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I have started with the dishes this morning and have to wait untill the water cools off abit so I can stick my hands in there.  There is alot more there than what I thought there was and that is ok.  It will all be done without a problem and the kitchen will be scrubbed down also while I am at it all this morning.  Pluss I have to cook so may as well clean the kitchen before I get started with the other also today.  I knew the kitchen was nasty around here and dang it was worse than what I thought it was.  Since alot of people like dropping sugar around the coffee pot I have to strip that part of the counter down and clean majorly.  Well I have also figured out that since I am up and down most of the time for the morning here I may as well wear the brace so I can kind of keep going also.  If I am sitting for way to long the brace comes off then this way I do not become dependent on it at all.  So now the dishes will be done on the cheap around here without a problem and that should freak out some folks out to the max that are not here all of the time.  As I say a little dab will do ya and my Niece found that out the hard way around the can.  The poor girl got covered in suds when she did the dishes for the first time around here.  I had to laugh and it hurt at the time and everyone understood of why.  So now she uses less dish deturgent and went from there.  My Niece said Auntie you were right on to use very little on the Green Works.  I have a sink that is trailer size so it is smaller than the normal regular house sinks.  The next kitchen sink will be hard to get use to after we find out what is going down.  Anyway that reminds me with a question that I was asked weeks ago.  I was asked if you had 2 places what would you do if you could not sell one place.  Gee Rent the 2nd house out and go from there.  Pluss start paying the other bills off on top of it all.  I could never understand why my Mother rented out the places while she had them for just to pay the taxes on the property.  Then it dawned on me of why just lately around here.  So yes I know now and I know in how it all works.  With alot of thing that some folks get into trouble with is that they are so far in debt that it is hard to dig out sometimes.  And that life still runs nomatter in how much debt some are.  Well I kind of gave some advice out and said who needs to pay for seminars to say you can do this when I could have summed it up in 5 min from the week that they spent there and on a hotel room along with meals.  I said dollar stores, discount groceries, coupons, and do you really need the paper plates to get things done.  The person looked at me in shock and said ok lets try that out first.  My Husband laughs about it all now after all these years.  I do not have paper plates what so ever and since I have to do dishes anyway may as well get the glass plates out anyway or the plastic like it matters.  That is what some folks do not realize save the 10 dollars a month pluss off the paper plates and napkins it works for some of us around here.  Also why not take advantage of the coupons and the bonus cards at a store.  When I got the Kmart card I was like I hardly shop there.  Well I found out that they carry more of the one product there that I use and I have started shopping there more often since I have over 21 dollars worth of points already for January for the household around here.  That is what some folks do not realize about me at all when I save the points I can use them at a later date and pay hardly anything by the time I am done.  With the points and the coupons I have it made also.  I also tell some to pick up nickels on walks.  It is free money and you are cleaning up also while you are at it.  I do keep a plastic bag in my purse for when I do walk someplace and pick up bottles and cans.  Once I started that part some folks diden't realize that I had more money in my pocket after for other things.  I will start saveing for the wood/coal burner again here shortly.  I also try to streach out everything here in the can that is here.  I use less of what they say on the package and then some.  That is where some go wrong also for the household.  My Niece finally realized this part also in what I do.  When it takes at least 3 to 4 months to go thru a bottle of laundery deturgent for as much laundery we do around here some folks fall over when I say it takes that long for it.  The trick about being cheap/frugal is to use less and streach out everything that you have in the household.  With some folks they all look at me like I am nuts when I say I have 4 pets in my place also.  I have the 2 birds(feather balls) along with the cat and dog (the fur balls) and they have to eat also.  Now with that being said I get at least 18 pounds a seed and that lasts about 2-4 months and I get the bigger bags of the cat food and dog food.  Then the cat litter lasts for about 3 weeks if not longer for the 10-20 pound boxes of scoopable litter.  That is how I streach out some things around here.  With the other part I have kicked and screamed untill I was blue for some folks here in the household.  Now to get some things back down to level ground and it will happen even if I have to lock the box up for the T.V. around here.  It will not be to hard to do around here since my Niece has to get up at 4 am also.  there are alot of little tricks of the trade for kids today and myself saying that I need help with it.  Another thing is that I can say that my Niece is doing alot better now than what she was at the last place she was at.  Nancy Hammond had a hand in that if I do say so myself still.  Nancy figures that she can push the both of us around and I am to "Stupid" in her eyes anyway to know better for what is going on.  Well after Nancy Hammond desided to start name calling for the last time in my household I asked her to leave untill she could controle herself then she could come back.  Do I trust her not at all.  I am hard nosed about a 60 something year old calling a 19 year old a "Hoe Bag" under my roof.  My Niece does not dress as skimpy as I have seen out of others around where I live at.  So now at this point Nancy Hammond did not tell people in what was really said on her end and I refuse to lie for her anymore around this green earth.  As some told me within the past 2 weeks around here that Nancy Hammond has no room to talk at all.  So I will be hitting the clarence racks for my Niece and a few other places also.  I do not mind half the stuff that my Niece wears around here at all becuase she wears everything so well still.  Pluss niether of us can really afford anymore things for her to wear at this moment she does not mind wearing what she has at all.  I have also gave her some things that do not fit me anymore so it all evens out around here.  I kept the jeans for a reason here and they fit my Niece since I have been every size out there so far almost.  I have lost 20 pounds here in the past year and a half and I will not complain at all.