Ok, the cat got cancer, and following some investigative tests was given an excellent prognosis should we be in a position to afford major surgery - to remove her leg and shoulder blade. Now plenty of people in equal numbers have responded to this - some with 'knock it on the head' others with 'well she is part of the family'. Its ironic to hear that one of the 'knock it on the head' camp, have a 3 legged dog. Emotion plays a huge part in these decisions.
I am looking at my poor dear puss with its 3 legs, half its long hair body shaved, a collar around her neck to prevent her from chewing a medicated patch of her hind leg. She is a sorry site. I'm still not sure if I made the right decision. But decide we did, and pay now we must. So how to come up with the goods? Well forunately we were about to upgrade the bathroom, so the vet has been paid. However, I'd still like that bathroom upgrade, maybe even by xmas, so I'm going to get resourceful and look at the family budget and come up with as many ways as i can to save $$. If you have some ideas, pleaase add. We can all do with extra $$, so lets see what we can come up with:
1: curb soft drink consuption
I buy a drink a day, lets say thats $3 a day - so over 1,000 days . . . . I'm not a saint I like to buy a drink (but I'll cut back to 2/7 days)
2: caught a lift home from a party on the weekend, saved $30 on the taxi
3: sell a few more of my chooks precious eggs - $4 / doz - can prob sell a doz a fortnight
4: I have a free gym membership through work, I'm going to use that more than attending Bikrum, which costs (I'll drop 1 class a fortnight)
5: One of my ante-natal clients just had a baby, I'm going to fill her spot immediately (good business sense really) - may share is around . . . .
Well there's a start. So for the month of Feb I've saved roughly $150?? something like that. Its a start - I'll post more ideas each week and please feel free to add ways that would work for you
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