My family. Story about the family (All drawings are drawn by me personally)

I live in a small city, the population of 250 thousand. We are in the family of 4, but since the older sister married and lives separately, there are three of us left in the family (dad, mom and I). Well, I'll start all about them in order. The Pope works as a locomotive receiver and earns about $ 1000 a month. I work as an engineer-technologist and earn about 400 dollars. Mom until recently did not work for health reasons.

It all started this summer, since my older sister came to visit us ... I decided to borrow a used car. To do this, I needed $ 5,000, but since I needed to do some minor repairs at home and my father bought an engine for his car, I took 7,000 dollars for 3.5 years and now I pay just over $ 200 for it. And at this time, my mother and sister decided to open their own business and persuaded my father to take out a loan for $ 5,000, (at a time when he already had other loans). On the money received from my father, my mother and sister rented a grocery store. Rent costs about 330 dollars, the excise on alcohol 130 dollars, light, heating and so forth 130 dollars. All if you add, you need $ 590, well, round up to $ 600. Total while all made out, the goods could take only for 2700 dollars. Well, they traded, then the sister left and my mother hired a saleswoman. In short, if we take the amount that was needed to pay out loans and services, it was 900 dollars. Mom brought products to the house, in general, they did not spend anything on anything, and lived normally, they would have seemed to have even accumulated a certain amount. But one morning in December, I did not find out what had happened.

A month before, we decided to take a fourth of the horse's carcass. The whole carcass cost 1500 dollars. And my father, as luck would have, received a little 550 dollars which we had to pay as an advance. Then the sum of 1500 was divided into four. And the people who participated with us in the share gave us 1100 dollars. My parents, not only did not save a penny, managed to spend all the money, because they had nothing to pay for loans, while I regularly pay my own money, and at the same time I manage to give my mother some of my small income.

And the matter was the following, my mother to cover expenses per month for the seller, rent and so on, about $ 700 (this without own revenue). The store earns about $ 500 per month, while the amount of goods has doubled, and the proceeds remained the same. Naturally, my mother considers herself to be a brilliant entrepreneur, and it does not matter at all that she does not get anything herself, so every month she throws 200 dollars to the wind. The main thing is that the amount of the goods has grown! Now on ... All the December wages the father gives for the whole carcass of the horse. Since the money co-investors were successfully spent in November, and pay for the loans have nothing to do with. Well, my parents decided that the 180 dollars that I have left after paying my loan will save the situation. Unfortunately, where they can not get another $ 500 from them. To which I declare that I have on a single jeans, which I bought a year ago, formed a decently rubbed hole and I need new jeans. This decision was perceived by me with hostility (but they nevertheless agreed).

The most interesting thing is, when I explain to my mother that I am already 27 years old and it's time for me to create my family, and for this I need to invite girls somewhere, of course to spend money on it, they refuse to understand me. They are still naively suggesting that $ 8 is enough to entertain with the girl culturally, while one movie ticket costs $ 7. In general, I spin, as I can and find additional sources of income. It's not even that, when I go out, somewhere to walk, my mother tells me that if you can, then I'll start as you walk! I explain to her that she is already married and she just has to walk so much, and even more so to reckon with me is meaningless, and I just walk because I'm not married and I want to find a good wife, so that later, like you, could afford to simply stay home! On which, as a rule, I get a not quite intelligible answer, but on my mother's face you can understand that I did not change her mind.

I will return again to money. I explained to my mother that it was very unprofitable to keep a store, that for the $ 200 you spend in anywhere, we could just buy home the products and even stay in the black. Also explained that by selling all the goods, we can repay at least part of the loans, and the money received with the father is enough to live normally. To which, as expected, I received a very feminine answer: "Now you live with your father on your own money, and I'm on money from the store!". I tried to dissuade her from telling her: "Mom, every month you lose money, the only thing your store supported was the money that your dad gave you. What is your income, this is part of dad's pay ... .. "What did my mother ask me to not fool her head, and lay angry sleep.