Thinking again

Well at least I can think on alot of things still to this day here for the household.  With the storm that is coming now here for tonight I will have the fire place going without a problem at all.  At least there is leftovers and heat for the household at this point in time here and I know what to do if the power goes out while I am at it.  As I sit here at this time I am plotting on what to do for the place first as normal.  When one of my sisters asked if the housework was done I started laughing as an answer.  So I will get to alot of it today I hope and see what I can do for the place.  Since it is looking like the taxes are going up along with other things all over the place I am just thankfull that there are places that we all can shop on the cheap along with cutting down what is in the households at this time.  What has got to me the most is that it seems like some just do not care what so ever at all in what some of us have to do to make it.  Since the taxes are over the top in some states here it makes me wander in what some are really thinking.  Also on top of it this is why I am trying to stay stocked up here for the household.  At this point some would be shocked in what I have been doing for the place at this time here totally since things have got out of controle at the white house.  I am not rich at all and I try to get the best deals on alot of things for the house here at this time.  It will only get worse here in the upcoming year.  I will be getting more Sunday papers while I am at it for the coupons here and see where I land up with that part of things.  With that part I can at least save 15 dollars if not more at Walmart and Kmart totally here with the ones out of the paper along with the printed ones off of the computer also.  Taxes go up it seems to me what the heck may as well use more coupons to off set things that others want out of us.  So now there is alot to really think about along with plotting in how to feed the families along with cleaning the places up that we are in also.  Oh and the dreaded bills that have to be paid while we are at it.  That leads up to the fact that the welfare checks do not get taxed at all that some people have going into their places.  With that part said here some better wake the flap up and smell something about that part of things.  Why should everyone elses taxes go up when some people do not get taxed at all.  It makes you wander along with thinking of what really is going on.  In the mean time I will be shutting things off today along with being alot cheaper here for my place to keep the house here. 

Normal here

Well at this point it is totally a normal holliday totally here.  What else can I say about it.  More dishes than I can count here along with trying to cook on top of it all.  With that said I am on my 2nd load of dishes and I need to start the washer again here so I can have towels also.  It may be one heck of a B-day bash for some to where it is another day for me here.  So now at this point in time since I will be cooking here along with cleaning and still do not expect anyone over at all to the house.  That part is fine by me here totally since I am cooking left over turkey jazed up at this point.  I guess this is why I am going to do what I have to here to help support the place nomatter what anyone says at this point in time.  Some of us have done lost when the little ones were born years ago.  Maybe that is what has drove me to make it in the world nomatter what happends.  It is all clicking in what my one out law told me here a week ago and then some when I felt hopeless about the matter at hand.  This is why if I fail now at least I came up swinging and trying at this point in time to make something happen for myself here.  Also I am somewhat back to work after this point.  I will donate my time to help out and the person understood why I said yes at that point also lastnight.  It has been awhile since I tended a bar totally and will make it work in the first 5 minutes of being back into it all.  The nice thing about all of what is going on now is that some people that have told me no and you will fail does not have a clue at this point in time in what is going down and never will.  Ok so I am mad about what happened and I know that it was not even me here at this point in time at all.  This is why I say never ever tell me ya can't or don't even try since ya will fail anyway here in what you are trying to pull.  I am not pulling squat here and in it for the long haul since I have been lied about along with being torn down along with it over the years.  That along with trying to be cheaper than snot also for the household nomatter where I have been over the past 22 pluss years. 

Shaking my head

Well I have not failed as of yet here at all.  So now just to figure out how I will end up doing some things totally and go from there.  Since I try to do things on the cheap here totally for all the things that I do in and out of the household and prove some people wrong.  At this point in time here since I have not tried some things here at all and I am willing to try totally so if I fall flat on my face that is on me not others.  With that being said I will make a phone call here today and tell the person I am going for it.  May as well since I have nothing to loose at all here.  So now at this point I will start looking into things here totally and go from there.  Now to get that much more cheaper here in the household and see what I can do on that end of things also here.  Knowing that if I fail here with trying it is ok now and what I do get will be used for the household anyway after this.  My Husband and I talked yesterday here on what has went on over the years here totally and he was happy that I did pick up the convection oven here when I did 8 years ago now.  Ok so it saved our toushes here more than once and will continue to do so also.  With the move that we did alittle over 2 years ago here it took us almost 3 weeks to hook up the gas line for the oven at the time.  So that is when the convection oven came into play here for cooking along with the microwave for some things.  Now with that being said here I will figure alot of things out here as of today and will not mind it what so ever at all.  All I can say is thank goodness for the dollar stores here in the area totally and go from there also for almost everything.  I may as well do that part also for the place.  So at this point in time here I am thinking good thoughts here and will run with it.  Since I am always working here in the household on the cheap end and it is a never ending battle at times and other times it is ok I can do all of this.  Now with that part I know in what I have to do here totally and I have a good head start on things for the place already.  Now it is full throw down for getting cheaper here for the household and alot of the cleaners to get used up also here while I am at it all to get that part switched over again.  Ok now to start in on the day here and go from there.

Still thinking

Since I am always thinking here in how to get this done here for the week I think I may have it here.  I will be using leftovers from the one bird here for Tuesday and it makes it easier on me.  With another part I will still need bread for the household totally and that will be picked up today while I am out of the house without a doubt.  Now to get everything done on the very cheap side this week and see if it can be done for the place.  Since some already know that alot of the power is going off here anyway for most of the week here in the house it is a good time for my Husband to freak out here on what I do.  With that being said for what I end up doing here all week it should not be so bad.  When I got home yesterday from the one dollar store I got asked in how much I spent and told my Husband only 30 dollars for what is here along with the 4 things that got left in the truck also.  My Husand shook his head and helped me into the house then.  So with all the dinners that I will have to make here for the place this week I know in what I can do already for that part.  The KitchenAid will be broke out here totally since I will need it to help make some of the things already.  The wierd part about that is that I have to find some of the attachments that go with the stand mixer so I can get some of the potatoes done for at least one dinner.  So now here there is just alot to get done here without a problem at all and it is where to start with all of it here.  Where to start this morning here is getting the mixer out of where I have it along with the attachments.  Another part is laundry so I will have the hand towels for Tuesday here.  Since I am going on the cheaper end for alot of things here in the household it is amazing my Husband here already in that I am going to the one dollar store again for some of the food for the household.  When the coupons start coming in again here it will just drag the costs down for that part along with some of the soaps also here.  Pluss thru the time that my Husband will be home the fire place will be going to help heat the house.  I may as well use it here since it works.  With alot of things that have been cut down here I had to look totally in where to start in the place that we were at.  I still have to look here and think ok what is the easiest way along with the cheapest way at this time to get things done.  So I will start thinking and looking again here along with cooking even cheaper than before.  The Dollar Tree will help with that part of things in the place also at this time. 

Almost forgot here

Well one good thing came out of this week totally is that the phone bill came back down to earth here totally for the month.  No more 350 dollar pluss phone bills totally here after the crud some tried to pull on me from before.  When I opened that bill yesterday here I was in shock totally and it was a good sign for my part.  So now at this point I reread the top of the bill while I was at the table here afew minutes ago and realized that there was no fighing about it here with the company.  So now I will read line by line on the bill and go from there this morning and maybe that will help me get things into gear here for the household.  Since I did not vac the main floor yesterday here I will get that part done today and see how I feel after the first load gets hung up to dry also in the basement.  So lets see in what I can get done for the day since I have some running to do also here for the household and how I last with that part of things. 

Shaking my head here

Ok knoing that taxes are going up around here totally and that I blame on Obama here totally since he wants everyone on welfare totally.  Well start taxing the crap out of the ones that get a monthly welfare check and for their free phones all over the place and not the ones who pay the dues to support the bumbs on total welfare here.  Since some of us are lucky to even have a phone left here along with the dish for T.V. and have to pay for it all here gee it is time for some people to get off their dead beat asses here and start paying for what they all have for nothing.  Also why in the heck am I trying to be cheaper than snot here with the fire place and turning things off also during the day when others get it for free at this time here.  It makes me wander about things and shake my head even more about things altogeather now.  As I told my Husband here I am doing all that I can to help out by taking my walks and picking up all the cans that I can get at this time for the place.  Ok so it is not much here at 80 cents for this morning and tomarrow maybe worse on me totally here.  So I will do all that I can for the place here now to make sure that we have the money to pay the place off also at this time.  This is what I have been wandering about here totally now along with the hope that I can eat by the time I am done also here.  When some of us are working here it is not fair by the time the welfare bumbs are done when they have brand new caddies here and I want the used piece of junk that I have still and not eat most times.  Gee no wander in why I am loosing weight here around the place totally.  Since years ago I was waiting at a food pantry and here comes 6 brand new caddies pulling up with people getting food that were better off than I was at the time.  It got to me then and still does to this flapping day on that part of things.  So now I will figure out some things here to see if we make it untill my next surgery here even if I have to walk to the store to tell my Husband here take it home and I will be there within an hour here totally.

Shaking my head

Well with people will always waste money around the area nomatter what the rest of us tight wads will do to keep the place going.  Since I did pick up 80 cents today here already this morning and got my walk in also I had a pretty good run of it all.  At this point in time since I do go on my walks still to this day and it use to mortify one niece totally when I would take in the neckles that I picked up during my walks here along with picking up the nickles while we were out togeather.  If that was the worst thing I did while we were out togeather then she got lucky with me.  So now at this point in time since I will get back out for the day here it will be easier for me to pick up the nickles without a problem at all now for the day here.  I may as well get out and get something done for the household at this point.  Also here at least it will be money coming into the household also while I am at it now.  What helps at this time also is that I will end up getting alot cheaper here for the place.  Since some people will not get in why I do some of the things that I do at all untill they hit bottom in their place.  So I will do in what I have to do from now on here in the household to keep things down totally nomatter what happends here on the weekends.  With that being said the fire place will be going also in the place for this weekend.  I may as well put the extra heat into the household and save on at least one bill here this month.  Now with this morning I got to clear out the brain also for the day here while I was on my walk here and it is a good thing.  Since I have new hope on getting alot cheaper for the household here it will not be that bad of a day here.  With my mind clear here and it all gave me new hope on alot of things that got put into prosective also while I got wet.  At this point I guess that I will have to get out here fairly early since by the end of my walk this morning the sweeper was getting ready to start when I was about done.  That is what I get for keeping a good pace up for my walk also here for the morning.  Also the headache here that I have had for the past week went away finally.  Ok so I have been somewhat lazy here about the walks and will have to get out there and move my toush around more often here.  So now to get to the housework here and see what I can get done for the day on the cheap end of things.

Wandering

Well I am wandering if I am doing the right thing here still.  Ok so I got the power bill in and I am back to hanging the laundry nomatter what here again.  Pluss I am back to the lap top also for to help out that part of things.  With some poeple they just do not care at all in what the bills are for the household and will run things up.  So as I sit here now and started thinking on alot of things it may work in what I need to do here.  All I can say is that some things are harder than what I thought here and I still have to break some habbits for the place.  With that said I had some things on by 4 pm in the place and went from there.  Maybe I just need to get that part done here by 5 minute blocks of time like I did over at the trailer also when I first started out with cutting things off.  That is how I got the times done with things shut off for longer than what some expected also at the time.  Also here I ended up realizing some things totally in why I went cheaper at the trailer then took alot of it here to the house also at the time.  Since I am still working on alot of things here to get back into gear and that is normal after I let some of it go here when myself and my Husband moved into the house 2 years ago.  So with alot of the things that I dropped for the place I am trying to get it going again here for the household.  Since the mail lady that we had switched routes and I have not really looked for free stuff as of late here also it is one of the things that I will start doing again for the place.  It is nice to get samples in the mail besides the bills other wise known as dirty mail.  So I will see what happends on that part of things here totally.  The nice thing about alot of what is going on is that I can get the bills down here nomatter what is going on.  With that being said here I may just walk to pay a bill totally and go from there today.  I figure why waste the gas and this way I can pick up more nickles for the household here also.  I know it sounds strange that I am willing to walk at this time since I have the truck.  And of course my Husband left it almost on empty anyway here again from this weekend.  That is one bad thing here about going so far out at this point in time.  One of the good things is that I do have a face cord of wood to work with here for the fire place and it will help out with the colder weather.  Since we do have that at this point in time I may as well use that part of things also here to cut down on the gas bill here.  This is what some people did not get at all in how I operate for the household at this time.  It is a good thing that I can see what I need to do here without the push of someone else being here.  As I told someone yesterday here since I went cheaper in the trailer at the time because of the thought of getting a spoiled brat 8 years ago how else do ya think that I got the stand mixer at the time.  The person that I said that to almost fell out of her chair when I told her that.  This is what I get I guess for nickle and dimeing the trailer at the time.   

Shaking my head

Well yesterday was brutal nomatter what I did.  Between the fireplace going and getting gas for my truck here it was to flapping cold.  So as I sit here now and I am not so cold anymore here it is a nice thing totally at this time.  With some of the bigger logs and the pallet wood that we picked up I did try to keep the household warm and it did not work what so ever at all.  Now here with the weather being in how it all is and I am looking at a hard winter this go around I may as well use the fire place to help the gas bill out this year.  Of course the one neighbor tried to nail me again yesterday here and it did not even work to his advantage.  All I can do at this time is start laughing when the bills come in both places and I do not have the double care payment at all.  With that being said here I know that I am on track with alot of things for the place here while I have been doing the cheap side of things.  Things like using the fire place, keeping things off during the day, cooking on the cheap, and streaching things out on the back stock also.  There is just alot of things that I do for the household that some do not realize that I do at all.  Pluss all the reasons of why I am doing in what I have been doing here.  With the gals next door seeing in what I do for the most part here they have realized that I have a system and I will not brake it for anyone.  Also here I have also came to realize that at least I can get things done on the cheap and want to take it further than what I have been here.  There are some things that I still will not do at all and that is fine by my Husband at this time.  I do not see a reason for a bucket for things when somethings are cheaper here than what others figure that they are.  I guess this is why I shop over at places like the dollar stores for some things that are needed and can get the items cheaper than what I can make them and or wash them also.  With that part said here I would rather take the bag in the garbage can out once a day on that part of things.  Now here since I do have the back stock again and it is not as bad when my Sister in Law past, it will still work out for the better on my part.  Things are not heapping over at all is what I am trying to say like they were 7 years ago.  Since myself and my Husband can laugh about that part here and how long it took us to go thru all of it at the time it hurt when I had to start buying things again for the trailer.  So now here at least I can say that things will get done nomatter what goes on or down at the time.  As I sit here and think of alot of things that went on and how cheap that I have became on alot of things between the trailer and here for the house it has worked out.  Sometimes it does get hairy here and sometimes I do get down about things here and that is how it all goes.  At least things all work out in the long run.  This is why I shake my head at alot of things that I have seen here over the years.  Like when Sandra Lee starts with the low cost cooking with her shows alot of us have her beat to snot totally in what she does.  Since some of us pretty much know in what to do for cooking all 3 meals for a family and can get it down to about 10-20 dollars a day not including making something out of nothing in the pantry or freezers then you know in what is going on in the world.  It is about ready to get alot worse also here for that part of things once I think of that part of it all.  With alot of things here I will say that some things will never change on that part at all.  Also I am not one of the people who has the money to have stake every night of the week also here for the household at all.  The funny part of it is that I can make 2 meals today and still have plenty of leftovers here in the place in what I have made totally.  Ok Ok so I have the fixings for soup for the day here also along with other things here.  The head of cabbage is in the fridge and I have to use that up here also.  This is when I miss the cabbage fest totally and a good head of cabbage.  When my Grandmother pulled out the cabbage and made soup out of it last year I almost went bonkers.  But it worked.  Now I have made that at least 4 times here in the household and will make it again here shortly so I can freeze it back also. 

Starting early

Well I started early here this morning for cleaning again.  Also here I ended up getting ahold of some people here and got more pallet wood here for the household.  Since that part will help with the bigger logs to burn here for the fire place totally and keep the place warmer also while I am at it all here.  I have realized somethings as of yesterday and it is nice to get that much cheaper here in the place along with knowing some people out in the area also now.  With it looking like the taxes are going up totally by 6 grand on some of us out here and up from there with others I am wandering in how I will get all of this done here.  As some said it best Middle Class was fun while it lasted here while we had it.  So it looks like that the fire place will be going more here in the winter time along with cutting down on the power usage also for the place.  That goes along with other things here for the place also here now for to cut down.  I may as well start now with that part of things for the household at this time.  Since I have switched things over here in the household to the cheaper end for things like soaps and cleaners it has not been so bad now after all said and done.  With the scouring cleaner here it is one of the vercital cleaners for the household at this point.  It is like the good old bleach bottle also for the household.  There are at least 2 cleaners that you can not go wrong with at all now.  Also here since The Dollar Tree takes coupons now I might just land over there more often for the place.  Yes it seems wierd that I do not mind paying a dollar for something and with coupons it takes it down even lower for the item at the store.  Since the people that we elected here do not seem to care at all now here with the taxes and they want to take the money from Medicare and Social Security instead of the welfare system, gee it seems alittle wierd.  What I mean by this is take the folks that have been on the system for years here and say no more for 6 or more years and go get a job.  After a year I got throw off of the food stamps totally when some of the people that were there had been on them for the past 20 years and never held a job by that point of their life along with refusing to work in what I was hearing at the time in the hall way.  I could not believe it at all when I was hearing all of this years ago.  So I ended up asking the one worker what I am in the wrong for alittle bit of food in the household for another 6 months here after the year when some of these gals have been on it for at least 5 to 20 years by this point in time.  Well I guess I was also in the wrong for paying into the system by working at a dead end job.  Still to this day it makes me wander in what some are thinking here totally.  So now I will find out in what I can do to keep everything going here for the household and where we land up at this point in time also. 

Shaking my head

Well at least some things got done yesterday here in the house.  With today I have alot to get done as normal and I do not mind that part of things at all.  The nice thing about all of it today is that some are already gone out of the household at this time and I can start at any time that I like for the day.  So as I sit here and start to plot out for the day already at this time it should not be to bad when I get started on the cleaning.  Since it will be a cheap day today it will be nice to relax and clean with the radio going here for the place also.  With that being said here some people have got in what I have been doing for the household at this point in time here since I moved in.  When the neighbor was asking my Husband here over the weekend in what all that I was doing here to get the place that much cheaper the poor guys stood outside for an hour to compair notes in what I do all day.  My Husband could not stress enough to turn things off along with getting the off brand names and using less of them totally for the household.  It goes along with getting a used car/truck/van instead of brand spankin new all of the time.  When my Husband said that is how we have made it over the years some were shocked totally.  With that being said here the funny thing is here at my place is that I have got really good at making dinners out of nothing and it has turned out better than expected here for that part of things.  Another thing was that since some did not realize that I got alot of things in Febuary for the household and it is part of the back stock that is being used up now here for things like cleaners, dish soap, shampoo's, and conditioners also at dirt cheap prices since I had been dropped the week before also here.  That sale hit just at the right time here totally and I got stocked up.  This is what some people that were coming over to the house all of the time did not care in what I was doing except that I was getting to damn cheap for them also and one person started cutting me down for it after October when I paid her back in what my Husband owed to her.  That is when some of the trouble really started here in the place.  After all said and done I got to thinking about that part of things here over the weekend and realized that it was not me at all here and some people are just plain out there if they do not get their way on things.  So after all that has been said and done here I have realized that I was and still am better off without some coming over all of the time and that the place has got alot cheaper also after Febuary.  I was shocked when the first bills came in after being dumped and ran with it here since there was no extra laundry being done and other things started sticking around for the place at the time.  Another thing that was noticed here in the household is that alot of things have calmed down here also over the months.  Ok so I am use to somethings in a household that others would freak out over totally also and the ghosts and shadow people have calmed down also after some people are not here anymore.  Since I am in an old area still here I expect alot of it anyway in the the household.  With that being said here I am not totally alone all week and who is here does not mess the house up to bad at all once I get something done.  So now here at least I can say that things do happen and that is how it is around my place totally. 

Shaking my head

Well I am wandering if it will be a cheap day here totally.  And yes I am plotting out in what to do first here for the day.  That is the bad part of it all and I have to deal with it now.  Since I have piles of laundry to get threw at this time also it does not seem like they should be there at all.  Now that I have got the washer started I have at least 4 loads of towles to get done and hung outside here for the day along with other laundry.  So I guess I will be busy for the day here nomatter in what I do.  Since I will be taking my Husband to the truck fairly early for the day I will start cleaning today here instead of tomarrow.  That is one of the nice things here when he leaves out on Sundays the bad part is that the week starts earlier also on me.  Even my Husband made the remark here that he thought that I would go thru the one stack of wood by now when I didn't at all.  Since we have 3 stacks in the driveway here I take off the one pile for the fireplace and use the other stack to help keep the bigger logs going while I have that part going for extra heat.  With alot of the things that I end up doing here to cut the costs for the household some people do not like it at all.  What I think it is here is that I am always finding ways to do things for my place on the cheap and have not told them in what I was doing or did not ask for their oponion on it all.  With that part said here at least I have been and still trying things out around the place.  Some things will not change at all like hanging up the laundry to dry along with turning things off during the week while I am alone in the place also.  That along with cooking on the cheap also for the trailer or the house here has helped out alot while I have been at it all.  That is what has got to some people along with asking for some help when I really needed it and they stood there and watched me pick up something that I was not suppose to do at that point in time.  So now at this point I can go ahead and lift here along with other things going down and I do not have to worry about it anymore.  When I started cooking alot of things from scratch along with buying the cheaper end of things for either place that myself and my Husband were at some people did not like that part of what I was getting done at all.  Now one of the neighbors that gave me greif over the past couple of summers is now realizing here in why I have been hanging the laundry outside here at my place as of last week.  When their dryer went out this past week here all I could do was shake my head and figure that they were gonna get an energy audit.  So with that part the new dryer on their part will help with their power bill totally at their place.  They kind of freaked out when the power bill over here was a quarter in what they had for the past 2 years almost compaired to theirs.  So it all makes me wander in what some are doing still and I will try to keep my bills down here totally.  Anyway since I have started on part of the cleaning already and will wait for the other part I may as well go for my walk here.

Shaking my head still

Well it always amazes me that some people are cramming the stores as of yesterday for the storm that is coming.  With alot of people grabbing 2 carts for groceries as of yesterday at the Wegman's store I was about ready to leave totally.  It was like people just do not get it this point in time.  Alot of what some were doing was to start grabbing things that they all thought was needed and go from there.  I know that at least 4 people had well over 500 dollars by the time I was there for their place and most of it would go bad before they used it.  Some things I refuse to freeze here for the household since I learned years ago from someone that lived down the street from me at the time.  So I picked up very little while my Husband and myself were out and about here and said oh well when I could not get some food for one pet since every store was out and cat food it is here for about a week.  Also I got to thinking about it here that I am so use to having the power go out in the Trailer Park that I know what to do at this point in time without a problem, to where others do not have a clue at all at this point.  It also reminds me of when I did not even have a fridge at all 18 years ago.  It was great during the winter months except when the milk and the greens froze on me at the time when I threw everything out into the mud room.  So yes I know in what to do and when also now and learned.  Ok so my Husband and I are laughing about it now here in how we got thru it all and how we all learned.  Now at this point there is alot of work to be done along with other things that I have to do here for the morning. 

Wandering

Well I went to a silent auction last night and had fun with it.  Of course I ended up with 2 baskets here without a problem at all.  So now since I ended up working anyway and found out a few things while I was at it all it made me wander about some things also in the cruddy work force.  All I could do for the gal who was telling me in all that she had left at the end of the month was give some advice out that I have been doing here for my own place.  I ended up telling the woman to keep some things on hand and do not worry at all since they are the basics out of the household totally.  Between the onions, potatoes, 1-2 bags of flour, butter, baking powder, bags of noodles, powdered milk, yeast, beans canned or baged, rice, some sugar, bread crumbs, eggs, along with 2 rolls of burger, and some chicken for the household.  I have also tried to keep some canned veggies at the trailer and the house here nomatter what.  Since I have all of that in the household here and can make meals out of that for at least 3 weeks here it is not so bad after I get done.  It also goes along with trying to get everything on sale and on the off brand side for the most part.  Pluss there are the days during the week that I turn everything off also for the place totally since I do not need alot of things anyway here that needs power.  Also I try to streach everything out that is in the household anyway.  This is what alot of people have not got as of yet here in why and how I do things for the place.  Since I have got alot tighter on things during the week here for my place it seems strange that I am beginning to think that it is normal in what I am doing.  I even told the gal to get the hand towels along with towels that she can clean with totally for the place that she is at now.  I got the look of what does that have to do with streaching out money for the household last night.  As I was telling the woman that since the 8 pack of paper towels have lasted for a year in my place at this point in time because of the towels and rags that I clean with that is how my place streaches out that part of the budget in my place.  Since 5-10 dollars is at least a days worth of meals if not more for the household it is well worth not getting the paper towels for the household at all.  I guess this is what worries some people that come over to my place also at this point in time now.  All I can do is laugh about it and go from there since I have got that much cheaper for my place here over the years.  When I was telling the woman to take small steps so nobody gets totally hurt and let others know in what you are doing so they can help out also it seems to work out better that way for the household.  That is what happened totally in my place and now I just say something that I am trying out here for the place that we are at now.  The gal was inpressed in what I was doing and could relate also for alot of things.  When I told her my total budget at the trailer years ago of 20 dollars for everything and what the welfare office told me that we could live high on the hog for that much a month also some were in shock.  That is when I became good at streaching things out here 10 years ago for the trailer and the house here also. 

Long day

Well the feeling is there that today will be a very long day here totally.  With cooking and cleaning as normal along with trying to get out of the house here to pick myself up off the floor mentally.  When I was out yesterday afternoon before I picked up my Husband some of us hit the dollar store here.  Since I had to make dinner and felt totally lazy for that part of things I went looking.  So I ended up with 3 things for the place and spent under 4 dollars of course for at least 2 nights worth of dinner and leftovers while I was thinking of that part of things here.  The manager was shocked that I picked up the non brand names out of the dollar store while I was there.  With that being said I got to look at what they had for frozen things along with other parts of the store at the time since I had the time to do so here.  The poor guy did not wander in how I could get over 100 dollars worth of stuff from there and have at least 3 carts full by the time I would leave.  Now that does not include the coupons that I will carry with me from now on to take with me to the one store also here.  With that being said here there are one stone with 2 birds that will go on here from now on to prove a point to some folks here totally.  It is not to hurt the birds just stun the really big and nasty ones with laughture.  Even the gal behind me in line was shocked that I could get at least 3 meals out of what I picked up yesterday along with the leftovers for the week here for my place totally.  So as I sit here and think of what else that I can do for the household to cut the costs alot of it hit me in the past 2 days.  Since my Husband is not worried apparently about the bills at all and the stress that is on me to get the bills paid here along with food in the household also at this time it is ok.  There will be alot more dollar store things here in the household also before it is over with and I will keep it that way from now on.  The off brands will work just the same as the name brands for the most part and some of the off brands I still shy away from to this day for the household.  Now here there is another part of the plan that I have for the household totally here.  Since everything gets piled up on me here for the place I will get it done even if I have to walk here to the stores to get things done.  I was asked the other day here in what if the truck broke down on me.  I said and I can still walk to alot of places and it will not hurt me at all still.  So the person got the point that I am not scared to do what I have to for the place to get things done.  Also now since I still have a roll cart here in the household so I can walk to the store totally to get things here.  Maybe at this point there is a reason for my madness to get the household that much cheaper at this time.  With alot of the thoughts going thru my mind here I have to get them all straight here and that will get done shortly. 

Busted day

Well I did get some things done yesterday here and it was still not enough of course.  But then again that is what happends here when I get a phone call here asking me to come pick him up also here yesterday morning.  Since I made it out to Aldi yesterday for alot of things here for the household I paid half of what the other stores wanted for almost the same thing totally.  So I got that part done and will get back out there a month from now for a big shopping trip for the household of course.  With that being said here there are ways to save nomatter what goes on and most of the time the grocery bill gets the big old ax first in the household also.  The other bills take sometimes 2 years to get them to drop if you have been in a place for awhile.  With that being said here that is why I do not freak when the companies charge more every other month here for myown place.  When I ask them to come out to read the meters here every other month they normally do since I have pitched total fits over the phone and was right in what I said here to them also.  There are alot of things that can be done totally in the household to get the bills down nomatter what you do.  I do not run alot of lights anyway here for my own place at all along with other things it cuts down on alot of the power totally.  I have also got use to not having much on during the day here also while I have been at it all.  There are times when alot of noise is really not called for in some households at all.  Since the birds chatter alot of the times here who needs any more noise than that for the day.  Anyway with today I will be getting to the laundry here in the household since the pile grew in size and something has to be done about that part of the housework totally for the day here.  That goes with alot of other things that have to be done here also since I have been somewhat slacking on that part while I have been at it.  So I am looking for a long day here nomatter in what I do here.  Oh well I guess it could be worse here other than hanging laundry outside and getting fresh air into the house with the dishes getting done here also.

Shaking my head

Well at this point in time I have to get my toush in gear for alot of things for the household now.  The bad thing is that I have a pile of dishes looking at me from yesterday after I cooked for most of the day since my Husband was home.  So with that said here I will end up pulling some of the leftovers back for the freezer here and see where I land up for tomarrow here on that part since I will take another look at both freezers.  I will not have to get to the store here for awhile on food and other things that are here totally and that is what I get for having the back stock here in the place.  My Husband started laughing when I ended up pulling things out of the pantry(spare room) for the day that were needed.  He asked if we needed anything I told him no.  With that part we ended up at the one pet store and I finally got out of there for under 30 dollars totally.  Since there is another cage that is here in the household totally and could not stand seeing the 2 little ones sitting around anymore also, I got some things for them and went from there.  The big guys as I call them now have enough toys in their cages that it is just enough that it is not totally full at all just like the smaller cage.  So now since that part is set for the place here there are other things that I will get done for the day here and most of it is cleaning here and acouple of places to stop at while I am out of the household.  Since some of the neighbors figure that I am not busy enough here in my place they would freak out in what I really do all day during the week also.  Between getting some of the cleaning done during the week here and other things that I get done, it is no wander in why I am tired by the end of the week here.  All I can do is keep doing here for the house and go from there.  Since I do alot of things on the cheap here in the place it makes it worth the trouble here also during the week.  Now to get others here in the household on the waggon also for what I am trying to get done here even more so it will help out.  Also here it seems wierd that I am already thinking of all of this since I will have to be tighter than ever here in the coming months while I am at it. 

Sitting here thinking

Well I am always thinking on my feet around here. Of how I can do things better or cheaper eather way. Well since yesterday I did hit the sales up at Kmart I saved over 25 dollars. That does not include what is on my card also for the place. Well I understand why the cashiers ask if I want to use what is on the card also. I told the gal I wanted to save it up becuase of I am always broke at points of the year. She diden't blame me after I told her also. Pluss I ended up with alot of the Green Works products to clean the can with. The product does not adjatate the birds what so ever when I use it. So I have stuck with it. In the long run it is cheaper to use the Green Works products anyway. When it takes me at least a month to go thru a bottle of dish deturgant that is 3 dollars normally unless I catch it on sale compaired to the runny brand that is not thick enough to even bother to foam up. Pluss with what I am useing now the dishes seem to come out cleaner than with the other stuff that I was useing. With children in and out of the can alot of cleaners will bother them. This way they can tell thier parents this is what so and so uses also and tell them how it works. I know one little on that was madder than a wet cat on a tin roof on Saturday. She missed the cookie bake off around here over the Easter weekend. I even had her Granddaddy laughing. Anyway I have been thinking and working on how to get my place cheaper anyway and it is an on going battle around here. I like it when it is quiet around here and there's no computer or T.V. going also. Once a person gets use to it it is not so bad. I get more work done around the can without them on. Pluss you get creative on how things are done and what you do without them going. Now around here in what I do is I wright down stuff to remind me of how I did things thru the day. It makes life easier on me. And of course there is no right or wrong way of doing things anyway. Everyone has thier own of doing housework and that is how life is. I learned over 33 years ago it takes all kinds of folks to make the world go around and everyone is differant. Just like there is no right or wrong way of being cheap/frugal also. Everyones needs are differant anyway and some of us do things in what is better for that sittuation. Like with me I hit the sales stock up and use coupons, turn off things while I am home, and make phone calls to get better deals for the utilities. There are lots of ways to go frugal and cheap and sometimes they both go hand in hand. My Hubby always teases me about makeing the dollars scream more than a dozen times before I let it go. I have had others tell me I squeek when I walk also. I laugh about it and say it took me almost 20 years to get like this. I also did all of it slowly also. With some things I ask myself ok do I really need something and is there a way that I can save up for it in the long run. Also another thing that I have is I do not go shopping for items that I do not need also. Outfits are so over rated anyway. I live in sweats most of the time along with T-shirts. Yes I do have about 3 pairs of jeans that I can go out on occations where I want to get kind of dressy. I have been known to show up to the stores in fuzzy slippers and rollars in my hair also. I have nobody to impress and if folks do not like it they do not have to look at me niether. I have been like this since I was in grade school. As I have got older I have also realized that I will cook over going out to dine someplace. It is cheaper to stay home and cook also in my book. Pluss when some folks come over they realize that yes I do cook the scratch meals for the household. And some are like can I try that out and have the recipie after they try it. With me I have a ton of recipies in the household and add things to it and try to spice it up. I also have to leave some things out of course. Oh well lets see what kind of damage I can do to the place today. Have fun and play hard.

Got to see a place today

Well I went out to se a place today. It is a lot bigger than where I am at at this point in time. It would be nice to see the front of the dollar store than the back of the building. One draw back is oil heating and hot water. If it gets me out of the Hell hold trailer park from rotten neighbors I can put up with not being able to take in breath at all. A good thing of where the place is located at is that I can still walk to alot of places if I do not feel like driveing. If I get the place I will have new neighbors hawlking around the place when I cook also. Oh well at least I will not be putting up with children and adults who need shock collars on a constant basis and begging for a hot meal around where I want to go to. That is what I will like about it. It also seems to be a quiet neighborhood. Anyway I am looking forward to all the bills to go down in the household one day also. That is the dream that I have been holding out for. Also to have a wood burner just in case if the power goes guess what I still have heat and can cook also. Well I still have cans and bottels in the van that I haven't took in as of yet for the wood burning stove. I still have a jar fund going for that and wait untill I get enough togeather to make it worth my while to go in and cash in the nickles. I do not mind the wait at all to get something that I want. As I say a penny to a nickel at a time to save up every little bit helps around here in my book. Most of what I have I have saved and scrimped to get around here. That is what some folks haven't realized thru the years at all. That when I work out of the home and get a "Real" paycheck yes I do get more for the household or can hold. And pull more back while I am at it. It is a thing that I have. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Waiting for the water

I am waiting for the dish water to somewhat cool down so I don't take the skin off my hands. I have my Husband laughing about what I am going to do for the week after. I am totally takeing a me week and staying home to clean the can. The being alone doesen't hurt me niether. After a week of hardly doing except to do vary little to keep the place going and this week coming up of doing the same thing the place already looks trashed more than normal. I have been saved from doing most of the laundery for today. Friday and Saturdays are nice for that. Now to really sit down on Monday morning to plan for the week and meal planning also while I am at it all. I have started wrighting down my list for the week of to do's this morning. When I can say that my Husband looks at me in the middle of the store and says babe while we are here get the 30 pack of beer I don't mind now. I know it's his way of my payment for trying to keep up during the last week. Now I will tell you again I do not have a totally uncluttered place and never will around here. All of the counter space is took up and utilized in my can. Pluss I have used up the dead spots in my place for storage and other things. Some are very suprized when they walk in and see how I have done things in a 700 square foot place. Storage bins help out also around here. I don't know how I made it so long without them after I started useing them about 4 years ago. I took a clear storage bin for the bathroom to hold all of the shampoo and conditioner that I had got after cleaning out my sister in laws place. It was so bad that it took us over 3 years to use everything up becuase the ungreatfull child diden't like a piticular thing and refused to use it. Well the ungreatfull Child is a totally new can of worms and I will save that for a latter date. My husband and myself had a 7 room house that was a rental (thanking my luck) in about 2 days and the kitchen was the hardest part of it all. That is how I came to know about the Brown Bottle Lysole to get the cat urin smell out of a place also. All the landloard would say was how and let me know what you did. John is a wanderfull Landloard and I still Love him to this day and appreciate him. He called us when he diden't have to when the pipes were freezeing up the one year and I told him everything was still good at the place and he might want to call this person becuase of her pipes freezeing up. Anyway with myself trying to be cheap around here and I will get it all the way done some day and look for ways to still cut costs. Cheap and Frugal go hand in hand anyway and there is no wrong or right way of doing eather one. Just like when I bought the Kitchenaid stand mixer. Was it cheap Kind of was it a frugal Purchase yes. In the long run the mixer has paid for itself and has kept up longer than the junk handmixers that I have bought or my sister in law bought for me. It is one of the long term purchases that you have to think on just like a car and a house. I think of ok will it last me for 20 years pluss and what is the pay off for the major purchase also. That is where things kick in of being frugal and cheap at the same time. Pluss can I use it everyday and will it keep up with the ware and tare of everyday life. I tried to save up for 20 years for my Kitchenaid mixer. When I was with the ex I had a harder time. With the new Husband (16years) he is just like I am, how can I save money in the long run and go from there. Some weeks are worse than others for saveing on the bills. I will say that becuase it is true. You never know what will happen from day to day.