I have lived paycheck-to-paycheck, and I know I'm not doing it now. When I refinanced my student loans on the 30-year plan to reduce the payment, and still didn't always have money in the bank to buy groceries with? That was paycheck-to-paycheck, and I'm still paying it off.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2008 11:07:58 am PST #5518 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Jan 25, 2008 11:08:43 am PST #5519 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Tommy, my multi-CD player loads in order, 1-6.
hippocampus - Jan 25, 2008 11:11:33 am PST #5520 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I'm doing my own little cabbage patch dance .... Kat, insent (and please yell if I sound like an ass).
Daisy Jane - Jan 25, 2008 11:16:06 am PST #5521 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Mr. Jane and I have been paycheck to paycheck since I've been here. Monday we'll go back to being able to pay off debt and afford toys. I forgot what all that was like.
It occured to me yesterday that on top of the working poor being screwed health wise (can't afford to get the good fresh stuff, or get to the store that has it-possibly don't have health care), parenting wise (can't afford really good daycare and have to work lots of hours for enough money) and all that other fun stuff I read about in Nickle and Dimed, they're also screwed as far as hobbies or other interests.
This is because I was thinking about what I would do now that I'm off at 5, and I thought "Ooooh, I'll knit and sew and crochet." and then I wondered why I hadn't been running home to do that lately, and I realized it's because I rarely get off in enough time to go buy supplies and I also have no money for supplies.
Kat - Jan 25, 2008 11:17:49 am PST #5522 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sox, backflung. It was fine.
okay, I have to go hunt a student down. Too bad it's RAINY and COLD and the school is not enclosed.
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 11:28:31 am PST #5523 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I think you're all correct; the phrase "paycheck-to-paycheck" is usually used for much more extreme situations than what I was thinking when I first responded to the question. Mea culpa.
ETA:
Too bad it's RAINY and COLD and the school is not enclosed.I usually love the open school thing, but it is SO not fun on days like this.
Also, I'm done teaching right now and was planning to sneak out...and I just got an email from the Head of School that we're having a quick meeting at 3:15 so that she can "make an announcement." DAMN.
hippocampus - Jan 25, 2008 11:29:31 am PST #5524 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
got it - thanks Kat! & backflung. This is wonderful.
happy hunting. ... er.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2008 11:30:37 am PST #5525 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just realized I was getting all worked up for weird reasons, so I'm done.
In more amusing news, Barack Obama apparently told a black audience that they need to get "cousin Pookie" and "Ray-Ray" to vote. [link]
Sophia Brooks - Jan 25, 2008 11:34:10 am PST #5526 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think you're all correct; the phrase "paycheck-to-paycheck" is usually used for much more extreme situations than what I was thinking when I first responded to the question. Mea culpa.
I think people do use it in that manner though, so I am not sure you are wrong even though I have a different interpretation.
Steph L. - Jan 25, 2008 11:36:41 am PST #5527 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I think you're all correct; the phrase "paycheck-to-paycheck" is usually used for much more extreme situations than what I was thinking when I first responded to the question. Mea culpa.
I think people do use it in that manner though, so I am not sure you are wrong even though I have a different interpretation.
What Sophia said. That's why I wondered if different people had different definitions of it.