Shaking my head

Well it was a long weekend here without a doubt.  With frozen pipes along with getting out of the house here for a good while on Saturday it made it long for the weekend.  At this point in time the house is stocked up in alot of things that were needed anyway and most of it is put away at this time also while I was at it yesterday.  Since I did not spend alot of money for what I ended up getting here it was a very good thing.  With that being said I got to go to Braymillers market and for the money that I spent I got alot of the normal kitchen foods that were needed for the month here.  My Husband and myself were already out that way this weekend and their prices are pretty good on alot of things also.  Then we both hit the one Walmart that it about 10 minutes down the road also and saved there also while we were at it on Saturday afternoon.  The Walmart that we were at makes the one here look like a joke totally that is near the household.  So after all said and done I was happy that things were knocked off the list by the time we were done for that end of things here.  Then yesterday here I ended up cleaning for part of the day of course and got further than what I expected to also for the day.  With being busy in the household some things got ignored of course and that is how alot of things go with me here.  Also with the dinners in the past 2 days here were on the cheap side for the people that were here while I was at it all.  Between chicken and pasta here for both dinners here it was not that bad at all.  So now that I have enough potatoes along with onions and several other items in the household I can get several meals up for fairly cheap yet again much to some peoples surprise when they see the menu that will come up for this month again here.  The funny thing is that I broke out the easy and cheap ways on the recipes and people liked them on Saturday night.  So there is still the hope that I can get alot cheaper in some areas of the household here without a problem not hassle on that part of things.  Now to get the rest of the place into gear and be done with it all of course this week and see what happends. 

Shaking my head

Well I get to work tonight here totally and I am happy about that kind of.  I am not looking forward of being out in the cold.  So now at this point I still have 2 loads of laundry to get done here for the day before I do anything else besides plot out the rest of the day.  With that part of things here knowing that the both of us have to dress warm tonight and I have to cut on a pair of gloves also now it will not be so bad.  Also here I ended up with a new pair of shoes since the ones that are here except one pair that are pretty tattered.  The one pair have never fit right anyway and that is how I ended up with the new pair totally.  So now at this time I will wear the one pair untill they are falling apart and go from there.  Anyway here at least I will be doing the cheap end of things from now on for the place and myself from now on and some people will not like it when I get done here at all.  Others have figured out in why I am cheap so far and they have not seen anything out of me as of yet to what I have been doing.  It is part of the new years thing that I am setting up.  I have several things on my list this year to get done and getting that much cheaper is only one thing on my list.  Some people will be shocked in what I will do to keep things lower than snot for the place that I am in now.  Ok so I am clawing my way to keep the house here totally.  That means alot of the bills will come to a screaching hault here and I will kick and scream over this one totally untill I get my way on it.  It will mean more money in my Husbands pocket also during the month here and he will not mind it when I explain why here.  Also I will fall into some good deals while I am at it for things that are needed to keep the household going this up coming year.  There is so much that I can do here totally and will get it all done even if it kills me to do so.  I have been wanting to down size things for a good while here anyway and I will make it all happen.  Also with myself thinking so much here on alot of things totally I know in what I have to do here to make it all happen for the place.  Pluss since I have a list this year with the goals that is only a surface of what will go on that you see here today.  There is alot more that I will be doing for the household also from now on that I am not saying as of yet here.  It will all come out here totally and I will make alot of things work.

Thinking

Well after all that was done yesterday here for the place it is still a mess.  It could be worse totally here in the household.  I was planning on getting more laundry done that what I had got to and that did not happen at all.  Now for the day I will get alot done for the place since things need to be done anyway and it will depend on the lines down stairs as normal.  With that part of things it will be another cheap day here since hardly anything will be running again.  So now at least I will be getting more done here in the place today than all week.  Ok so I have not stopped plotting for alot of things here at all.  It keeps my mind off of other things here and I will admit to that part totally.  Anyway at this point in time here I have been looking around the household to see if I can cut anymore out of the budget here and I have came up with some things that might work for the long run.  It also helps out that I have a full tank of gas for the truck that I have and I have to get back to my walks so I can clear my mind.  Yes I have noticed that alot of things are jumbled into one big mess.  With that part said here I will do that part this morning and get it done and over with since I will be near one of my spots anyway for the day.  The good part about all of this is that I know that I can make it with the walks even though it is colder than snot outside at this point.  As I say get out early and get parts of the day done here so I can work for the rest of the day in the household.  There are many things that I have noticed here in the area also that are not good at all.  With alot of the prices going up it is almost sticker shock for alot of things that are needed.  It makes neighbors wander in why I have been taking walks anyway here and it is for the extra money alot of times along with weight loss here of course.  At least I know that by the end of the week when I walk all week here I can go over to the one dollar store and get enough food for the household without a problem.  That is how I have been looking at things as of late for the household totally.  With taxes going up here all over the place Middle Class was fun while it lasted.  There are still ways to cut the costs in every household still and I am working on alot of it myself still.  The cheaper products, food, turning off things, and hardly driving does help out here totally for the budget.  If you have a fire place get it inspected and fire it up when the person gives ya the green light to do so.  The wood that I found and got was alot cheaper than paying a 200 pluss dollar gas bill for the furnace.  Also check with the city and make a deal with them for trees that they cut down.  Just like the news paper inserts also for the day that your area comes out for the sales along with the coupons.  With that said it is more important to streach out every dollar that comes into a household at this point in time after and with the disaster that is going on in Washington.  Alot of ways here I can see the dollar stores doing a huge turn around after the first of the year here when people see less money coming in and alot more going out.  Now I will figure out a tighter budget for the new year along with things that I will be dropping along with it all.  So things will be off more times than not here after the new year and alot more coupons will be printed out also for the place.  Maybe part of it all is the shock value that I need with others in the same checkout lane that I am in at the stores also. 

Shaing my head

Well I got out to the dollar store today already and made dinner also while I was at it.  At this time I have figured out in why I have went back to the dollar store again here for the place.  With that part here at least I can feed the household off of about 3 dollars now here instead of 10 dollars.  Since some people have not figured this part out in what I have done and they will not if I have my way at this time here.  That is the fun part here for in what I can do under some noses totally.  When my Husband found out that I ended up with a free bag of cough drops yesterday he looked at me like I was nuts.  Since the coupon was a dollar off of 2 bags of the drops it came down to 50 cents a bag.  Now to get the Sunday papers more often here so I can save more out of the one dollar store when I go back by next month here.  So now with that part here at least I will be getting another area in the household that much cheaper here.  I can say that today that some were happy when they could use coupons in the store that we landed at also here to help out in that area of their place.  Also with today I got asked in who had the better deal on a cell phone plan that was realiable in the area.  I told the person Verizon here since the bill was spot on in what the gal told us it would be.  So I guess I sold the person on the service that we got at this time.  Also at this time I have to really work on the household this week here for keeping things down here.  It will be abit harder here since my Husband will be home for almost a week here.  With that I can get out for my morning walks here this week with ease.  The better part at this time is that with everyone shopping at this time I will be taking my time here for the walks. 

Shaking my head

Well as of yesterday I got out of the house for acouple of hours.  Since I walked around 2 stores in total here and felt alittle better after that I now know that part of what is going on.  With that said I will be trying to get more coupons here for the one store also and the nickle pick up will help on that part also here at this time.  With alot of things here I had forgot that the one place that the whole thing is a dollar per item and they take coupons also.  With that being said at least I can go out to get some shopping done now for food and make it all work here.  Since I am trying to get cheaper here for the household anyway it is another good place to get things done here also.  Ok so the one dollar store the products are almost the rejects from other stores since they are smaller than what you get also.  I can think of worse things that could happen besides that.  So now here at least I know that some things will work better here since I will be going back at least once a month here to the one dollar store totally.  Now at this time at least part of what I got done yesterday I had coupons for both stores here along with hanging a load of laundry here for the day.  It all adds up in the end with what I do for the household totally.  Between the sales, coupons, turning things off, and streaching things out it all works in the household.  Also cooking at home instead of going out to eat cuts down on the budget for the household.  That is where part of the planning comes into play.  Granted some people do not know in how to cook at all and that is fine.  There are web sites out there to help with that part of things also.  So now here with the one dollar store you would not believe in what is in the store when you walk in.  It is a cheap way to feed the household totally at this point when you make to much for the food stamps/snap program.  What I do not believe in is the folks that have been on the system for generations.  With that said if you are 50 cents over you do not get on period.  So now with the one place I will be back to get more things when I cash in the nickles totally here.  This is why I also throw the pasta from the box into a zipper bag with bay leaves also here it makes it easy to pull out a cup of pasta to go along with other things during the week here.  This is why I will not mind going back to the one store here.  Anyway the planning will help with the budget and think on things before it all goes down in stone.  Get others involved also if they are in the household nomatter what.

Shaking my head

Well yesterday while I was out there were at least 8 people in front of me with the welfare cards and trying to get money out of them still at the store.  Most of the time you can tell that the people have been on the system for years on end when they get really nasty with the cashiers totally.  Like it is the poor kids fault that there is no more money for food nor cash for anything else at the end of the month when the people blew thru the money the first 3 days that it hits the card.  I got out to the parking lot after I got done out of the store paying a bill totally and 7 of the people got into brand spanking new cars and 1 person got into a cab.  I started shaking my head and was in discuss when the person that I called picked up the phone to answer a question that I had for him.  When I got over to the place the guy asked and I told him what happened.  All the guy could tell me and here we are struggling to pay the bills on time and that happends more times than not while we are out.  I would still love to see the 6 people try to get enough food along with other things for the household for 20 dollars a month like the system tried to do with me years ago at the trailer.  After I said fine I will show up at your door for 1 meal a day and start in on the laundry while I am at it all pluss another saying while I was at it.  I was on the system for a year and got kicked off since we made 1 dollar to much at the time also.  That is when I got good at the trailer to get food to cook at the time also.  So now here I guess this is why I still pick up the nickles and walk alot to this day.  With that being said here this is why I still have somethings on hand here and always will for the place.  Pluss I still think about alot of ways to cut down in more ways around the household here while I am at it all.  Since things get turned off all of the time here along with laundry being hung up to dry instead of the dryer being used, the fire place goes more times than not still this year compaired to last year, and streaching out the cleaners to the max it all works togeather for the place.  It makes me wander in what really goes down in some households and with some people not even bothering to figure out that you just can not use and abuse others at all.  Since it will be 2 years here next month when I dropped the house phone totally here for the place it helped out some also.  By the time I dropped the cable and went with the dish the cable company did not like that, when I said I get more channles for 40 dollars less than what you were charging me here.  So now at this point in time I am looking for another internet service that is cheaper to run for the household here and I do not care if it is slower than what I have now.  So this is what I get for not moving into the prodjects at this point in time also for not having free cable along with other things that I have to pay for also here.  That is what gets to me more than anything at this time here on top of it all.  So now to start saving money again around the household here and go from there this morning to see where I land up for the day. 

Shaking my head

Ok with alot of what has been going on here totally no wander in why I forget things here in the household totally.  The good part of it all is that I can still get things done when need be and I told my Husband in the afternoon over the phone nothing will be done here and go ahead and start screaming now it will not help ya out at this point in time.  Ok so I was in a mood to do squat here in the place yesterday and that is what I did squat.  So now at this point in time today will be somewhat busy here and that is fine by me at this time.  It will help make me forget another headache that is on me here again.  I guess that is part of the reason why I am willing to go thru another surgery.  Anyway at least with today there are things that will get done here on the cheap and my Husband will see this out of me again for the second time this week for the household.  So now with that being said here there is always things that need to be done in the household nomatter what goes down.  Since nobody is here to waste things on me anymore and I did try to get it thru some thick heads at the trailer it did not work at all.  This is why I have been saying that things have been sticking around in the place for the past several months also.  With prices going up all of the time still to this day here this is why I have been cutting down on alot of things between the trailer and the house here.  The trailer was a trial run and the house has been a good run for the most part in the past 11 months also.  With the dryer not going constantly and I can shut things down more often than not also in the place that part has helped out.  Then to switch over alot of the soaps and cleaners have also helped out around the place while I have been at it all.  This is what some have not got about in what I have been doing at all now and wanted to come back to see what was going on.  With the Ajax dish soap and what little cleaners that I have left under the kitchen sink at this time it will work out for at least 6 months here totally.  By the time I run out of cleaners here for the place I will still have enough bleach to do some damage for cleaning.  This is why I have been trying to get the back stock in the house here totally so I do not have to run out to the stores everyday nor once a week here for things that are needed.  I guess that has made some people mad that know me in what I was doing at the time.  Also now since I do have some things here in the household still that I can cook with here while I am at it all the people that were mad before have not realized in what I can still do with what is left here in the household at all.  Since I have ran out of eggs here I will get up enough nickles to get a dozen and make meatloaf tonight for dinner for the place.  The leftovers will get cut up thin here for tomarrow and get fries on top of it along with gravy here for the 2nd meal.  The funny part about what I am doing now is that one of my sisters could never ever make a meatloaf to save her toush nomatter what she did.  So what I would do is take what was undone in the middle put it into a fry pan cook it the rest of the way with baked fries and slap gravy on it for dinner or supper the next day and had others drooling over what I made.  Pluss thanks to some places that I shop at for the 5 for 20 dollar deals for other meats here it helps out.  This is where it comes in knowing in what to do with the odds and ends of things for meal ideas totally.  Since I will be stocking up on soups again here for the household for Febuary so I can at least eat something that will slide down it shoud not be that hard at all. 

Shaking my head

Well at least the truck is back up and running here once again.  Since I told my Husband I won't beg him to do anything at all and it hit him totally yesterday morning.  I learned years ago that begging and pleading with him does not work at all to have him do anything around the trailer and the house here also.  So after all said and done here he sprayed down the cap down with WD40.  If you have a Dodge Ram truck the cap is known to get water into them because of where they sit under the hood of the truck.  So what you do is hold down the gas peddle and crank over the key untill it starts and keeps running after that get a can of WD 40 and spray the cap down good and it will keep the water out.  My Husband freaked out when I told him that one of his buddies told me to do that part of it and do not worry about it.  With spraying it down like he did it will last for at least 6 months to start with that part done.  When I say there is 101 uses for alot of things I can prove that part.  Not only can you fix some car/van/truck parts with the WD 40 it takes squeeks out of things, and you can use it for your joints also on top of it all.  I learned that part of things when I was young and the parts on vehicals alittle over 2 years ago here.  All I can do is laugh at times since alot of things have many uses in my household totally.  When some people say recycle things in the household they mean it.  Just like ice cube trays when they have a hair line crack and will not hold water anymore they make great trays to hold things like the screws, nuts, bolts, beads, safty pins, pins, and many other small things to get organized.  Just like the end table that is so battered and tattered in a houshold also has many uses.  That is when I have thrown a folded sheet over one and let it hang down around the sides of it at the trailer.  With that you can store can goods under the sheet totally and they are hidden and out of the way and still use the top to hold things like lamps, coffee mugs while you are sitting there and several other things you want to put on it.  It comes from living in a small space also when that part happends.  There are alot of things that can be reused totally and making the stuff look totally different also for the place that you are in.  With that being said here this is why some habbits with me are hard to break around my place at this time.  When myself and my Husband finally broke down and got the new grill and lawn mower for the house this past April some were in shock that we did that part of things.  The one lawn mower was getting fixed and ready to go back to the one gal and that is how we got the other also here.  With the grill here it had cut the costs in the household since I did not have to use the oven hardly over the summer months.  Pluss I still have alittle bit in the one tank from April here and I used the grill more times than not here over the hotter than snot days.  So there are alot of ways to save money on the bills for the household nomatter in how broke you are.  Alot of things have been pulled from the side of the road here while we were at the trailer so we could have something to sit on in the main room at the time.  And yes we were that broke to where we could hardly pay the bills at the time.  So now things have got somewhat easier and I can pinch money untill it screams more than once still to this day.  The funny part of it is here is that I will hoard a 20 dollar bill in my purse and when we are that broke at times of the year it is gas and food money still to this day.  I think that is what gets to some people still about me here in where I am at.  Since I am a tight wad in many ways here for my place it makes alot of people wander and think in why I am doing some things that they think would never work for them.  I guess that I have got use to some things thanks to some people for spending every penny on me at one time or another while I have been out on my own.  I guess it is another reason of why I will keep cutting the costs as much as I can nomatter in what I do here for where I am at now also.  Pluss not only that this past weekend I got asked my both of my sisters here if I had food in the household.  I said yes and all I needed to get was butter and milk for the household.  Since I have a ton of pasta and rice that are still here for the place at this time I have food.  To go along with that part of things I do have canned veggies for the household still here and with the rice and pasta I can get several meals out of that part of things here.  This is why I say that there are some staples in the kitchen and there is always something to eat for a meal if you look at it and figure out what goes with what and when. 

Shaking my head

Well after yesterday I knew that I was going to have an almost empty tank of the truck here and it is almost empty.  So now I guess I will have to really crack down totally on the walks on myself totally without a question at all.  At this point I will get out today here and get some things done of course and it means a nickel pick up while I am out of the house also.  It seems like we are broker this year than we have been with the trucking industry other than other years.  Also it means that I have to contrive that much more here to pay the bills of course here for the month.  At this time knowing in what I know here without saying to much of course it will all work out.  Now is the time that I am thankfull for the back stock here in the household and will use that part of things here without a problem.  I guess this is why I try to stock up while the gettings good here also.  With that being said here since I have my ways of cutting down the bills around the household here also everything will be put into use here also in what I have done in years past.  With the exception of the fire place this year totally for the house unlike the trailer.  Now here I will be doing things here in the household and it may work.  I just have to remember that things have to be turned off untill 5 pm from now on here period during the week.  Pluss I got to thinking about this on the ride out and back to where we went yesterday is that I can use the craf more in the mornings along with candles also to see with here.  That is part of the tricks that will be pulled out here for the place this week again.  The nice thing about all of this is that it cuts the bills down along with saving from using alot of coffee during the week here also while I am at it all.  By Thursday I will use the microwave to heat the coffee again and go from there.  With that being said for the place here at least I can do alot of things since I am alone here during the week to save.  With alot of it I have to think on during the day in ways to get things cheaper here along with the easier way of doing things also for the place.  I guess this is why I do not mind walking at all at this point still.  So now to just put everything togeather here to start cutting down on alot of things again for the place and go from there.  Also here since the fire place will go more often than not at this point it is a good thing for the household.  Now since alot of things are a jumble again in where to start first besides the power and the gas bills here I will have to work on it all.  At least I am not frustrated this time in doing way to much this go around.  I know in what to expect on alot of things here and that is how it goes.  All I can say is when you first start with cutting the costs in the household take small steps about it all.  So now at this point in time here it is where to begin with the place and go on with it.  The nice part is that it will start today and work with it.  Now to see where I land up for the day.

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. 

Thankfull now

I still want to appologize to the poor gairl that the claws came out lastnight on here.  She is still the sweetest girl here that has came over totally and understands in why I have the total problem of switching over.  I gave the poor girl so many huggs today that I am sure she was floored over it all . totlly to say I was sorry.  Now that the poor thing has seen in how it goes here and normally I am not on the net this early PERIOD here still and so forth.  I felt bad and still do since I have been burnt before and the poor girl understands about that part here.  So now here I feel somewhat better that I did apologize in person and said where I go at here on the blog.  Now I hope she reads and takes something out of the blog here that can help her and or her Momma with totally here in what I do for my own place.  Since I am not pushy here at all and I can only say in what I know and works for me also here for my place it works.  It is not for everyone in hanging laundry and having things turned off during the peak hours of the day here nomatter where you are.  It is hard in todays world out there nomatter in what ya do to save money PERIOD.  I just wish that some would get their act togeather here in the country and say hay even the richest people now ain't so rich at this point re now and that includes the Jack wagon in office. 

Cutting more

Well I have thought alot about cutting more here in the household in the past couple of days here and I will get that part of things done totally.  With alot of thought here along with dragging out the laptop again I will make it work during the week without a problem at all.  So at this point in time I have put alot of things into use here that I have used at the trailer to cut the costs and it will work out for the best here in the house.  Alot of what I have dropped from the trailer was because of being cut down so much here in the place that I gave up on most of the things that I was doing.  Now here for the place since I do not have to worry about that part here anymore I will be doing alot more from now on here.  Alot of it here is to get some things used up and out of here totally and I will be able to get the old ways back.  Things like using rags on the swifter here again to help clean part of the floors.  Also there is bleach to clean with here in the place while I am at it all.  That is only part of what I plan to do for the place that is on the cheap side of things here.  I have came to realize that alot of things that I gave up doing in almost 2 years has cost me enough to make my head spin on the costs that went up.  When I got dropped here I also realized that some people just do not care and would rather spend the money anyway and some did not even clean their own place up at all since she spent more time here in my place.  So now here since I do not have to get the high priced things for the place anymore and I can streach out what I have here in the back stock also it works out for the best in alot of ways.  Also since the lights are not going constanly here in the house anymore along with the dryer the power bill dropped like a rock for the place.  That is another reason of why I do not mind being alone also here in the place.  With some people they would rather use the dryer and run up the gas or power bills for the household.  When the one neighbor said that his power bill was over 200 dollars for the month I about fell over.  I also set a goal up to get the power bill about 50 dollars at that point in time or lower for my place.  So I checked with acouple of neighbors here and asked for a ball park on theirs and they told me give and take about 35 dollars a month and during the summer it is more of course.  So I set out a goal for the power bill almost a year ago and I have got it about there at this point.  The summer months almost killed me with the window units here for the house and that is ok still.  Another thing that I have came to realize is that I did not waste alot of money anyway in the past 2 years here and I got asked about that part of things also.  As I told some that the money was not wasted at all in what was handed to me at the time and I could sit in it, watch it, touch it to get into the house along with open it, paid someone back in what we owed, and drive it here.  The poor woman started laughing and said that I made several good choices on what I got for the place and myself.  Oh and I got the laptop last year also while I was at it all and took the trip down to Illinois.  So I did the right thing here totally in what happened on that part.  Maybe that is the reason some did not like in what I did at all and I went the cheap route on alot of it for the place at the time.  I did not ask for the government to help me out at all this time for parts of the house along with other things like the one gal did that I know. 

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. 

Thinking again

Well I have been thinking again here totally.  With alot of things going on here in the household along with out of the place I may as well get even cheaper for the place at this point in time.  I guess this is why I have been running the fire place more here when it got cool enough outside to keep the furnace from running so much also here so far this year.  So now with that part being said here it amazes me in what some have been doing totally for their place at this time.  It keeps getting wierder and wierder here in the neighborhood also in the past 6 months also once I think about it all.  As I sit here at this point in time and start to thinking of what all has been going on totally and some of us are broker than others also maybe that is why I am saying that things are getting wierd also.  What I guess it is here with me is that I am such a tight wad on alot of things here for my place that it I just shake my head when others spend money that they do not have at all at this time.  Even my one neighbor asked in how I have got everything done here for the place at this time and I told her.  This is why nobody really sees me walking in with the soaps and T.P. for my place at all.  I told her to get a back stock going when things are on sale and go from there at this point in time here.  The gal was shocked in what I was doing here and it clicked in why I have not got hardly anything for the place in the past 4 months here at all.  The back stock has helped out more than what some have even thought about here and that is how it all goes.  When another person asked during dinner here on Thursday in how bad the one room really was the myself and my Husband started laughing since I have to get back in there to organize it all again.  The the gal realized in that it was my over stock for the household besides the stuff that was in the basement for that part of things here also.  So now with that part and the wood here it all works out for the best here in the household.  Now at this point in time here at least some things will not change during the winter months at all and I will still be stocked up it seems out of the habbit with that part.  Also here some have got the point of why I throw a big log on then a piece of pallet wood on with it.  Then I switch to the smaller logs also to keep the fire going here in the household.  So it all works out for the best here and I get to keep some bills down totally still.  So as I think about alot of things here, there is alot more that I can do to get that much cheaper here for the household.  With that said here I may as well go out this afternoon for my walk here when I drop my Husband off at the truck also to see what I can do for that end of things also here. 

Just got back

Well who ever said that I could not make money at all here by taking walks lied to me totally.  I ended up with $1.50 today here already here and will get back out to get more of the nickles out in the parking lots and on the side of the street.  With that part being said here there is money out there to make it on here totally.  You just have to look for ways to get it here.  So now at this point I know where to hit up and where not to hit.  I hit up only 2 parking lots here and did well this morning.  Now I know in what the one guy had said to me and he was right on alot of things at that point in time.  So I will get out for my walks here from now on and see what I can do totally for the day.  Also now since I am getting that much cheaper here for the household it has become a good thing here so far.  Since the fire place will be going alot more here along with the power being off more often also it will give me a chance to catch up on other bills here for the household.  I pretty much knew that everyone was in trouble when the yahoo was re elected here for office.  Since I do listen to talk radio here there had been so much fraud that it was not even funny.  Things like the voting booths that pick the yahoo instead of what the person put down along with the money coming in overseas for the race.  Also now things are looking like some of us working class are going to get alot broker here in the next 4 years.  So I will be doing all that I can to keep the house here nomatter what.  Since I went to the cheap end to get alot of things here some still have not got in the whys of what I have been doing here at all.  I have proved that when the both of us were at the trailer.  With everything that has went on over the 18 years that I have been up here I got alot cheaper on alot of things here.  Since I can get the power bill, gas bill, cable/sattalite, phone, and water down here for the place some have noticed that part of things that I have done.  That along with the food and cleaning bills for the place also here is what everyone just blasted me for when we first moved into the house here at the time.  Now everyone is use to me shopping at some places and keeping things off totally for the household.  That is the nice thing of what I do here along with walking also for the place.  I hope that some come to realize that some of us have to do what we have to around here to make ends meet along with getting that much cheaper for things also here in every household.  I guess this is why I have not stopped shopping at the dollar stores and the non name brand stores also for where myself and my Husband are at now.  Also the free wood has totally helped also here for the place.  When it is bitter cold out with the winds that have kicked up it gets pretty bad outside.  So that is why I do not mind the fire place at all at this point in time for the extra heat here.  This is what happends when we are taxed way to much here in where we are along with not knowing what will happen next also. 

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. 

Wandering

Well I finally got up to the grocery store yesterday for food.  At this point in time I still wander if some people are eating since they have raked me over the coals for the one cell phone company.  All I can say about that part is thank goodness for rice and pastas here for the household so I could and can eat something here during the 4 months of that crud.  So now here I did get some things here for the household for quick and easy meals along with the rest of a big dinner that will be cooked next week here also.  Since alot of what I got can and will be used here as double duty for the place it works out for the best.  I have at least one bird who loves celry here and he of course will get some also.  At this time I will not get hollered at for going up to the store at all here since we were running low on parts of the food stock anyway here.  Pluss at this point in time I just realized that I was in Illinois this time last year of course and going to the truck stop here to work.  So now I will say never again with the the one side of the family after all said and done here.  Ok so I went grocery shopping while I was there and some figured that I did not do that part at all for to make a haul back up here to NY State.  That was part of the problem along with my one aunt that loves to waste money totally and figure that it is ok to take things away from others without asking at all.  Now here since some people just do not care or do not get that you do not do that to someone like me here I do not need that person or persons at all here around myself and the people here on the block.  It also gives me the chance here to get that much cheaper for the house here since I am away from the drama.  This is how I ended up with thinking on alot of ways to cut the costs even further.  This is another reason why I am dropping the cable and going with the dish system here for the place.  I had to think and figure what was the best way for the money here.  So now here this is what the one aunt and her children does not get about me still to this day.  Since I do think of the best ways of doing things here for the household totally along with being cheaper about it all also it helps.  I guess this is why when I can find dish soap for 79 cents a bottle here I will pick up several bottles here for the place.  It is the little things like that here that I think about here.  Just like the T.P. that I picked up yesterday for the household.  I about fell over when I seen the prices at Kmart along with other places also at this time.  Ok so I was running low on that part of things here in the household and I do not want the Sears book here to wipe with since it hurts.  So I got that part on sale as normal here for the place and it was cheaper than the store brand.  I guess with some people that is why they switched over to rags to wipe with and keep a bucket in the bathroom to hold the dirty ones.  I am sorry I will not go that route at all here for my place.  I may be cheap here and there is a line that I will not cross at all with some things here. 

Shaking my head

Ok so I am a nickel up for the day already here without even trying at all.  Now I will go out later on to take my walk here after I get a call to come pick some people up here.  Also my Husband seen the hummor in what I did when I was taking him to the truck this morning.  He started laughing and said how the heck can you spot things from 500 feet away around here.  So at this point in time I guess things are looking up here totally now and that is how I like it here.  After the bruttal week that I just had here things better start turning around here totally.  It is just an opinion and a good hope also for the coming days and weeks here totally.  Since alot of things are getting done here and dinner will be fairly cheap here also tonight since it will be chicken for dinner again tonight here along with rice and afew other things.  At least it is food and I have been thinking about some things totally just to streach out in what I have in the freezers totally.  So maybe there is some hope around here to get all of the bills down to almost nothing here again for this year period without some people coming over.  Maybe that is what has worried acouple of people since I have not called them at all to come over to the house at all now.  So at this point since I will get some of the things done here for tomarrow before, during, and after I drop my Husband off at the truck again here.  Ok so I will throw several loads of laundry into the washer and hang it out tomarrow here since it will be nice outside.  As I told the one guy that I talked to on Thursday here throw in a load in the morning and when you come home throw it in the dryer or on the drying racks one.  He about fell out of the chair and said oh my I read that off of one of the blogs that my wife reads all of the time and gave the name here.  I told him it was me who does that and have fun.  So now at this point in time since I have switched everything over to the cheaper end of things out on the market it is not going to bad around here also.  With the cleaners some do not work as well at all when they want an arm and the leg for the product.  That is what gets to me at this point in time totally here still to this day.  So that is why I went to the cheaper things here to clean with since it seems they work better for my place.  Alot of time some people are very strict on the frugal part of things that it is their way or no way at all.  I am not saying what is right or wrong here all I know is what works for me here for the palce that I am at now.  Ok so I do not watch alot of T.V. during the day here and I am off of the computer also.  Everything gets turned off and the power cut at the breaker bar for at least 5 days a week some times 6 it depends on what is going on in the household at the time.  It goes along with hanging laundry also, is it for everyone no it is not.  All I can say is what really works for me here to get things lower for the place.  Just like I do not mind running the fire place here during the winter months since it gets so flapping cold out.  It puts heat out into the main floor here and saves on the gas bill also.  I am still trying to save up for another wood burner here for the household and that is how it goes.  One that will do better than the fireplace but then that is me here totally also.  It is like with the food budget also here not everyone will agree in what I do for myown place and that is fine by me here.  I may not agree with someone else niether here and that is what makes the world go round also still here to this day.  Some may not agree with what I do and that is fine also it goes both ways since I hate to use some things here in the household totally. 

Half the battle here

Well at least I know what the battle has been here in the household totally and I am winning that part of things at this time.  Since alot of things have kicked me here in the past couple of weeks I will be ok here totally.  At this point I know what to do to get the place cheaper and it will get done totally even if it kills me to do so here.  When some people are not coming over at all here now it has got alot better with the bills falling totally.  They are about ready to fall that much lower also since I have noticed alot of things here that have been going on also for the place.  I have somewhat got lazy about some things here in the household and that is a easy fix at this time.  The bad part is that I have to get off my toush for the place at this time here and get back on track for alot of what has been going on here.  Since some people do not care in how things are out in the "Real World" here I have a fix for myown household at this point in time also.  Gee I guess some are gonna miss all the taxes out of me out in the stores at this time.  Between the coupons that I can print and the sales along with the dollar stores will be breaking out here for the household again it means less taxes are being spent.  Also since I have been cutting the bills down here it also leaves less money for the government here to spend on foolish things.  Now if everyone would look at things like that, things would be better off.  Since alot of folks are so use to spending money just to spend it I get tired of it around the area and all over the place.  Now it is like I remember in why I have cut the power during the peak hours here of the day and other times of the day also here in the place.  Also at this point here I have realized that in why I wanted a fire place for the household while I was at it all.  Ok so I got lucky this year here and got free wood and I will get on my Husbands toush to get what is flapping left here today and next weekend.  With the storm that came up the coast and remembering in what happened at the trailer with the power going out all of the time I fixed a heat source for the place.  Also it will help with the gas bill for the year again for keeping that one low for the household while I am at it.  So yes I am saving money when I can here in the household totally and that is how it will go from now on.  There are many resources out there to help on saving money nomatter what goes on in the world.  What really gets to me here is alot of people are not getting that it is ok to live as you are broke totally at this time.  Alot of folks are going to the cheap side of life to make sure they have enough for the bills and food for the place that they are in now.  As I have told at least one person here do not shop day to day for things at the grocery store since that is what they want you to do anyway.  Shop for the month and it works out better on the budget for the household.  But then again what the heck do I know about running a household since I have been doing this for at least 22 years now. 

Shaking my head

Ok now I can not stand the time changes at all that are going on.  Of course I got up early as normal here and I will have to get use to being in bed for another hour around the household.  It also goes along with the parking out on the streets changing again.  So now here I will be thankfull of the driveway here at the house yet again and parking lots to take my walks also while I am at it.  Now as I sit here and I am still thinking on alot of things for the household it should be ok after I start applying alot of what is in my head here.  All I can say is that I know that I have to cut down even more around here in the household and be done with it all yet again.  With everything switched over to the cheaper end of things here and wandering if I am doing the right thing still.  Even some of the other drivers that my Husband works with at this time started hollering about the loads also that have dryed up.  Since we all have cut down on alot of things for the households and went from there it seems like it is not enough in what us women are doing.  I even caught wind of someone else here who had a bad summer for growing things in her garden also in the area last week.  At this time none of us are starving at all since we will contrive to still put meals on the table no matter what here and get all of the bills paid.  Since several of us do things that others are not willing to do at all around the area to cut the costs of the households it is nuts.  All of us have to think out of the box on alot of things here just to make it.  Also now since the one marathon has been totally canned here in the City it is a good thing since some were just not thinking of the ones who do not have water period nor food.  I hate to say this but dumpster diving for food is nothing new at all around the country.  I have done it along with others in my family that I like and love to put food on the table at one time or another.  It is part of life in my family totally for some of us in how far we all came.  So now at this time some of us are doing in what we can to make it still and it is a learning experiance on all of us.  Even another driver asked my Husband in how we did things here in the place.  My Husband told him that I was the one that used coupons and sales togeather for things in the household to help out along with other things that I was doing also at this time.  It is not as bad as it sounds at all here in my place and my neighbors leave me alone about alot of things that I do at this point in time.  As I told one of the kids next door to me that it all takes time to get cheaper and you are like I am here we have to take baby steps to get things totally done and where we are comfy with it all.  Also it means to get the cheaper things at the stores while we are at it here and now.  So after all said and done I do not blame the girl for coming over to her parents house to eat one meal a day since it is a total pain to cook for one person totally.  I guess this is why I fix so much rice for the household here so I can eat a meal here by myself totally.  Also it means that the rice cookers work over time also while I am at it here during the week for things.  So I do understand when people do not have enough food for the table here since I have been there and done it over 20 years.  It is when people start lieing in what they had growing up that makes me madder than snot.