Fighting Foreclosure gets a Hand From Fate

Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments on my post on Friday. I will be going through and answering them soon. Friday turned out to be a rather amusing day. All day I had a case of the blues, and as I said, I know this happens from time to time. Even during the midst of feeling like I just wanted to give in, turn the house over the bank and join the Peace Corps, I knew that it was a temporary feeling and would pass. What I wasn't expecting is that "fate" would lend a hand.

Friday evening I had plans to help out at the nonprofit group I am a part of. I was able to stop home, change clothes and grab the mail before going to volunteer. There were four envelopes in the mailbox. The first contained a check...

for $196.95! It was the refund check from switching my home insurance. The second envelope was the new home policy and the third envelope contained yet another check. It was a $3.00 check from one of the surveys I completed last week. I could tell the fourth envelope was from my house painter and assumed it was a receipt for the money I had given him for supplies. Well, that's exactly what it was, but the supplies had come in at $10 less than he had expected, so in the envelope were two $5.00 bills!

By this time I am kind of giggling. I had gone from feeling completely depressed about money to being completely amused by it in the time it took to open the mail! I was up $209.95 from where I had been just a few moments later. It didn't stop there though, on my way to volunteer I found $1.00, then when I checked my email Saturday morning, I saw that ebates had sent me a refund check. (More on that later.)

With the exception of the $10.00 from the painter and the $1.00 I found, all of the money was expected. I knew it would be hitting eventually. What I didn't expect was that it would all come on the day I was a bit in the dumps. Money might not be able to buy Happiness, but it can sure kick Worry right in the butt!

The weekend turned out to be great. I spent some time with friends, did a bunch of yard work, worked on my vegetable garden and even hit a few garage sales. Just what I needed to get back in the swing of things!



Photo by: Vaguely Artistic