Money stress :'(

[gemsybobsy]

Just put my make-up on and cried it all off again. Fuuu-.

I am really struggling with money. This is nothing new (been living here for a year now and it's still great, I still really look forward to getting home even if I can never park, then have to walk half a mile from my car to my house, and it's freezing and drafty, and costing me more money than I can scrape together each month...) but it's getting a bit much. My rent 'n' bills are far too much money, and I have now gone over the limit on my credit card, because I keep doing stupid things like crashing my car and losing my keys and having health problems that require stupid expensive prescriptions and breaking my glasses and like, eating.

I can't think what to do to save/get more money apart from find another job, in the evenings or something, but then I already work my arse off, and then I think why spend so much money on a house if I'm never in it? I've had a look for places that are looking for housemates, and there are a couple that don't mind dogs. But I need a deposit. And I can't save one. And I'm earning too much to get a decent benefit. There's just nothing else I can do and I'm so confused and am thinking about it all the damn time. It's stressing me out.

Comments

[helen-t.livejournal.com]

Have you tried looking on the money saving expert website to see if there is any way you can reduce your out goings? Every time I go on there it really motivates me to look at exactly what I am spending where and if there is anything I can do to save money. See if there is a way you can make staying where you are more manageable if you are happy there x

[thebarkside.livejournal.com]

yeah, I've tried all the things. :(
It's just the rent and house bills that are too much. I'm so thrifty with everything else. I don't go out, I eat boring food...

[dreamyourealive.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about a flatmate or a lodger?

Maybe it's worth downsizing after all but you could borrow the money for a deposit until you get yours back on this current place?

[thebarkside.livejournal.com]

Nah I've only got one room and people don't want someone with a dog as a roomie, the massive racists.

[dreamyourealive.livejournal.com]

Aw don't people like doggies? Hmm maybe try downsizing bills and stuff?

Money is such a ballache thing :(

[mmipanda.livejournal.com]

Is there anyone you could ask to come live in your house with you? Things are SO much cheaper if you can split with someone.

[thebarkside.livejournal.com]

Only one room :(
I have thought about house-sharing but it's impossible to find a place that doesn't mind me having me dawg, haha. Also, I feel too old to be house-sharing...

[mmipanda.livejournal.com]

hmmmm. can you raise your prices to cover your costs? do you know what the competition charges?