[gmonde]

i am a farely new member to this site have been racing for over 20 years,had a few different drag cars,the step up to class racing this year will not happen due to the engine not being ready,,but i am still able to do bracket racing at my local track for now,i have made a ton of changes to the chassis of my car i hopes of being ready for a divisional race,but i even passed on the opening day at the track to get the car down the track after all of the changes that i made,reason is abvious the cost of fuel,race fuel,entry fees,at this point in the game my race program is loan free and i own it(truck,trailer,race car, tools,)the vehicals that i drive are all over 10 years old,i have a 9 year old son and of coarse my wife and between the two of us we make ok money,we certainly do not live any kind of high standard of life,but we live in the state of connectitciut,the car and property taxes are crazy,home heating fuel is nuts,i pay bills in the family and it makes me sick what an average family has to make to in order to survive,in my younger days i would leave lights on,doors open,computers running all night,shops lights on all night,long showers,a/c on all day,heat on all day,spend money like it grew on trees,now!!!!!! different story i make the wife and kid wear extra clothing,put a lock on the thermostate, to keep the heat down,"enough with hour shower",chasing lights,shop on ebay,i even brokedown and started using coupons, and so on, just so i can at least continue to do a little racing,one of my racing buddys has money to burn,he just purchased a twin screw blower for his race deal "$6500.00" just for the blower,thats my race budget for three years

i cant complain ,iknow of alot of people who are in diar straights because of the present economy,when times where good i looked at those people "said these guys are making money hand over fist what am i doing wrong"now there asking me if my comany that i work for is hiring

i read some storys on people who have purchased $400,000.00-500,000.00 homes with no money down on a varible rate and now face $3000.00-$5000.00 monthly morgage payments ,whos mistake was that,the people buying the home or the lenders?


they say "when it goes bad,it realy goes bad" not offend any one on this site, just my .02 cents your average joe GMONDE