Okay so my last post mentioned setting up a bank account right.
Well the story there was that I received a GST cheque in the mail, and I was going to use that to set the account up. But then I felt really shitty yesterday, when I was supposed to do it, so I suggested mum deposit it and then take out the $200 I was going to keep. See, she needs to buy medication, and it can't exactly wait since she's diabetic, so she'd told me to deposit the cheque and withdraw $200 for her once the account was set up.
ANYWAY so last night she remembers something and asks to see the thing the cheque was attached to. So I show it to her, and she realizes that that's the GST cheque for 2008. We'd made an agreement that she gets the first cheque to help with bills and stuff, and after that they'll be completely mine. So she gets the whole, uh.... $418.50 on that cheque, and is using it to buy medication and pay off some bills. She hasn't had a credit card for a while because of payment problems, and paying off this next couple hundred dollars will be enough to hopefully get the card running again, since she's been paying them off little by little in the past.
On top of that, if the housing thing that mum requested (and qualified for) assistance from comes through, which it should by the end of November, we'll get a bunch of money. Mum requested that assistance several months back, and they pay retroactively, so... if we're lucky, we'll be getting a good $1000 at least just before Christmas. Talk about timing. :)