The First Cut is the Deepest

So it has been four weeks (to the day). This is the day I told myself that if I was still out of work I would start making budget cuts. But what to cut? Fact is, I live pretty frugally anyway. I have a three-year-old cell phone that is on a pay-as-you-go plan, so that won’t make much of a dent. Obviously, car insurance can’t go. I guess I could get rid of my renter’s insurance, but that is not such a good idea, considering where I live – on those “crimes happened here” maps they do in the local paper, you cannot see my apartment building because it is covered in symbols marking what types of crime occurred. I’m making an effort to conserve electricity and water. I guess Netflix could go, but it is only $13 a month and is my only movie source left, now I do not go out to see movies. But my free trial of Microsoft Office ends March 1, and if I still need it, I will have to pay for the whole thing (about $100, I think) or I could go month-to-month for $10. So I am going to keep Netflix unless I do have to buy Microsoft but that is just swapping one bill for another.

So, yes, it has to be done – my biggest bill has to be trimmed. That is my cable/telephone/internet. Internet cannot go, and I could get rid of the telephone but then I would have to increase my cell phone usage, so that should stay. So, yep, it has to be cable. Or at least some of it. Because television is my only non-furry companion and I could never be without at least some channels. It is going to hurt (especially the loss of BBC America) but it has to be done. At least I will still have the channel on which The Price Is Right is shown.