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Monday, November 12, 2012

Shaking my head

Well at this time I know that some have already went back and said something that was told to them to the person who dropped me at this time.  All I can do is laugh now since I pretty much knew anyway in what was going on.  So as I sit here and got some words of good advice yesterday while I was out and about for the morning.  After returning the nickels like some of us do all of the time you get to know some people in the area totally.  So the advice and words of encuragement here yesterday I felt better after all said and done.  Since knowing alot of what was going on it is nice to have some one give the friendly push to help get my toush into gear instead of being cut down for what I am doing for the household at this time.  Now here yesterday I had been in and out to the back yard to hang laundry here for the day so I did not have to hang it all up in the basement yet.  When I walked back in my Husband was talking to someone that came over all of the time and told him to check out where we went to for the phones on Friday here along with what else I was doing to save money for the place.  The person freaked out since I have switched even more over to the cheap side here for the household than what he expected.  So now here at least I can say that some things will never change with some people that love to waste money at their place.  When I started getting the non ultra dish soap along with several other things to clean with here that are good cleaners and have been around for years here and on sale for dirt cheap I got cut down for it all at the time to get stocked up again.  I guess it goes along with turning off things totally except the radio during the time that I am alone here for at least 5 days a week.  Also since I do not like to use the dryer at all for laundry here I try to keep that off as much as I can for the place.  With the huge drop after some did not come over anymore amazed me totally.  This is what some did not realize in what would happen here at all after all said and done for myself not really changing much for what was going on.  So now that was part of the advice that I got for yesterday also is that I am on track when someone does not like in what I am doing to save money for the household.  That part helped and the guy did not even realize that he had done that part to brighten my day here.  This is why I am saying now that I know that I am on the right track in what I have to do. 

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Way to much

With the heat outside with yesterday the poor window units had a hard time keeping up with the house here totally.  It was nuts around here since it went up to 80 here in the house even with the 3 window units going all day.  So now that the dryer is out of the question here for being used and some will have to understand this out of me since the last power bill is 170 dollars at this time.  Between the racks and the umbrella lines I should be ok for that part of things here for the rest of the summer and into November here if the weather holds out.  Since I am done for the most part of shopping here also for the first kitchen and need to stock up for the second kitchen totally I should be ok here for alot of things.  With everything going up here about 10% with the weather and other factors in it all within 5 months alot of folks will have to budget better on that part of the household.  Since I can get more coupons here for the place to help out totally and get over to places like Aldi and Save A Lot for the household I should be ok on alot of things like that here.  With alot of people here in the area on welfare or on partial welfare and the government does not care one way or the other.  Some of us have set up a very tight budget for the place that we are in since we do not get the food stamps anymore.  That bites some people totally in what some of us folks do to make it doing without here also.  Alot of the times people are out of controle with spending for their place.  What they do not get is that I can go over to the dollar store and get alot more out of either store here for alot less money than they spend at the regular big box stores.  With that being said here there will be alot more dollar store hopping along with the non name brand store hopping from now on in my place.  Since I am trying to cut back as much as possible at this point untill the bills start coming down here again then I should be ok.  Pluss I know where I can get fire wood also for nothing at all while I am at it.  So I will try to keep the gas bill down for this winter here totally along with the power bill while I am at it all.  There are so many things that people can do to keep the bills down that it is not even funny at this time.  Since the sub pump has not really ran at all this summer here I am saving on that part of things also.  Between wear and tear on it along with the power to run the thing.