i consequently just bought a shop-vac to help me clean up the dirtier parts of this place. it's a $50 five gallon shop-vac, on sale for a highly reduced price. this is an old house that tends to crumble and is in the process of being rebuilt on the spot from the inside and that will come in handy for a long time, i think.
my monthly income, after rent, is now going to be:
$408 odsp
$200 cdb
$401 cohb
$75 trillium
$120/3 gst rebate
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~1100
even if i put $400/month into the rdsp, that still leaves me with $700/month to spend on food and fun, which is a lot, considering i don't have any bad habits. i haven't been on an adventure to detroit in a while but i'm straight edge between them.
further, every single one of these payments increases every year because it's all tied to inflation. that $1100 will be at $1500 in no time.
i'm so used to being dirt poor that it's almost a culture shock. it's not going to change how i live day-to-day, as i am still focused on setting up my apartment in the immediate term and on my art for the rest of my life, but it will allow me to put some money in the bank, both in terms of short term and long term savings and to be able to just buy things when i need them. that is the real change, avoiding the need to save for things in advance. i should now have savings available, instead.
within a few months, when everything's set up, the money should mostly go into the studio.
at $2100/month, my income is now over $25000/yr. i'm still comfortably in the lowest tax rate, but i have $100,000 in used tax credits from going to university for so long. that means i'll get $100,000 in taxes back before i pay any out.
i don't want to misrepresent the situation. i have now completely maxed out on social assistance without experiencing a substantive hike in rent but it's because i went through a horrible experience; i'm a disabled person that got thrown out on to the street by capitalist rentier parasites looking to feed on my rent payments, and is still fighting to rectify that in a court system that has swung so far right in recent years that it's flung itself off the cliff of logical discourse. the judges don't read a thing that's put in front of them, nowadays, they want you to summarize it in twitterspeak for them. they won't accept anything on appeal. the court system is broken. i applied for everything, and i eventually got everything. everything. and i'm not going to waste it on drugs because i'm not a drug addict, i'm going to use it in the way i'm supposed to use it. this level of assistance is unusual for a single person, in ontario, but it's because i went through an unusual circumstance. the system will take care of you here in canada, in the end, but you have to let it bludgeon you pretty badly, first.
i got unlucky, but then i got lucky. things were bad for a while, now they're going to be good for a while.
things tend to work out for me.