Still working on

Well I am working on the laundery and a few other things here in the place. What is bad is that it has seemed that there is more laundery than I thought there was around here. There are about 5 loads around here instead of the 8 that I am use to in the past 2 months if not longer around here. Yes that is and was per week. Pluss doing full loads of dishes and other cleaning in the place. Now you know why I was fed up with the person that was here. I was the maid and the slave at the same time. Most of the stuff now is easy to get thru around here without the lump under my feet and up someplace also. Now with the laundery I am useing an eighth of and eighth of a cap of laundery deturgant. I have enough suds to make the laundery clean. Pluss the half of the dryer sheet. It makes laundery almost affordable around here. With the new washer my water bill has went down by about 40 dollars every 2 months if not more. Pluss the power bill went down along with the water bill becuase I have an extended spin on the washer. Well when I got the washer it was about 80 dollars more for the High Efficiancy one. Pluss it was about a cubic foot bigger than the one with a full adjatater in it. Also with the old Aldi Tandel soap it was so strong that I used less anyway. After they switched it it became watery. So I will be switching back over to eather Purex or another deturgant. Now I haven't tried the Green Works deturgant yet only becuase I have 3 other bottles that are around not includeing what is left of the bottle that I am useing. Well my whole thing is streach out what you can when you can. What happends is you will find that after you start streaching stuff out you will find more money in the wallet and less that you spend. Normally I try to keep stocked up enough in the can to where when I do not have a car for awhile it doesen't totally bother me. Becuase, I have everything here on hand. Or if a travle band goes up I am not stuck not haveing something. Some folks have teased me about it all untill they realized when they had moved about an hour from a store then they realized that I was in the right on stocking up eather way. As I have said before Walmart is about 3 min on foot from eather door that I go out of. I knew I was in trouble when they opended up also. My one Aunt thought it was funny. Then again she also realized that I do not have to travel but 20 min in the van to get there also. With the stop lights and other traffic out there. Now at times yes I do walk to the stores around here. It makes it easier on me at times out of the year. Summer times and after the turkey day I walk becuase, the parking lots are so full that why bother to drive to some places. My Aunt that I stayed with for about 2 weeks last year was suprized that I was doing alot of things really cheaply and my habbits diden't change from my place to hers and back again. I had to laugh becuase some of us landed at the dollar store right down the street from her. Pluss in the state of PA there are no taxes on some items. I was in my glory on that part for some things. Also where I was at the sales tax is 6% still on things. When you are use to double the tax on things you tend to shop more in other states than where you are at. Now I do travel to other states when I can and I have places along the way that I can stop at also and visit. I have drove out to Punxey Pa and back in the same day. It is an 8 hr drive from where I am at for a round trip. I try to get out to parts of Pa to do some shopping once a year since I can slip in and out of town without a problem now. Even though I know half the town eather way. Anyway it does pay to streach out everything in the household. When you start streaching out the dollars it seems like it doesen't make since untill it becomes rutine and then it clicks. That is the point that I have been trying to get across in my blog. Sometimes it takes awhile to get use to sometimes it doesen't. When I first started it seemed to take forever to sink in. And I was really stocked up on everything. Knowing in how broke I was gonna be with just myself working at a full time job that diden't pay squat at the time made it hard also. I may have had 20 dollars left by the end of the month after I paid the bills at the time. Well acouple of folks had helped and I ended up on food stamps for about a year and that was it. Just so I had some food in the household. Pluss I was dumpster diveing on top of it all for food. You get really good on what is good and not good when you get use to all of it. I remember one time that my husband and I were argueing over in how much I spent before all of this went down. I still had the 20 dollar bill on me and knowing his sister was coming up I made a bread run at the back of one of the stores in the area. Well the manager was so nice and asked if i could stick around for a bit he would fix me up. He over loaded the Honda that I had at the time and I was almost in tears when I had all the food becuase I was greatfull for what I got. Well it started a fight that was the motherload of all fights at the time and handed him the 20 dollars. Then he realized that I diden't spend nothing and I got really lucky that day and that started the fight with the out laws. All the Manager said was remember this and pass it along when you can to other folks. And I have. The more I got into being cheap/frugal the more I wanted to go further into it and see what else I could do for my place.