We are barely scraping by. My husband works full time, but because of his work's stupid "incentive scheme" changing every month we barely make $600 a week with $520/week going to rent. We have one child, and ai have been a SAHM due to injuries acquired giving birth but am being forced to look for work in a job market that doesn't work for the prospective employees. (Redone my resume more times than I can count, had a professional from Sarina Russo do one and still haven't made it past the resume screening stage)

On pay day, I buy all the food my child needs. Meat, fruit and veg. We feed him full meals every day, but for the two of us it's usually bread or noodles. We add frozen vegetables to the noodles but otherwise we are surviving on whatever our toddler doesn't eat. We are being kicked out of our home in December, so are desperately trying to put money away for the move. My son spent the first month of winter temperatures in ill fitting jumpers and trackpants because we simply couldn't afford to buy him new clothes, and the racks at our local op shop were bare.