Like a lot of people in real terms our household income has dropped like a stone over the past few years. That, along with the rising cost of living means we are getting by but that’s about it. Years ago I had an active social life, but that has all gone. A takeaway and a bottle of wine if we are lucky is the nearest we get to fun thesedays. No holiday for 3 years and none on the horizon. Friends have stopped asking me on nights out as they know I never say yes. Don’t really have many friends left to be honest as they all seem to disappear if you can’t spend any money.
I thought that at this stage of life, no small children, more freedom, life would be getting easier, but it isn’t. I am so bored of the daily grind, come home to watch crap on TV, repeat times X 5 and then weekends just more of the same as we can’t afford to do anything or go anywhere.
I have tried getting a better job, but getting nowhere, even within my own company. I am so fed up of it all and the constant struggle to make ends meet. DH has gone as far as he can in his field and the pay is not going to get any better. I just want a nice sun holiday, a few weekends away and a trip out once a month. Is that too much to ask?
How do you have any kind of life when there is no money left after paying bills? My lifestyle is so far removed from my family, who fill Facebook with lovely holidays and cheeky days out. I am the poor relation and it hurts. My mum has even stopped asking me shopping as my supermarket clothes embarrass her in the designer shops and I can never afford to buy anything anyway.