Remember how I said we had a fridge, air fryer, and an indoor electric grill? Well... what I didn't mention yet was how I had to borrow a $400 loan in order to buy them. This was while I was still staying at Comfort Inn & Suites before the move. But then I had to borrow a $200 loan to help with the move after the hotel owner became greedy and decided to upsell the last week's nightly rates from $65 to $100 per night! Luckily, that loan was fully paid since it was a small amount. However, just when I thought the loan repayments was all over. Recently back in July, I had to borrow a $700 loan just to help pay my mom's past due storage bill or else it would've gone auctioned. But wait, don't think I was purposely going crazy with all of my money! I do work at a warehouse job full-time. However, half of every weekly paycheck has to go to straight the hotel reservations or else we'd be homeless. Which means I can never catch a break. Not only that, but other bills as well. How am I ever going to achieve my goal for transiting from hotels to a home when all I'm basically doing is wasting more money on Uber to work (since we got no car) and DoorDash due to no kitchen? Well... I tried to take the Dart train which worked at the time about a year back until my boss decided to relocate to a different warehouse building that's further away from the train station. So now that idea is crossed off the list as well as the bus since that's too far of a walk. Back then, there was a supervisor who was on my neck, asking me why I kept getting late to work. I told him my story of how I was taking the bus to save money instead of Uber. So he tried to help out by giving me a bike from a charity a church was offering. While it seemed nice, the idea backfired as the bike was too bulky and I was pressured onto using it like it was a motorized bike over trying to make it to work on time. This ordeal only made things worse. So ever since then, I've gotten rides from some co-workers in order to save some money. My mom later did finally found a stable job throughout this ongoing pandemic. And I was eventually promoted to $15 per hour at my warehouse job. While all of these accomplishments help, it's still not enough. Sure the hotel we're in is more cheaper than the old one, but I'm now paying back high interest rates from all the loans I borrowed. Which means more financial stress just to make ends meet.