JorDaneeKey wrote: (we paid off that gas/credit bill right after without looking.
Must be nice, but that same bill could not be paid off, looking or not, by many people. There is the vast difference.
I can spend $50 on fuel/supplies and spend weeks in the woods wheeling, relaxing, camping, fishing, hunting, and shooting within a few miles of home. I can go to Tecore for $500 and have a hectic couple days of driving and a little relaxing and some wheeling/backroading.
Tecore affects several months of budgets with only having one income and a child. Previously I did not miss the opportunity, but life has changed and I accept that, in fact I relish it. An hour with my girls is worth a dozen with the truck.