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Smash has a plan to help out with the nightmare in the Gulf Coast states:
SacrificeAs for me, given my family's current financial situation, there isn't really much I can do. We're almost literally borrowing from Peter to pay Paul and this has been happening since April.Here is what I propose we do:
We all have our expensive vices. Some of us like microbrewed beer, some prefer doubleshots of Starbucks Mochaccino, while others munch out on candy bars. How about we observe Lent in September this year? Choose your vice to sacrifice, calculate how much money you would save by abstaining for forty days, and donate the proceeds to disaster relief.
Forty days of sacrifice -- you can do it.
A little side story: Back in April, I finally qualified for Social Security Diability Income (SSDI) (I believe that is the correct name for what I'm going to start getting); I 'qualified' by dropping the number of hours I worked until I got below a specific income threshold.
The added pain-in-the-ass is that I had a five-month period that I had to maintain this amount of income to start getting my beginning this month. It begins this month, but I won't see a nickle until mid-October. The suck part of this is that I normally work full-time during the summer; since I had to maintain a 'poverty' level income to satisfy the social security folks, I haven't been able to make any money this summer.
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Back to what I was talking about....I don't know if I'll be able to sacrifice much of anything - we're already scrimping & saving all over the place. Hell, the only reason I'm looking at getting high-speed broadband internet in the house is that I'd be paying the same amount of money for all the services that I'm getting now and I'd actually be saving $10 or $20 a month.
That being said, I say BRAVO!! to Smash for this idea. He is indeed an Officer and a Gentlemen.
See if you can meet or even beat Smash's contribution cause more and more it's looking like the Gulf Coast states are in a world of hurt.
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