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dyani 🫠

I wanna see how many of us are struggling financially.

No shame either way!

🔁 Boosts encouraged!

Anonymous poll

Poll

I'm struggling to afford things
21
42.9%
I'm comfortable
28
57.1%
49 people voted.
Voting ended 15 March at 16:29.
14 March at 16:29 | Open on social.coop
11 comments
dyani 🫠

Answers are vague on purpose. This is more about how you feel, not about any financial nitty-gritty.

14 March at 16:30 | Open on social.coop
Zumbador

@dyani We're doing ok right now, but my husband has resigned his job so our financial future so we're suddenly having to be careful for the foreseeable future.

14 March at 16:36 | Open on mefi.social
dyani 🫠

@Zumbador i remember reading your posts about that. Seems like it could be or become "struggling" more easily now than before.

How is he doing? less stressed?

14 March at 16:38 | Open on social.coop
Zumbador

@dyani He's got a few more days left at work and he's not doing well at all. He's grieving the job he's losing. I'm hoping that having a break and resting will help him regain his balance. He's got a really good therapist so that does make a difference.

14 March at 16:44 | Open on mefi.social
dyani 🫠

@Zumbador oh no that makes me sad for him! I can empathize in a way. I love my job but there are aspects of it that really burn me out. I hope he can really sink into the break and luxuriate in the change.

14 March at 16:46 | Open on social.coop
Zumbador

@dyani I'm hoping so too! He needs a change really desperately so this might be very good for him.

14 March at 16:55 | Open on mefi.social
मानस Mānas مانس

@dyani Here in “ontario”, many of us are trapped in the enforced legislative poverty of ODSP, which I have been describing instead as ‘ontario disability sucka pogrom’ given that this has felt like a death sentence from the beginning.

14 March at 16:48 | Open on mstdn.manas.website
dyani 🫠

@manas ugh that sounds horrible, i'm so sorry. It is so easy to be trapped inside government poverty in capitalism.

14 March at 16:52 | Open on social.coop
Kellyann

@dyani Every time I think we're comfortable, up comes another expense and things get tight again.

I actually had a nightmare about it last night.

14 March at 16:51 | Open on babka.social
dyani 🫠

@greenmountaingirl same! it's the most stressful part of my life. i always say that without capitalism, i could weather any storm. emotional hardship, fine! physical hardship or illness, fine! as long as i had support and there was no question about my survival needs being met and no money to worry about, I could conquer anything.

14 March at 16:54 | Open on social.coop
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