Shaking my head

Well today it looks like the Ajax will be coming out for the dish soap around here for some of the dishes here for the day.  It is nice to know that parts of the household here are getting cheaper than snot again here again.  At this point in time some people would not be happy with what is in the place at this time here as normal if they were here.  With some things it will never fail to amaze me in what some people will waste money on in their place.  Since I am not a big fan of getting the most costly things for the household here unless it is a major appliance here for the place.  Otherwise I scrimp and pay as little as I can for the place for alot of what comes in.  With that being said here it takes some time at first when you start looking for ways to cut the costs for the household.  It seemed like it took forever when I started alot of things here to get the costs down.  It was about the time that I started with the coupons also for the kitchen and other spots in the household.  Also here some folks thought that I would start cranking out really wierd meals also at the trailer.  That did not happen at all and I have kept it all normal for that part of things while we were at the trailer and the house here.  It is all in how you do things for meals and other places in the household.  With that being said here since I kept it all normal nomatter what happened, then it clicked totally to start cooking alot of things from scratch.  That is when the bug gets ya to try to match something cooking from scratch.  Alot of the times you can get close to something from a bag or box on things for meals and sometimes it comes out better than the bag or box.  I still keep some boxed things here for the household nomatter what for quick meals and that is a givin in any household.  There are many ways to get the costs down in the household nomatter what is going on in the world.  When alot of folks are dealing with a job loss totally now days nothing is right or wrong in how to cut back for where you are at.  I started alot of things since we went down to one income and the paycheck was not so good at all at the time.  It worked out with some help off of food stamps or as it is called now snap.  So yes I have learned totally here in what and how to do things off of that part.  It was a crash course in how to do things on a really tight budget.  Now at this point here I have been going to www.hillbillyhousewife.com for about almost 8 years now if not abit longer here for that part and wish I ran across Susanne before the time that I did.  So now here I still cook from scratch and on the cheap end here to this day.  It becomes a force of habbit after awhile since everyone needs to eat.  Also with the job losses all over you find out quickly that alot of things can be cut back even more.  Like turning off things totally and shoving the kids outside along with daytime T.V. is really not that good anyway after it all clicks.  I have said before it takes about 2 years for the power bill to come down totally and it takes work.  Please do not get me wrong on that part of things here.  I still work on the power bill to this day here and it has been 2 years later and that is how it goes when some people figure that it was ok to use the dryer on me period also.  So pull a family meeting totally and say hey this is the deal and there is nothing to worry about here unless the bills are just totally out there.  The children will learn nomatter what is going on.  Alot of the times you have to show the children this is what is coming in and this is what goes out around a place and let them watch you pay bills also so it clicks into their brains.  You do not have to show real pay stubs totally just the total of what is coming in then turn everything into a huge math problem that is how children learn in the house and ask in how they can help by keeping the bills low.  As a parent explain it to how they can handle things and ask in their opinion also in how they can help totally and the chidren will feel better about helping you as a parent out also.  It will be little things at first and you can add on to what they say also and have them try it out for the household.  The children will not feel as they are being deprived on squat after everythings said and done at all when they know that they have helped out their parents.  I was told NO alot growing up and so were other people out there and it did not kill us.  Go figure on that part of things here.