Being cheap as always

Dinner tonight out of the blue is homemade mac and cheese. All of the stuff to make it up was off brand which my partner and I don't mind as always. I just dont like running the big oven on really hot and muggy days but it couldent have been avoided today. The convection oven is a great invention to save on heating up the house when its to bad outside. It doesent blast heat like the other oven does. Pluss it saves on the a/c from running constantly also while I'm bakeing. Anyway now lets see how cheap I can really get for this up coming month on everything from groceries power and other things in the house.

Not feeling any guilt today

Well I went to pay the power bill today and air up the tires. Which i could have done here at home. Then i went to Walmart and filled out an app for enployment. I diden't spend not a thing while I was there. After I get home my dear partner looks at me straight out and says what do i have to carry into the house now.

As I have the house open

Well I had to turn off the a/c unit today all the stale got to me. Pluss all the kids in the neighborhood were flocking to my house also with the windows open and myself bakeing as normal today. Anyway at least all the bakeing was on the cheap side as always and dinner under a dollar for the both of us again. Aldi has great flour for bakeing and other homemade goodies that I do make. The waffels that i made were not bad from www.hillbillyhousewife.com i could have made more the froze what we all diden't eat for dinner. Oh well next time I will do that just to save my sanity for another dinner. Pluss today i went thru some of the frugal sites that I have collected to see if I missed anything to try to get my household even cheaper than what I have it at this point in time. Tomarrow starts out another day also on cutting the tv out and a few other things during the day.

Looking for when i do get a house

Well I have been looking at wood burner cook stoves and i better start saveing my pennies now. Oh well at least I can still pick up cans along the way also while I'm at it all. Well At least the bread did turn out well after kneeding it for the 2nd and 3rd time and letting it rise for about 2 hrs. What people don't tell you from the beginning of makeing it. Oh well lets see what I can do for the next time.

Everyday battle

Well the dishes still are not done and theres housework needing my attintion as normal. Before i do any of it today I'm waiting on the bread to rise so it can rise again in the pans to bake. It is cheaper than getting a loaf of bread out in the store and the house smells wanderfull while it's bakeing. I cook from scratch for most of the meals and it is cheaper in the long run for my household. Pluss most people droole by the time I get done cooking. The CookBooks are getting a workout again for the weekend it looks like. I dont have any recipes for shrimp or lobster becuase they are to expensive to cook in my house and food alergies prevail on it also. Between looking for free stuff and coupons I am always looking for cheep and easy recipes also. When folks ask on how I made something I always say the cheap way of doing it and shop the cabnits before I do anything. It's always nice to have a stocked freezer and cabnits of food just incase. And of course I come up with some stuff off the top of my head eather way I go. If I ask my dear partner what he wants for dinner he says he doesent care just slap it on the table. Just have fun with cooking and go from there. Ok now to find more stuff on line so I can come up with new ideas for dinner and other things.

As I sit here on the afternoon

As I sit here thinking of dinner hopeing that the power boxes do not go once again. Pasta is one of the cheaper ways to keep folks happy in my house. There's always ways to cook cheap off the budget. Never fails it seems like the power bills go up off the charts when the summer months come so we all have to cut some how some way to make the budget work. I started to cook with nothing at 14 and ran with it all. So when I hit the local supermarket near myself i automaticly hit the bargan rack and the sale meats. Oh by the way when I first moved up to NY I was working out of a 32 quart cooler to keep everything cold. I have came along way in about 14 yrs of being here. And thats another story in it self of how i filled a place full of stuff. Most of the time when I am trying to figure out the dinner menu for my place I look in the freezers to see what i have. Then i start with the meal planner/calander to wright everything down. It does get somewhat tricky in the middle of the month as normal since I do once a month shopping most months. The www.hillbillyhousewife.com helped alot when I wanted to go slashing my grocery budget again. Well I fell back into coupons and shopping sales again pluss a few other things. Chips in my house are a big deal when i buy them once every couple of months or so soda what is that also. I collect cans out from my yard and on the trail when i do walk up to the stores. Ny state loves to have thier nickle deposits. So yes there are ways to cut the budget for the groceries and dont be picky niether on where you shop. I have been known more than once to shop at the dollar stores to make the dishes of a meal also includeing other things. Once you see who has the better deals off the sale adds and match coupons it works out well. Ok off to find more free stuff, coupons, and recipies to save the food that is all left as normal.

Laughing now

Well I went back to Walmart after the reservation run today. Saveing over 50 dollars for a carton of smokes does something for a person. You got to LOVE NY State for all the high taxes that they get for doing nothing for some of us small fry in the state. It's a wanderfull place at www.smokinjoes.com. If you go in its just a down right neat place. So anyway I went back to Walmart today for a few other things that I needed that i forgot on Wensday and forgot the canned corn of course for dinner tonight. And I had another dollar in coupons when i walked in. So I got to thinking with the last more coupons anyway, well why not get more freebees while I'm at it all. Free samples are always good in my household. Theres a thing on www.walmart.com for free stuff in the other things on the start page. I have got alot of free samples over the years also since I got the computer and internet connection. The best was 2 free TP rolls just to sign up for it. Theres a ton of sites out there for free stuf anyway and got to a site that you like the product(s) and ask if they all have coupons and or free stuff to give you. The worst they could tell you is NO. I have done it for coupons to free stuff to alot of other things also. So now I looked at alot of my free stuff pages on my fave's list and dident find anything today but tomarrow is always another day. Tomarrow will be another day and i will be back again. With love and always a tone of trying to save.




Cricket

Shopping with coupons

Well my poor husband went with me to Walmart. I had to laugh about it becuase, i had a fist full of coupons and needed to go grocery shopping while I was there (the new super center). Then we both realized that I of course had alot of coupons but theres always the need to have more to cover in what I needed for the house. I ended up saveing over 28 dollars off of a 202.00 bill that go around and the cashier dident mind at all to take all the coupons that I had for that trip. So for the next trip that I go for (next month) I am planning for more coupons and to make the bill alittle easier to swallow. For part of the coupon hunt that i do is to put free printable coupons in the search button on my browser. Then pick and choose from there for the new sites that I may have missed on. Then theres always the favorite ones that I always use. Like www.coupons.com is always a nice place to go down fall is only 2 can be printed but it works. So now lets see what I can do for the rest of my coupon hunt for today and what kind of goodies I can get.

Cricket