Waiting again

Well after yesterday I was out in the rain getting the storage locker locked back up.  If I could have reached thru the phone yesterday I would have to slap my Husband.  Pluss I have found out a few other things that now the doors are locked at all times and a few other things will come out while I am at it all.  I was livid by the time I got done and that is ok.  Now I remember the full reason in why I have been slowly adding things to be cheap with for the household around here.  Well I have to go back to when the out law got sick and one spoiled child all togeather.  That is when I started really thinking of going even cheaper than what I was becuase I diden't know eather way if and when we would get the spoiled brat.  Needless to say we diden't get her at all and I still got cheaper around here with just cause and have been fairly happy ever since then.  Also I was over ran by bath soap, shampoo, and conditioner after everything went down.  I did not have to buy none of the stuff like that for about 3 years for my place.  My sister in law coulden't remember what she had bought the month before and well she got over loaded with some stuff and could not figure out why she was so broke.  So after all said and done around here I have been applying myself more and more around here to go cheaper.  I have been doing fairly well for the most part around here and there are days that are off days of course.  Alot of what I am doing around here my poor Hubby has been going along with it also.  All I can do is laugh and do what I have to do around here since I am tighter than my Husband ever thought about being.  When he is gone I hardly watch T.V. around here and the computer is off during the day also around here.  I also get to run and get some things done around here that need to be eather bought or bills paid eather way.  With alot of things going up out of reach lately with everything I have been telling folks no when they want to barrow money off of me or anything else around here.  I have also been putting money back into a jar and keeping track of what they all ask for also.  At this point in time I have no choice but to put the money back around here and say no for alot of things also.  The money that I do pull back is not much at all.  It also works in how I am doing all of this for the place.  If and when I get up enough around here my toush is going to another state to do the shopping for alot of the dry bulk for the household.  So far with just one couple I have pulled back 23 dollars becuase of thier miss handlement of thier budget for thier place.  It has been within a week that the couple called and asked twice from myself.  And I am wandering and waiting for the next phone call to see how much they will be asking for the next go around also.  It is like some people around here just don't care in what others do to save money in the household.  I can not keep up with lending some folks money at all around here and make my household run on top of it.  When it becomes 60 dollars for the last 2 weeks of the month when it is done and over with.  One couple owes me about 30 dollars at this point in time and it has been 3 months and still they have not bothered to pay me back around here.  IF you are in that type of a jam do not start barrowing money when you are going to short change yourself for the next month also.  Well last week when they called me to barrow the 20 dollars I had told them straight out that I had just got done paying part of the bills and was straped for cash anyway and yet it went over thier heads and asked anyway for it.  It does explain alot in why they haven't been over alot in the past 3 months also around here.  When I am sitting here figureing all of the bills and paying them off of one income coming in and trying to figure out ok I can cut here, here, and here for some things to balance out my budget for the month and some do not see it as that way at all around here.  There were 2 bills that I had forgot to pay around here last month some how and now I have to pay them.  What really gets to me at this point is that some folks figure that since there is money coming in that it is ok to barrow and not pay the person back at all.  I fallow a tight budget around here and streach out the money as far as I can here in my place at all times.  This is why I do not mind hanging the laundery out on the lines, cutting down on the deturgants, cleaners, and alot of other things around my place.  Then there is the cooking from scratch 99% of the times around here and the use of coupons and sales also around my place.  Alot of the times some folks are shocked when they come over around here in how much I can save and streach out also.  I am so use to streaching things out from years of doing that it has become second nature to me and I am getting worse about it also.  When I can say there are no paper plates, napkins, nor plastic flat wear in my place there is not any to be found.  I am saveing about 20 dollars a month by not getting those things for my household and that includes with the dish soap becuase I have to do the dishes anyway around here.  May as well do the glass plates along with the other things that do pile up in the sink to get done.  Pluss I have hand towles out for drying hands off and do not use the paper towles for to mop up the counters and drying my hands off on at all.  This is why some spend about 20 dollars a month in paper towels also for thier households.  Yes I have paper towles to clean the bathroom with and I am cutting down on the use of that also around here.  I have rags to clean with around here also while I am at it all.