Posted by Buzzman72 on December 21, 2014 at 09:09:16 from (74.138.170.6):
In Reply to: Extra Money posted by Keith Molden on December 21, 2014 at 03:18:38:
Mom, who's 82, is living on SS of just over $500 a month after Medicare, plus Dad's pension as a part-time postal worker for 25 years. After health insurance, that's just over $300 a month.
Mom's memory isn't so good these days, so I have to write the checks to pay her bills. She lives in the old farmhouse her family bought in 1943, where she moved when they tore down Dad's old house in 2005 because it wasn't fit to live in. HER mom was still living downstairs, so my sister and her husband did the remodeling of the attic to allow Mom to live in the bedroom she occupied as a teenager some 60 years previous.
Mom's mom passed away 3 years ago, and Mom inherited the house. Since then, my sister and I have been begging and pleading with her to move her sleeping quarters downstairs...to no avail. So there's a perfectly good but unused bedroom downstairs, plus the guest bedroom where my uncle stays when he comes to visit, but Mom won't budge. So instead, she's heating both the upstairs and the downstairs, and spending more money that she should on utilities alone...which leaves little left for other stuff. And if she has to do any house repairs, as things wear out and weather, I have no idea how that's going to happen.
Mom quit working at the local senior center serving meals when 23-year-old car fell apart [I found she had a CD that was maturing, so we talked her into replacing the car with one that's "only" 6 years old], so she has no social life. She quit going to church when her mom passed, and she's basically turning into a hermit.
But at least her bills are paid, even if there's not much left afterwards.
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