Well here we go again. For the second time I'm trying to pose this. I lost everything I had written when I moved the mouse I have to use because the mouse pad doesn't work right. (which I'm still waiting for the box so I can send it back for the second time)
In case you don't follow me on Face Book I'm moving (hopefully) on August 15th. I say hopefully because I still haven't finished the paperwork for this place and I haven't heard from my Section 8 case worker. I only found out a little while ago that they had the paperwork for me to finish here and that they haven't heard from my case worker which prompted me to make a call to her. That was a royal pain since I only had her first name written down but now I know her last name and extension so if I need to I can call her when ever. I'll probably be making a few calls to her today because I've not had good luck with those people calling me back. It seems that they don't care if you have questions about things. I was told to call her if I did but when I do I don't get any answers.
Well back to the subject at hand. In anticipation of moving I had my cable (TV, phone and internet) shut off so I wouldn't have a bill to pay in August as I'm going to be spending most of my money on the move. I will have to pay this months rent where I am, rent for the month of August in the new apartment plus half the security deposit for the new apartment. Now I know your wondering why I have to pay a full months rent here and in the new place and that's because that's the way this place works. If you move in on the 15th you still pay the full month and they send you a check for the prorated amount. So I'll be getting a check bad from them for half the month in this apartment, half the month in the new apartment and the security deposit on this apartment. Of which I will end up using to finish paying the security deposit on the new apartment. So that doesn't leave money to pay a cable bill for the month of August. And besides that my contract ran out on August 6th and I was being billed individually for each of the services I was getting. When I opened the e-mail with the bill for August I almost had a heart attack wondering how could it be this high. So I called and found out that after the contract was up I would be billed for the individual services at the normal price. What I ended up doing is having the new services start the 22 of August in my new place under my name instead of transferring the services in my friends name. I knew that there was a reason I was paying off the old bill in my name. (other than to clear my credit) If I had tried to transfer the services from one apartment to another AND change the name I would have not been eligible for the rate that I'm getting as a new customer so I'm glad I did it the way I did.
But in the mean time I'm without TV. Most of the time it was just background noise to listen to but there were a few shows I followed faithfully and now I can't watch them for a month. One of them was Deadliest Catch which had it's season finale the day after I shut off the cable. I don't think Discovery channel has a On Demand channel that I can catch the last show on at someone else's house and I'm very upset that I missed the 2 hour show. I have to see if one of my friends that has cable will let me watch the show if we find out Discovery channel has an On demand feature. I'd love to see how this season ends. I'm really hoping that Jake and Josh end up getting to be the captains of the Cornelia Marie next year. It would make their father Phil Harris proud if they took it over.
So I guess I can say I'm a TV, internet junkie. I can't live without either of them. The phone yeah I can live without that to a point and that's why I have the cell. Of course having the mobility problems I have and not being hooked up to life line means I have to carry the cell with me at all times which sucks but hey what can you do about that? It's easier just to push the button on my necklace and have them call the police, ambulance whatever than for me to call on the cell and be transferred to Oxford from the state police. I pay for that convenience and when I get moved I'll get it back. I just have to find out who to call to do that.
I am in complete withdrawal from TV and internet. I have to go to my friend's house to log in and check my e-mails and such. It's a pain in the butt which is going to get even bigger because I finally got the box to send my computer back in. I have to do that at the beginning of the month when I have the money to have UPS come out and get it. That sucks. I'm going to be taking back the computer that I gave my oldest son for a while so I can keep up on Face Book and such. I just wish I knew someone who would let me splice into their cable so I could watch TV. Not having it sucks. And I won't have it for a week after I move into my new place either. I'm still trying to figure out where everything is going to go in the new place on top of things.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Toshiba computers
I needed to get a new computer so I did some research and decided on a Toshiba Satellite. I knew that my nephew had one so I called him to see how he liked his and he said he liked it, it worked great and also he thought I was getting a good deal with this one. So I went ahead and bought it. I ordered it through Wal-Mart.com and received it about a week after I ordered it online. Well right out of the box I found I had problems with it so instead of calling Walmart and complaining about it I went to Toshiba to resolve what was going on. Big Mistake.
I was told by a technician at Toshiba Tech Support that I needed to send the computer back to them to get the problem fixed and that I needed to pay $25.00 to have them send a shipping box to me through UPS then call UPS to come back and pick it up. I found out later that UPS charges to have a pick up and that was another $10.00. So I did what they wanted me to and sent it back. I had only had the computer for 1 day and back it went. Well I waited to have them fix the problem and got word that it was coming back to me on Monday.
I unpacked the computer yesterday with high hopes that the problem that I was having was fixed. The repair slip that was with the computer said it was some sort of software problem that the fixed. So I started to install the programs that I wanted on the computer. I ran into a problem right away with it. The problem that I had sent it in for wasn't fixed and now I don't have sound. I hear Skype starting up but can't hear anyone when I use Skype. I also can't hear any music when I play it. I can't even use the headphone jack because it doesn't work either. So I placed another call to Toshiba Tech Support and was told that I needed to send it back again at another cost of $25.00 and a UPS pick up charge of $10.00. So now I'm into Toshiba for an extra $70.00 on top of the $300.00 I paid for the computer and have massive problems with it. I called Toshiba Tech support 4 times yesterday trying to either get a new computer or my money back and even called Wal-Mart.com to see if I could get my money back and was told that because it was beyond the 15 day return time I couldn't get my money back from Wal-Mart or Toshiba. This is total bull shit.
Anyway here I am now with a computer that still needs to be fixed so I'll be without one for about 2 weeks while I send it back. At another cost to me of $35.00. How fair is it to a customer to have to pay for a return on a repair that wasn't resolved in the first place? And why can't they replace an obviously defective machine? Toshiba doesn't give two shits about their customers and if anyone reading this is thinking of getting an new computer DO NOT ever buy a Toshiba. They are junk. I have a $400.00 paper weight now that I have to pay MORE money to ship it back. I am not a happy camper and Toshiba Customer support isn't doing anything to help me resolve this problem. They don't care about their customers at all.
So to end I will never buy anything else made by Toshiba. Be it a computer, Tablet or TV. They have lost a customer for life.
I was told by a technician at Toshiba Tech Support that I needed to send the computer back to them to get the problem fixed and that I needed to pay $25.00 to have them send a shipping box to me through UPS then call UPS to come back and pick it up. I found out later that UPS charges to have a pick up and that was another $10.00. So I did what they wanted me to and sent it back. I had only had the computer for 1 day and back it went. Well I waited to have them fix the problem and got word that it was coming back to me on Monday.
I unpacked the computer yesterday with high hopes that the problem that I was having was fixed. The repair slip that was with the computer said it was some sort of software problem that the fixed. So I started to install the programs that I wanted on the computer. I ran into a problem right away with it. The problem that I had sent it in for wasn't fixed and now I don't have sound. I hear Skype starting up but can't hear anyone when I use Skype. I also can't hear any music when I play it. I can't even use the headphone jack because it doesn't work either. So I placed another call to Toshiba Tech Support and was told that I needed to send it back again at another cost of $25.00 and a UPS pick up charge of $10.00. So now I'm into Toshiba for an extra $70.00 on top of the $300.00 I paid for the computer and have massive problems with it. I called Toshiba Tech support 4 times yesterday trying to either get a new computer or my money back and even called Wal-Mart.com to see if I could get my money back and was told that because it was beyond the 15 day return time I couldn't get my money back from Wal-Mart or Toshiba. This is total bull shit.
Anyway here I am now with a computer that still needs to be fixed so I'll be without one for about 2 weeks while I send it back. At another cost to me of $35.00. How fair is it to a customer to have to pay for a return on a repair that wasn't resolved in the first place? And why can't they replace an obviously defective machine? Toshiba doesn't give two shits about their customers and if anyone reading this is thinking of getting an new computer DO NOT ever buy a Toshiba. They are junk. I have a $400.00 paper weight now that I have to pay MORE money to ship it back. I am not a happy camper and Toshiba Customer support isn't doing anything to help me resolve this problem. They don't care about their customers at all.
So to end I will never buy anything else made by Toshiba. Be it a computer, Tablet or TV. They have lost a customer for life.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Fourth of July
Fireworks, cookouts and swimming. That's what the fourth usually means to people. Yesterday it meant shopping to me. I only get to go and do big grocery shops twice a month. The third or after and the thirteenth or after. Those are the times that I either get paid or get my food stamps. So to go and get what I need for the month has to be planned out very thoughtfully and it's planned months in advance which days I'm going. I rely on my caseworker from a mental health support group I belong to to take me because I don't have a car of my own to do it. Because my case worker doesn't work Sunday and Monday and there is a standing staff meeting that takes most of the day Tuesday that meant I went shopping on Wednesday which happened to be the fourth.
It didn't really feel like a holiday to me because I did all the things I would usually do on a regular week day. I did get up at my normal time and I had planned with one of my friends to have him come over to be in the house so I felt comfortable to take a shower. I have fallen in the shower in the past and have a life alert button that I wear but would rather have someone here when I go in. I felt so much better when I got out which is always the case. It's hard for me to get in there though because it takes a lot of energy and most days I just don't have it. It also hurts to get in there. I have Fibromyalgia and other pain issues including bad knees and a bad back. It's hard most days just to get out of bed not to mention trying to lift my legs to get into a tub. I have a shower stool so I can sit when I get in there, it's just getting in there that's hard. Most people don't have any sympathy for me and that is their problem not mine. I'm not looking for it anyway. I try not to let people know how bad I feel, pain wise, anyway. It's a constant thing that varies from day to day in intensity but never gets below a 6 on a scale of 1-10. Today is one of those days where it's running about an 8 and there isn't any thing I can do to make it less. It's also hot outside and this afternoon I have an appointment regarding getting my section 8 and that means I have to get dressed which can be a problem.
My home health aide comes in 3 days a week to do things that I'm not able to do for myself anymore. Things like washing a full sink of dishes, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom and laundry. Even simple things that most people take for granted like making the bed can cause my back to go out then I'm done for the day.
To get back to the fourth because I got off on a tangent there. So after hearing fireworks for 2 nights from the towns around me and probably Worcester as well some idiot that lives here in the complex got his hands on some illegal fireworks. It wasn't just one person because they were going off in a lot of parking lots and courtyards. They make more noise than pretty colors and are just a pain in the rump because the idiots don't respect time limits. At 1AM I was still hearing them going off even though I had shut the windows and turned the A/C on to drown out the worst of the noise. When the towns light them off, because of where my apartment building is, I'm not able to see them but I can hear them. The noise isn't that bad to handle and the cats are only spooked a little. Well with the fireworks going off right outside the window last night the cats were totally spooked out. The big one, Dumkupf, weights in somewhere around 30 lbs and he was trying his hardest to get under my bed. My bed sits low to the ground and there was no way he was getting under there. He had his head and part of his upper body under there but got stuck. The little on, Middy, is small enough that she can get under the couch so she was hiding there. After I shut the window and finally went back to bed they both got on the bed, one on each side of me, to try and get me to protect them. They don't do this very often so it was kind of nice. They stayed there most of the night as well because every time I woke up to roll over I found I was pinned to the bed.
I know that for the next 6 months I'm going to be hearing someone up here lighting off firecrackers and other noise making fireworks. Now that the new management has taken over there isn't a security person to patrol the property at night. At least when you call the office number there isn't any way to get connected to them like there was a few months ago. Being that this is private property the police don't patrol up here and when you call about noise complaints you can't even call on 911. They tell you to call back on the non emergency phone number which is a pain in the butt because it's not listed in the phone book I have and they don't really give you a chance to ask what it is. I have to call a friend to have them look the number up for me. Even then when you get someone they say there isn't anything they can do as Orchard Hill Estates is privately owned and they can't do much. They in turn tell you to call security and now there isn't any. It's something that I'm going to talk to the new property manager about because if there was security here last nights noise wouldn't have lasted as long as it did and they could have confiscated the illegal fireworks and made a report about who was lighting them off to put in the file of trouble makers up here. Maybe the next time their lease is up they wouldn't be able to renew it if they have enough reports and complaints about them. At least that's what I wold hope would happen but I have a feeling that that isn't the case.
So that probably means again tonight I will be running the A/C to drown out the noise. I struggle every summer to pay the electric bill because of having the extra electricity to run the A/C, X-box and other toys or games that the kids use during the summer months. I don't want the kids to just be sitting around up my butt bugging me so I let them use these things and the in turn run the electric bill up. I have tried to get all energy efficient things but the A/C is an older model that isn't very energy efficient. None of the A/C's up here are younger than 5 years because they just fix them and put them back. Management up here doesn't pay for our electric like they do the heat so they don't care if the appliances are energy efficient or not. It's not money out of their pocket so why should they care? Most of the people up here are on some sort of assistance whether it's welfare or social security and we all struggle to pay our electric bills in the summer. I know I have asked over and over to have more energy efficient appliances brought in but I hit a stone wall with management. I know that when my refrigerator goes, and it's on it's way out, not only will I have to pay to replace what ever was in it but they will just repair the fridge and put it back in one of the other apartments. They would rather spend more money to repair something than to replace it for less money. The last management company even fired maintenance supervisor that they had just hired because he had blown their budget buying new appliances even after he showed them in black and white it was cheaper that way.
Another tangent. Well to end today I have the Section 8 appointment at the RCAP office in Worcester this afternoon. I was originally scheduled to go last month in Gardner which is over an hour away and had to wait for them to schedule me in Worcester. That appointment came through 2 weeks ago and I had to scramble to find a ride. On Saturday afternoon I got letter from them saying that now instead of it being at 10:30 in the morning it is now 1:30 in the afternoon. I was so pissed as I had a hard time pinning someone down to take me in the morning and now I had to find someone to take me in the afternoon. I managed, after about 5 phone calls, to find someone to take me but I'm sure whoever comes back to get me is going to have to wait for me to get out. They tell you that it takes anywhere from 2-21/2 hours for the appointment. Sometimes it even goes longer depending on how many people there have to have interpreters there for them. If the person who is heading the meeting has to keep stopping so things can be translated it takes even longer. If I had my way they would have separate meetings for the English speaking people and those who don't speak English as a first language. That would stream line the process and maybe the meetings wouldn't take as long.
Time to fight to get dressed for this meeting so good bye for now.
It didn't really feel like a holiday to me because I did all the things I would usually do on a regular week day. I did get up at my normal time and I had planned with one of my friends to have him come over to be in the house so I felt comfortable to take a shower. I have fallen in the shower in the past and have a life alert button that I wear but would rather have someone here when I go in. I felt so much better when I got out which is always the case. It's hard for me to get in there though because it takes a lot of energy and most days I just don't have it. It also hurts to get in there. I have Fibromyalgia and other pain issues including bad knees and a bad back. It's hard most days just to get out of bed not to mention trying to lift my legs to get into a tub. I have a shower stool so I can sit when I get in there, it's just getting in there that's hard. Most people don't have any sympathy for me and that is their problem not mine. I'm not looking for it anyway. I try not to let people know how bad I feel, pain wise, anyway. It's a constant thing that varies from day to day in intensity but never gets below a 6 on a scale of 1-10. Today is one of those days where it's running about an 8 and there isn't any thing I can do to make it less. It's also hot outside and this afternoon I have an appointment regarding getting my section 8 and that means I have to get dressed which can be a problem.
My home health aide comes in 3 days a week to do things that I'm not able to do for myself anymore. Things like washing a full sink of dishes, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom and laundry. Even simple things that most people take for granted like making the bed can cause my back to go out then I'm done for the day.
To get back to the fourth because I got off on a tangent there. So after hearing fireworks for 2 nights from the towns around me and probably Worcester as well some idiot that lives here in the complex got his hands on some illegal fireworks. It wasn't just one person because they were going off in a lot of parking lots and courtyards. They make more noise than pretty colors and are just a pain in the rump because the idiots don't respect time limits. At 1AM I was still hearing them going off even though I had shut the windows and turned the A/C on to drown out the worst of the noise. When the towns light them off, because of where my apartment building is, I'm not able to see them but I can hear them. The noise isn't that bad to handle and the cats are only spooked a little. Well with the fireworks going off right outside the window last night the cats were totally spooked out. The big one, Dumkupf, weights in somewhere around 30 lbs and he was trying his hardest to get under my bed. My bed sits low to the ground and there was no way he was getting under there. He had his head and part of his upper body under there but got stuck. The little on, Middy, is small enough that she can get under the couch so she was hiding there. After I shut the window and finally went back to bed they both got on the bed, one on each side of me, to try and get me to protect them. They don't do this very often so it was kind of nice. They stayed there most of the night as well because every time I woke up to roll over I found I was pinned to the bed.
I know that for the next 6 months I'm going to be hearing someone up here lighting off firecrackers and other noise making fireworks. Now that the new management has taken over there isn't a security person to patrol the property at night. At least when you call the office number there isn't any way to get connected to them like there was a few months ago. Being that this is private property the police don't patrol up here and when you call about noise complaints you can't even call on 911. They tell you to call back on the non emergency phone number which is a pain in the butt because it's not listed in the phone book I have and they don't really give you a chance to ask what it is. I have to call a friend to have them look the number up for me. Even then when you get someone they say there isn't anything they can do as Orchard Hill Estates is privately owned and they can't do much. They in turn tell you to call security and now there isn't any. It's something that I'm going to talk to the new property manager about because if there was security here last nights noise wouldn't have lasted as long as it did and they could have confiscated the illegal fireworks and made a report about who was lighting them off to put in the file of trouble makers up here. Maybe the next time their lease is up they wouldn't be able to renew it if they have enough reports and complaints about them. At least that's what I wold hope would happen but I have a feeling that that isn't the case.
So that probably means again tonight I will be running the A/C to drown out the noise. I struggle every summer to pay the electric bill because of having the extra electricity to run the A/C, X-box and other toys or games that the kids use during the summer months. I don't want the kids to just be sitting around up my butt bugging me so I let them use these things and the in turn run the electric bill up. I have tried to get all energy efficient things but the A/C is an older model that isn't very energy efficient. None of the A/C's up here are younger than 5 years because they just fix them and put them back. Management up here doesn't pay for our electric like they do the heat so they don't care if the appliances are energy efficient or not. It's not money out of their pocket so why should they care? Most of the people up here are on some sort of assistance whether it's welfare or social security and we all struggle to pay our electric bills in the summer. I know I have asked over and over to have more energy efficient appliances brought in but I hit a stone wall with management. I know that when my refrigerator goes, and it's on it's way out, not only will I have to pay to replace what ever was in it but they will just repair the fridge and put it back in one of the other apartments. They would rather spend more money to repair something than to replace it for less money. The last management company even fired maintenance supervisor that they had just hired because he had blown their budget buying new appliances even after he showed them in black and white it was cheaper that way.
Another tangent. Well to end today I have the Section 8 appointment at the RCAP office in Worcester this afternoon. I was originally scheduled to go last month in Gardner which is over an hour away and had to wait for them to schedule me in Worcester. That appointment came through 2 weeks ago and I had to scramble to find a ride. On Saturday afternoon I got letter from them saying that now instead of it being at 10:30 in the morning it is now 1:30 in the afternoon. I was so pissed as I had a hard time pinning someone down to take me in the morning and now I had to find someone to take me in the afternoon. I managed, after about 5 phone calls, to find someone to take me but I'm sure whoever comes back to get me is going to have to wait for me to get out. They tell you that it takes anywhere from 2-21/2 hours for the appointment. Sometimes it even goes longer depending on how many people there have to have interpreters there for them. If the person who is heading the meeting has to keep stopping so things can be translated it takes even longer. If I had my way they would have separate meetings for the English speaking people and those who don't speak English as a first language. That would stream line the process and maybe the meetings wouldn't take as long.
Time to fight to get dressed for this meeting so good bye for now.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Budgeting SUCKS
I am on a very fixed income. I am on disability and only get so much a month. It's so far under poverty level I have to look up to see it.
Today I get a call from the company I get magazines through. (By the way, if you get calls from Viking magazines hang up) I got sucked into buying subscriptions through them and last month because the third fell on a Sunday I got paid on Friday and spent the money that I should have saved for that payment. This month they took out last months payment plus this months payment and next month they are taking out the normal payment plus half a payment. That should have made me square with them but today I got a call from "Bobby" saying that the publisher is raising their rates and I did I want to lock in the rate I had. He told me that I would still be paying the $49.99 for another 20 months. I could handle that. He then said that someone else would be calling to confirm this and hung up.
Well a woman called me a few minutes later to go over what I'd be paying and informed me that on top of the $49.99 I'd be paying ANOTHER $49.99 for 8 months. Well I can't afford that and told her that wasn't what I had been told. She then said she was sending it back to whoever decided this stuff and hung up.
A few minutes after that I got another call from Bobby and when I said he didn't tell me about the extra payments he got upset and said he sure enough did but that's not what I heard. Then he tells me he can cut the subscription length and lower the price to $22.50 a month but it would have to start next month. Well I can afford that either. Anyone out there who only gets paid once a month will understand that if you know what your expenses are every month then you have to add in another payment for something then something in your budget has to take the money from somewhere else. In this case it's my food budget that it's coming out of and with a 17 year old eating like a pig (I think he has a hollow leg because he can PACK away the food) and I just can't take more out of what I have to spend on him. In fact this month I don't even have as much as I usually do because I got one check on Friday and spent money I should have used tomorrow on things I shouldn't have. He wanted to start the extra $22.50 next month but they are taking $80.00 already and there is no way I can afford the extra $22.50 on top of that. If it wasn't summer maybe I could but I have a lot of extra bills to pay with my 17 year old here and the extras that come along with that. (food and electric) No matter what I said to him he just wouldn't listen to me that he's taking food out of my kids mouths and finally I got him to agree to hold off on making any extra payments till September. He's going to call me back mid August to talk more about what I'm going to have to pay extra. I'd like to keep getting the magazines for the next 10 years like my contract says I will but I don't want to have to pay extra for what I'm getting. I can't cancel the contract at this point without still having to pay for it so if I have to pay for it I mine as well keep it and get the magazines. I actually enjoy them even if I don't get them when I should. (they usually come to me AFTER they have already hit the news stand and I could pay for them that way) One of them doesn't even come the same week as it should. It's the Star mag and I'm usually running a week behind. I have brought this up with Viking and they say that the publisher has control over when they go out to people who subscribe to the mag and there isn't anything they can do about it. I have subscribed to magazines in the past and always got them sent to me a week before they come out on the news stand. Plus one week I got the next weeks magazine before the current weeks mag so I know that is bull***t.
OK so this just turned into a bitch session. I had to get this off my chest and warn people not to get sucked into something like this. I knew in the back of my mind they would do something like this but I went ahead and re did my contract with them anyway so I only have myself to blame. It just came at the wrong time of the year to up the price I pay. Come September I can pay the extra they want (well maybe not in December) because my oldest won't be staying here full time like he's doing now so my expenses won't be as high. I'm still trying to pay off last summers electric bill and now I'll have the extra expense of this years electric on top of it as well. Suck.
Well let me calm down and cool off. I hope that things get better quickly.
Today I get a call from the company I get magazines through. (By the way, if you get calls from Viking magazines hang up) I got sucked into buying subscriptions through them and last month because the third fell on a Sunday I got paid on Friday and spent the money that I should have saved for that payment. This month they took out last months payment plus this months payment and next month they are taking out the normal payment plus half a payment. That should have made me square with them but today I got a call from "Bobby" saying that the publisher is raising their rates and I did I want to lock in the rate I had. He told me that I would still be paying the $49.99 for another 20 months. I could handle that. He then said that someone else would be calling to confirm this and hung up.
Well a woman called me a few minutes later to go over what I'd be paying and informed me that on top of the $49.99 I'd be paying ANOTHER $49.99 for 8 months. Well I can't afford that and told her that wasn't what I had been told. She then said she was sending it back to whoever decided this stuff and hung up.
A few minutes after that I got another call from Bobby and when I said he didn't tell me about the extra payments he got upset and said he sure enough did but that's not what I heard. Then he tells me he can cut the subscription length and lower the price to $22.50 a month but it would have to start next month. Well I can afford that either. Anyone out there who only gets paid once a month will understand that if you know what your expenses are every month then you have to add in another payment for something then something in your budget has to take the money from somewhere else. In this case it's my food budget that it's coming out of and with a 17 year old eating like a pig (I think he has a hollow leg because he can PACK away the food) and I just can't take more out of what I have to spend on him. In fact this month I don't even have as much as I usually do because I got one check on Friday and spent money I should have used tomorrow on things I shouldn't have. He wanted to start the extra $22.50 next month but they are taking $80.00 already and there is no way I can afford the extra $22.50 on top of that. If it wasn't summer maybe I could but I have a lot of extra bills to pay with my 17 year old here and the extras that come along with that. (food and electric) No matter what I said to him he just wouldn't listen to me that he's taking food out of my kids mouths and finally I got him to agree to hold off on making any extra payments till September. He's going to call me back mid August to talk more about what I'm going to have to pay extra. I'd like to keep getting the magazines for the next 10 years like my contract says I will but I don't want to have to pay extra for what I'm getting. I can't cancel the contract at this point without still having to pay for it so if I have to pay for it I mine as well keep it and get the magazines. I actually enjoy them even if I don't get them when I should. (they usually come to me AFTER they have already hit the news stand and I could pay for them that way) One of them doesn't even come the same week as it should. It's the Star mag and I'm usually running a week behind. I have brought this up with Viking and they say that the publisher has control over when they go out to people who subscribe to the mag and there isn't anything they can do about it. I have subscribed to magazines in the past and always got them sent to me a week before they come out on the news stand. Plus one week I got the next weeks magazine before the current weeks mag so I know that is bull***t.
OK so this just turned into a bitch session. I had to get this off my chest and warn people not to get sucked into something like this. I knew in the back of my mind they would do something like this but I went ahead and re did my contract with them anyway so I only have myself to blame. It just came at the wrong time of the year to up the price I pay. Come September I can pay the extra they want (well maybe not in December) because my oldest won't be staying here full time like he's doing now so my expenses won't be as high. I'm still trying to pay off last summers electric bill and now I'll have the extra expense of this years electric on top of it as well. Suck.
Well let me calm down and cool off. I hope that things get better quickly.
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