Okay I know that this is a cold overcast dark month. I am prepared for this. I know it is coming. I try and stay busy and tell myself it is a short month. Everyday brings a few more minutes of sunlight back as the earth chugs its way around the sun. I can do this month. It has birthdays of my eldest daughter and eldest grandson, and Valentines day, I love chocolate. I can do this. But then I find myself tipping into the abyss..... splat.
So what is really bothering me about this month? I think I have nailed the February blues. It is financial. Well with a little sadness thrown in. February is just a dang expensive month around here and every time I turn around another bill pops up. Yesterday it was a serger repair $160.00. Now our taxes are due at the accountant $310.00. I have know idea if we owe that will be the next shoe to fall. We have two trees coming down in the back as we can get a good winter rate from the company that has no work right now. See February is hard on many businesses. Did I know I had to pay the accountant and the tree guy and the machine shop? You bet, but I have no money coming in and I have to use savings which is dwindling before my eyes which causes me to stress out.
Now is it like this every year. YES. I was really proud of myself getting my Aunts check off right at the first of the month so I don't have to worry about that. I thought I had this handled. Well I don't. Money is just not magically appearing when I need it. Where are the fairies in my life? Stuck on the pages of the storybook I guess.
All I can tell myself is that this is my last year of having a scary Financial February, because this sucker of a house will be paid off and I won't have to live so tight. I can do this. I can.
So today I will go pick up the taxes, I will finish up the boxes I need to mail so I can mail those tomorrow. I have plenty of work in the shop, I will have money coming in by Friday. I will be okay. I can stop worrying. By this time next month I will start to get really busy and I can boost my savings again. Right now it is just survive. It is okay.
DO any of you get the financial panics one month of the year? What do you do about it? I find chewing my nails down to the fourth knuckle helps but it does get blood on my sewing.....
Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.
Kim
Bless you. It seems the older I get the more I dislike the bitter cold. I try to focus on other things and it seems like decorating and cleaning helps me out. I greatly dislike all the challenges that face us throughout the year. I pray a great deal. The blues come occasionally. Kick them to the curb and keep going.
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That is basically what I do. It is just this time of year it seems to get me more than others. But I will keep plugging.
DeleteI'm sorry this is such an expensive and stressful month for you. At least, you have the savings to pay for those expenses, instead of going into debt, so count that as a blessing. Once the income picks up, replenish the savings and you'll be OK.
ReplyDeleteI keep telling myself that and then I realize I am okay. I just don't ever want to go back to where I was and I think having things pop up or not having the immediate money brings back old haunts, plus as my daughter says "Mom it's February."
DeleteMarch is my blah month, always has been. Cold that cuts to my core, bare trees, gray skies and extra bills....either medical(March is when I had my medical condition in 2013)or other big irregular bills. I just want to pull the covers over my head in March and wake me when April gets here.
ReplyDeleteWhen I get into my March blues, I try to think about how much better off I am than others, do something nice for someone else when they aren't expecting it, drink more(lolz)or whatever I can think of to avoid those blues.
Thankfully for you February is a short month and prom season is coming up(sewing jobs!!!)so you'll get through this as long as you don't kill Hubs. 8-)
I like Sluggy's suggestions for trying to combat the winter blahs no matter the month. You have great kids and a hubby that loves you. All of us rooting for you. I need to take her advice as well.
DeleteAre you reading my mind, I mean on the Husband part? I was born in March so there is something to look forward to old buddy old pal.
DeleteI am not bothered by any month in particular, but I don't like short daylight days. Fortunately the worst is during the holidays and people have bright lights outside which helps me a lot. Now that the daylight is increasing every single day I am a happy camper and will be until everything starts blooming. As beautiful as spring is it kills me and I will watch it through a fog of itchy eyes and a sneezy nose (And that is with Claritin)
ReplyDeleteI feel for you and in the south too where everything blooms and blooms. You could live here with the wheat smut, which is a killer.
DeleteFebruary is my tough SAD month. And as I had to go outside today for some work related things (or I never would have ) I almost felt like crying! I have about two feet of snow in my driveway, I had only shoveled the sidewalk. (I have a AWD car so can get in and out) and my son often snow blows me out but I do have a good snowblower. But.... there's another blizzard warning for tonight so why not wait. This after - 61 cold last week. Our town was on the news for that! As I walked trudged to car I kept repeating "I don't think I can take another Minnesota winter. I'm 65 and semi retired. This is getting so old (but I think I hit the wall about this time every year. :). Some other years I've left for short vacation but hadn't managed this year. So I'm sure that adds to this. And this also is a tough financial month, I have a home based business and taxes anxiety.
ReplyDeleteOh honey, I was born in Minnesota and it didn't take long for my parents to leave when I was about 6. Can't say that I miss it. My Aunt lives outside of Bemidji on a small lake in Mennomin. I think it is beautiful there, but not a place I want to live. Stay warm.
DeleteYep just south of Fargo and sitting through a full blown blizzard again. Spring will come .... sometime. I do home health ( work part time as a RN after retirement) in Mahnomen. It is a beautiful area in spring, summer, and fall :).
DeleteAnd the Red river will flood in the spring?
DeleteFebruary is my blah month. It holds so many bad memories for me... Can we just skip it?
ReplyDeleteI have some bad ones also, but I try to focus on my living children and grandchildren so that helps.
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