Conclusion. I am sick of worrying about money and I am sick of people taking their income for granted and not being aware that they are in fact much more cushioned than a lot of other people.

I have a middle class aesthetic and a low income - granted, that's because I work only 3 days a week but since I do not have the emotional resilience or energy to work 5 days a week, I'm staying this way. And obviously, I know lots of people who are financially far worse off than us.

partners, and even though they get deals, the fact they can do it, and they have the money to spend on dinner and alcohol while they are out. All this makes me think that actually, we are not well off or comfortable, we are instead at ease with not spending much and we have a cheap lifestyle.

I think about those people who think fifty quid is not much, and those that reach the end of the month with more than 5 quid in their account (while knowing I'm fortunate to be able to access savings if things are really tight). I think about people who regularly have nights away with their

that we are well off/comfortable even though we each earn way below the average UK wage, then I see people talking about their foreign holidays and regular alcohol purchases, those who can afford pets and vet bills, those who go out for dinner regularly, or get takeaway once a week.

years or more, at age 67 if we're lucky. I'm scared of having to work till 67 because I doubt I'll be clever or functional enough to do so. I will not be able to pay for my son's university fees or help him with bills because we simply will not have enough spare cash. I keep thinking...

I'm glad that min wage will be increasing. I'm feeling downtrodden that our wages won't be increasing. I'm feeling injustice that my parents monthly pensions is more than my (part time) and my partner's (full time) wage and I'm pretty damn scared of living in poverty when we retire in 20...

I'm amazed when people can go on 3 holidays a year, whether or not it's abroad. I'm stunned when people say they can't afford a rise in council tax for their mortgage free home. I'm amazed and disgusted when I hear how monthly rent for a 3 bed basic residential house is £1,300 a year.

Christmas presents and my annual purchase of new glasses (£400+!) due to an ever changing poor prescription. We don't go to the theatre, we barely go to the cinema. We spend very little on hobbies. I buy most clothes secondhand. I search for shoes in the sale and don't have a variety.

We have savings and the mortgage is slowly getting paid off. Slowly. We don't have foreign holidays. We have a free caravan holiday that we save for each year - it's a one week holiday because we need to conserve annual leave as we have no parents for childcare nearby. I put money aside for...

if you ever do play it I have a good ten year old who will happily swap monologues with you about it, endlessly..

Have ordered Krobus and Night Market to make him a Junimo. and possibly a cowl so he stops stealing mine.

OMG the child LOVES stardew valley.

I want them all.

Omg. I'll have to look out for these.

You did a brilliant job!

..or genderqueer people in their tirades. I guess transmen are brainwashed by patriarchy, yet transwomen are all predators.
I'm starting* to think they hate anyone not exactly like them.
*That's sarcasm.
Anyway. Fuck the transphobes. Happy Pride month to all my LGBTQI+ peers.

...the transphobic brigade, although I look female, I don't fulfil all the attributes of being female. So in that case, I will step outside your gender binary and tell you to piss off.
I don't like people telling me what to do or how to behave.
Funny that the transphobes never consider transmen...

spread, like blokes do, because it's more comfortable than keeping them crossed. I don't do small talk, or flirting, I'm obnoxious, I'm not demure. I thought I was unapologetically myself, brought up to be free to be me and fighting against patriarchal ideas of what a woman is. But according to...