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- From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: time to go back
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.162104.1097@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:21:04 GMT
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- In article <SBATE.92Dec29162618@mary.atl.ge.com> sbate@atl.ge.com writes:
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- >
- >Some of the feelings I picked up from your post reminded me of how I
- >felt when I was kid and my mom withheld my allowance for not cleaning
- >my room. I decided I wouldn't depend on that allowance (or any other
- >external reward or benefit) because other people could use it to
- >manipulate me. Is this similar to how you're feeling?
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- not really, because i don't depend on 'an allowance' for my very survival.
- i am just worried about perhaps not being able to make a payment or twelve
- and then suddenly be totally out of control of my financial assets. i can
- envision my life being shredded by fat suited loan sharks simply because i
- couldn't afford the $60/month payments. and i don't think i can. sometimes
- i don't eat for a week at a time because i haven't got the money, it's all
- gone to pay my health insurance, or whatever. i don't have the savings to
- deal with an emergency if i have to keep making payments. i mean, the electric
- and gas and water can be shut off if i don't pay, and i can be evicted, but at
- least i won't owe. i can't just stop paying a loan back and expect them to
- just take away my phone or something. it's much harder than that.
-
- i know this seems piddly to a lot of you, and i guess i can see your point.
- the angstful part is that i am so terrified to do this perfectly normal thing,
- and go into debt. and i can't explain it.
-
- bah.
-
-
- --
- -just give me what for,
- rachel perkins = rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
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