Off on Fridays
The good news: Hubby just got his first raise at his job. The bad news: He won’t be getting any overtime for a while.
When he started this job, they said he would be getting one Friday off per month. They work 10 hours a day, so that meant 50 hours most weeks. But that’s not exactly how it has worked out. For a few months, they didn’t have any Fridays off. And now, they’re getting every Friday off.
I’m glad he’s getting three-day weekends for his sake. His job is physically demanding, and he comes home worn out just about every day, so he can use the extra rest. But now instead of having more money in the budget, we’ll have less. Granted, it won’t be as much less as it would be if he hadn’t gotten the raise, but it will be less.
So now I must find ways to stretch our limited funds even further. I’ll have to scour the papers and the Web for Walmart savings and deals from other local stores. If I find myself in need of stuff for my computer, I’ll have to look for Buy.com coupons to go with their best deals. Not that I don’t do these things already, but I will have to step up my efforts.
We’ll manage, somehow. We always do. But I was hoping to go see Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues in eastern Virginia next month, and it looks like that will be out of the question. Even if I’m able to pick up extra work like I had hoped, the proceeds will have to go toward bills instead of that. Drat.
