Stephanie Watts and her husband are forgoing Christmas presents this year and giving themselves the gift of dining out.
The Metro Vancouver-based first responder and her partner both have full-time jobs, but Watts says the cost of living has made penny-pinching essential and a night on the town financially out of reach.
“On paper, I make what should be a comfortable middle-class living wage but it’s just not cutting it anymore,” said Watts, speaking on CBC’s The Early Edition.
“It’s exhausting, you know, the constant calculating: ‘OK, how much are all these things going to cost? How can I pack as many things as
