Tough times

For 2 months now finances have been really tough for us. I haven't been blogging as much because I'm depressed about money and not being able to update our debt payments on the left there. We haven't paid off anything and are just barely getting out Baby Emergency Fund back to $1,000.


Just the other day my husband's car needed 2 new back tires. It couldn't have come at a worse time, the first of the month which is when we have to pay rent and our gas bill. It was $224 for the 2 tires and an oil change. Now we are left with only $90 to last for 2 weeks. We made sure to budget plenty for groceries, but I'm afraid we might end up dipping into our grocery budget to pay for things like gas, copayments at Dr's, etc.


One of the things that's been hitting us hard is doctor appointments. My daughter had to get tubes in her ears and had to have a lot of doctor's visits. Next week is her follow up appt. to her surgery and it's $25 for that visit. I hope we won't need to dip into our emergency fund!


I've also been selling things like crazy on eBay and on July 12 our apartment complex is having a yard sale, so tomorrow and all this weekend we'll be going through our place gathering stuff to sell at the yard sale and what's left will go on Craigslist and ebay.


Things are real hard for us right now, I hope it starts to get better soon!