Started cleaning

I started cleaning when I got back home yesterday.  Within 20 min. in the kitchen it looks better.  I am just hoping today that I can get more done around the place.  And do it on the cheap side while I am at it all.  So when my Niece got back yesterday night and told me that my household was known as "That Place" I pretty much gathered that some have been talking back and forth and it was a money deal that was struck up over the girl.  All I can do is shake my head and some already knew what I was thinking.  My Niece told me straight out that not to worry about it and she wants to learn more from me in what I do around here to be cheap and how to run the household better.  And I told the girl that she missed the grocery store trip for the little things for the rest of next weeks big dinner around here.  Now that I have the points for 10 cents off of gas at one place and enough points on the other card for January around here for extras here in the can.  I should be good now for some things that are needed.  Also with Black Friday coming up around here I will have more points on the Kmart card once again.  So it will not be that bad around here at all once we all get started next week.  And the list will come out so we can check off in what has been done around the place also.  My Niece looked at me and asked if she could break into the one block of cheese and I said no that is for next week around here.  Even up at the doctors office I got asked how to mix up the mashed taters this year.  I told them all in what I did and went from there.  Since we only get them about 3 times a year around the place it works for the best and we do not get tired of them at all.  The funny part about this up coming year is that my Niece will end up eating what I put on the table without a problem.  The girl just can not stand some food's at all and I do not force her to eat what she does not like.  One dish if she is hungery enough around the place she will eat.  I mix things togeather and she will learn that part of it.  Part of it is that I just do not want creamed anything around here at all.  So the girl is safe for that.  With what happened before in another household some thought it would be funny to force the girl to eat creamed corn and mixed it in with the mashed potatoes.  I watched some do it over and over and I almost got sick over the sight of what was done.  I never wandered of why my 3 Nieces and one Nefew always wanted to eat at my place all of the time after what I have seen out of the one household.  What is even worse is that I still cook on the cheap around here to this day.  The food has got alot better also after I figured out in what I could do from the dollar stores and a few other places.  When I am that short on cash and almost out of food I will hit up the dollar store for food.  You would be amazed in how much of the food items that they have in the store.  Items like rice, beans, soups, canned goods galore, and several other things in the store.  For about 25 dollars I can get enough food in the household for the week if not longer.  Some folks will look at me funny when I tell them in how much I spent on the food and get told in my place we could never do that.  It takes some practice to get alot of things for 25 dollars.  With my household we do not mind eating alot of beans and rice around here at all.  My Niece does get sick of the rice every so often around here also.  I am already thinking about dinner also around here with the left over pork roast here.  I am thinking of the beans along with rice to go with the roast and make something totally differant around here.  That is what some do not understand with myself around here at all is that I have to mix it up every so often.  Also we are faceing possible power outages for the day.  The wind was pretty bad this morning and with that being said I am ready for the outages eather way here.  This is why I do not mind having the gas oven around here so I can still cook without a problem also for the household.  I have also realized that some just do not know in how to cook at all still in todays world.  One of my nieghbor's has never took an intrest in it at all untill just in the past 6 months.  Some of it is that cooking can be hard at times unless you get into a nitch and figure out that for the bigger meals you can do alot of the prep work the night before or days before around the household.  With cooking on the cheap it does help out alot around here on that part of the budget.  The possiblities are endless around for cooking.