I am waiting for my Walmart grocery order to be delivered. I have no car. I have always had to rely on delivery for food since I lost my car. But this is where being poor is so expensive. If I had a car I would have paid $156.00 total. But because I am poor and don't have a car, I had to pay a lot extra
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$1.00 bag fee
$3.51 additional fee (doesn't even tell you what it's for!)
$8.97 delvery fee from store
$8.65 driver tip
$5.00 (cash) for driver at door
$27.13 Total ~ just because I don't have a car and needed delivery
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He just arrived and dropped everything off. The delivery guy was very nice and helpful which is why I gave him a five dollar bill in cash. I don't know if Walmart actually gives the drivers their tips so if they are good deliveries I give them cash too. Afterall, they are just trying to earn a living too.
So if your poor and have no transportation your groceries will cost you $27.13 more.
My laundry has gone up from $2.50 a load to $11.00 or up to $20 a load.
Groceries here are much more expensive than I ever anticipated. Whether this is the same all across Canada right now due to the tariffs and bad economy, or just here on the island, I don't know. But suddenly groceries have become a luxury for me. In that $156 of my MONTHLY shop, I still don't have enough to eat for a month. I will be living off of milk and cereal and hamburgers. Like I have for the past 3 or 4 years.
Now that I have bought everything for the month on my budget, I can see I am in trouble. I went $400 in the hole last month due to unexpected costs. And we are only half way through October and I am already over $300 in the hole. This is telling me that the cost of living here is more than I can afford.
I am going into the red every month by hundreds of dollars. At this rate I will be deeply in debt by the time I turn 65 and get my benefits to top me up to a livable monthly wage.
Canada has priced me right out of living!!!!
And with Superior propane scamming $600 more dollars which they are extorting me now. They are refusing to come and pick up their tank. It sits right infront of my RV. My cousin asked them not to put it there when they delivered it as my RV couldn't get out if there was a fire. They refused to put it anywhere else but exactly infront of my RV. NOW I KNOW WHY!!! If you don't pay they extort you,....
Pay or you can't move your RV or get propane from someone else. Now I have no heat or hot water once this tank runs out,...
It's like the world thinks I'm on this planet to be scammed,... conned,... bullied,...
I just can't take it anymore. WAY too much to deal with right now and I am not doing well. Pain,... money problems,.... can't find health care,... no car,... isloated in a tin can everyday going out of my mind with boredom. This is not living,....
Goint to Vancouver Whitecaps games is living,...
Getting to drive around and see the Island and all it's beauty is living,...
Having my daughters in my life and my grandchild is living,...
Being able to go where you want when you want and to afford it is living,...
But this???? This being completely isolated inside all day is NOT LIVING. It is surviving,.... it is not even existing, it is surviving. And surviving is fucking exhausting right now.
I don't have the energy to even care anymore. I am so numb inside that I can't even feel anymore. FROZEN
What the fuck happened to Canada that I am fucking invisable
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