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Jaz heads off to school Monday morning, furious because the mice woke her (and the rest of the family) up.

Bennie wakes up in a foul mood, but it’s not the mice, and he’s not telling anyone why. Yesterday the bills came due.. and there is no way he can pay them. He’s short nearly 2 grand. So, he opens to store, and hopes that will generate some income before the power goes out and the whole family knows what a failure he’s been lately. He knows he’s supposed to be the opening act at work tonight, but he doubts he’ll be able to get away from the store to go.

Thoroughly frustrated, he walks past the overfilled dumpster.. and an idea occurs to him. He is going to end up filthy, but there has to be some things he could sell in there, right? People throw away all kinds of weird things….

After an exhausting day, I find poor filthy Bennie sound asleep in the dumpster, but at least there’s finally room in the dumpster.

By the time he closes the store, goes to the local thrift store to sell what he found in the dumpster, and heads upstairs to clean up, he is gratified to find out he has made enough to pay the bills. Barely, but at least the power will stay on and his kids can be fed.

Exhausted, he doesn’t even try interacting with anyone from his family, and just pulls the Murphy bed down, crawls in, and passes out. Even the mice aren’t enough to wake him up.

PS: Jaz spent her day either working on Mental skill or at school, I just somehow missed taking any shots of the rest of the family. Getting the money to pay bills was stressful!

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