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July 14, 2008
Last night my husband and I were reminiscing about how used to spend less than $10 a week on groceries when we were first married. We basically lived off ramen noodles and potatoes until I became pregnant with Sariah 6 months after we were married. We decided that we needed to eat healthier and JJ caved in and applied for pell grants even though he didn’t want to. I was not able to apply for pell grants because I had not yet recieved my Permanent resident card.
In addition to both of us working part-time and going to school, JJ also gave plasma which paid $20 each time. This was really not good for him because despite him eating more he was loosing weight very quickly he looked like he was taking Phentermine no prescription pills. I tried to convince him to stop going to the plasma center and so did my parents but he finally stopped going when the phlebotomist inserted the needle in his arm incorrectly and his arm blew up into a big bubble while the blood was pumping back into his arm.
I guess during the times we feel poor it is good to think back to the times that we were even poorer!
Horaayy..there are 4 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Wouldn’t it be nice to still be able to get a week’s worth of groceries for $10? I practically lived on Ramen too lol. Nate used to give blood too before we got married but also stopped when they screwed up the same way.
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When we first moved to Lethbridge, I was going to school. We were living on student loans, but BC Student Loans wouldn’t give us money because we moved to Alberta, and Alberta Student Loans wouldn’t give us money because we hadn’t been here long enough.
We had $5,000 to live on for a year (tuition came out of that). That was tough.
I remember standing in the drugstore debating to use our last $20 for diapers or for food. One time, I rolled all our pennies, took them to the bank, and used the cash to buy a bag of apples.
I do not miss those times.
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Yes dear! Yes!!! That last sentence IS what’s pushing me to live each and every day….
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I agree completely.
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