I think everyone is really starting to feel the strain of the economy. At least us little people are. Ok my family is. The carpentry market is bone dry right now. The housing market is dead. All selling and no buyers. Cant blame people, with gas over $4 a gallon, no signs of slowing down and minimum wage only $7 an hour.... Its killing people just to work.
You cant live off of much less then 10-12 an hour. I cant even get a job for that much though, with my minimal skills.
Frankly i dont know how much longer families like mine are going to be surviving without loosing out on so many things. Allready we have been cutting corners, missing out on fun events, not doing things anymore. My son got 3 gifts for his birthday and while he dosent know any different now, in the future he is going to notice. My younger son turns 1 in 3 weeks and we have nothing for him. Looking back, is he going to feel bad, neglected, angry... because we couldent get him anything for his birthday?
While he might not care.I Do. I hate that i cant even give my children birthday gifts.
Its the little things that we dont do anymore. Take drives together, go to the zoo and parks... those things we did as a family, i miss them so much. But now, gas is so expensive that we cant even imagine going on a family outing. Not without hurting us too much.
At the moment, we have to consentrate on our ever rising bills. We use little electricity, but we need to cut that down too. Computer is the next thing to go because the monitor uses it. Need to turn off lights, do less in the house. Even though we cant go outside we have to find ways to cut down our cost of living here.
Frankly, the strain is getting to me badly. My head is hurting, my back... its all stress... I just feel bad that i cant even properly take care of my kids in this time... In this age, we shouldent have an issue like we do.

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