My experiences of these hard times are...
I've noticed how everything is so much more expensive, food, clothes, toiletry, cosmetics and just all the things a regular everyday person needs, so basically just living is much more expensive. I live with my boyfriend and we are really trying to make things work but now these days it's really hard making ends meet. I feel that I am getting less food for more money every week practically.
We can’t allow ourselves to do the things we were used to, like go to the movies maybe twice a week and go to a nice restaurant and have our quality time together. But that's okay, I can live with that and he can too but it gets me depressed hearing everyday on the radio how so many people have lost all their savings, their jobs and people that are actually taking their own lives because of this state of being.
I.e., two weeks ago I heard this story about an old man who had been working his entire life, and never called in sick. He had invested in some apartments some years ago and all of his savings he kept with a bank he has been doing business with for over 20 years, Landsbanka Íslands. Now he sold everything he owned and started renting an apartment earlier this year and all his saving, 36 million Icelandic krona, he kept with the bank. Now about 4 months ago he got a call from his bank and their financial adviser pressured him to change his deal of interests to money market funds and assured him it was 100% safe. Now he has lost everything! He cannot pay his bills, he doesn’t have money for food and he surely cannot go back to work, what's he to do now??...
This makes me very angry and very sad because this is just one case of many. So I am not even thinking about complaining over my circumstances because compared to what other people are worrying about I’m in heaven. I can't imagine being a single mother with three kids maybe and one has to go to football practise and one has to go to the ballet and the third one has piano class and so on and on ..So I pray that these people don't give up, and look to the brighter times that are coming, because they will.
God bless.
Íris Björk Jóhannesdóttir
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Thank you for your thoughts. I am a struggling American mom, I feel for you and everyone who is facing hard times now. Thank you for your report and your optimism. I hope these difficulties help people to become closer and to remember that we are all in this together. God bless you and the nation of Iceland.
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