Guest Post by Wendy Crites
This should be a joke but it’s not. We have great salaries. We had stable jobs – before. A beautiful home without being too flamboyant in a nice middle-class neighborhood. Our kids went to public schools because they were decent, and we couldn’t afford the private sector. We drive middle of the road vehicles – Toyota and Honda. Nothing is high-end. We’re comfortably middle-grounded.
Yet still, we’re living paycheck to paycheck. Our older home is slowly deteriorating because we cannot afford to make repairs to the stucco, replace the 30-year old water heater, replace the multi-patched leaky roof, regrade the yard so water runs away from the foundation and not into the basement, replace original 100-year old windows for energy efficiency, add insulation to both the attic and crawl space… just to name a few things, let alone do the general cosmetics like painting and updating floors, kitchens and bathrooms!
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