The cost of living or better yet just getting by….

I tell you what I got my cable bill today and almost fell over.  Do
to my husbands work he has to have high speed internet. If you have
that with out any cable TV it runs around $60.00. So with expanded
basic TV and high speed net we was paying around 75.00 Not to bad…
Well today I get a bill that didn’t include our high speed just the
expanded basic for $84.00 (That’s freaking crazy) We are now looking to
putting up a good old fashion antenna. and keeping the high speed
because the price of the cable alone + the net just isn’t going to
happen.
We switched from a regular phone to Joiphone to save
money  with that you need the High Speed Net, still that is cheaper
than our regular phone that ran us around $50.00 just for the super
basic crap. Joiphone cost me $20.01 a month and has even more features
than the regular phone companies Unlimited long distance, you can check
your voice mail from you regular home phone or your email & you can
forward your calls if you are away from home to another phone, even to
your cell, you can also receive faxes ( readable my email only)
Despite all our cutting of electrical uses (Dryer, water heater and
lights) our kilowatt usage is way way down yet our bill is going up due
to the raise of what they charge per kilowatt.
Sometimes I feel like I can win for losing.
Also my youngest has many food allergies so that has been costing us
big time to get the food she needs we have to go a couple towns over
the food is more costly too.  We have to pay about 6 time more for
co-pays do to more Dr visits and somethings our insurance will not
cover at all, Oh we only pay around 6,000.00 a yr for that You’d think
it would cover 1/2 what you needed. 
Some days I would love to kick all technology aside & be and old
hermit that lived in the woods LOL  This next part may explain the name
mtmomma a bit.
I was born in the mountains of WV I have 2 girls both named after
mountains, before I was a mother I did in-fact live in the woods. I
made money from the land  and I ate well. It is funny that I felt
happier then, than what I do now. I just feel at times that society
could suck a feller dry in 2 seconds flat. 
We don’t have many extra’s at our house yet we don’t do with out, but
to be 100% truthful if the wind blew in the wrong direction on the
right day we would be in a world of hurt real fast. 
We only pay for

• House
• 1 Car
• Insurance’s (Car, Health, Dental)
• Power
• Propane
• Cable
• Phone
• Food

We have a well so the water is free minus the power it takes to pump it.
All this above we need to put food on the table and for the table &
the house the table sits in. LOL But with all we pay out, no savings ,
all the medical bills on top of us having insurance.  It is a very fine
line payday from payday it is tight.  I really want to go back to work
but I couldn’t pay for daycare for my Youngest daughter alone much-less
both of them.  I just needed to vent because My husband bust his ass to
work and give us what we need and yet it seems to be so close to not
enough. I know there are many families in this very spot, I just get
amazed at the fact it seems companies can charge what ever when ever
and it is OK. sometimes I wish thing was more regulated and I think it
should be based on the median house hold income, (Or say you live in a
city / town that X% of the people make X amount of money you can only
charge a X% of that amount for services)  Just finding the fair X% is
what would be hard.
Well I’m going to stop rambling now I hope this post doesn’t offend
folks but it was on my mind so I thought I’d blog about it. 

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