The cost of really living...

I remember in high school I wrote a speech for a contest or something and I thought it was kind of witty at the time. "Nothing In Life is Free" was a work I was proud of. Yet, as I went on about how even seemingly free things in the end has a cost to someone somewhere, my naivety made me blissfully unaware of the burden of adult life. A life that desperately searches for every and any freebie to lessen the tension on your precious dollars. I had no idea that paper could stretch as much as it does in the hands of my Fiancée.

I curse the time that I open the mailbox and get showered with coupons and super saver booklets. I'm the kind of person who would pay whatever the cashier asked after ringing in my things. I find it kind of pointless to clip coupons and spend the extra time at the checkout to only save a dollar or two. But with the price of gas going up so high, one has to really save where they can. One episode of Extreme Couponing can really open your eyes to how effective a bit of junk mail can be.Granted this isn't the United States so coupons do not work the same up here, yet its still effective to use them.

My heart sank when I heard the price of gas in Toronto was near a buck forty. What is the reason for this? All I heard that the issues in Libya are affecting the gas prices, but this country only supplies like 2% of the world's oil supply and 90% of that is going to European countries. The global price of oil isn't rising either from what I can see so the price hike is coming from the refining process or perhaps the government. I really hope these gas shenanigans are over soon. I have a long drive ahead of me in the near future.

This July, my Fiancée and I are getting married, but we're having it close to family in Newfoundland, so it's a long drive. Not sure how the price of gas is going to affect our finances during the drive and we're starting to stress out about money. July will be here before we want it to and be completely ready for this. I'm looking forward to it, don't get me wrong, but I'm dreading the drive. I've never driven that far for that long before. Plus, we're planning the trip with my sister and our two cats in the car as well. I'm not sure how this will work out in the end, but it will either end in disaster and pain, or a side splitting laugh. I'm hoping for the latter.

In the meantime, we are pretty much forced to sit at home and do nothing, as everything costs money to do. Like I wrote before, nothing in life is free. With all this nice weather outside, one would think they should take advantage of it. I plan on going for walks and stuff, maybe loosing some weight, but we'll see how that goes. If work wasn't so far away I'd walk there too. I mean honestly, who puts an office building out in the middle of a corn field?