I am waiting to see what my tax refund will be like this year, if I even get one at all, before I decide what to do about the A/C
COVID sent my personal finances into a tailspin I still haven’t recovered from. To be fair, before the pandemic I was living paycheck to paycheck, but I still had a few hundred bucks saved up for an emergency fund. Once my offices were shut down, I had to scramble to cover my bills. My income dropped in a big way, and the only option I had was to cut my spending in a big way. No more going out to eat, no more car insurance, no more luxury items – I was flat broke. When my home HVAC system stopped working, I simply did not have the money to call someone to fix it. Since it would cost over a hundred dollars just to get an HVAC tech out to look at the system, I couldn’t afford it. Yes I could afford one hundred dollars, but that just covered the visit, not any parts or labor. Why spend the money to inspect the HVAC system if I didn’t also have the money to fix it? Instead I took that hundred dollars and bought a nice space heater at Walmart, which wasn’t great but got me through the winter okay. I am waiting to see what my tax refund will be like this year, if I even get one at all, before I decide what to do about the A/C. For two hundred bucks I can get a portable air conditioner that is good enough to cool down one room at a time, so if I don’t get any money back that will be my only option.
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