The budget is getting tighter and tighter. Gas is $3.33 right now, the highest I have seen I think. I had a job a few years beck that paid for my gas. Boy, I wish I still had that job! I put in 16 gallons for $45. The pump was excruciatingly slow although the dollars still rang up quite quickly. I believe this is going to be another tight month. I keep changing my mind about how to spend my tax rebate check. Now I think it will just go towards gas. I live in a rural area so I can't use public transportation. I should organize some sort of carpool. I could drive to a coworkers house and ride with him but he works longer hours and I don't want to give up 2 hours of sleep each day to same some gas money. Besides driving to work 5 times a week and short distances occasionally, I only make the drive in to town every other week to run errands and grocery shop. Someday there will be a grocery store nearby. Probably not for another year and a half. They keep running in to problems. I will just have to find other categories in my budget to borrow from. Who needs $100/month for food? I'm sure I could survive on rice, beans and ramen noodles. Gas is more important!
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Hi
Just wanted to tell you that petrol is now £1.10 per litre here. I think thats about $10 a gallon but they stopped telling us the price per gallon some years ago. 16 gallons for £22 ($45) would be like having it free for us.
Ordinary hair dye is £6.95 ($14) as well. Ofcourse I dont know what you salary is like but prices seem unbeleivably cheap from our point of view.
Good luck wiht the mortgage.
Lizzie
You can envy our petrol prices and I will envy your public transportation! I went to Europe in college and I was very impressed that it was so easy to get around (except for the language problem...I got caught in Poland for not punching my tram ticket correctly! And I never did figure out which token to buy in Austria)
My salary is $37K, a good/average salary for Arizona. $14 for hair dye?! I think I would have to start accepting my grey hair!
aha, we do have some affordable things then, I just dont notice them!
I think our salaries are a bit higher maybe.
I did notice that there was hair dye in the £1 shop today but the instructions were in Slovakian so its a bit risky! Nope, I am never giving in on the grey. I just convince myself how economical it is compared with a salon dye session at more like £40.
Good luck in your quest
Lizzie
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