This time of year...

Is always financially stressful.

We just celebrated Christmas and my youngest daughter's bday a month before that, and now it's my eldest daughter's birthday on the first of Feb.

So now we're pinching pennies and trying to stretch our dollars as far as they will go. Most people who have kids have their birthdays spaced out, but my kids birthdays as well as Christmas are so close together that we are always hurting around this time of year.

Not looking for sympathy, just needed to release some of the stress I have bottled up.