Who needs a drink?

I  just wrote the check for more summer camp activities.  I already sent the one at our church.  This one for 2 weeks at Camp Splash is another $380 out the door.  Admittedly, these things are not necessary expenses and I'm just feeling sensitive to the check-writing.  I'm blessed, we can do it, she loves it -- all the things, but I need somewhere to complain for a hot moment.

Then I opened the mail box. Your gal forgot that my car insurance comes in June.  OUCH!  At least it didn't go flying up in price.  I'm trying to be content with that fact.  At least my insurance does a three month split w/o charging a fee to do so.  That helps reduce the immediate  impact - but that will take me to when the payment for school and my school taxes are due.

I shouldn't be feeling this way having paid off the house. What the literal heck?

How do people with lower incomes (and more kids) do it?