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Originally Posted by Winnipesaukee Divers
With that tale of woe, no wonder you can’t afford to buy oil… I cannot tell you how you could have spent you money any wiser. Your husband is most fortunate that he has a union to guard his health care, his vacation days (make that, weeks), his nine months of work for a full years pay and other perks. I can only dream what that must be like… on the job at 7 AM and off at 2:30 and a lunch break too.
I’m sorry to be so sarcastic, but welcome to the real world… I never had the opportunity to get a secondary education, I was married with kids at 20 and had to support them. I had to educate myself to get a head and provide a decent life for them. My wife was a stay at home mom and homemaker, together we have prospered and raised our kids well. Life is good and we enjoy our New Hampshire independence.
My advice to you would be the same I’d give to my daughters: Get a saw cut up next winter’s firewood that fell on your house. Get out the hammer and saw, get down to Home Depot get the supplies and fix the siding and roof yourself. It seems to me that you never even tried to help yourself and you felt the only way to fix it was pay someone else to do the dirty work. Don’t tell me these are high skilled jobs and you can’t do it… remember your not hiring people with a PHD. What the worst that can happen? You failed… Then do it again until you get it right. You don’t know how? Then get the book out and do what you do best… Read it! That’s what I did and reading isn’t one of my strong points.
Maybe this message will help you to help yourself, then again, maybe it won’t. Maybe you’ll continue read more into what I said and still be bitter that you haven’t got your “COLA” and that no one is coming to help you.
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I thought the Chip on my shoulder was big. You Winni Diver before you wade on in and make comments like this you should do a little more to understand the situation. I am fortunate I know how to do a lot around the house and my camp, and indeed it helps keeps things afordable. But some people don't have the know how. And could possibly do more damage to them self and there property by trying to fix things themsleves.....
Just how would you feel if one of your Daughters fell of a roof and spent months recovering because of your advice..... remember we are not all capable of the same things....