Home alone again

Finally get the can to myself again.  Have the auto repair guy comeing over also some time this week for the breaks on the van.  I hit the 90 to the190 and the light poped on and was flickering.  Very strange in my book and one of the guys who keeps the poor van running.  I just don't like the one guy laying out in my drive way at all becuase of health problems.  Anyway at least I know he will let me know whats wrong with it when he gets here to look at it.  And I can at least walk to places also becuase I am that close to everything.  Pluss I need the exercise anyway since I am looking at it that way.  By 9:15 am i will be walking if not sooner to pay some bills at least.  Pluss some pople do not mind giveing me a lift becuase I really do not ask that often anyway.  Well maybe there is a leak in the break lines I do not know untill the guy says something.  So now to sit back and wait on everything and go from there.  It will not hurt me none to say the least on it at this point.  Well since the guy knows most of my bills come at the beginning of the month I can pay him little by little also.  Money coming in on his part and I know this becuase we are all trying to streach the dollar now days.  Except for a few that I know in life it's like they don't care about real life and us broke people make the world go around anyway.  I know at least one person who will dog me for trying to streach out everything.  Like it bothers me at this point in time in what this person says anyway and the person that said what she said to him on the matter.  As long as the bills are paid,food in the house, and I am not useing the Sears catalog who cares what I do in order to streach out the dollar around here.  I have looked at it like this for years and always will now.  As long as i have shoes on and a few other things on I am ready to go for the day to do what I think is right and streach out the dollar as far as I can.  As a friend of mine said is that she diden't know how some of us made it on what we all bring in a month anyway.  All I said was practice and a budget tighter than a cat's behind on a hot tin roof.  The basic needs are meet and we are happy with that at all costs now.  Pluss pinching pennies isen't so bad anyway once you are use to it and get use to it.  I look at it like this I am not out on the streets at all and I want for nothing at all for pinching pennies.  I just think on the major pruchases and talk it over with the Hippy.  If I need it that bad it can wait untill it goes on sale or save up for it period.  I have a nickle save up (bottles) for the wood burning kitchen stove still.  I am not hollering about it at all.  I will get the money soon enough eather way.  I know some folks who save the bottle returns all year and that is their vacation money for that year.  So I can't be all wrong on the fact of picking up bottles at all now.  I have a seperate jar for the returns that I pick up along the way here.  The 5lb honey jars are a great way to start filling up for a fund for the wood burner.  I also have a Mr. Jack Dannels bottle for my dimes for the holidays also.  I look at it like this 100 dollars goes a long way in my house hold and if people do not like it theres the door don't let it smack ya on the way out niether.  Some people like it when I start saveing money for something becuase they all know that I am just a waiting on the right time for things and to catch the big bargans also.  As a friend of mine and the Hippies said you eather love me or hate me one and I will do anything for you untill I get stabbed in the back once.  The person also wandered in how I did a family of 5 on 100 dollars a month in groceries also.  And that diden't include garage and yard sales for the kids wear. Since my can is drafty in the winter I wanted the girls in footy jammies.  At between a quarter to .50 cents a piece I had jammies for the kids.  Even the teenager loved it when I could find stuff for her also (now she's a mommy).  The girl remembers what I did after years of not being in my care at all.  Now we both laugh and the girl that grew up into a woman understands why I was so hard on her and her sisters.  The babies out of the bunch at the times have respect for me yet today and say so also.   I will tell you the woman who raised me God love her grew up in the depression era and made a game out of the grocery store and a few other things.  Some kids today do not even remember Egal Stamps.  That is how I got alot of uniforms and others growing up along with my one sister working for a national chain store who was and still is a school teacher today and people were broke back then also.  Alot of my summer stuff came from my one sister just dumster diveing where she worked at.  I Love all of my sibalings dearly and woulden't traid them at all.  Ok folks have fun and play even harder.