Anna

Got to Centrelink today. I'm eligible for a flood relief grant of about eleven hundred dollars in total. Since I'm still living at home (albeit paying board) about half of it's going to my parents, to help pay for the repair of the creek bank behind my house, or to help pay for the move should the bank prove irrepairable. I know that half might seem like a lot, but at this rate there might be more flooding on the way (regardless of what the weather is like right now) so we have to be ready for anything.

As for the rest of it, I'm going to spending part of it to get Fable 3, and the rest is going towards my car savings.

I don't really want to give away five hundred dollars. It's about half my first car's cost, right there in the bank. But it needs to be done. Besides, I am an expert at thrifty spending. As someone who's lived their entire life in a large family on a casual teacher's pay (my dad has had it so, so hard when it comes to finding work), I've learned to make do and to do without. I can live with a little less money. And anyway, it's a "flood relief" grant! That's what it's for, helping to deal with the floods. The car savings part is an added bonus.

And I'm not going to abandon my family, like my brother pretty much has.