So, having lunch with my grandmother tomorrow to inform her I have to move out of my apartment by the end of the month and need to move into her basement.
Things I'll need to cover:
1. Paying her rent. Even though it'll probably drive her nuts, because you take care of family, there's the fact that I can't, in good conscience, live there without providing some money. I'm thinking $350 a month. $300 in rent, $50 to cover the power/water bill difference.
2. Groceries. On the plus side, we'll both eat decently since cooking for two is easier than cooking for one. I'd still need to discuss with her meal planning or splitting the groceries, but we may have to do that as we go along.
3. Internet or Cable. While the TV viewing season is okay for me (I could live with rabbit ears), the internet is another issue. I feasibly could just go to the library daily for job searching and email checking, but there's a chance, since I'm just putting my account on hold until I get a job (which better go smoothly, Time Warner Cable), that since she has cable I could get internet added on to her account for a period of time. Just for the basement.
I keep thinking there's something else, but I can't think what. *sigh* Funny how I'd been eating everything in sight when I found out I couldn't be a cop, but tell me I have to move in with family and "inconvenience" them (not their words, what it feels like to me) and suddenly I have no appetite at all.
I think the biggest issue for my grandmother would probably be Chester, but he's easy - I have no beliefs that my dog should get hte run of hte house. He'll stay in the basement and we'll work on him staying quiet. He'll bark for a bit because he'll have trouble getting used to it all. But he'll adjust. And I'll pick up after him in the yard. Ooooh, maybe I can suggest me doing yard work as well, since that could save her some money and give me something to do.
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And with regards to my family, my mother got laid off today. Well, she was informed of the layoff, but she'll be working until the 29th. Which, come to think of it, is just a week and a half longer. She joked that they may need me to move in with them just for the rent money. LOL (Too small a space and no room for Chester.)