Well, the good news is that our handy mechanic apparently gave us a heck of a deal on the repairs to S's car. Other good news is that S swears now he should be able to get at least another year of life out of "Charlie Murphy." The not-so-good news is that we are now $555 poorer! But even more good news is that I did have an extra paycheck this month so I did have the cash on hand and can continue to avoid using my hated credit cards. And like I said before, our great mechanic did a whole bunch of stuff and gave us a good price, especially when compared to those ba$tard$ at Firestone, who quoted S $1800 to make the repairs!
Meanwhile, I have been booking MK teen skin care classes so that's gonna be wonderful extra $. I charge $75/class and do this every year at the public library. So far I've got 9 classes booked. Tito J. had called me though, and warned me that the library recently hired this woman to try and get us vendors to cut the library deals on our rates. Tito J. was scornful and indignant of her and told me I didn't have to make any deal I didn't want to! Actually, I did make a deal but here it is: I told her that if the library hired me for 10 classes, I'd cut my rate down to $70, saving them a whole $50! I actually didn't think they'd book me for that many. I have the first class of the year tomorrow and we definitely need an extra $75 at this point for sure.
S got the idea to take on a part-time waiting job. He's been a waiter before, at least at a couple of places. I thanked him for coming on board with the working-as-many-jobs-as-you can program that I've been doing, well, my whole life but even more so as of late. M. and I went out to dinner last night after our sheriff's meeting; he agrees with me that S should work for the sheriff's dept. too but doesn't think he can convince him to either. Well you know what, that's ok b/c I told S that thanks to these car repairs today, unfortunately he is just going to have to forget about getting the PSP he wanted for his b-day. He agreed, but he had no choice. Numbers are numbers, and we simply don't have the $ for stupid, extravagant gifts like that!
Still, I do have some gifts planned for him already. I got together with my friend here at Job #2 and we placed an order together for wrestling stuff so we could get to the $60 minimum for free shipping! She got a bunch of stuff for her grandson; I got S a double-DVD of one of his fave wrestling teams, on sale, natch! Also, I think soon I'm getting a $25 Target gift card from one of my credit card rebates and I'm going to let him have it to spend however he wants--he loves Target. Not sure what else I'll do at this point, but I've got almost another month yet.
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atleast you can think of solutions to your budget problems..that's the good thing about that! perhaps there's nothing more i can say but certainly you made a good thing! my car was in the shop for about three days..the shock blown out even the calipers...the friendly mechanic told me we needed renewal for exhaust canada...hmmm...another budget add-ins! i just have to work hard to save my credit cars too.
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