Money, That's All I Want

A whole lotta Money! That's What I Want! That's All I Want!

We seem to have gotten ourselves into a hole again...money is tight, unexpected bills have come in...do we dip into our meager savings to pay some or do we make payment arrangements? Eat bread and water for a month? Well it's not really that dire, but DAMN! I'd love to get ahead and stay ahead for once.

The bills:
an unexpected tax bill of over $3000 for last year. Seems when we refinanced and started escrowing, the mortgage company only escrowed going forward and not taxes due. So we recently got that bill.

a mortgage payment that never arrived at the mortgage company even though we have it in our checkbook that it was made and mailed (no payment stub) it was never received and oops...I used some of the funds. so we have a double mortgage payment.

medical bills from my father from his recent stay at the hospital (twice) and rehab and nursing home...seems he has a $500 deductible, so we have to cover THAT, plus R&C charges that the insurance company has paid, but the facilities are charging over and bills for phones and TV!

so I really need to get that job because that will solve so much of our monetary problems...plus if I'm working all day, I won't have time to shop :D

some short term solutions: selling clothes and baby items on line (garage sale & ebay), Larry selling more computer stuff on ebay and craigslist, we also have almost $200 coming to us for a multi-meter he just sold on ebay, I have $175 coming from Lia Sophia as reimbursement from my manager on a bridal show that I'm signed-up for...