[miclason]

my circumstances are harder than most of my friends....I've just been at it longer...so, although I'm no ace myself, I'm a little further down the road!!
(like my best friend, who is buying a 1.5 lt of soda and refilling smaller bottles for her child, because he thinks the smaller ones "taste better"...I already gave up sodas, except for weekends, and I buy a bottle - either 1.5 or 2.5 lt, depending on the cost - if it lasts 2 days, fine, if it lasts one meal, so be it!...also, because of our social status - not to be confused with our economic status- we are all either middle-class or upper middle class....so there's stuff they still won't do - like shopping at the market place, or buying their clothes on the street downtown instead of at the mall - because that is for lower middle class people!..... confused already?? LOL!)