Finding some part-time work and acknowledging my pitfalls...
Father's Day is this coming Sunday and I am depressed as I cannot afford to get my husband or my father anything nice. I know my husband would really love a garage door opener but that is going to have to wait as we need to pay things off first. And for my dad, I just have no idea of what to get him.
I think I am going to have the kids make each of them cards and I can put pictures of them in the cards - I know that would mean a lot to both my dad and husband. Its not something flashy but it is sentimental.
Last night I wanted to scream. I was emailing back in forth in regards to a part-time, regular basis babysitting job I can do after work and filling out an online application for a part-time position at the grocery store so I can earn some extra money. I have yet to hear back from Domino's Pizza. And while I am doing this my husband is sitting at the table mapping out on sketch paper and with an ikea catalog our garage and the shelving units and parts he wants to install in there. I wanted to have a hissy fit! Here I am trying to find legitimate work to earn more money to get bills paid off and he is shopping!
"But this will help get the garage more organized..." - Our garage is not one of those messy garages that some people have to where you cannot even park in it. It is actually quite organized already and we both can park in it. Its just not organized in the way he wants it.
So we argued about how that was being counterproductive. Even if it all that he wanted would only cost 140-some-odd-dollars (which for what he was showing me I expected him to say it would be about $500 instead), that's still a lot of money! -Money we do not have to spend on shelving that can wait.
And then I felt guilty because I said I wanted to take the family to see Toy Story 3 when it comes out.... The last movie we went to as a family was Ice Age 3 and the last one before that was the Simpson's Movie so I felt the experience of a family movie and for which movie its was would be justifiable.
I think that is where our pitfalls are.... My husband isn't materialistic but he likes nice things, and sometimes those nice things can be expensive; and at a price I just can't understand - like why would someone pay $75 for a polo shirt at Lacoste when you can buy one for $12 at Target - Does that little tiny alligator patch really cost $63.00?!?
But then I am more of the type of person that is big on experiences. And I justify my spending on the ability to have those experiences- I like to take my family to the park and the zoo and to museums. But that adds up quick between admission costs and gas to get there.
I was fantasizing today about Disney World as I so desperately want to take my family there, especially while my children are still young enough to believe in the magic, to believe that there really are mermaids in the sea and that the Mickey Mouse is a really person and fairies exist, because isn't that beauty of childhood? -Experiencing and being able to truly believe in things like that? But tickets to go would cost me over $900 dollars. Something I am going to have to wait on.
But because I know that for the most part we are almost opposite from one another we can help keep each other in check. I nag him about saving to pay of bills instead of buying something and he nags me about going out all the time to do these things.
Luckily, many of the libraries participate in what they call the Culture Pass program. Its a first come first serve as to what is available, but you can check out passes from the library that give you between 2-4 free admissions to different museums, science centers, art museums, the botanical gardens and the zoo. So as long as I am able to grab those passes when they are free we can still get out and do somethings. - Just a fore warning, I have literally scene mom's line up at the library doors waiting for it to open and them fight over the available passes... geez... I do not ever want to be like that. All you have to do is say "Sorry kids, but someone beat me to it this time so we will just have to wait and try back later to see if they are available..." - How hard is that? And if you just have to get out and can't afford it, last time I checked its still free to go play at a public park.
But then again I was the one fantasizing and looking up ticket prices for Disney World...
I think I am going to have the kids make each of them cards and I can put pictures of them in the cards - I know that would mean a lot to both my dad and husband. Its not something flashy but it is sentimental.
Last night I wanted to scream. I was emailing back in forth in regards to a part-time, regular basis babysitting job I can do after work and filling out an online application for a part-time position at the grocery store so I can earn some extra money. I have yet to hear back from Domino's Pizza. And while I am doing this my husband is sitting at the table mapping out on sketch paper and with an ikea catalog our garage and the shelving units and parts he wants to install in there. I wanted to have a hissy fit! Here I am trying to find legitimate work to earn more money to get bills paid off and he is shopping!
"But this will help get the garage more organized..." - Our garage is not one of those messy garages that some people have to where you cannot even park in it. It is actually quite organized already and we both can park in it. Its just not organized in the way he wants it.
So we argued about how that was being counterproductive. Even if it all that he wanted would only cost 140-some-odd-dollars (which for what he was showing me I expected him to say it would be about $500 instead), that's still a lot of money! -Money we do not have to spend on shelving that can wait.
And then I felt guilty because I said I wanted to take the family to see Toy Story 3 when it comes out.... The last movie we went to as a family was Ice Age 3 and the last one before that was the Simpson's Movie so I felt the experience of a family movie and for which movie its was would be justifiable.
I think that is where our pitfalls are.... My husband isn't materialistic but he likes nice things, and sometimes those nice things can be expensive; and at a price I just can't understand - like why would someone pay $75 for a polo shirt at Lacoste when you can buy one for $12 at Target - Does that little tiny alligator patch really cost $63.00?!?
But then I am more of the type of person that is big on experiences. And I justify my spending on the ability to have those experiences- I like to take my family to the park and the zoo and to museums. But that adds up quick between admission costs and gas to get there.
I was fantasizing today about Disney World as I so desperately want to take my family there, especially while my children are still young enough to believe in the magic, to believe that there really are mermaids in the sea and that the Mickey Mouse is a really person and fairies exist, because isn't that beauty of childhood? -Experiencing and being able to truly believe in things like that? But tickets to go would cost me over $900 dollars. Something I am going to have to wait on.
But because I know that for the most part we are almost opposite from one another we can help keep each other in check. I nag him about saving to pay of bills instead of buying something and he nags me about going out all the time to do these things.
Luckily, many of the libraries participate in what they call the Culture Pass program. Its a first come first serve as to what is available, but you can check out passes from the library that give you between 2-4 free admissions to different museums, science centers, art museums, the botanical gardens and the zoo. So as long as I am able to grab those passes when they are free we can still get out and do somethings. - Just a fore warning, I have literally scene mom's line up at the library doors waiting for it to open and them fight over the available passes... geez... I do not ever want to be like that. All you have to do is say "Sorry kids, but someone beat me to it this time so we will just have to wait and try back later to see if they are available..." - How hard is that? And if you just have to get out and can't afford it, last time I checked its still free to go play at a public park.
But then again I was the one fantasizing and looking up ticket prices for Disney World...
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