A Day in the life of an empty wallet

You wake up thanking God that there is no school today because you have no bread or crackers to make a p-nut butter and jelly sandwich for your child. At least at home she can eat p-nut butter off a plate or out of a bowl.

You thank God the water has not been turned off yet because you have no other fluids for drinking.

You are happy that it is Saturday and the power is still on because they don't usually disconnect on Saturday. (repeat for gas and phone)

You are thankful that your neighbor will loan you $15.00 so you can put enough gas in your car to get your child to a birthday party she has been wanting to go to and so you can buy the birthday child a present because you have skipped the last two birthday parties because you didn't have enough money to buy a present.

You hope and pray someone will buy something off Craigslist today and bring cash so you can buy some milk and bread.

You are thankful you don't have cancer and follow through on your promise to take the donation money to the wonderful family you have been collecting money to help.

You wonder hoe in the hell you got yourself in this position and why in the hell you can't seem to get yourself out of it.

You pray that your child's toothache, she woke up with, will go away because you don't have the money to take her to the dentist right now.

You pray that the arm and chest pain your husband is having is just stress related and will pass.

Every time the phone rings, you run to it hoping it is a call back for a job or someone wanting to buy something you are selling.

You don't even bother looking at the bank account because you know you are almost 600 in the negative and someone is bound to call and tell you that you bounced a check.

You try to quit stressing on the fact that on the 20th they will try to take another 300 dollars out of your account for a loan payment.

You don't even want to talk about the holidays and have made excuses already on why you can't be at the family functions.

You thank God you have a roof over your head.

You wonder if you should put this out for everyone to see but in the end it doesn't really matter. There are millions of people out there just like you. Everyone you know has problems and they have all helped to the point it hurts both of you.

You cry and keep moving forward and pray.