What a night and day

Well it started last night around here when the van wouldn't start.  I really didn't wanna drive out to Collins anyway.  So here I am at home with a van that won't start at all for this morning around here yet again and I am home alone and I like it.  Pluss I found out also that it was not only me for the high power bill for this month neither.  A friend of mine her bill went double at her place and her friends went triple for the month.  So it was not myself seeing things at all around here.  With somethings that are going on today I have already put dinner into the oven around here so it will be done around 6 PM also.  In the mean time I get to do more housework around here and not be bothered in what I am doing.  Now to just get motivated enough to start the madness around here and where to start at of course.  It is one of the things of everything kind of blew up again around here.  It will get done either way for the household and on the cheap side also while I am at it all.  I have noticed that I will never have a totally spotless house/can neither at all.  At least the place is lived in to say the least and it works for some of us.  Well the person who is coming over for dinner around here today has learned that I have been the cheap one out of the bunch for many years now.  When I have cut the costs down around here and never said a word to anyone where I got the meat from for the cook outs around here untill after the fact when they ate she was shocked.  All I could do was laugh about it and go from there.  I am figuring that the gal is fallowing into my footsteps on going cheaper around her place also after some things have happened.  Well some remember in how cheap they had to be also after some time when it all came down to it all.  All her Mother could do was laugh about it and go from there.  All some could say I told you mom that this is the one that I go to around the city here and Cricket will tell me how she does things then I can form my own cheap way of doing it at my place.  So yes I am still working on the cheap way of doing things pluss adding to all of it while I am at it.  As I say I am a work in progress still around here.  And after I talked with my Grandmother yesterday she also realized that I am doing things on the cheap also around here.  Pluss now my Grandmother wants to get out of the house when I come down this time.  Who knew about it all.  Some will realize that I am the cheap one out of the kids it helps out also in getting points.  I still have to laugh about somethings that have went on thru the years and how many of us are that different when it comes down to it all.  Or maybe it is because I listened more and got told also.  I know my mother made a game out of the grocery store when I was growing up.  With that being said I learned in what to do and how to do it and win on having a low grocery bill around my place.  Pluss there are coupons involved also while I am at it all.  When I was talking with my sister also yesterday she wanted my recipe for my bbq sauce also around here.  I told her she needed a bottle of Mr. Jack also in the mix to make it come out right.  She about fell over when I told her that.  Well the recipe for that is

1 med. to large onion pulverized
2 cups worth of ketchup
1 1/2 cups of packed brown sugar or 3/4 cup of molasses
3 tablespoons of garlic powder or fresh
and 2 shots of jack.

It is as easy as that for the sauce that I make around here.  When folks realize in how I make the sauce and taste it they can not believe that it is that easy and simple to do.  Now normally I have all of that in my can anyway.  It is amazing in what you can do for the household out of some pantries.  Now alot of the times I will run out of meat first or milk of course that is how it is around here.  This is why I have the powdered milk on hand also.  Some folks cringe when they see the box of the powdered milk out in the open around here until they all realize that I do bake alot out of the powdered stuff.  That is the funny part about the household around here.  Also what gets to alot of folks is that I am that cheap and will make it all stretch while I am at it for the place.  This is how normal life is for many broke folks out there in today's world.  I am not totally broke niether some things I got use to doing for the household and they stuck for the place.  Stuff like cutting the dryer sheets in half, cutting down on the cleaners and watering them down on top of cutting them, cooking alot from scratch around here, catching sales and using coupons everywhere that I go, and several other things on top of that.  There are ways of saving money around the households that some folks do not realize that can be done.  When I can sit back and start looking around here and see what I can do also and cut and slash eather and not believe that it is that easy and simple to do.  Now normally I have all of that in my can anyway.  It is amazing in what you can do for the household out of some pantries.  Now alot of the times I will run out of meat first or milk of course that is how it is around here.  This is why I have the powdered milk on hand also.  Some folks cringe when they see the box of the powdered milk out in the open around here until they all realize that I do bake alot out of the powdered stuff.  That is the funny part about the household around here.  Also what gets to alot of folks is that I am that cheap and will make it all stretch while I am at it for the place.  This is how normal life is for many broke folks out there in today's world.  I am not totally broke neither some things I got use to doing for the household and they stuck for the place.  Stuff like cutting the dryer sheets in half, cutting down on the cleaners and watering them down on top of cutting them, cooking alot from scratch around here, catching sales and using coupons everywhere that I go, and several other things on top of that.  There are ways of saving money around the households that some folks do not realize that can be done.  When I can sit back and start looking around here and see what I can do also and cut and slash eather way I go I work on it and take it slow then start adding things.  Another thing is nobody started hollering about what I do around here when I first started out going cheap/frugal.  I did it to where some wouldn't notice in what I was doing around here also.  When folks come over to my place and they throw out the bottle returns that drives me up the wall around here.  That is where my friends Mom gave me the look like get him honey and started laughing.  So after that some knew that I was the cheap one on doing things around here.  Pluss the woman gave me hints on some things to try around here also while she was here.  Now for some folks they do not have a clue as to what and how to do when a spouse or they loose a job also.  Granted the 2nd income is always nice in the household.  With myself being a housewife around here you live and learn on what to do also.  Now in how I did alot of things was that every time I got layed off around here I did not get the goodies for the household like I did my office.  Another thing is if you are use to eating out for lunch and dinner keep a tally of it during the week and month.  You will be surprised in how much you can reall waste money that way instead of brown bagging the leftovers from the night before also.  Also I cut out alot of going to get coffee while I am on my walks also for the way back unless it is blazing cold out.  Alot of the time it was once a week also in when I would get a large cup of coffee.  The little things add up after awhile.  Just like I would take pasta in for lunch if it was leftover from the night before and some folks were halking around my office when I would heat it up at lunch time around the place.  Also another thing is some did not realize in what I was doing neither like going to the dollars store or another discount grocery store for the goodies also in the office.  With alot of things in what I do there are places that I hit up around here that are considered the low class stores to some folks around here anyway.  That is the funny thing to me is that I am still watching every penny around the place and some are calling me white trash becuase I am a housewife at this point in time.  Oh well it is thier loss for not knowing what I do behind closed doors also for my place.