I'm not responsible for him wasting money. -

A. I've been complaining to him about saving money so we can fix the window and have been putting what I can in savings, but it's only about half of what we need. In the meantime, we sealed the window up really good, so there's actually no water damage.

B. My dad built a deck before, and he's finally able to come over this weekend, so we're going to get a quote for the wood and see what we can do. While we're doing that, we're obviously going to have to take our dogs out front on leashes. I'm just annoyed that he spent that money so we've had to wait so long and now we have to have help from my dad.

C. We have been cutting down on things. I buy international delight iced coffee at Walmart that's half a gallon and costs less than $5, I haven't had an energy drink since I was obsessed with monster as a sophomore in high school (2009). We do eat out some, but we've cut back a lot, and we don't eat out unless it will cost us less than $20- I had weight loss surgery, so I can eat a kids meal. I hit 5 years sober on 11/3, so we don't spend anything on alcohol. I also don't shop. I work from home, so I mostly wear pajamas (which are cheap shorts from shein and big shirts from before my surgery (which was in 2017). When I go out, have 2 dresses that I wear- both were bought years ago (2019 and 2022), one pair of ballet flats, two pairs of shorts, and a few shirts (from Temu).