently died and she casually brings up her travel plans for the summer… two kids have both left home and she and hubby are going to Hawaii and Mexico this summer…time shares. She then jokes…tee hee… that they own too many time shares (5 total, 3 different locations) …eek! Last week I dug up another100 sq. ft of back yard to plant more garden…more food (all 4 of our kids are still at home….God love’em) and I have to listen to this good friend, one of my very best friends, bemoan the rising cost of food and gas while planning her next trip to TWO of their too many time shares !!!!!!!
We’re giving up cable and cell phones so we can eat (and yes I know that sounds spoiled in and of itself but as useless as both these things are, we are USED to them and it’s hard to give them up) We are selling our gas-guzzling truck, which we actually USE as a truck…to buy a tiny unsafe cracker-jack used car so we will not have to take out loans to fill the tank. Geez, if I had money I would so be designing an electric car….come on Ed, you got money….you and your Hollywood friends need to do something besides asking grandmas in Idaho to contribute to American Idol Gives Back (he actually wasn’t on the show, but a lot of those overpaid egomanical hacks were….write a check for goodness sake!)
But I digress….can you love someone and be totally disgusted by their extravagance?…or not that even…it’s the extravagance combined with the whining….the oh we’re so poor, we’re just like you, isn’t it just awful…..why don’t you take an aerobics class with me, it’s only $75…. And all I can think is ...that’s 8 packages of toilet paper….or 15 frozen pizzas…or (most importantly) ...…
8 bottles of half-way decent wine (I did mention the 4 kids still at home, didn’t I?)
I hate being poor…ok, middle class…. I hate living paycheck to paycheck…I hate losing sleep over paying the bills….
…man I AM a big whiner, but boy that felt good
