Penny pinching

How to save money - let me count the ways......LOL

I love watching Susie Orman and listening to her advise, but some how I just don't think she is in tune with the "real" America. Most of her advise is geared toward successful people that had real good jobs but don't know how to budget. She very rarely takes on those people that are unemployed, gone through all their savings and 401K's and still can't find work and are now looking for a way to get enough money just to get by.

Well I'm gonna tell it like it is, you scrimp and scoot through every week with coupons clipped out of those free newspapers cuz you can't afford the real newspapers. You look for work literally everywhere and get turned down by Wally World because you have no experience in retail, or you are too young, too old or you are just one of the 30 other people that interviewed for the same job. Now with the gas price going so high you can't afford to drive around looking for work so you head to the library to use their computers to look on line. Then you have to either wait for a computer or book one in advance. You can no longer afford to have a cell phone so when the interviewer asks how to get a hold of you, you say your home phone which would be great if your answering machine worked but it went south just when you couldn't afford to replace it. So now you have to stay home to wait for the phone top ring but you have to look for work!

I know a few readers can really see that situation but poor Susie can only give advise if you have a job to pay to get ahead then she can help you. Till then we just survive.