**UPDATE**
Here is how bad its gotten. I asked the wife to cut loose with a few bucks so I could head to the hobby shop, I figured, hey I work, I deserve it? She said...No we need the money for groceries...damn!, Do the kids really need to eat 3 meals a day?

So off I go today to participate in a 2 hour paid focus group I was offered to join. I will get a check at the end of it, cash it in, go to the hobby shop and then give the other half to my wife to buy groceries.... Do they give cash for giving blood...hmmm