Home from work today because Lily has coxsackey--horrible, horrible--and going through my bills and have reached a point of disgust. I am so, so tired of never having enough money! Dh makes very, very good money but our bills seem to be never ending. We don't use credit cards for anything except emergencies, like unexpected car repairs, and live very simply. We budget well yet there never seems to be a surplus. I'm not asking to be rich, I just want to splurge on a nice dinner and not feel guilty about it!
With the cost of gas almost $4, milk almost $5 a gallon, heating oil disgustingly expensive, how the hell is there ever going to be a break?! I heard something on NPR yesterday about the cost of food skyrocketing yet the amount of food stamps staying the same. How effed up is that?! There was a couple who wanted to buy fresh veggies for their kids but couldn't because their allotment could not afford it. The scary part is this will get so much worse before it gets better.
I've decided to lessen the burden, I am going to change some things:
*coerce dh to take the train to work
*maybe even try the train one day with the girls--they go to work with me and there is a train station by my school
*cut out my daily cup of coffee from starb*cks, yes I know, but it is a simple luxury for me
*see if it is any cheaper to cut out cable--we have one of those bundle deals
*I do this most of the time, but be more organized about my laundry and put a load in when I wake up, hang it to dry outside, to lessen electricity bill
*I read somewhere that turning off all the power strips in your house would save a ridiculous amount of energy, so I'll try and remember that one, before I go to work
*actually organize the buckets upon buckets of clothes downstairs and consign what my girls' have outgrown--I did this a few months ago and got a decent amount of mula

Okay, I'm done with my rant for today...what do you do or could you do to save money?