Day 4: Is it Really Only Day 4?

Today was a bit more interesting..a bit more like what I was expecting really.
I slept in, didn't have time to prep my lunch or grab something that fit in my budget on the way to work...so....the middle of the day was pretty food-less. I had a handful of cashews and a few animal crackers...and I was downing lots of water. But still didn't quite cut it. I will not do that again. I repeat: I will NOT do that again.

Fortunately I had a good breakie: bowl of cereal with soy milk and 2 pieces of toast with almond butter. Free McDick's coffee on the way and that did me pretty good...then a quick jaunt over to Starbucks for some lemon loaf, and another free coffee about half way through the day. Hit up the No Frills for some half priced blueberries and an apple, and that, my friends, was $6.33 for the day.

Free pizza for dinner - Thanks Icebreaker product knowledge sessions! (I lost count after 4 pieces...but I'm pretty sure I had no more than 5) and pizza leftovers means I get two free meals which eases the stress off me a whole lot more than you know.

$16.70 left for 3 days.

Tomorrow I'm eating like a queen...

On another note...I started thinking today about what would happen if something "happened" to me while I was doing this. Like, if I got injured and couldn't work. Or, got sick and needed some medication. Or if a friend or family member needed help. Or if I had to support someone - even a little bit. I would be royally screwed.  It would be totally impossible to not go into serious debt. I can't work anymore than full-time. I've done the 2 jobs, 6 days a week thing, and it honestly almost destroyed me (that story, another time). There are so many people out there, making next to nothing, compared with what it costs to live a half-decent existence. Having to do the slog every day, week in, week out, year after year. And what are their lives like? Just surviving. What kind of life is that? Not the kind that I want to have any part in. Forget vacations. Forget buying a house (without going into further debt....and forget buying anything in Vancouver). Even renting is difficult on the wages around here. But with no down-payment saved up (because saving also then becomes almost impossible), what other choice is there, but to rent!? Stuck is the only way to describe it. See what I'm trying to say here?