Well it's Monday. The trucks air brakes froze up and its crazy at another shop with the guy and my day hasen't been totally good as of yet except I am in the can out of the snow and sleet out side. Now is the time I wish I had enough for the woodburner and a house at this point in time. I am getting there slowly by the nickles that I am saveing up. I picked up another 20 cents today of course trash day today around the park. All I did was go across the street for the 20 cents. Now that is bad when I can spot bottles from the passenger side of the van. I am still waiting for the snow to melt for the season to hit the bottom of the snow piles for more nickles and other change. Well I can tell you it does pay off when I go to the store to cash in the cans at least. And that is from the can. As I say every penny, nickle, dime, and quarter helps in a place. Even my Hippy will tell you that I sqeek when I walk and pinch untill everything screams more than once when I do let go of the money. Sometimes I have to laugh about it all. Well after all said and done I do well by collecting the cans at times and other things. Well after streaching everything out that I can around here it is well worth the time for alot of it. Pluss clipping coupons on top of it all. Well after being so broke for so long you tend to stick to what works for you. Like I cut my dryer sheets in half and have cut the laundery deturgant down to hardly anything for the laundery. I started that about 12 years ago if not longer. Pluss cutting back on the grocery bill also. I have clipped coupons also and keep doing it still to this day. Thanks to some places for takeing the printed coupons. There are alot of tricks of cutting back. Alot of folks around the area have lost thier jobs by the doors closeing or have been layed off to the point of they are almost out of unemployment also. Now the Sweet Blind guy who took over NY State is planning to close all the state parks also. Well that just shot his toush if he does that part around here. Figure at least a million folks go to see Niagara Falls a year and at least 250,000 dollars in taxes off of that. Not includeing all the hotels and other places also while he is at it all. We are broke enough around here without the closeing of the main tourist spot for the city. Some of us are ready for a couple of months around here but, still it would put the state into a bankrupt state of frame even worse after that. Well after thinking of that I have came to the state of mind that I will still keep clipping coupons and not shop as much unless it is on sale and with a coupon on top of it once again then streach it out to the max while I'm at it all. I am always trying to find cheaper ways to run the household around here. Some things I have tried and retried and it still has not work for me. I have unplugged and the power bills are still way high with the taxes. Now NY State and most of the seaboard gets thier power from Canada the power prodject in another countery. The NY State pwoer project is about 10 min's from here. What does this tell you with NY State being greedy. Oh well at least there are ways around all that now in some places. And I do shut off alot of the power during the day around here also. Alot of things are a habit around here and yes I say things over and over. That is how I learned around here. Some of us are like that. Or we try something for about a month and it does not work eather way you hash it at all. Well folks have fun and play hard.