Shaking my head

Well it looks like it will be hotter this up coming weekend so I will have to cut back someplace here in the household again for the power.  The things to go is the lights, computer, and the T.V. around here totally up untill about 6 pm if not later than that.  So now with that being said here at least there is the radio and several books that I have been wanting to read anyway after I get some of the housework done today here.  Since tonight the buckets outside go to the curb here for tomarrow morning it should not be that bad at all here today with what I have to do.  Then there is the laundry that needs to be done for the day here without a question at all also while I am at it in the next few days here.  Thank goodness for the drying racks all the way around for the household.  Since I do not have the lines outside at this point in time here the racks will have to do for now to hang the laundry up to dry.  I know that I will get a power bill here shortly anyway and I will see how high it went for the month here with the 2 window units and without the dryer.  This year is totally different from last year here since the dryer is not being used at all except for maybe 2 loads of laundry instead of 10-20 loads like the one gal did to me.  So I will see this month totally in what is going on and down here.  Since the gas bill went totally down this month I was impressed with that part of things also for the household.  At 50 dollars on the budget plan where am I going wrong here at this point in time?  That is what would hurt some folks that if they knew that the bills were and still are coming down for the household after they dumped me and I redumped them totally 3 weeks ago.  So now at this point in time I have not started anything as of yet here in the house since I have to clean out cages today on top of everything else here.  So it will take maybe 3 hours in what I have to do here for the day.  Who ever told me take an hour a day to clean was out of their God loving minds totally when they told me that part of things along with they had 3 other people living in their place.  So now at this point in time there is not alot that needs to be done at all and maybe that is why I am stalling out also here for the day.  Oh well at least things will get done either way today.  Also it is the 1 year marker after my neck surgery and that it seems wierd at this time to be saying that part.  Anyway I am looking for a good day here in the place and go from there.  What got to me the most here on Monday is that I had started cleaning and my Husband was in shock in what I was doing totally as the normal grind of things while he was home.  Now he can not complain that I do not clean any longer here after this week.  The funny part of it all was that I was always doing something here and will continue to do so each day and week here in the place untill I can get it all done.  And yes it will be done on the cheap end of things as normal.  Oh well now to get started on the place in what I have to do and go from there. 

Finally get to sit down for a bit

Ok I finally get to sit down before I have to get the next load in the laundery and a few other things around here. Pluss I am still makeing my list up for this week around here. I have one Hell of a week coming up around here and there is no end in sight for me. Well at least we were all late last night. I wanted chinese food for a change and was craveing it. That was the bad part of it all. For 20 dollars for 2 and all you can eat there I will not complain at all about it. Becuase I get my fish fix and my Husband gets what he wants also. Then I went to do a bleaching of the hair and 15 min after I started the poor girl was done and not looking like a stiped head of hair again. That was my specialty while I was in the Hair Bizz anyway. So I got to laughing after and said see ya early and then sent the poor Hubbs out for the kids. One would have been on the roof if I was around. Well I got out of everything for the most part even though I will start calling to see if some folks need anything anyway while I am out. Anyway at least I know that I am getting to the point of cheapness around here my power bill droped by 100 dollars also in the past month and a half. Pluss I try to find as many coupons that I can that are pet related and everything else for the can. I have noticed most of the people in the park no matter in how broke they are they have pets in thier cans. Yess I have 2 Quaker Parrots a cat and a dog. Now I have budgeted out to where I can afford the pets around here and know what to do for some things except shots. Even when I am totally broke I manage to feed the place eather way. I proved that to the tax guy today. Pluss collecting cans helps also around here. Pluss alot of planing smart also helps to pay bills and put food on the table. Now for alot of things that I do swear by is trying to keep stocked up for some things. I am always stocked for things like T.P., laundery deturgant, food, and several other things. Paper towels are the least of my problems around here since I do have cleaning rags that I can use. So are the paper plates around here I have droped those things several years ago and never looked back. Now why ask about dropping the paper plates and some other things around here it is plain as the nose on your face a waste of money. Or at least in my eyes. Now with that being said a roll of paper towels will last me in the kitchen for at least a month if not longer. The hand towels have been a life saver around my place. Now with some birds I can understand why he hates the hand towels all togeather around here so I moved them. Now I have made many changes slowly in my household or canhold eather way. It has took me at least 20 years to get to where I am at now and then some. Just like today I saved 10 cents on the gas per gallon with one of the cards that I have. I told my Husband that I wasen't sure if they would take the points yet so try. So they went thru and came back home after running for part of the day. Now that the poor man is gone I have got alot more done since I sent him back to work. It has been along day and I need to get thru most of the dishes before I can do anything more. That is includeing laudery. I have at least 4 more loads for this week not includeing the normal that I have to do. Also I have to start cleaning majorly today and tomarrow since family will be in on Tuesday around here. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Well one of them days again

After being just totally Pissed Off for the past couple of days my can is almost clean. Also I haven't started prepping for Sunday. Well another Easter will be here and it doesen't bother me like it all should not seeing my grandson once again this year. This is why I will be cheaper than snot so I can get out of the can. Also I do not have to leave a forwarding address while I am at it to some folks. So here I sit and think of what else I can do to slash and cut the bills down. The past couple of days I have had the windows open and the furnace has not kicked in hardly at all and I have been on the computer more as of late. I have been excapeing into the radio pluss cleaning on the cheap while I am at it all. I did do alot yesterday since I came up swinging and will do more today at least just to keep my sanity around here. And never again will I reach out my hand to anyone that is ungreatfull while I am at it on the one side of the family. So I will think of more ways to start going cheaper once again and revamp the can and or house once again. And since the lot rent has went up another 10 dollars this month for what is my question I will be looking pretty heavy here for a house. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Still working on

Well I am working on the laundery and a few other things here in the place. What is bad is that it has seemed that there is more laundery than I thought there was around here. There are about 5 loads around here instead of the 8 that I am use to in the past 2 months if not longer around here. Yes that is and was per week. Pluss doing full loads of dishes and other cleaning in the place. Now you know why I was fed up with the person that was here. I was the maid and the slave at the same time. Most of the stuff now is easy to get thru around here without the lump under my feet and up someplace also. Now with the laundery I am useing an eighth of and eighth of a cap of laundery deturgant. I have enough suds to make the laundery clean. Pluss the half of the dryer sheet. It makes laundery almost affordable around here. With the new washer my water bill has went down by about 40 dollars every 2 months if not more. Pluss the power bill went down along with the water bill becuase I have an extended spin on the washer. Well when I got the washer it was about 80 dollars more for the High Efficiancy one. Pluss it was about a cubic foot bigger than the one with a full adjatater in it. Also with the old Aldi Tandel soap it was so strong that I used less anyway. After they switched it it became watery. So I will be switching back over to eather Purex or another deturgant. Now I haven't tried the Green Works deturgant yet only becuase I have 3 other bottles that are around not includeing what is left of the bottle that I am useing. Well my whole thing is streach out what you can when you can. What happends is you will find that after you start streaching stuff out you will find more money in the wallet and less that you spend. Normally I try to keep stocked up enough in the can to where when I do not have a car for awhile it doesen't totally bother me. Becuase, I have everything here on hand. Or if a travle band goes up I am not stuck not haveing something. Some folks have teased me about it all untill they realized when they had moved about an hour from a store then they realized that I was in the right on stocking up eather way. As I have said before Walmart is about 3 min on foot from eather door that I go out of. I knew I was in trouble when they opended up also. My one Aunt thought it was funny. Then again she also realized that I do not have to travel but 20 min in the van to get there also. With the stop lights and other traffic out there. Now at times yes I do walk to the stores around here. It makes it easier on me at times out of the year. Summer times and after the turkey day I walk becuase, the parking lots are so full that why bother to drive to some places. My Aunt that I stayed with for about 2 weeks last year was suprized that I was doing alot of things really cheaply and my habbits diden't change from my place to hers and back again. I had to laugh becuase some of us landed at the dollar store right down the street from her. Pluss in the state of PA there are no taxes on some items. I was in my glory on that part for some things. Also where I was at the sales tax is 6% still on things. When you are use to double the tax on things you tend to shop more in other states than where you are at. Now I do travel to other states when I can and I have places along the way that I can stop at also and visit. I have drove out to Punxey Pa and back in the same day. It is an 8 hr drive from where I am at for a round trip. I try to get out to parts of Pa to do some shopping once a year since I can slip in and out of town without a problem now. Even though I know half the town eather way. Anyway it does pay to streach out everything in the household. When you start streaching out the dollars it seems like it doesen't make since untill it becomes rutine and then it clicks. That is the point that I have been trying to get across in my blog. Sometimes it takes awhile to get use to sometimes it doesen't. When I first started it seemed to take forever to sink in. And I was really stocked up on everything. Knowing in how broke I was gonna be with just myself working at a full time job that diden't pay squat at the time made it hard also. I may have had 20 dollars left by the end of the month after I paid the bills at the time. Well acouple of folks had helped and I ended up on food stamps for about a year and that was it. Just so I had some food in the household. Pluss I was dumpster diveing on top of it all for food. You get really good on what is good and not good when you get use to all of it. I remember one time that my husband and I were argueing over in how much I spent before all of this went down. I still had the 20 dollar bill on me and knowing his sister was coming up I made a bread run at the back of one of the stores in the area. Well the manager was so nice and asked if i could stick around for a bit he would fix me up. He over loaded the Honda that I had at the time and I was almost in tears when I had all the food becuase I was greatfull for what I got. Well it started a fight that was the motherload of all fights at the time and handed him the 20 dollars. Then he realized that I diden't spend nothing and I got really lucky that day and that started the fight with the out laws. All the Manager said was remember this and pass it along when you can to other folks. And I have. The more I got into being cheap/frugal the more I wanted to go further into it and see what else I could do for my place.

A very depressing day today

I did get one of the bills paid for today and not much more has been done since according to 2 people out of this can I am only good for one thing and that is to clean up after them apparently becuase I just had to reclean the bathroom after I spent scrubbing it for an hour yesterday afternoon. Why are some men just to lazy to lift a damn finger to help out other than run when the housework needs to be done as normal. I amy just go on strike for the rest of the flipping week anyway. Just to see what happends around here. I am sure I will get screamed at eather way for what I diden't do around here. Reminds me of when my sister in law would show up and nothing I did was good enough for 3 other people in the household. Pluss I will be screamed at this weekend only becuase I know in who some folks do dishes around here without soap. So now I will start shrinking back to the bedroom more and more around here from now on. It just ain't worth getting screamed at for something i haven't done at all around here anymore. I have been feeling this for the past 2 weeks around here that I haven't been worth squat anyway and the household proves this in it is worse of a disaster period and I haven't been messing it up niether. I guess I should shut up and just smash everything down like I normally do around here. And to deal with what is going on without saying a word about it all also. Then to keep up the housework like nothing is going on also. Or maybe I need to start working out of the household instead of what I have been doing with the piece work that I normally do since I really don't have time to do that anymore since there is so much housework to do and I am the only one doing it around here. Ok folks have fun and be cheap about it all.