Takeing a couple

I took acouple of hours for myself yesterday and watched the kids next door in the pool.  Pluss the part water fight between us adults it was fun.  At least we all cooled off pretty quick around our block.  I diden't realize that the one neighbor that I really really like around here was strugleing as much as she was around here also.  So all of us gals sarted talking about ways of being cheap around here and some were shocked in what I have done.  Pluss one was totally shocked when I said to hit up yard sales for the kids stuff.  The poor gals husband up and left her and the 2 children.  Well with the lot rent being 355 and nothing included I do not blame her for looking at someplace else to live also.  So I started telling the both of them what I did to have the children feed and everything else.  Sometimes it is hard to catch up once you realize that there is not enough money coming in also.  I know this part all to well around here.  Part of the stuff around here gets bought in bulk.  Like cat food, litter, dog food, bird food, and scratch paper.  I have bins for the bird food around here so I do not have to try to close the bags once again.  Both birds are special needs since one is a plucked chicken and the other still has siezures around here.  I almost took a walk down to the place where I got Olliver from to smack the person I got him from.  It took all that I had not to go down there at all.  When the bird goes into a full blown hard siezure he flips to his back and shakes and a few other things.  So here I sit and I really hope today is a better day for everyone here in my can.  Alot of what is going on around here and some do not blame me one bit for keeping to myself and trying to be cheap around here.  When some have found out that I did and do alot of things on the cheap around here in order to make it also I did get my brain picked all togeather.  With some things going on and the prices going stupid for groceries they did not blame me for alot of things that I did around my place.  When you start cooking on the cheap it is hard to stop once you get started also.  Once I told both of the gals in what were my staples in my place they said it made a whole bunch of since also.  With a bag of potatoes, flour, powdered milk, rice, onions, garlic, and yeast I can make alot out of what I have around here.   There have been times that is all that I have had here in my can or elsewhere.  Now this year I will be shareing the tomatoes if they do well around here also.  That I do not mind doing at all.  With some folks they diden't notice in what I did only becuase, where I unload the van at they can't see also.  So eather way there are many ways to cut corners still and get by with it all.  I have my way of doing things around here and it is not wrong in what I do.  Someone else may have a differant way of doing things in thier place.  Like a couple that I know refuses to go over to Walmart to do part of the shopping for the month.  I go to Walmart for some things over to Kmart for other things and other places for more of the things for the place around here.  When I can get things at a bargin price I am there to stock the place up.  Pluss some were amazed that I was not on the computer all day long also.  That is how it all goes around here also.  Why put extra heat in the can when I do not have to at all.