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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 619078" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Kathy, on a little over a thousand dollars a month, it would be incredibly hard to find the money for the monthly payment, much less the copays etc.... Trust me, been there done that and it is HARD. If Lisa had the money for it, she would have the insurance. Sadly, no matter how low the payments are, if you can barely make the house payment and utilities when you use every single saving method and frugal method you can think of, you cannot pay $81 more for health insurance and even more for the copays etc... The money just simply is. not. there. </p><p></p><p>I have done the budget Lisa is on, in times when prices were considerably lower. It was next to impossible to find any money for healthcare even though I have very serious health issues and require regular daily medication. I ignored my health and paid for my kids to see the doctor instead because the choice was either the kids see the doctor and the copays are paid, or I see the doctor and pay my copays. There simply wasn't any money for anything else unless I could give up eating more than a very basic and cheap diet (and trust me, I was couponing and cooking from scratch and using every frugal tool I had and I have a LOT of them!)</p><p></p><p>Either a youtube video or ask around, someone will show you how to clean a fish. Heck, go to the library and look for the old Foxfire books. They are a series of volumes about how to live in a very rural setting and they are amazing. Or look at a Boy Scout Manual if you cannot find the Foxfire books at the library. I know the older BS manuals used to have directions for fish cleaning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 619078, member: 1233"] Kathy, on a little over a thousand dollars a month, it would be incredibly hard to find the money for the monthly payment, much less the copays etc.... Trust me, been there done that and it is HARD. If Lisa had the money for it, she would have the insurance. Sadly, no matter how low the payments are, if you can barely make the house payment and utilities when you use every single saving method and frugal method you can think of, you cannot pay $81 more for health insurance and even more for the copays etc... The money just simply is. not. there. I have done the budget Lisa is on, in times when prices were considerably lower. It was next to impossible to find any money for healthcare even though I have very serious health issues and require regular daily medication. I ignored my health and paid for my kids to see the doctor instead because the choice was either the kids see the doctor and the copays are paid, or I see the doctor and pay my copays. There simply wasn't any money for anything else unless I could give up eating more than a very basic and cheap diet (and trust me, I was couponing and cooking from scratch and using every frugal tool I had and I have a LOT of them!) Either a youtube video or ask around, someone will show you how to clean a fish. Heck, go to the library and look for the old Foxfire books. They are a series of volumes about how to live in a very rural setting and they are amazing. Or look at a Boy Scout Manual if you cannot find the Foxfire books at the library. I know the older BS manuals used to have directions for fish cleaning. [/QUOTE]
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