Money

How is it that one can be on state assistance and still get their butt kicked financially?  For instance, getting food stamps is great, a certain amount each month, you budget total how much you would need each week, only go to the store with that same amount in mind and keep it to the basics.  Don't go off track, and at the end of the month, if there is extra, it rolls over.  Flat out.  You can always come out ahead.  IF you keep track.  Child support, same issue.  Budgeting out how much you need in gas for the car, pull ups, diapers, undergarments, clothes- whatever you need and then if you get out ahead, you are lucky. 

But every once in a blue moon, you get one of those months that is longer than expected.  You suddenly get stuck behind.  My daughter came to me tonight begging for fruit.  Foods that I don't have.  I don't have any money until Tuesday so what do I do?  I do what I can, but I am so sad that I had to tell her no.  I feel horrible because I don't have money.  I don't have things.  I am job hunting like crazy.  But I don't have the gas money to go running around places.  I have to budget.  I am so stuck!!!

Dj