Thinking again

Well I have been out already here and alot of things were a bust this year with the garden.  So I will see what I can do here in what is here out of the garden and the left overs from lastnight.  It will not be so bad with the ham and rice here at all.  So as I sit here now and think for that part of things already here for next year.  Now here I know that I have to get that much cheaper here for the winter months without a second thought now.  I am happy that some do not mind the rice here in the household at all.  It is looking more like rice and pasta will rule out again this year.  Since I have the tricks up my sleeve here still on alot of things that start in the kitchen it is not that bad.  This is why I have said to get rice, pasta, butter, onions, and afew other things.  My Husband looked at me and asked how I can get alot of things into tonights meal totally.  What the man forgets here is that I still have the bones along with other things to make stone soup here totally.  That is part of the trick for alot of things in the kitchen at this time.  With prices going up all over the place here you can get creative in the kitchen to use everything to the max.  Since I have saved some bones to make soups out of here for the household and that goes to say some people did not even realize in what I was doing at the time also at the time it is even better on me.  With that said the broth will go with the rice while cooking it.  It is one of the little tricks that alot of people will not tell you about with rice.  And you wander why I hit the one china shop to eat every so often here in the area.  Once ya get to know everyone there it makes it easier to ask what would you do in your own home for the rice.  Pluss I got it all first hand with an old boyfriend's Mom and Grandmother when I asked questions.  It all helps out in the kitchen at one point or another.  With that said that is how I learned about some things that you could do with rice along with leftovers.  Things like chicken, pork, and beef that are left after a dinner throw it in the rice cooker with rice.  With some working like they were and myself watching some did not mind at all when I was in the kitchen with them at all.  Anyway it is all in who you hang out with and if you are willing to learn some will teach you in what they do for a quick cheap meal.  So now here I will be doing some things here that will make my Husbands mouth just totally drop open and have a meal out of it all here with the next several months. 

Now to do more

Ok now that everything is alomst unpluged again.  And I did find out that I am cheaper than most of my family on one side.  Since I do not have a mortgage pament.  I am doing the happy dance around here.  And all I can and still do is laugh about it all now.  I finally surpassed my Father also on being cheap.  I got a nice flier in the mail for my supposad aunts Birth day coming up.  I will NOT BE GOING to it with such short notice.  Pluss my Bday is before hers and I REFUSE to break traditions with my elecrition whos Bday is the next day.  So with that being said I will stay home.  Now with being cheaper than my Father.  There is alot that he diden't know about myself being as frugal as I am.  And no I haven't said a word about going to the auction on this past Saturday.  Well there is alot that I do that he dident realize that I have done.  Like with the cans first then the dryer sheets with cutting them in half.  My aunt about had a fit over that one when I cut it in half in front of her.  Then like the bargin racks that I so do appreciate also at the stores.  I have it down to a sience in the stores.  Of what and when to hit.  There are so many things that I have done to save money that it is not even funny anymore.  I have even used the dryer sheets that have been thru the dryer for dust rags also.  Another good thing is with the dryer sheets they are a good skeeter repelant also.  I have also saved bread bags when I was buying loves of bread.  It came in handy when I broke my 3 fingers in one shot at work.  So I could still do dishes when I could grab something again.  Who knew about some things.  The bread bags also make great dirty diaper holders when you are on the run in the car or in the diaper bag.  Becuase you can put one in then tie a knot in it for the next diaper.  It will hold at least 4 diapers in one shot.  Well it is one of the tricks to haveing kids also.  I can really laugh sometimes about it becuase there's so much that can be reused then recycled after 101 uses of things.  Like the empty gallon plastic icecream containers.  I have one for line pins, one for dirty dish rags, then one for old bird seed.  It is the stuff that Oliver doesent like.  They come in handy for Barbie shoes also.  Pluss alot of other uses.  So think about ways to reuse something in the household and the bargin racks at the stores.  You will go alot further than what you think you can.  Spice it up also.  Have kids redecorate it as a project even to give it a new flair.  You will be surprized in what they can come up with also.  Ok folks have fun and play harder.