Comments on: I Can’t Fix It http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robin http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20370 Robin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:36:52 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20370 @Tug, they really really have to. i keep telling myself we're in this for a reason. @Tug, they really really have to. i keep telling myself we’re in this for a reason.

]]> By: Tug http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20357 Tug Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:04:44 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20357 It's tough out there, that's for sure...I took a good paycut last year, and as of Monday I'm taking a 20% cut; not sure how I'll do it. Things have GOT to turn around; much luck!! It’s tough out there, that’s for sure…I took a good paycut last year, and as of Monday I’m taking a 20% cut; not sure how I’ll do it. Things have GOT to turn around; much luck!!

]]> By: Robin http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20337 Robin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:50:03 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20337 @Rachel, We're definitely going to be cutting down on our food budget, which means I can't be AS healthy but it also doesn't mean I can't cut back on food and try to make smart choices. My main issue is to try to come to terms with the entertainment to give up on. We have cable, dvr, phone, internet and netflix. Netflix is so cheap, it seems a shame to give that up and it's cheaper than renting all that stuff but we can't really cut back on any of the other things. I really need to sit down with our expenses. @Rachel, We’re definitely going to be cutting down on our food budget, which means I can’t be AS healthy but it also doesn’t mean I can’t cut back on food and try to make smart choices. My main issue is to try to come to terms with the entertainment to give up on. We have cable, dvr, phone, internet and netflix. Netflix is so cheap, it seems a shame to give that up and it’s cheaper than renting all that stuff but we can’t really cut back on any of the other things. I really need to sit down with our expenses.

]]> By: Robin http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20334 Robin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:46:17 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20334 @Maureen, We keep telling ourselves, whatever happens is out of our control and is meant to be. if we lose the house then we do. We just have to deal from one moment to the next. @Maureen, We keep telling ourselves, whatever happens is out of our control and is meant to be. if we lose the house then we do. We just have to deal from one moment to the next.

]]> By: Robin http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20333 Robin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:45:37 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20333 @metalmom, I so badly want to get rid of our landline but the damn company keeps having these bundles where if we get rid of it it's MORE money to get rid of the phone. I just don't want to have anything we don't need right now. Technically we don't need DVR but I think I'd die without that. I keep telling myself we made it through his 3 year long divorce so we can make it through this. @metalmom, I so badly want to get rid of our landline but the damn company keeps having these bundles where if we get rid of it it’s MORE money to get rid of the phone. I just don’t want to have anything we don’t need right now. Technically we don’t need DVR but I think I’d die without that. I keep telling myself we made it through his 3 year long divorce so we can make it through this.

]]> By: Robin http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20332 Robin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:44:18 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20332 @Barb, thank you. @Barb, thank you.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20331 Rachel Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:40:37 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20331 Bleh...I understand. You sound very calm and reasonable about the whole thing, though. We're not exactly in the same situation, but Ryan is a student for another year and a half and I'm a teacher so we're struggling. I got up the nerve to ask my landlord if he had any wiggle room in the rent last weekend and he said "For you, yes". So, that was amazing! (He likes us because we've been here 2 and a half years, take care of the place, are never late with rent, don't have parties, etc. in the middle of a lot of college kids who give him more trouble). We're picking through our budget cutting $15 here, $20 there. We took a chainsaw to our grocery budget. I'm putting one student loan into forebearance and changing another to graduated payments. Sigh.... Hope things start looking up for you soon. Bleh…I understand. You sound very calm and reasonable about the whole thing, though.
We’re not exactly in the same situation, but Ryan is a student for another year and a half and I’m a teacher so we’re struggling. I got up the nerve to ask my landlord if he had any wiggle room in the rent last weekend and he said “For you, yes”. So, that was amazing! (He likes us because we’ve been here 2 and a half years, take care of the place, are never late with rent, don’t have parties, etc. in the middle of a lot of college kids who give him more trouble).
We’re picking through our budget cutting $15 here, $20 there. We took a chainsaw to our grocery budget. I’m putting one student loan into forebearance and changing another to graduated payments. Sigh….
Hope things start looking up for you soon.

]]> By: Maureen http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20329 Maureen Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:36:24 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20329 I think that what we'll all learn during this recession is how to see the strawberries in our lives. Not just counting our blessings, but actually enjoying what is really beautiful right now, in spite of all that's out of our control. A Parable Buddha told a parable in sutra: A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted! (link above to blog I started a few weeks ago, but haven't found time to build yet...) I think that what we’ll all learn during this recession is how to see the strawberries in our lives. Not just counting our blessings, but actually enjoying what is really beautiful right now, in spite of all that’s out of our control.

A Parable

Buddha told a parable in sutra:

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

(link above to blog I started a few weeks ago, but haven’t found time to build yet…)

]]> By: metalmom http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20326 metalmom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:53:23 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20326 I feel your pain. We are discussing whether to cut back our phones (we actually have 'bare bones' plans.) I am sick of mac and cheese and last weeks "Meat sale" was a Godsend. With Holly ready for college, I am scared to death that I may have to speak the words, "maybe not now". It would kill me. Chin up girl. I keep telling myself that my grandparents made it through the Depression with 11 kids. And they didn't have near as much as we do today. We will get through it. I feel your pain. We are discussing whether to cut back our phones (we actually have ‘bare bones’ plans.) I am sick of mac and cheese and last weeks “Meat sale” was a Godsend. With Holly ready for college, I am scared to death that I may have to speak the words, “maybe not now”. It would kill me.

Chin up girl. I keep telling myself that my grandparents made it through the Depression with 11 kids. And they didn’t have near as much as we do today. We will get through it.

]]> By: Barb http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-20325 Barb Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:43:28 +0000 http://www.lifeisnotamovie.net/2010/02/04/i-cant-fix-it/#comment-20325 I understand. E-mail me if you want. I understand. E-mail me if you want.

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