• It's gone!

    "We "received" $1500.00. It was spent on a transmission for the 2001 Neon that my husband commutes about 100 miles a day with. The car only had 110,000 freeway miles on it. The transmission cost us $1700.00, the money is gone, but I guess we are lucky, it was there when we needed it. He may need to ride that bike! Gas is costing us nearly what our house payment was back when we bought our house 15 years ago just to get him to work now. We live in a very rural area, and there are no jobs in his line of experience, so we have to buckle down and cut back, it bites! "

    Tanya, 45, bookkeeper
    Ellensburg, Wa

    13th Jun 2008 in Vehicle & Gas | Discuss (2) |

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  • Why on earth would you live 100 miles from where you work?

    Posted by: Amy Jun 13th, 18:17

  • We don't live 100 miles from his job. It is about 100 miles round trip. We haven't had a problem with our budget until this year with gas prices. We live in a rural community, which means a lot of farming. It is a very small town, with a State University. There are no manufacturing jobs, which is what my husband does and loves. My family is here and we are lucky to have that. When we got married, we made the choice to live in the community we loved, or move and enter the rat race. Its a different way of life, but we love it.

    Posted by: Tanya Jun 13th, 23:32

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