Why I won't

Well I refuse to keep up with everyone around here.  I do know alot of folks have leased thier stuff from acouple of major leaseing companies around the area.  There is a time and a place to do something like that anyway.  Some would be suprized in how much some folks spend over there to say the least.  I have got 2 things from the leasing companies and they are paid in full and have been for years around here.  Also I got fairly good deals on the bed and the table around here.  I checked the prices all over and asked for a sale price for the bed they gave it to me and I was locked into the price also.  Then was the table.  Other than that I stay away from the places like that around here.  Some folks around here have furnished their whole trailers thru the leasing companies.  Their payments are out of this world also.  Do not get me wrong alot of it is nice stuff that they have.  I am happy with the stuff that I already have around here.  When some folks try to keep up with neighbors or other folks I have to laugh around here because it is a crash course for a disaster for the pay checks that are coming in.  I also have known folks to just blow several pay checks just because they could and pay the bills when something was about ready to be cut off or is off.  All I could tell them was I could not help them at all for something around their place.  When I sit down and figure the bills for the month and write them down on paper I figure out in how I can get money knocked off on the bill for the next month also around here.  When some ask me why I hardly spend any money around here I always say why should I.  I am happy in what I have for the can and leave it at that.  When I have a fully functional kitchen and other parts of the household why get anything else that I do not need nor want for the place.  I always get a kick out of some folks saying since you have crappy furniture and not alot of new things for your place so there for you're trash around here.  That is fine when they say that to me becuase I am not in debt like some folks also for what I have around here.  Maybe that is why some like to name call also for other folks that are saveing up for something that they want or need.  When I started going cheaper/frugal around here once again I realized that I do not need to keep up with anyone nor try to.  Also I do not want the latest gadget for the place.  At this point I am pulling back some money a month to save for a "Real House" and a wood burning kitchen stove.  It is a slow proccess of course and I do not mind it.  This is the main reason why I am not spending alot of money around here unless I absolutly have to and try to get things on sale and use coupons around here.  Pluss since I have caught acouple of children around here turning on the water outside and told them about staying away from the water spigot they have left it alone also.  My water bill has since droped to 15 dollars for 3 months around here.  I diden't have the heart to tell what else I do and did around here to cut the water down also.  The woman up at the water company ask and I told her she would have to come over and see what I do around here.  She agreed to it that it was not the place to have me tell in what I have done around here.  So now I can say that most of the bills down by fource and myown power around here.  I have been doing alot more thinking about this and have came up with another way of doing also to pull that much more back for the place.  In what I will do now also besides the wierd amounts in the pay checks from my husband, sales from the stores, and coupons, I have came up with make it even amounts to pull over from the bills of the can also.  Like if something is ending in 22.50 pull back the 2.50-7.50 into the other spot.  This way it adds up even faster around here and I can deal with being totally frugal/cheap depending on how you look at it all thru your eyes.  What I will end up doing around here also while I am at it all is that the one account that I have around here is that that money is already spent and will not touch it at all.  This is what gets to some folks around here also.  Is that I do not care of what some folks think of me and say what they think of me.  I do what I feel is best for my household.