Author: gypsumbreathgypsumbreath
Date: Dec 31, 2007 23:53
Now that I'm on my own I have to think about certain things I haven't
thought about in 12.5 years. My rent is paid by Disability so housing
costs are not an issue, and the landlady is kind enough to let me use
her kitchenware and split the cost of common-use items. Sometimes she
finds a cheap item at the store, such as a pound of peanut butter for
$1.49, and she buys me some and I reimburse her. But, while my
disability money and eBay income used to be, as my mom called it,
"pocket money," it now has to cover food, personal household supplies,
transportation, ciggarettes, plus a thousand and one other piddly
things. The transportation is the big agony at $11.25 for five one-way
bus trips. I was incredibly stupid not to spend the $109 on a monthly
pass when I knew that I could barely take a...
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