Too poor to eat at home

Because of my participation in the current economic crisis I have no earned income but do receive unemployment pay. Our payment for COBRA, to continue the health insurance I had with my former employer, has been reduced about 60% thanks to all you tax-paying, employed people. Every day I check the mailbox to see if random money from the government has arrived. It hasn't yet but I'm sure it will. I only wonder what the currency will be.

Unemployment compensation is just a few hundred dollars a week. It's not enough to live on but between that and my $6.80 an hour for substitute teaching we have managed to pay most bills. We have been eating a lot of the food we had stored for an "emergency." In my book, this qualifies.

So we have no money but we have plenty of time around the house. Can't afford to go shopping or to a movie. We have been cleaning out drawers, shredding boxes of old papers, vacuuming under the bed. I can honestly say I see no need for doing that last item ever! No one sees it, and once I cleaned out that crust of dust my whole bedroom was colder from the cold seeping up from the ground. Dust (in large quantities) makes great insulation!