PrueChester, UK
A month of medication or the train fare home. I chose the train and I am not sorry.
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Wednesday 25 September 2024
What has this cost you this month, in any currency?
Money, time, energy, appointments. All valid answers. — asked by Petra
MattNottingham, UK
Stopped. On cost. No drama, no shame, and I will come back when I can.
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PeronelCanterbury, UK
I budget for it like rent now, which took me about eight months to arrive at.
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BridieWexford, IE
Wrote the arithmetic out with no rounding. Seeing it was steadying rather than frightening.
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PatrickLimerick, IE
A month of medication or the train fare home. I chose the train and I am not sorry.
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NolanHalifax, CA
Found a hardship fund at my university that I did not know existed.
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Núria That is a real milestone and it has no number attached, which is the best kind.
BramwellNottingham, UK
Three months at a time is cheaper here, if you can find the money for three months at once.
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Ammi Would you like company on Thursday? Several of us will be about.
NazneenDhaka, BD
Won the appeal at the second attempt. Eleven weeks, four paragraphs, one very patient clinician.
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MossHebden Bridge, UK
Won the appeal at the second attempt. Eleven weeks, four paragraphs, one very patient clinician.
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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
No subsidy where I am, so it is just the number, every month, indefinitely.
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VivLuton, UK
Picked up extra shifts specifically for this, which I resent slightly and would do again.
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ZebAustin, TX
It has been the hardest part of this from the beginning and nobody writes about that.
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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
Cheaper than the two other things I stopped doing, put like that.
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NixLeith, UK
It has been the hardest part of this from the beginning and nobody writes about that.
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