After nearly two and a half years, both my partner and I have jobs. This comes after a long and hard journey of injury and retrenchment and then not being find a job in the high-unemployment-rate country of South Africa.
So we are 4 weeks in (almost 5) and you'd think that things would be hunky-dorey? Well... they are a LOT better, that's for sure. Make no mistake, with this new income into the household, it has breathed a new life into our home.
We are able to breathe better and we are not AS panicked.
However, it must be said that this bit of income now has not exactly reversed the effects of the financial situation that we have been experiencing for all this time. That will take time.
Last night I was doing budgets after having to pay for my son's concentration tablets and a car-tyre repair and now my budget is looking as terrible as it usually is!
There were a few other things I am sure, but my adjusted budget with Claire's new income was looking pretty good... untill now...
On the other hand... We won't starve. The rent and basic bills will be paid. I have learned to make do with a lot less and I have had to juggle around payments (and late payments) around to make things fit.
So... I just need to take it one step at a time.
All of this has just served to show me how entrenched we were in our position and in how much trouble we were.
I don't even want to think what we would have needed to do in order to survive if that had gone one too long...
Anyway. Onward and upward.
Hive was instrumental to our survival and both Claire and I ended up emptying out our HBD savings and powering down.
I am really eager to start building back up again and have been doing some 100% powerup posts. I still would like to do that. But it might have helped to have $30 spare HBD sitting in my wallet that I could use in an emergency.
So... I shall have to work on THAT too!
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Ah, I'm so happy to read this. I've read a couple of Claire's posts and it all honestly seemed so hard. I'm glad Hive has been useful even though the price seems to have trended downwards for a while. Congrats to Claire!
Budgeting is honestly so hard. It is truly a constant stress - it feels like a very unfun version of Tetris.
I'm really glad to hear things are starting to straighten out ! After so long struggling through hell, it's only natural that it's going to take some time to get there. But at the end of it, you might be able to find a little cash to buy some HIVE - the price is so low right now that a little bit of fiat will go a long way !