Medical Bills

Payday!

Income:   $1883.12

Expenses: $275.00 church donation
                    200.00 home equity line payment
                      49.92 water bill
                    200.00 oven payment
                    118.40 disability ins (semi-annually)
                      11.42 cable TV
                    256.43 mammogram clinic       
                      70.58 radiologist
           
I hated to send the mammogram money in, thinking as I wrote the check that I could have paid off the last of Visa if not for that stupid fiasco. I’ll be finding a better mammogram clinic before I ever go for another.  Or waiting for an alternative test.

We also paid half of our son’s college service club dues at $30, asking him to pay the rest.  We paid $50 to attend a Boy Scout banquet next week, in honor of our son and other boys in his district who earned Eagle rank during the past year.  We bought a tank of gas at $53.02, got $40 pocket-money for incidentals, a big load of groceries for $205.37 and a case of computer paper for $49.99, with a $25 online rebate, which I promptly completed.

We almost had an emergency over the weekend, before this check came in.  We had a balance of $4.66 when our youngest daughter, Miss S2, called from the highway with car problems. After several calls back and forth, a panicked father and a rescue from AAA, it was determined that the transmission was not bad, but that Miss S2  had bumped the gear shift stick into neutral by accident!  Whew!  Before realizing this, I had transferred $300 from our emergency savings into the checking account, in case it was needed.  I was thrilled to be able to move it back to savings today.  Dodged a bullet!


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Struggle Family Members

  • Mrs. Struggle: early-50’s, mother of three, college graduate, freelancer
  • Mr. Struggle: mid-50’s, father of three, college graduate, looking for full-time work
  • Miss S1: working out-of-state and applying to more grad schools
  • Miss S2: under-employed college graduate and boomerang child
  • Struggle, Jr. : university sophomore
  • Princess Struggle: mixed-breed, middle-class mutt