The 0.50 Cents That Made The Difference

How hard it is to make ends meet when there is no money and no job on sight, unfortunately there are so many people desperate to find a job and struggling for money.

If you can find some ways to save the little money that you may have will be helpful, so here are some interesting tips that you can use at your convenience.

 

The 0.50 cents that helped me to get home.

If you are thirsty and have 0.50 cents to buy a drink, drink water and those 0.50 cents could help you on something else, you may think that 0.50 cents are nothing but I can tell you that depending circumstances 0.50 cents can be a life changing sometimes even being so small quantity of money it can help.

(This is a personal true story) One day coming to Houston Texas from Mexico I was running out of gasoline and only had one dollar bill at 2-3 o’clock in the morning with a 3 year old daughter a pregnant wife no a/c on my car and then, not knowing the city of Houston at all (My first time in the states) I got lost taking the wrong exit from the freeway, not knowing the language I got confused with the words of Downtown when I was looking for Baytown exit.

It took me 0.50 cents to make couple phone calls at that time of morning, waking up people that I didn’t knew but were my mother friends (My mom didn’t had phone at the time) anyway, those people were able to talk to a security guard on a grocery store (I couldn’t communicate with him since at that time I couldn’t speak English at all) the guard talked to a couple customers that came to buy beer at that time of the morning! To help and guide me to the entrance of the highway.

Before that while we were there waiting my little daughter came awake and being a little girl she wanted something to drink, I could have bought here a soda but then we would have to wait another 4-8 hours to daylight and hope that my mom friends would tell her where we were and get help, I had to convince my little one to please drink some water with the promise that I will buy her a soda next day and with those 0.50 cents I bought gasoline and thus helped me get home.

Gasoline was cheaper back on those days (20 years ago) but still now 0.50 cents can help on a lot of ways, so if you can save 0.50 cents and put it to some good use you may come up with something good for you, here is a sad part on this chapter in my life, the people who the guard talked to give us help when after leaving the store they stop on front of me demanding money for the help, money that I didn’t had but I did had a small tool box and they took it as a fee for the help I was delighted when I took the highway again and finally made it to my mom home, 0.50 cents made the difference that day of having to wait or keep going the next few miles.

This post is to let you know that I came to the states and barely made it to my mom home with cero money and I have been able to succeed in a strange country with a strange language, hard time we had no doubt about it but it has been fruitful after all, think wisely on your expenses and you will see that 0.50 cents would help you one day.

 I will be posting some more tips and if there is a story that I can tell I will be writing about it, till then . . .