Just shoot me

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53. KNR - but I don't understand your lack of savings

My own income is about $14,000, and I've been rocked with some expenses lately.

Emergency EGD the day after Thanksgiving (of all days) - $1,500 or so
car repair - $800 or so
dental work - $1,800 or so

Two of those were sorta voluntary. I could have junked the car (but my dogs love it) and I could have postponed the dental work (in fact, I had been postponing it since like a year ago January)

Then I got slammed with another emergency EGD about eight weeks ago. Another $1,600 or so. That was the one that really hurt. On top of all the others,

But I can afford it (although I started cutting some expenses too (not that many though, sorta just got back from my mom's 80th birthday party, a trip that cost about $200 (plus being in Wisconsin, I loaded up with about $100 of tax free groceries (that doesn't even sound like very many groceries to me, but it's about a year's worth of rice and pasta))

Sorry about the suckitude, and I am not ready to lose a parent either, or have a stroke (sheesh, who ever IS?) but at least there is a WE. That's something.