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I'm hoping that by just taking over the checkbook, I can steady it some.

Mom had forgotten to pay on our Spring Water bill... (the city water here is too dangerous to drink so we order spring water) so my aunt paid for it.. turns out she had asked the water company to notify her of each water purchase... and called us today bitching... All because last month I had reached out to my friends via facebook for help with the bills going to collections.

We had gotten a watercooler for free. It beats having to lift a 1gal jug every time we got thirsty.. She bitched about us having that.. acting like it costs us 10$ more on the electric bill.. that bill barely moved when we got that cooler.. >:x and the ONLY reason we had problems with THAT bill last year was because the taxes on it went up and no one told us it would and it did so during the HOTTEST month of the year where we NEEDED the AC..

She told mom to just boil the sink water and we'd be fine.. I personally would NOT be fine.. I'd be gagging on it cause of the taste. I have really sensitive tastebuds Purified water makes me gag.. That disgusting sink water.. I'd be sick just from the taste.. but to her I'm crazy because water is water.. >->

Like.. OMG bitch to her about the bradford exchanges and the dr what-ever catalog... THAT is what is making it hard for us to survive right now. NOT the waterbill...

Her life insurance is over 100$ each month, waterbill is about 60$ per month but with winter coming, we shouldn't need to drink as much to stay hydrated so that should cut down some. cat food, litter (we found a good cheap but GOOD litter, 1 bag lasts a week and 1 bag is only 1.18$) toilet paper, cleaning stuff for the apartment cause if we don't keep it clean, even the carpets we'll get kicked out... and cleaning supplies are expensive..

her cigs, she spends about 30-40$ a month on cigs... and we only have 400$ to spend >->, so that takes most of the money... what little we have left, YES we would like to buy something nice.. mom just OVER DOES IT! and my one aunt is yelling at her.. Yelling at her isn't going to help.. and its that right there, that tends to make mom spiral down even more.

I wish my aunts would just leave us alone... they're making her worse.. she does best when I sit her down and explain stuff... and I do it ONLY when she over does it. Not when she buys a necessity.