Sometimes I just get so discouraged reading the posts and blogs of people who are, in so many ways, better off than I am
And I KNOW I shouldn’t compare my life to others’ and all that but
Sometimes I’ll be reading a lovely post about, say, a Harry Potter event. And I’m just enjoying the pictures and stories of all the fans all dressed up and having a good time, and then...
“There was an event-exclusive wand... It cost $65(!!) and won't ship until May(??), but (my partner) caved and ordered one anyway.”
And I’m just... ruined for the rest of the post. All I can think now is, these people can just throw $65 away like that. $65 USD. And I had to scrimp and scrape, like counting coins, to be able to buy a cheap-ass fast food dinner tonight (because I was too out of spoons to cook, we do have food I promise we’re not gonna starve.)
And the disparity between me and a middle-class person just smacks me in the face. I thought I was there, you know? I have a roof over my head, I’m not in charity housing anymore, I was gonna start saving for a car.
I guess this is what they call ‘house-poor’. I have a house, and I can’t afford hardly anything else.