In article >, "kilikini"
> wrote:

> You guys don't even want to know what we pay for stuff in Hawaii.
> Nothing's cheaper here. Groceries are, were, and always will be
> expensive. Plain and simple.
>
> kili

Oh, I know. That's why we don't live there. Well, one of the
reasons. I know you can't leave, and I'm praying for your situation to
get better. We are getting by here, but God help us if we are hit with
an emergency again. We had the insurance company reevaluate a hospital
bill they had paid a year and a half before and decide they paid too
much, so we had an unexpected bill of about $1100, that's still better
than the $90,000 + the entire bill was, but we had already budgeted for
the medical stuff two years before and paid out our $2500 + and thought
we were finished, so for it to come out of the blue was a shock and hard
on us since it cut into money we had put aside for other purposes. Our
car was totalled and the car insurance co is being a pain and we have to
fight them to get each little thing covered (like the kids' car seats),
so we're having to pay a lot out of pocket and try to get reimbursed. I
can't imagine how they'd be if it had been our fault. Then we just had
new expenses this year, which we knew about, but made our living expense
funds lower, add to that the higher prices in gas (twice what we had
been paying before), higher costs of food (also about twice on many
things and at least 75% more), increased electricity rates, you know how
it goes. We have no extra money in the budget, and have had to reduce
by half what we put away in savings. Our grocery budget is about $350 a
month for 6 people, including diapers for two children, paper products,
school supplies and cleaning products. I don't think we can reduce it
much more.

Regards,
Ranee

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