Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Still cool

It is still cool in here at the moment.  I got lucky on that so far this morning.  It also helped that I blocked the rest of the kitchen windows also for the morning.  I will unblock them when it hits about 11am when the sun is not totally streaming in those 2 windows.  Anyway I have alot of work to do here for today here in the can.  I will do it on the cheap side of course.  The nice thing about useing less of the cleaners is that you waste less of them and you have more that what you figured you did.  I try to streach out everything around here as much as possible anyway.  My Husband thinks I am nuts for doing it untill he went to get the dishes done the one day and realized he put to much dish deturgant in the water.  Then he realized leave it up to me to get the housework done around here.  Pluss he realized that I wasen't being as picky as I sounded at all.  I do things in how I see fit around here and save as much as I can also in the mean time also.  Since I have started cutting the cleaners in half and in half again they seem to work even better for the place.  When I started all of this years ago some thought I had done lost my mind around here untill they all realized that it was working fairly well for us here in the can also.  Pluss I could keep the can stocked up that much more also around here while I was at it all.  What has got to some folks that come over is that it takes me very little to restock the place.  Some I have shared also with them in how I do things around here.  Part of how I do this is sales and coupons.  When my Hubby went back to work I ended up restocking most of the place once again becuase I was really low on everything around here.  We both got out to Walmart and I had almost 2 cartfulls of the restock for the can.  I also had a stack of coupons for the poor cashier while I was at it all.  That habbit I will not break to shop with coupons for where I am.  Alot of the cashiers do not mind the coupons at all.  What I end up doing is hitting the new cashier up and see what happends from there.  I have had some just walk away from me also.  Now for alot of places they will not take the printed from home coupons at all.  I know some of the stores have lost alot of folks shopping there at the place who does not acept the print on the fly coupons also.  Some of the folks who use coupons will tell you it takes about an hour to go thru the ads and match up the coupons.  It takes about 30 minutes around here for me.  I use the envalope system here.  The coupons get into a piticular envalope and go from there.  I see what is on sale for that store and pull the coupon for the sale item and it goes to another envalope for that store.  Then I grab the bucket that I keep the rest of the coupons in and go to the store.  If something else is on sale and I know that I have a coupon for it I pull the coupon and stick it in the envalope for the check out lanes.  Now when I say bucket it is a plastic bin with a handled lid.  That is how I do mine others have thier ways also.  With some folks they say that they can not get organized enough to do what some of us do also.  I say if you can organize the household one more thing is not gonna hurt at all.  All I got was an eye roll from some folks also. 

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