Pound sand Freddd. It doesn’t add up because you’re ignorant of such things.
I have a bone disease. It’s hereditary. I don’t want to pass it on. Babies and kids are too heavy for me. They need significant effort - cooking, cleaning, laundry, playing, etc. I don’t think being a single mom would have been a good idea. It’s an extremely difficult decision I made, so you’re hitting a raw nerve there buddy.
I have 2 dogs, not 5 dogs. I don’t have to pick them up, so it’s not hard!
Yes, I can drive! Yes, I can sit in my chair and prepare meals, then sit on my kitchen stool at the stove and cook! And it tastes really good, too! Unbelievable, isn’t it? Preposterous even!
Please stay off this thread. You’re the opposite of helpful and I’m not in the mood.
Good for you! Looks like you’re capable of standing up for yourself. :)
It sounds to me like your main problem is location. Sometimes it’s tough to make the choice to move but if you could be closer to others you would solve a good many of the obstacles in the way of your personal happiness and financial freedom. First off, you aren’t poor, you just don’t have enough $$ coming in right now ;^) (perception is everything). Once in the right location I bet you could do any number of things from helping seniors or others more disabled, tutoring or mentoring, working part time for a caterer, proofreading, typing, etc. Take a look at examiner.com, you can make money writing articles on topics you know (earnings based on web traffic I think). I started over at age 36 at rock bottom and then amazing things happen after you take the first step. I’d say you just made yourself a bunch of new online friends right here on FR :)
And, don’t discount the possibility of having city and country sort of rolled up together, some locales have rural areas right outside small cities (like where we live in SC).
Anyway, please keep me posted on your progress, either through freepmail or this thread.
One idea I have, Miztiki, is volunteering at a local hospital if there is one near you. You can volunteer to hold, comfort FTT babies (Failure To Thrive). You don’t have to pick them up, just holding them and talking to them is what’s needed. Some of them are tiny. Also, you could ask at the hospital for patients who get no visitors or at a nursing home near you. You are lonely, there are others who are bed ridden or dying who are more lonely that you could be there for. Read to a patient for an hour a day, etc. If you’re a Christian, it’s also a chance to witness to someone. Just an idea. :~) Concentrating on others can help with depression to some extent. Been there. Am there.