Sitting here thinking

Well I got to thinking this morning for the place.  Now in what was said to me last night I know I have had a rough road and will continue the up hill battle until I get things where I want them for the household.  Even a friend told me I am doing ok without any help at all for the place.  So now some know in how cheap that I have became and will continue to do so for the household at this time and when I think I am finished with it all, and it may stick with me no matter what goes on.  I do not bring in, in what some folks do at all and I am very comfortable in what I do by going cheaper around the household here.  I know that there will be home cooked meals on the cheap here and alot of other things that I can get done for the place then make it without going bust around here also.  Maybe that is what some have wanted me to do over the years and I kept fighting back the stupidness and other things that would cause myself and my Husband to fail in this life totally now.  With that being said I was surprised to get a phone call asking in how the household was doing and the complainers did not even ask for money yesterday at all nor smokes.  I also did some things that I needed to and for some folks they are out of luck on alot of things that they ask for since they can not get their heads out of places at all at this point in time.  There are alot of changes that will take place here in the household and alot of folks will not like in what I am about ready to do.  I have came to the point of it does not matter in what others do again and I can only do in what feels right for my household at this time.  With alot of things at this point I know what will work and have doubts in some other things here for the household totally.  Normally I get out in the mornings around here to get my walks in and I pick up the nickles along the way.  As was said to me last night the person did not blame me and asked if I thought about something else to get tested for.  And that was after I said I felt guilty for not holding my end of the bargin on alot of things that I wanted and knew that I had to do.  The guy felt the same way as I did for the household (both of us are Italian) and someone else made a comment on he did not think I was doing all of what I could also.  The man forgot about the accident all togeather with me. 

To sit down for a bit

Now that I get to sit down for a bit before I start working on the house here.  Seems at times the house falls apart if I do not get to things.  Oh well at least I can go ahead and clean now that I have nobody here at all once again.  With that being said I did stop by the trailer this morning and nobody picked up the 2 bags like I asked them to also.  I now know where I stand and the stuff will go either way and let my Niece and her boyfriend ask now where it went to.  It is one of the strange things that I had begged, asked, and pled with them to pick up the stuff and I get ignored like I am the dirt around the area.  So now I am doe with being treated like crap from some people that could not even do what I had asked them to do in the first place.  I guess I had it right when I told them no before the holidays around here about moving into the house here and it is another reason of why I said no in the first place.  I seen alot of things coming about that I just did not want to tangle with at all and waste was one of the things for the place.  The bad out weighed the good of the reasons why I said no and to throw dirt I did get demanded also that was another huge flag on some things.  Now you know why I do not mind living alone at this time.  I can do the housework around here and I will be taking my time to do so also.  Now I did warn my Husband that some things were not done yesterday when I picked him up once he seen my thumb and where I cut it he did not blame me what so ever at all after that.  I can only see more housework if I let some people move in and the influx of kids coming in and out of the house.  At this point it is all I can do to keep up with the place now.  With alot of things at this point in time I have noticed that have went down or stay around longer if that makes since after I threw my Niece out of the trailer.  With today over at Ollie's it was a fluke anyway and I still have enough to pay something to the doctors office on Tuesday around here.  I had to get out of the place for about an hour and I went window shopping more than anything.  Since the only time I really read is up at the doctors office to pass the wait it works out better.  So now I will say that with what I do for the books is I get them on discount as much as I can from different places.  I would rather pay a quarter of the price than full any time and with the library here you would have to fix an axel either way.  So I do what I have to and I can read the books over and over if I want to.  Just last week I was asked if it would take me any longer to get thru the book that I am working on at this point.  I told the person no longer than normal since it is a double novel and the first part was good.  The funny part is that when I do have my nose in a book I get lost in the book at the time.  I guess it does not get that bad untill I notice that the housework starts getting behind on me for the place.  If you ever get the chance get an Amish romance novel. 

Finding coupons

Well I am finding coupons out on the net yet again around here.  With the new outlook that I got this morning I have started to dig out the good coupons again that I can print out.  Still alot of the sites out there have the same thing over and over and it makes me sick to look at it all at times.  One thing about coupons is that if the people did not want you to use them they would not make them avalible to either print or clip out of the papers nor on web sites at all.  Normally when I do get over to Walmart I can save about 20 dollars off of the printed coupons and it depends on the day with me with that.  With the national chains I will clip the coupons out of the paper stock pile them and get about 70 dollars a trip if not more.  Now with that being said for the moment around here the coupons are only the tip of the ice berg anyway you look at it around the household.  There are the shoppers club cards also to go along with the coupons in some stores.  When there is a will there is a way to rake over the stores with the coupons and other things that are needed for the household.  Also here in NY State there is a bottle deposit on soda, beer, and water.  It is the cans, glass, and plastic.  That even adds up for groceries and other things for the household or vacations either way.  I normally use the nickles at the grocery store.  It makes me wander in why some will not take the deposits back at all.  Anyway there are alot of ways to save money around the household.  I try to streach out as much as I can in the cleaning department and with the power and gas bills.  When there is a will there is a way in my eyes.  Now I know there are picky eaters out there and alot of folks only want the name brands in the household.  In my household if you do not like the cheap stuff then it is just to bad because that is about the only thing that I mainly buy for the household here.  There are some things I can not get by with at all so I get them becuase of the birds and other reasons around. 

Now I know

Well I feel better today than I have in the past 2 around here.  Who know that a walk could do so much for a person.  I only picked up 15 cents this morning and the walk did me better than the money at this point in time of course.  So I will get back out at 6 tonight and walk the parking lot yet again today.  The funny thing about it all around here is that I have been going alot cheaper for the household and some folks are madder than a wet cat on a hot tin roof about it all.  Oh well at least I know in what I can do to make some folks mad that have came over and will not come over anymore.  Since the month is almost over I have yet to get a call from the complainers around here asking for money and other things.  So now I am just wandering what is up with that part of things around here.  Also I have not got a return call from acouple of other folks neither.  I know between the pain and afew other things I started getting down about what has been going on around the household.  Now since I got to thinking about it this morning on my walk I have realized that I still have the will to go that much cheaper to make ends meat around the household and other places now.  Some of us can not go on words alone we have to think about it and start doing then to jump in with both feet at times also.  With alot of things that have been going on around here I have had more time to think about some things that have been going on also and I am working on that part of it all.  Knowing that I have done the right thing on alot of things also pretty much has helped me out once I have thought about it.  I have also came to the point of there should have been alot more said with some folks that I have not bothered to say at all and it is coming to that point also.  Maybe that is why some have told me that I have become nasty in my attatude towards them also is that I have been holding my tounge and not saying much at all in what has been going down with some folks.  This is why I have been keeping more to myself in the area since I have moved into the house.  I have also been working on ways to cut even more out of the budget since I have been totally left alone.  That is why I have been making calls so far to some folks on a cheaper way for to streach out the groceries while I am at it all.  Maybe that is what is bothering some folks also is that I am figuring out ways of doing things and not saying in what I am doing anymore to them.  Just like when I would go to the stores I could not say in how much I spent nor saved to the complainers at all because it would make them mad in what I had done.  Then to try to explain in why I did not get some things while I was out also.  With what I will pick up is what is needed and I do not have a need for alot of paper towles, and I do not have a need for paper plates at all for the household.  Since I figure that I have to wash dishes anyway for the household why bother with the one use with the paper plates and waste money that could be used some place else in the household.  I have figured it out that the paper plates has cost the complainers at least 240 dollars a year not including the dish deturgent since the daily ware (silverware) and cups need to be washed anyway in the household.  The complainers have tried to argue with me why I supposadly needed the paper plates for the household many of times and they got shot down every time.  Also with spending 9 dollars on T.P. that they could get for less someplace else also.  I spent 10 dollars on the 48 rolls and will have enough for at least 3 months at this point without my Niece here at all.  This is what some do not understand about me at all and that is ok by me at this point.  I try to get the best deals anyway and buy the off brands of alot of things.  So maybe it is a good thing that the complainers are not coming over anymore to my place.  As for my Niece I know that I am better off without her at all in the household since I would have to go behind her and redo in what she did clean for the household.  So now that I have myself pretty much straight yet again around here once again I maybe doing more for the household. 

Seems like

Well I think I fixed a problem on the monster system this morning around here.  By taking out a program and reloading it at 5:30 am seems to have fixed the problem I hope.  One of the things of not paying monthly for some browsers pays off also.  With AOL you do not pay for it when you have the dsl line thru the phone company or cable dsl.  I can fix most of the software problems my self and like it like that.  So I had to reload the AOL big deal.  With alot of things I figure why pay for something when you do not have to at all for the household.  Now I have been good with the coupons even for the household.  I know there are sites that you pay for someone to clip and send out the coupons to you.  I refuse to go that far for that.  I would rather get the Sunday paper and clip the coupons myself.  Coupons and the cards that the stores have are a good way to save around the household also.  I know that Kmart is has their double weeks out of the year for the cents off coupons and with the card also to get points.  It pays off by the end of the year there.  Also with alot of places I will use the coupons to save that much more for groceries and cleaning products for the household.  When there is a buy one get one free at the stores and you have 2 coupons for one you can use both coupons for the sale.  Now if the coupons can be doubled that is even better on the shopper.  There have been times where I have walked out of the store with over 70 dollars worth of coupon savings and that does not include the card savings at all.  What the card does is it takes off for the sale items and some stores have perks with the cards.  Like so much off of gas if you spend so much, free items like turkey or chicken, or point systems to get things free by the end of the month or year depending on what you would like to use them for.  Some of it is tracking for the store itself to see what goes fast and what does not.  I could care less if some track my shopping habbits for the year.  Also with alot of places that is how you get the double coupons off also for the store and the sale price.  Some folks do not care what they spend at the stores at all for the week, bi weeks, or the month.  Just like up at the doctors office today I got asked if I could make a payment there and I told the girl that they had to wait untill at least Tuesday or the week after.  She looked at me shocked and said well we have to get at least 20 dollars off of you.  I looked at her and said well I guess I don't eat for the next 2 weeks or so then.  The girl started freaking out when I said that to her.  Well it is true for me it takes about 20 dollars for about 2 weeks worth of food and I am eating like a queen around here to say the least.  I almost have it down to a since here in the household.  This is what some do not understand about in what I do at all.  The one girl at the doctors office said she had at least 3 grand going out and that does not include the groceries.  All I could do was shake my head.  So now I must be doing something right for my place trying to keep everything under 2 grand at the moment. 

Sitting around

Well I have been sitting around today for the most part after I hit the store this morning.  I knew it around here as soon as I would start dinner I would get a call either I ain't coming home or come pick me up around the shop.  Now that I get to stay home for the most part around here it is nice for a change.  Now that I have got the point across to some folks around here that I am not lending out money at this point in time at all and others need to learn still of course that there is no way at all anymore.  With alot of this going on around here I will be out on the hunt for the nickles from now on also.  I will not even mind getting cold by walking around neither for the next couple of nights nor mornings.  It is a good way for myself to pick up money and start to think of some things while I am walking around the mall parking lot.  Anyway at least I can still do something for the household also.  Since I am willing to do some things for the house here I may as well get out the KitchenAid mixer and afew other things that make things click in the place.  It does pay to be cheap for my place only because I know in how much fast food costs now days.  Just think taking leftovers in from home compared to 5-10 dollars a day to get it someplace else other than home.  That is how I am looking at it at this point.  I am not saying just stop cold of going out to eat at all for anyone.  I still like to go out every so often myself because I do not feel like cooking on the very few nights.  Once I got into the swing of things in the trailer and figured out that my cooking was better than going out all of the time then I started cooking alot.  Then I started to realize for the household either in the trailer or the house I started thinking what if I started really looking at the prices and get the cheapest price that I could again for the household yet again and this was years ago.  After I thought about it all I started again on finding the best price for good food for the household and started cooking again in a new light.  Now I go to places that are the non brand name places and would not change it at all.  Also I pick up alot of flour and other things that I can bake from scratch around the place.  This is what alot of folks do not understand about me at all.  I will sit down and see what goes with what around here and start rewriting a recipe totally.  I will have 3 verations of the same thing in my book on paper.  I laugh at times about it and some that really know me for the place here knows that I will cook on what I feel for the day.  Now I mainly cook on the weekends starting on Friday around here.  There are always leftovers during the week that I eat so it turns out for the household here.  With that being said here at least it has been a learning on the job around the place. 

Hope yet

Well I have not found my one good knife as of yet around here.  It did the up and gone trick.  I have the bigger knife that is left and of course I had to cut myself throwing dinner into the crock pot afew minutes ago for the morning.  Between the crock pot and afew other things for the household here I might be lost in some ways.  Also I have to get a double batch of biscuts up for today while I am at it all.  This is the nice thing about being cheap on alot of things here in the household.  One pot meals around here and not even thinking twice about it all.  What I have done is thrown in a roast for dinner along with carrots, onions, potatoes, and I will be throwing in grean beans also into the mix.  Other wise if I would not have thrown everything into the crock pot then my Husband would call me to pick him up at 8pm tonight around here.  It always happends like that around here and then I will not be able to eat again tonight.  Maybe that is what I need also is not to eat for a good while around here.  Oh well at least there is food around here now.  While I was up at the store this morning I got asked what the girl could do to cut her power bill around her place.  I asked if she had an eletric dryer and she said yes.  I told her to start hanging up her laundery and afew other things in the new place because the pwoer company was baseing the useage off the person that lived there before her and she told me well that makes since now.  Some of the things that the power company will not tell the person untill they ask point blank about it to them.  I told her to get the drying racks from Ollie's when she could afford them and they work wanders for saving on the power bill.  Plus afew other things that she could do also while she was at it all today.  I found what works and then some on alot of things here int he household and do not mind doing it all.  Things like power strips and turning off at the switch like the cable box, hanging the laundery to dry, and useing some candles for light.  I have figured out alot of things that help out in the household that I do that saves money.  Like useing less cleaners for the place and useing rags to clean with also for the place.  Another thing that I found is that alot of the name brand stuff is not always cracked up to what it is worth also.  The funny thing is with me I am so use to the no name brands that I get the name brand stuff and I do not like it at all for the household.  Except for the Green Works products that has not bothered the birds at all around the household.  Another thing is if you have a Kmart around get the card PLEASE.  It is well worth it when you get enough points on the card thru the year to go for holliday shopping or the end of the year shopping for the household.  I buy alot of things at Kmart anyway and it is a treat when I do not have to pay for anything by the end of the year for the household.  At this point in time I am thinking of December when I can get some stuff for free for January when I am broke.  It all works to an advantage in my household let me tell ya.  When I say go looking around see what you can get at rock bottom sales do it for the household.  This is how I have been able to feed the household around here and other things also while I am at it.  I had someone else ask in how I was going to manage the household and I told the person very cheaply and have been trying after the accident.  Another thing is that alot of folks figure since I dress in sweats all of the time that I can get the better stuff at the stores also and lend out money on a constant feed line.  Some have found out differantly also in the past 2 months or so also.  Not that the trailer was cheap by any means at all.  Now some people are out of luck when I say that I do not have it at all to let them barrow things nor money.  That is what gets to me the most is when some figure that I have money when I do not even have it.  I am just suprized that some have not called me by now mouching and begging for things this month except for one person that never asks at all and I can not help at this time neither.  THat is what I get for running 2 households and one that I am not even in anymore.  So my days of helping some people are over and others have to learn that I am not a bank and can not hand out the smokes also anymore around here when they run out of money by the end of the month.  That is what you call over extending yourself every month. 

Not impressed

I am not impressed at all around here.  I know what I have to do for the place to cut the bills totally here and knowing that I am ready to do it.  Some are really not going to like me by the time I am done here and that is fine by me to say the least.  Since I do have the KitchenAid appliances (mixer and food processor) they will get a work out from now on around here to help save money.  I guess the best part about it all around here is that I do not need squat from the stores at all at this point in time here.  Part of the problem has been that I have really slacked off on the menu plan for the month since the accident.  And that was about the time my Niece moved in with us also into the household.  Now I am getting back on track with everything and going cheaper for the place while I am at it all.  I know that I have been dropped on the curb more than once around here and I am slowly getting back on track with alot of things also.  That is the bad part of it all for the place here.  I am finding ways of being that much cheaper at this point in time that I never even thought about while I was in the can.  And now it is all clicking in what I want and need to do for the house here.  Since I do have bags of flour and rice it should not be as bad as I thought last week of how I was going to do all of this and get by with it all.  It was a jumbled mess in my brain last week.  So now at this point there are alot of things that I can do and it started clicking when I started looking around the place last night of course in what I had to do.  Cooking on the cheap is one another is using alot less of everything yet again and yes I will be cutting back even further on alot of things here yet again.  And that means telling alot of folks no on barrowing money off of me from now on also while I am at it.  Some folks already got the point this past month around here and I hope that I do not get a phone call from the complainers at all here within the next couple of days at all.  So now I will be on the rampage here on cutting everything back and I do not care in what others say nor do at this point in time at all.  I will get it all down and it is a long battle around here to say the least with some things and some people.  This is part of the reason in why I have told some people no about moving in also around here totally.  When some started demanding out of me first thing when I did not agree to it then there is a problem and it was a huge red flag to me around here. When I was told that I had to give my appointments and wright them down so nobody parked behind me and many other things that I was suppose to do out of courtesy in my own house no it was not gonna fly with me at all.  Now I can get the house budget straight without some telling me in what to do and how to do it with being a punk about it now I feel better.  That was the problem I was having to begin with and figured out that I did not need another 3 mouths to feed nor house on top of it here for free.  With that being said here I will start hanging more laundery up, cooking on the very cheap, and useing less of the T.P. and other cleaners in the house it may all work out to my advantage to say the least.  And yes I will start making it a habbit to go pick up more of the nickles out of the parking lots more often.  Just so I can get my walks in also while I am at it all also for the mornings and not be bothered at all.  There is extra money that I have forgot about by doing that part of the day also.  Maybe that is what some have been bothered about with me also is that I have been looking at ways to go cheaper and was trying to figure it all out also.  Now that I have kind of sorted it out in my head here I maybe onto something.

I got to thinking again

Ok I finally got to thinking once again on what to do for the household that is cheaper than snot around here and love it.  Since I have bills to pay around here I figured out in how I can cut the grocery bill yet again for the place.  It means that there will be more pasta and rice for the household here of course and I am sure that some will not mind around here since there will only be the 2 of us here once again.  Also there will be alot more baking around here while I am at it all.  Aldi and Save A Lot are going to be best friends of mine from now on around here along with Kmart also.  I had a brain storm on what to do and when to do it around here and that is ok with me at this point in time.  I am just thankful that I do not have the 3 extra mouths to feed and house at this point also while I am at it all.  Some would not be impressed at all with me in with what I am thinking for the food budget and other things here for the household.  Since I have enough food for the next 2 months around here and like it I have figured out that rice and pasta will not hurt neither of us here in the house at all.  It is something that my Niece and Nancy Hammond would never go for here in the household at all.  With the off brand stores I should do ok with for the month around here along with Kmart while I am at it.  With my Niece she could care less where the food came from as long as it is food.  With Nancy Hammond since she takes half of her husbands pay every week would freak out in half the things that I have done for feeding the household.  I did what I have to do for the household to figure out the food budget and Nancy Hammond always seem to brag in how supposedly low she could go at her place and I have her nailed to the wall since most of the food is from food stamps and the food pantries that she has lied to also.  Between Nancy and her Husband they make enough for 3 children in the household and that is what makes me madder than a wet cat on a hot tin roof in the summer time in St. Louis.  Plus Nancy Hammond gets the pay off for adopting 2 of her grand children also from the State of NY.  Some of the things that nobody is supposedly to find out about at all since Nancy has only one child in the household that does not even want to be there at all.  It is part of the child support for NY State and the state wanders why it is in 10 Billion behind, yes I said Billion dollar defacet now.  SO with that I do not steal, barrow, and beg like some do around here at all.  I have to pay back some folks on what I barrowed around here and they will get paid here.  This is why I have been going cheaper and streaching out things in the household here.  I have been thinking alot of in what I can do around here to cut things and I have it maped out in my mind here yet again for the place.  Useing less paper goods yet again and getting the cheaper prices for food to eat I should have it all made around here to say the least with some people.  Let some get mad at me and I could care less on what happends and what they say here about me now.  Just like my Niece she knew in how I have been and then some. 

Still picking up

I am still picking up shards of glass off of the kitchen floor around here.  Thank goodness for to have some of the swifter cloths left from the trailer around here.  It is about the only thing that I know that will pick up the tiny, tiny shards of glass at all costs.  I will move the swifter over the floor acouple of more times today to see how much more I can pick up with it.  Well I guess it could be worse around here totally.  I do get some stuff done during the week around here without a problem at all and yes I have been dropped on the curb kinda in that since.  I think in what it is is that some of us do not listen at all and when we get hurt then we have to at times.  So I slowly get thru the housework around here and get it done somehow around here.  Well some people like my Niece never would understand something like this at all so I will not worry about it all at this point.  I figure that why should I let her move in with the lazy bum that is with her at this point until I get things straight with me and the household at the same time.  Maybe I have figured out in what my limits were finally for this point in time here.  Or I just did not want a repeat of what could have happened at all.  What gets to me is that I have finally figured out that I can and will get the house into a state of cheapness that nobody will like at all and maybe that is what is scarring some people now also.  Or I picked up on some things that have went on and I will be a rabbid dog if pushed hard enough around the household.  The settle hints were there and I picked up on it when I got demanded to let 3 more people to move in also here at the house.  That is part of what my Nieces boyfriend does not get is that I can pick up on the abuseive nature in alot of ways and if that is the guy that she wants go for it I do not have to deal with it.  What I am saying is that I already know about the abuse thanks to my ex husband and I do not need that anymore.  I did not say much to my Husband now about it when I got demanded and all I told him was that I had a funny feeling about letting some move into the household here at the time.  Then the girls boyfriend tried to demand my Husband on the address of the house also.  I got a look and said you may be right on this one shorty.  That is what my Husband calls me when I am right or have the hunch on things that are about ready to go down.  I know that I have to protect myself and the household more around here than ever before.  Also now I knew that some were lieing to me when they said that they would pay half the bills also to help out around here.  With that said I seen thru that part and knowing in what some did do from before I was not going to chance any more stuff getting either ruined because of stupidity or anything more being wasted around here at all.  What gets to me more is that a month and a half lapsed for the dish soap and I got to open another one last Sunday around here in the house.  That was off a half a bottle from the over use from my Niece.  That has told me something for the place totally here and how much of a drain that the girl was on the household and myself at that point when she was with me.  So now that I have marked that down on the calander for when I opened the bottle totally here I will do the same for the laundry soap also for the place.  I do things like that to see if I can cut back more and or to see how long it takes me to go thru it all.  Also it is a reminder when I look at the calander to see in how much I have left and when to pick up more of the cleaners around here to say the least.  I know it makes some folks mad that I will do that for the household.  It is ok by me if some get mad over in what I try to do to streach out everything for the household here.  With that said I know in what some say about me behind my back and that is on them totally now.  Lastnight while I was watching alittle T.V. that I have let go to what others say about me totally and  do not care in the opinion of others at all.  Opinions are like butts with me everyone has one and guess what, what some say it will not affect me at all now at this point yet again.  Just like this morning I got asked if someone could barrow money off of me and I told them no.  It was not the complainers at all this time around.  Knowing that the house payment is do and I had to pick up other things like gas I just can not lend out money nor anything else around here at all at the moment.  I know I will have to start paying others back here soon and I guess the first payment goes to the one person totally.  Either way I will be figureing this all out around here. 

Shaking my head

Well I shattered (more of an explosion) a baking pan last night around here and I am still not a happy camper about it.  So here I am still picking up glass from the pan and it is not good at all.  At least I have the extras on hand around here to say the least.  That is part of being on the cheap/frugal side of life here is that you get things at very dirt cheap prices and go from there for the extras in the household.  With alot of things that is that I am so use to getting things on sale with coupons alot of the times and it hurts when I have to pay full price for anything for the household here.  I guess that is what gets to alot of people that come around for the household now.  Oh well at least I have a budget in place for here and go from there with alot of things here unlike some of the folks that have came over.  With that said here I am still liking that I am the only one here during the week and do not mind it at all.  I am never board at all since I take my time on alot of things here in the cleaning and afew other things for the household now.  The nice thing is that I am not having the extra expenses from some people that wanted me to also here by trying to demand on moving in with me at all now.  All I could see was all the bills going up here for the household including the food budget and that was not good on myself nor my Husband.  It amazes with some people around the area here in what they all do for their households.  I do not figure that everyone has went to the cheap side at all.  That is one thing that I do not expect and if some want to learn fine.  I know I am still learning on how to do things for the household here on my end.  And it is a learning process here.  This is why I do not mind in what I am doing for the place.  In what I do may not work for everyone and what someone else does may not work for myself also for the place.  Just like the zippies that I use for the break down of the meats.  I toss them because it seems like I can never get them clean enough with the meat.  Now for the block cheese here in the household I can go figure on that one.  I have done alot of things for the household while I was in the trailer.  Part of it was to keep busy the other part was because we only had one income for the household.  This is what my Niece and several other folks did not understand and still do not understand in why I am doing alot of the things that I am doing for the trailer or the household.  Yes I may have a back stock for the household and it does not mean for some to come over and start wasting things on me at all. 

Plain out tired

Well I am tired just plain out of being dogged all of the time by several people who do not give a rats behind on somethings that are going on.  Now I know why now in that I said no last month to my Niece, her boyfriend, and the supposed friend that is staying with them at this point in time.  After almost of 2 months of asking, begging, and pleading I am done here on some things and I knew it was coming around to this point in time.  After the household budget going back to normal after I threw out my Niece I was not willing to have some move back in along with others with a stream of people in and out of my household at all.  I still have the statement in my mind of what my Nieces boyfriend told me when he asked for all 3 of them to move in that I am the one that had to let him know when my doctors appointments were.  That meant to me I would lose total control in my own household when my Husband was at work around here and when he was home also.  I would end up as the maid in my own household and that is it without question if I let all 3 stupid asses move into my household here.  I was not about to let that happen at all and that is why I said no to the request after I thought about it all.  I refuse to be a maid and a piece of shit in my own household for anyone that has moved in period.  I know alot of men just do not like my attitude on that part at all.  I would have put my foot down and the other up someones toush without a problem if I let all 3 move into my house here in the past 2 months.  Now that I have the budget on track for the most part around here and I like it at this point why should I be dogged for comments that were made to me months ago.  Trust me there would be nothing left down in the basement nor on the main floor left for the 3 mouches if I would have said yes.  I would have ordered a portable washer and dryer at all costs for up stairs and the oven down here would have been in storage also along with other things.  Some would know what it is to be dogged and not have squat in the household.  So now I am plain out tired on some things that have went on and I will find out by Saturday if the things have been picked up when I go to the can after my doctors appointment.  If it hasent I will donate the items for someone who needs them worse than my Niece and the thing she is with.  There are some things that I can not be pushed into at all and when some little boy desides to demand out of me I stop it then and there after that.  That is alot of the reason why I said no and there are other reasons stated also of the whys.  The other why is because of knowing what my Niece will not do when she gets back here and it would the housework would fall back on me totally. 

Glad to be out

Some people like my Niece are finally finding out that it is hard out in the real world here.  Well it started out with myself trying to tell the girl that she could not do as she pleased and that she had to find a job while she was with me and help with the housework over at the trailer.  That never happened at all and with somethings that went on I am happy to not have the girl and her boyfriend here in the house at this point in time.  I have seen alot of waste in my lifetime around the area and my Niece has to be the almost the worst one about it with the cleaners.  My Husband even noticed it while the girl was in the trailer.  Now on Sunday my Husband asked what I wrote down in the one calander and I told him I wrote down when I opened the bottle of dish soap.  All he said was I noticed you did that and now understood why I was doing it.  I am seeing in how much I am going thru with one bottle and how long it takes me also.  With one bottle it should have took us about 2 months to go thru the soap instead of 3 weeks like it did with my Niece being under the roof of the trailer.  Also I am going thru less groceries while I am at it all here.  This is what is really getting to me at this point in time.  After I threw my Niece out almost 2 months ago I feel alot calmer and things are not looking so grim around the new place at all.  It seems strange that I can say that now.  Also I know that now the girl is having a hard time doing all the housework and trying to find a job.  Well some guys are totally lazy and I know this.  Now with my Husband and myself the man does hardly anything here in the house since he is hardly home during the week except getting the kitchen garbage out of the household.  Otherwise I do what I can to keep the house clean and other things here during the week.  I do not have to go behind anyone to reclean something while I am at it also now.  Now I know one of the circle of my Nieces friends he was a tougher bird than I am about the bathroom.  I started laughing when I got told that and said well I told ya not to give everything a lick and a promise because it will not be clean enough for the next person at all.  So now I can say that some have to learn and I was trying to teach my Niece in what to do and she would not listen at all.  Just like I was trying to teach the girl in how to cook with nothing in the household at all.  The girl had a total crash course on that part of cooking after I threw her out also.  I was trying to say hay you can have 3 meals off of one and I could not get it thru her head that she could do it.  So I hope this is a learning process for the girl.  I think she is realizing that I was not playing with alot of things while I was in the trailer at all now in what to do and when to do it all.  Plus I know that the girl and her boyfriend can hit the food pantries also for food. I just hope that the girl uses her brain now and realizes that in what I was trying to do for her.  And knowing that Nancy Hammond has never prepaired the kids at all for the real world at all does not help at all in what happened.  WIth that being said now not every food needs green pepers at all nor any other peppers to cook with.  Also with the cleaning Nancy never let the kids finish in what they started and I know that and that is why things got done with a lick and a promise in other households and some turned out to not do housework at all.  There are just alot of things that I have not went for that Nancy Hammond did and she has ruined alot of folks around the area.  I refuse to put up with the B.S. that Nancy has brought to my place anymore than what I have to and knowing what she said about me I can deal without her.  So now at this ppoint I am just happy that I am doing what I can without help and I am making it all work without getting hollered at at all. 

What a morning

Well I got up to the doctors office and got out to Kmart and Aldi while I was at it all this morning and I went to go pay the one for the truck and nobody was there at all.  Now I am worried about that also becuase it is not like the person not to be there at all.  At least I am trying to get that paid around here also.  With today I came in way below budget to say the least and I am liking it.  Kamart was 91.90 without coupons and that was with coffee and food for the cat and dog around here and Aldi was 93.55 for a whole load of groceries for the 2 kitchens here.  Now with that being said I did not need flour nor rice as of yet for the household kitchen as of yet.  I know next month I will need flour for the place along with some other things.  I think that is what is getting to some folks also is that I am so cheap at times that it hurts them to come over to my place at times.  No wwith some folks I know that they get food stams for their place and figure that it is ok to waste them totally around their place.  Now with alot of things I try to keep something on hand at all times for the freezers so when I get low on food I still have something that I can fix or the bag of flour so I can make the pancakes.  I think that is what gets to alot of folks that come over.  What I end up doing is when I do get out to the stores here is to find things I can make from scratch alot of the times.  This is how I end up expanding alot of my food budget around my place.  I know that in what I do for the place here is that with some things here it is eadier to make biscuts and other things out of the flour along with other things.  Also I get alot of chicken while I am at it.  While I was on food stamps at the trailer I tried to expand them as much as possible while I was on the system.  I know some people who are on the food stamps and they buy all garbage depending on how much they bring in also.  Then there are times where folks can buy the better meat and fish also.  I know in what I did and it was not pretty to get food into the can let me tell you.  I only got 150 dollars for 2 people and that was it.  I know at least one couple that get 250 dollars at this point in time and still have a hard time and I keep shaking my head about it all.  It makes me wander in what they do also for the household.  With alot of it some do not know how to cook that well at all.  Another thing is that I was wandering in is if the welfare system would put in classes for how to shop and cook while some are on the welfare waggon.  When I can say that I had to learn on my own in what to do while I was on the stamps and keep learning and cutting for the household.  Now I do it without help at all for the household.  That is what the one couple did not understand is that I did not go get help at all and still made it for groceries for the month and had more than what they had when they have the hand out.  So now I can say yes I am cheap around here and like it all.  Now I know why some have been mad at me totally because they know that I am right on some things on how to feed some people.  Even on the tight budget that I have here.  It makes me wander sometimes on what some are thinking at the store.

Still mad

Well I am still mad about what is going on in some things that have happened.  I guess that I am going to have to confront it head on around here and be done with it at this point in time.  So maybe this is why I went to a cheaper side of life to get my frustrations out around here to say the least.  Now at this point it still turns my belly on wht has happened over the years and I have delt with it.  Just like when some folks in the area do not know their heads from their butts at all.  I got some good info yesterday from the DMV and I thanked some folks for making me get out and about also here.  I guess that I have learned to start asking and watching over the years to start making judgements on some things.  And I also know that some have lied also about what has gone on while I was at it.  So here I am and knowing what I have to do for some things around the household and go on with it all here.  What has got to me the most is that I have done things on the legal side of things and will continue to do so for the place.  So now since I know that I am on my own from now on it is ok that I have got screwed with some people that I know and have been around.  I made a few phone calls yesterday and no answer at all so I took it as the complainers do not want to be bothered unless they want money or smokes from me.  And my answer will be no from now on on them no matter what guilt trip they have to lay on me at this point.  Plus I came to the point of that some folks want to keep others broke and figure that it does not matter anyway to the people who want to barrow.  That is another reason of why I went to the cheap side other than spending less money around the household at either place that I have been at up here in NY State also.  I am saving alot of money around the new place since some have not bothered to ask to barrow money off of me over the month around here.  I did not realize when some people stopped asking me for money I have an extra 200 dollars a month around for the good.  Since everything is up in the air at this point in time for the day I know what I have to do either way that I turn here.  I guess that has what scared alot of folks that know me around here in the area is that I have went cheaper over the years and do not care in what they have thought about it.  Now that I am still figureing out in how cheap I can really go for the household before some start to holler about it that I am squeeking around the place. 

Now I am realizing

Well now I know it was not my Grandmother at all on my dad side of the family.  Now I am madder than ever on what happened over the house and other things and I never trusted my one uncle to begin with around the place at all.  Have a priest in the family that was running from the mob and you will understand why I lied about the Birth Control totally to him.  I did what I thought was best and some knew about it all in why I did it.  This is why I am sick of being dogged out of the family the other part is not kissing anyone's toush on top of it all.  I learned early never to kiss any butt, nor ask for money at all.  I have lived by that for the past 20 years if not longer since I do not want it over my head.  Plus knowing what has happened in the past and why my great uncle went into the priesthood to begin with and things never change over the years at all.  He is the same womanizer and whore he was in hit teens and early 20's in my eyes.  I will tell ya every family has the bones in their closets either way they go.  I figured mine was always worse because I did not know any better growing up.  Well after I got older and figured the person would just walk into my place either they are that desperate or they are waiting for to be blasted.  As I told my grandmother today if her brother did that call me I will be down within 6 hours and all Hell would break loose and he won't have to worry about his sister blowing gaskets he has to worry about others.  Maybe I have seen to much in what goes on in the world around me or I have way to much crud just laid on me or I grew up in the real world either way.  I say seen to much and forced to see the real world.  I will say with some folks they did what they thought was best and I made it in the world.  Ok so I turned out cheap and I like it in how I turned out at this point in time.  Others will swear that I am nasty about it and not at all since they do not have a clue nor will they.  I have found out of why I have not had a call for the past 2 weeks also from the mouchers at all.  I will say somethings happen for a reason around here and I know why.  Now I will thank someone when they call back and the Man better be sitting down also once I think of it all.  As I have told some and the rest do not know about my stomach just flipping over what happened at all and I did not have the heart to tell my own grandmother that it went up for auction at all.  I already heard out of my Mommas mouth in what happened and I can not change it at all and I know the others would not lie neither also while I am at it all.  I know that I have made it on my own around here with little help from others and what I ask of is by a HUGE Thank You to most.  For the love of friendship and music both in my household.  Some are stuck with me and others have flown the coupe here and that is ok since I have no money to give to some people anymore at all.  Now I also know why some have not been asking at all.  I think they have moved totally from the area and not let me know.  I told my Husband again this weekend that I thought that the mouchers were waiting to get paid from me to be friends of ours.

Found out something

Well I found out that some people just do not know about the DMV at all here in NY State.  I was asking questions while I was there this morning totally.  My Husband will freak out when I tell him in what I know at this point in time.  Now to change everything over around here either ya get the sticker or have to pay 17 dollars to transfer over a license and registration.  I look at it like this some folks should not have the drivers license at all and here is why.  Now I can not spell to save my own toush around here at all and I know this and I know it takes time for some folks to read totally.  Some folks here in the State of NY really surprise me totally when they can barely read nor wright at all.  Most of the folks I know have graduated also from High School.  What does this tell ya about the school system up here.  Now the complainers that keep begging me for money around here one did not know how to write a check out until she went thru a divorce and her husband just does not have a clue at all.  Neither of them read all to well also in their place.  So it makes me wander in how they both survived this long in life besides being on SSD and help from the welfare system.  Ok so I ask all of the time what can I do to lower something around the household now and call the companies for help and questions here.  I about threw a huge fit at the power company while I was at the trailer and said what in the Hell do I have to do to cut down the bill besides can you folks for all of the taxes ya wanna charge me at this point in time and paying for the neighborhood still.  I guess I caught a break with this go around here now off of total stupidity on someones part.  Now I am seeing a change and will continue to do so since some of us are cheap and about ready to get that much cheaper for the household now.  This is why I pretty much said oh Hell No for some people moving into the house with me because I know I will be stuck up stairs and the flipping maid either way I go also until they move out and get stuck paying the bills on top of it all for the place.  I have heard excuse after excuse out of my Niece and her boyfriend over the weekend here and I already knew the answer to the question that I had for the both of them.  With the both of them being lazy and not caring in what goes on I guess that the 2 bags of things that are at the trailer will go for the garage/yard sale this spring and now they will know about not caring to get off their duffs to help and get their stuff out of the trailer at all.  I know that the laws have changed since some asked also.  So now some folks are just out of luck around here with me and I have to do all of this or keep storing things that I have no use for nor the room in the household.  So I will do what I have to from now on around here without a problem at all.  I look at it like this I was doing things that I was not suppose to anyway from the get go thanks to my Niece and what she learned from Nancy Hammond from a young age and will continue to do so from now on and I forget the pain while I am working anyway in the household.  I know what works for me and keeping busy helps totally around here and so does writing about what I have found out to be cheap for a place.  My blog and housework are outlets for me around here along with cooking on the cheap.  It may sound strange to most and that is ok since this is how I can peal myself out of bed most days for being as cheap as I can in the household.  With alot of things here in the household I have went cheaper on just because there was nobody here to fight me on what I did during the week at all.  And yes that started in the trailer then carried over the the new house here.  Some folks have understood where I am coming from on the point and others have not even bothered to think about what I am trying to do here at all.  Also I am going to get ahold of someone tonight and try to work out a payment plan with them.  It is part in what I need to do to be cheap around here and get things off my mind.  As I say the more things I get paid off the better I feel here totally.  I guess this is why I have been feeling rotten around here somewhat and knowing what a friend went thru I will be paying them back totally.  I guess this is why I have told some folks no in the past 2 months around here also.  For one I can not stand some people mouching another is that i know in who I have to pay back that I barrowed money off of to get the household off of.  Also now that I know what I have to do around here and it is being done and tomarrow will be a huge help around here after I get to the store to say the least.  All 3 of them to be total on. 

Full morning already

Well I was up and on the move by 4 am around here.  About my normal time anyway to start for the day.  I guess that is what I get for being married to a truck driver.  All I can say is that there are extra bills to go with it all also.  And I guess it is worth the 80 dollars to park where he does a month.  So with today I figure that I would hardly get out this morning now I am laughing over that one because I ran into the city while I was at it all to turn in the plates from the van.  And dang I have full coverage on the the truck here.  I am also paying about 150 less than what I did with my van with the other company also.  So now I can say that I am totally saving money without a problem at all on that end of things.  I can really laugh now because I am down for about 60 miles a week and that was guessing at it just in case if I have to go out to Collins to pick up my Husband for the week.  I know I do not drive that much at all some weeks and that is how everyone bases the policy for insurance.  So give and take on some weeks around here on what is going on and when that is how much I drive.  So now at least I can say that I am happy at this point to have how I have and go from there.  I also had the company when I was in High School about 20 years ago now and yes I went back to them.  Anyway it feels good now to save money for the household here.  Now I really do not have to work at it that much with some things for the household here.  I look at it like this it takes some practice and asking the companies to lower rates and shop around for a better deal on things.  Car insurance, groceries, and many other things are like that at this time you start asking questions and make some companies squirm on the price then they start to realize hey wait I may loose a costumer here and give you a better rate than another company around.  So it is a game that you have to know in how to play.  Some folks know in how to play better than others and I know this and that is why I have asked some of the folks who know to help me out here.  With that I have to laugh kind of only because I know one of my Husbands friends can sell a bible to satin and mean every word.  So after everything that has went on and lastnight of course I finally found something better than wax for the floors around here.  I always have bottled beer for a reason and found out by accident that it shines the tile after a bottle breaks.  Ok so I had a mess with the glass lastnight on top of it all and my Husband and myself in a fight for about 15 min.  Then we both realized the floor was clean and shining.  I guess that is what we all get for a beer bottle exploding and I can for go the nickle at this point in time. 

Wandering

Well I am wandering in how I am going to make it for the day.  Since I have some running to get done also for the day first thing this morning.  The bad part is that I may have to wait in line to turn in the plates from the van.  Why some folks stalled on giving back the plates to me so I could turn them in and save some money around here is beyond me.  I have noticed that with some people they just eather do not care or don't think about other folks that are not bringing in much or they are trying to go cheaper around the place that they are at.  So now I will have to deal with that part of it all for the place here.  That is the part that makes me wander is just take the plates in and hand me the receipt for them.  Oh well at least I can say that I really do not want to go outside at all around here this morning.  With the 16 below wind chills around here and it is about 6 below outside with the normal temps.  The big truck will not even start this morning around here to say the least.  Anyway with myself trying to be cheap around here it makes me wander on that also for the place.  I guess it could be worse around here to say the least.  Tomarrow is one of the bigger shopping days that I need to do for the household.  I already have alot of stuff just in case around here for food and other things that are needed if the pick up will not start and a few other things that are weather related.  And yes I would build a small fire if the power goes out around here.  There is always ways to keep warm and I am more worried about the birds than myself.  The trick is around here with me is that I have a gas hot water heater so I will have hot water either way and I can fill up the sinks and bath tub of hot water also for heat or to start boiling water on the stove top.  So yes there are alot of ways to keep warm in the cold weather here of course.  I will admit that since the big truck did not start around here I will be in to see someone after I get my Husband off or try to this morning. 

Getting way to much done

Well between cooking and cleaning for the day so far pluss running like a mad woman this morning it is a wander in how I have any hair left and a few other things.  So now for to get ready for tomarrow of course and go from there.  The joys of running a household around here.  That is what I was trying to get at with some folks that I know that were over here all of the time and got totally ignored on that fact.  So now some are doing it on thier own and not even liking it at all where they are at.  I tried to tell some that ya need to and tough.  Well she wanted what she got and would not listen to me at all about the world so now I can say that I was right and still did well by going cheaper at the trailer.  Now I am just going cheaper for the place and like it.  It seems wierd that food, cleaners, and T.P is sticking around longer in the household now without some here.  I guess that it happends and I should have put a stop to it from the get go in the trailer.  With that being said I ended up with some of the better T.P. for the household and it was cheaper than buying the name brand stuff go figure on that one.  So with that being said I also finally opened up a new bottle of dish soap also for this afternoon.  The half a bottle lasted longer than what I thought it would also and I did write it down in the planner for the meals while I was at it today.  In why I do that is so I can see in how much I am going thru in a month around the household here.  It works for streaching out things in my place.  I started that so I could really see in how much I was really going thru to begin with and it stuck.  Or untill my Niece shown up at my place.  Well the battle was on and 3 bottles in 2 months I wander what she did with it all.  I know that her boyfriend has got on her about it also for his place.  I have always been a stickler for some things around the household in either place that I was at knowing that in what I needed and had to streach everything out.  That went along with breaking down the meat packages also.  There are alot of ways to streach out things in the household to your advantage. 

About to get colder

It is about ready to get colder outside.  When I went out this morning it was bad out while I was pumping my own gas.  With that being said it took me 2 hours to get gas, out to the res, and to the store.  I will say that sloppy roads were not the word for today they are just down right nasty.  Now that I am home I also found my neighbors clearing out the driveway also.  All I can say is Thank You to them for clearing it out.  Anyway everything was done this morning on the cheap while I was out and about.  I have also found out that doing things on the cheap side works wanders for the household.  There are some things that I am doing that would make anyone just cringe for the household.  All I can say is that I can not wait untill the fire place is up and going for the household.  I would rather get fire wood for heat here in the household than having the furnace kicking on and off all of the time here.  This is what some folks have not understood about me at all as of yet that come over to my place.  When I was at the store getting a paper I noticed alot of folks just wasteing money totally that were in front of me and behind me.  At least when I go back to the store this week I will have coupons and read the sale adds to see what I can get for dirt cheap at the regular store this month.  This is what bothers alot of folks that get behind me in the checkout lanes in the stores.  I will take the coupons with me and the sale adds in and match them all up and go from there.  The total shocks most folks that are behind me at the stores.  That is what I get for thinking for the long run.  With alot of things I am totally thinking here and do not mind what so ever at all.  In what I do all day is think of how to get things done fast and on the cheap side of everything.  I am getting things done and making lists for the household at this point in time for what to do for the week.  There will be alot to be done starting today here and for this week here in the house.  Oh well at least I can say that I will not be board this week at all. 

Laughing now

Well I had a nice surprise last night around the house here.  Now I have been out of the trailer park for about 2 months at this point and still got blamed for something I did not do at all.  Pretty good that I have not seen someone for over a year and got blamed for what I did not do at all.  The person that told me this knew that I wouldn't even bother either way I went since I went big with being cheap for the trailer and it took up alot of my time trying to figure out in how to do things alot smarter and for less time also around the place.  So at the time I was hardly going out of the trailer and working with what I had in the place at the time it worked out for the best.  Now in the house here I still hardly go out at all unless I am at the doctors office and I figure alot of the times I can pick up something while I am out and about.  Now I just do what I have to do around the household and don't even bother with anyone hardly.  Alot of folks have noticed that I am quiet and do not go out unless I have to.  So now that I have been going cheaper for the new place here and I do not have the time to mess with some folks in how I look at it all.  While I am thinking of it today is the 23rd and I have not got a phone call from some folks around at all to lend them money.  Oh well at least I am wandering in what is up with that part of it all.  I know that in what I have been doing for the most part is going cheaper and trying to figure out in where I can cut back for the place.  It is one of the never ending battles for my place and I do not mind it at all.  Maybe that is why I get frustrated from when some folks start asking to barrow money or other things off of me.  I guess that is why some figure that I supposedly get nasty with them when they ask all of the time.  I got to thinking about it all over the past 2 months here pretty hard when I got to be alone in the house here.  When the complainers start asking to barrow money off of me they always end up short on cash around their place every month.  Then never pay back in what they barrow off of some people.  So I started telling them no I can not lend out the money and I have to pay my own bills around here and eat.  I do not get the luxury like the complainers of food stamps coming in once a month at all in my place.  All I can do is budget hard for my place and do what I can also and keep saying no to some people that have came around and don't even bother anymore.  Also while I am at it all I told my Niece and her boyfriend to at least pick up the 2 bags of stuff that she left over at the trailer.  In what I got yesterday afternoon and evening was oh well it is on me from the both of them and do as you please with it.  That and excusses that they all got busy so they could not pick up the stuff still.  So I am looking at it as I can donate it at this point still if they do not get over to the trailer to get the stuff.  The both of them are mad at me anyway for saying no on them and one of their friends to move into the house here.  I am also looking at it as I am not going to work myself like a dog for 3 mouches at all for the household. 

I figured as much

Well I still have 2 bags of stuff over at the trailer for my one Niece and her boyfriend.  And knowing what they have been doing I should just donate the bags at this point in time.  Or I just may wait untill I hold the yard sale and just go that route in it all.  I guess this is what tired of being dogged means around with me here in the new place and being ignored totally on some things.  I maybe mad on some things that the girl did to me and I have pretty much let it go because some things are just not worth holding a grudge against since I know where she grew up and who with after she hit 5 years of age.  I do not feel sorry for the girl nor pitty at all at this point in time.  All I am sorry about is that the girl was never taught better from Nancy Hammond at all.  Yes in alot of ways I am cold harted and in a way with some of the kids I do have a soft spot for and the girl did have a rough go at it.  I tried to tell my Niece about the world and show her in what to do on a very limited income and got blown off about it.  I just hope that now the girl realizes in what I was trying to say to her and teach her about having a rough start without help at all.  At this point I can not really help at all still since I have to figure all the bills around the place here in the house.  Yes I got out of the can totally.  I could careless about alot of the neighbors from the trailer park.  There are some that I still worry about granted even though I am out of the park.  I worry about my Niece all of the time around here in the new place.  I know that the girl knows that I will not put up with what I have out of her in the trailer to the new household at all.  That is what gets to the girl and her boyfriend with me here.  The fact that I have to be cheap without question at all and that I have to streach out the dollars no matter what I am doing for the household.  At this point I have to come up with a house payment and lot rent for the place here.  This is what worries me about the girl at this time is becuase she does not even realize that in what I was and have been paying out in bills and groceries while she was with me for 4 months around the trailer.  I have never been the type of person to shove something down someones throat at all.  I tried by teaching someone in how to make it out in the real world in what I do for the household.  So as I told my Husband acouple of minutes ago I know when I am being blown off and today was the last of it in my book.  So now I will debate on what to do and let everyone know the out come of all of it. 

Working here

Well I got alot of things done in the basement already and it looks like I have not even touched it at all in the work that I did already.  After about 45 min of work and folding some laundery and looking to see what could go in next to the washer it is just plain out nuts to say the least.  I am so happy to be alone at the moment and getting some housework done that I am getting further than with someone here and under foot yet again.  I know when to stop also and take a break on what I have been doing only because it is very cold down in the basement and my hands hardly want to move after awhile.  I am just wandering in how some folks use the dryer all of the time in their households instead of hanging the laundery up on lines.  Well it has saved me enough money by doing that in the trailer that I could move the money else where.  Also I got to thinking while I was down stairs that some folks that I know are just wrong in the world either way that I turn at this point.  Since I have been hanging up the towles and the bigger blankets that get washed I have noticed that they all get dry fairly quick around here.  I just do not like to use the dryer that much for the household at all anymore.  With that I have noticed when I had my Niece in the trailer she could never understand in why I made her hang her own laundery up at all.  I hung up mine and my Husbands also while I was at it.  Without some here in the household I have noticed that things are lasting longer also while I am at it.  Between the the soaps, food, and the towles here I have came to realize that the girl wanted a free ride and got one right before I threw her out.  There is only so much begging and pleeding that I will do before I get really tired of mopping up after someone constently in a place.  And begging someone to get a job on top of it.  Well now the girls boyfriend put his foot down and said you have to and don't care.  I tried and failed.  Then I got asked to lend out money on top of it when the girl was at the place.  Not for my Niece at all from other folks and I kept saying no to the couple.  Now here it is towards the end of the month (January) here and the complainers have not called me at all for nothing at all.  Some have to understand that I do not have the money to lend out nor let anyone stay at my place anymore.  I pretty much knew with my Nieces boyfriend asking if they could stay here at the house it was going to be a bad thing either way I went.  I was not going to make more work on myself at all with 3 extra mouths to feed, house, and get the housework done in the day around here for weeks on end.  Maybe I knew in a way in what was coming and did not want any part of it at all.  Now I knew it would take at least a week to get the gas oven hooked up and going once again for the place when we moved.  And figureing that I was alone most of the time here and on the weekends knowing that my Husband was going to be home I cooked out the crock pot and the convection oven for almost 2 weeks here.  Some did not understand this when they asked to move in with 2 other people also here in the household.  Also I was keeping the food to a bare bones deal for the first 2 weeks here untill I could see what I had to pitch from moving also.  So with that being said for the place I knew what was going to happen and I got to thinking about it all and knowing a bad deal when I hear and see it I said no on alot of things.  Yes I am the person that is the cheap tight wad out of the bunch to say the least.  With that I do shop at the discount grocery store to help out for the budget here.  Also I turn off alot of things during the day in the household and some people do not like in what I do.  I told my Nieces boyfriend that here is the deal and tough this is how I will run things under my roof at all times and I am about to get worse on it all.  He looked at me and said I do not wash dishes nor scrub toilets at all and my words were ya better learn or there is the door.  I do not slack off to the point to where I refuse to do around the house at all it just takes me more time at this point.  Some how or another things do get done and I have done them totally.  So now that I am going totally cheaper in the household here and I am not going to worry in what others have to say about it some will have to understand in why I am doing what I am doing and love being alone while I am doing things for the place.  I get more things done and can test other things for the place that some do not believe in that part also for the household here.  I guess that I am geared up to be alone for now also.  Just to get the bills on track and other things for the place.  This is also in why I am shaking my head at the new Governor of NY State at this point.  I know things will not get better at all and with a 10 billion yes billion hole in the Godforsaken state of NY things will continue to go up.  Maybe this is why I am telling alot of people no at this point in time around here also.  Oh well at least I know that at this point in time I am getting things done around the house and then some.

Starting the day

Well I have started the day around here in the basement already.  Between all of the drafts in the basement it is fairly cold down there and I could hear the wind already while I was at it all.  Now with for today here I will be cooking for at least part of the day and the other part is going to be down in the basement since I took off yesterday here in what I wanted to do.  With the washer already started up and dinner pulled also here for the weekend around here I have had the chance to think about some things first thing this morning.  I know it sounds wierd and it is wierd that I am always thinking on my feet around here.  I have plotted most of the day out of course and do not mind it one bit.  As I have been thinking of alot of recipies also for the household I may as well do it up cheap while I am at it from now on.  I will get alot of funny looks from now on at the store when I go do the shopping for the household.  This is what some have not got about me as of yet that have came over as of late.  There are things that I will do for the household instead of pulling something out of the box or can like some folks that I know that have came over.  With some I can understand only because the poor girl is cooking for only one in the household.  I guess this is why I try to invite the woman over more then I know she is eating a good meal also.  So now yesterday I got asked in what I do for dinner ideas for the household here by at least 2 people.  I guess it is that I always cook something like a whole chicken and some do not know what to do with the leftovers once they get done with dinner or supper.  In what I do if I have leftover veggies is that I will throw them togeather in a container or a zippy (zipper bag) and throw it into the freezer.  It helps with homemade soups and cassaroles for a later date in time.  Alot of things get used around here like that in my household.  With alot of folks that I know they do not know in what goes with what and alot of the meals are doubled and trippled thru the month in their household.  Yes I have a pizza night around my household here and it depends on what mood that I am in on the day that I want the pizza.  Also the one couple that are always crying that they are broker than snot around their place get food stamps every month and they refuse to streach in what they get a month out totally.  With alot of things here in the place I try to mix it all up for meals.  This is why I get alot of flour for the household also and getting an idea in my head of ok biscuts, pancakes, breads, waffles, and gravies for the household.  There are a ton of things you can do with powdered milk, a bag of flour, butter, bakeing powder, yeast, eggs, rice, hamberger, and chicken for meals in the household.  I know some folks have to eat 3 times a day in their households and the trick is to think smart about it.  Since I do not pick up any boxed mixes for the pancakes, waffles, biscuts, and muffins for the household here some get adjatated with what I do for that part.  So I am just wandering in how many folks that have the food stamps that really waste them on useless things instead of looking it up for a cheaper way of making things.  With myself I started this part about 10 years ago in finding ways to feed the household at dirt cheap prices and it has paid off in looking into it and snagging things off the net.  As I have sat here and thought about alot of things and have ran to some people for recipies and how they make things and do it on the cheap side for my household here some do not understand the whys of what I do also. 

Tired of NY and the other

WAell I am tired of seeing govenors not going to jail around here and the new one he better be thankfull that the feather balls like his "girlfriend" or other than what I am thinking at the moment in my household and everyother household in NY State at the time.  What I think about Sandra Lee is that she is a light weight in the kitchen with some of us cheap bastards in NY State since we can not get food stamps like some folks around here at all and we are not rich bastards niether.  With that being said I do not see some folks in office holding a ceaper than snot dinner party at all here in the State in NY.  Here I had to call my Grandmother today and thank God I have an elder in the state of Illinois to call to get a cheap recipie off of to make something that is an "Everyday thing" in the household.  This should tell the both something that some of our elders know what the Hell they are doing even on a fix income in states that mean Shit to NY.  I had my Momma laughing before she passed in November around here saying and the past 4 need to go to Jail without thinking about it.  Ok so Patterson needed someone to read to him and drive his Stupid Ass around the state.  With Spitzer gee Call Girl/Pimp Jail without thinking or the girls just spit like it matters.  Then you got National Grid who forgets that we paid for more than Sabre Park in the power bill cutting us a break now.  And 3/4ths of the bill was still taxes for the Damn Place here.  The guesstamit was 16 dollars and 3 dollars was the "Supposad Bill".  The 11 dollars was all taxes from NY State.  Gee I wander why alot of people are moving out of NY State.  I am sick of some wasting the money they have from not budgeting properly and getting funds from the welfare system that they do not need at all in the state.  I have faced alot of things around here fter 17 years and I can mop the floor with the cheap cooking with alot of people weather they are famous or not here.  What alot will say oh the poor Governors Whore tough shit Cricket has got ya now girl. 

Let the fun begin

With some things I do not like using powdered milk for at all in cooking for the household here.  The pancakes and waffles are 2 of the things that I have to have regular milk for.  For this weekend I will be doing alot from scratch cooking without a problem at all and I want to see what my Husband does about all of this.  Well I am figuring chicken for at least one day this weekend here along with gravy for the place and I may just make biscuts also while I am at it.  The strange part about it all is that I am willing to do the biscuts and bread for the household for the weekend here.  This way some can not holler to much about it at all since we will have some things on hand.  I broke down and stopped at Walmart after the doctors office and got a pretty sweet deal for what I got.  I will say this I have new hope for being cheaper around the household in many things for some time to come.  I really do not mind stretching things out around here to the max and going to the cheap stores at all to stretch out the budget as far as I can.  I have beat my Father to a pulp on the cheap stage of it all in my household and my one Aunt has agreed with me on that part of the whole thing.  It is not to hard to do around here at all for what I have done.  Now I will say start slow when you are first starting to cut down on things.  What I did at first was to jump in totally around the trailer.  Well I learned from that also.  So I kept cutting the dryer sheets in half and started using less laundry detergent for the washer and dryer.  And I got to thinking there is only 2 of us in the household here lets see what happens when I cut the burger down to about a half a pound and see how that works out.  It worked like a charm and when I get the big packs of ground meat I split it into half pound portions.  It will work for 4 folks in the household also.  For more folks then add more that is how I look at it.  I have also learned that rice is ok also for the household.  The trick to rice is that you cover it up after it starts boiling turn it down to about med low and cover it then set the timer fro 20 min with it covered and DO NOT PEEK until the timer goes off.  That is how I learned to make rice and a crash course into it also.  Clear lids will help out also for that part so you can check on it unless you have a rice cooker in the household also.  Now another thing that I have totally came to is to pick up bags of flour.  I say bags because I will get 8 bags at a time for the household here.  It takes some time to make homemade from scratch pie crusts, muffins, breads, pizza dough, homemade fried chicken, biscuts, and gravies for the household.  It takes some time to get use to and trust me I have learned over the years on how to make it quick for a hungry bunch waiting for food.  So you figure out right quick on what to do and when to do for cooking.  Now I can say that I picked my grandma's brain for how she did some things in the kitchen and will put it all to use.  I am the only one now that does this besides 2 other girls in the family here on the one end of the family.  Myself and my 2 baby cousins will sit and pick grandma's brain for the good things in life it seems when we are together in the same house with everyone.  Yes we gang up on the poor woman and start picking her brain.  The older way is not always the best to some folks and to some of us it is a huge dream on how to be cheap and what our parents did as children also.  Ok so some of us think right out of the bunch here to say the least.  Also we keep learning around here in the huge old world while we are at it.  Now I still wish that I could have picked great grandma's brain in how she did things bringing up 14 children in the household and I missed out totally on her knowledge pluss what the poor woman did as a child.  I never knew why she hated banana's until I was older and I can giggle about it now since I always ate and did not care in what it was.  I have also been cutting down on other things here for the household while I have been here in the household.  The power bill is like nothing here since National Grid screwed themselves so space heaters it is for the main floor here and the gas bill from the furnace and water tank will go down here this month.  I can laugh at this point because I have it somewhat made here in the household totally.  Once you figure out where to be cheap at then go for it around the household totally.  Yes you will get slack from some folks out there that you know and alot of times you can ignore them totally in your place. 

The cheap way

Well I am taking the cheap way today around here yet again.  With that being said for this point in time I have figured out a few things since I slept on it.  Also I have found some things down in the basement that were buried on me while I was at it.  So now I know I am totally stocked for laundry deturgent for the household here.  I do not have to worry about that at all around here.  It seems wierd that I am finding things that I do not need for the place and what I do need I have not been able to find at all.  Oh well at least I am getting somethings done around the place here still and will be getting cheaper for the household while I am at it all.  I am stalling on going to the store still at this point in time.  As I look at it now I can really deal without somethings for the place at all costs and to wait it may be better.  While I am sitting here thinking about what I will be doing for the day and I know that the washer has to be started back up since I have been slacking off on that end of the deal here for the housework.  Since the pile has went down and grew yet again here.  I guess some folks figure that I slack off all day for the housework and that I do what I want all day long.  With that I have been working on the place for a good month or so to get it in how I want it and some folks figured that they could go ahead and start doing things for me.  Since I put a stop to that part of it all when we both first got here into the house it made some people mad totally.  And that is ok by me since I did not want all of the dishes out in the kitchen and run out of room here.  Alot of it will be stored in the household here and I will take it from there.  I guess this is where some thought I got nasty over it here in the place.  I have done alot of things here for the place already by myself knowing that I was not going to have the help that I wish that I had.  Maybe this is why I am not hurting as bad as I should be also.  So now at this point in time I think I will be heading down to the basement to see what I can do around there for the day. 

Looking things up

Well I had to stop looking at the computer for awhile around here to say the least.  I did get something done in the house here and it was not much at all since I had a nap for the afternoon.  While I was looking things up for recipies here that are on the cheap of course.  I know I do not have much money at this point in time at all and I do not mind it at all for the place since I have been broker than what I am now.  With that being said I am doing something about it at all costs here in the household.  Alot of it is to cut back even more in alot of places in the household here.  I have came to the point to where I just do not like to go into the stores anymore anyway.  I can not stress enough around here is that I will keep flour, rice, pasta, and onions here in the household.  I may as well cook since I really do not like to go out to eat anymore.  What really gets to me about some things is that I know why things go up at the stores in the area and some folks holler about going in and the prices are up.  This is why I do some of the things that I do like made from scratch pancakes, waffles, and many other things for my household instead of getting the packaged stuff from the store.  My Husband does not mind when I start cooking around the household also.  I really started cooking from scratch around here when I had lost my job the last go around and I found out that it is cheaper than getting all of the packaged stuff.  When my Husband ralized that in what I was doing he agreed to let me go for acouple of months to see what I could pull off for the household.  It stuck and I have never looked back on alot of it.  Just like when I get the salt pork for the household here.  I do not make it that often and when I do it turns out pretty good either way I go.  As I have said before also I have the menu planner for all of the meals in the household.  Normally during the week I do not have to cook that often only because I am the only one here in the house and I am happy with a can of soup for dinner so I worry more about the weekends around here when my Husband is home.  It seems to work out better that way for the household at this point. 

With cooking

Well I also realized that in what I have been doing for part of going cheaper around the place is the cooking real meals around the trailer and the house here as of late.  Between the salt pork, bacon, and chicken taking over the freezers around here with other things to go along with it all I noticed since I have been dogged as of late around both places that I started really pinching the food budget even more as of late.  It drives some folks up the wall and that is ok by me now for my place.  I have not got to the grocery store as of yet and will get there sometime soon when I get the list up for that around here.  This is why I either read or take a note book with me to the doctors office because i have to wait sometimes to get in so it makes me take a break on somethings that I have to do here and the mind from racing around.  With the grocery stores I will tell you what my Momma always told me and would still to this day if she was still around that stores will try to get money out of you no matter in how ya turn and be wise about it all.  I will say this that my Momma could cook but, not very well and that I made it off of what was called food.  I can laugh about it now only because I make some of the things that she did in her kitchen without the pressure cooker.  Ok the question is going to come up I have to go to the food pantries and what happens when I get 12 cans of veggie beans along with 10 bags of rice and other useless things that we don't heat in the household.  All I can say is tough it is food and guess what eat or starve on alot of things.  Gee rice and beans with tomatoes if you can get that many cans of maters where you are at.  Try little tricks in the household because I have been there and then some when I had food and did not know what to make with what was left and that I got out of the pantries years ago for the trailer.  Also the off brand store helped along with the coupons at the regular stores at the time.  Yes I have said it before and will again that I have been on the system at one point or another in time over the years and go very little to help out I may add on the last go around.  This is why I tend to freak out when some are on the system now that they are getting the expensive cuts of meat and fish off of what the government gives them when some of us are struggling to put food on the table since we are a dollar over to get any kind of help at all.  So here I am doing alot of the cooking from scratch and going the very cheap route that I can to streach the dollars out for food and other things in the household.  This is part of the reason of why I am really mad about NY State as of late is becuase of some folks abuseing the system and have not been caught nor ejected out of the game they play at all.  So this is why I say to get at least 3 bags of flour, onions, garlic, 3 packs of the non butter, bakeing powder, chicken, yeast, soup mixes, rice, instant milk to mix up, eggs 2 dozen if you can, cheap soups, pastas, and block cheeses for the household.

Realizing

Well I have came to the point around my place that if some folks want to come over fine if not then that is on them totally.  I have also took a long hard look at myself in the past month and a half while I was at it.  When I have felt totally useless around the trailer and the house for the past almost 5 months over getting hurt in an accident I woke up for the most part yesterday evening.  Now I know why that I have been putting my foot down pretty hard on alot of things that have been going on and why I got tired of being treated like dog meat and some barrowing money off of me also.  With my Niece in why she got thrown out of my place is because of a number of things.  I can only tollorate so much out of someone who does not care on what is going on around her.  When my Niece first moved in she would stay up untill 3 am watch T.V. and sleep untill when ever then could not understand in why I was loud in the mornings getting things done around the household.  So I blocked up the cable box at 10 pm and said once you can stop staying up all night and get a job then I will unblock the box.  Well that did not happen at all with the girl getting a job at all so I kept the box blocked up.  Then things started to get trashed in the kitchen in the trailer.  I know what I did and I noticed knife marks in the good plastic containers and things that were in the garbage can that had been took apart and my Niece could not get the things back togeather neither.  I told her about it and then caught her useing a knife in the containers.  I went postal and the girl could not understand as to why.  Now as the weeks went by there was alot of waste going on since I had to go behind the girl when she would supposadly help clean in the household.  I was not going for it anymore and told her that I wanted the bathroom to where you could lick the toilet and sink by the time she was done otherwise it was not clean at all with the lick and a promise that she got by with all the time untill my place.  Then the last week that the girl was at my place knowing that I wanted her to help me pack even more she blown me off figureing that her friend was more important that went to the hospital to stay with her instead of calling the girls parents.  That was the last straw and after almost 20 boxes packed by myself I was done.  Well I was on the rampage totally and threw her out with no other choice in the matter and I still have some of her things here at the new place.  And I don't wander why anymore in why I was totally under stress and it showed in alot of things that I was doing.  Well that goes into some people saying that I was getting nasty with my attatude around the trailer and to here in the house.  IF some only knew in what I was dealing with then they would not blame me at all if they really thought about it.  With the complainers I got told that and thought about it for a good month now.  This is why I just do not care if the both of them do not come over at all anymore.  After almost 7 years of knowing the complainers also and the both of them barrowing money and hardly paying me back in what they barrowed then to sit there and ask for smokes at the end of the month in December that was it I was pretty much done by that point.  Now I will admit that I have been finding ways of going cheaper around the household here and what I have pretty much kept with has been working for the most part knowing that I need to do more anyway here for the house, like shutting everything off while I was at the trailer to cut down on the power bill and other things for the place.  I was over at the complainers place the one day and asked what the one was working on at the time.  The woman told me that she was trying to figure out the bills and she was only putting half of the money that they owed on the monthly gas, power, cable, and phone bills at the time so she could get groceries and paper goods.  All I could do was shake my head at the time and started looking on how much and almost fell over.  After all said and done I looked at them and said food stamps at the time and that did not even help at all since they buy junk with them constantly.  So I pretty much diden't say to much after that.  Today is the 19th and I have not got a phone call as of yet saying that they are broke and can they bum smokes off of us or money.  I put back a 5 dollar bill that needs to get up to the bank from last month when they were begging off of me.  That was after I was told that I was nasty with my attatude and that is why they hardly come over to my place anymore.  After awhile ya get sick and tired of being asked to lend out things and never get paid back at all.  Once I started putting my foot totally down about it over the past 3 months is when I guess that I really got supposadly nasty and at this point I could care less about it.  The complainers and the Niece that was living with us for about 4 months would freak out if they knew what I had to pay out at this point in time for bills.  Now that some things are back on track for the household I can see more things that I have to do and go cheaper on totally around here and if some do not like it tough cookies in my book.  Also what gets to me the most around here is that since I have been trying to go cheaper and have only scratched the surface of it all in my household some figure that I have the money to lend out or let them move in.  I put a stop to that also.  Now I know that I have been under alot of stress around here without a problem and it was not all me doing this.  Also now I am realizing that I have been paying the complainers now to be friends and that has stopped totally by me saying no from last month around here.  Now I guess that they were not true friends at all and I have delt with that in the past couple of days also here.  So now I know in what has been going down and I will keep to myself even more from now on in the place.  Maybe this is what I needed to really sit here and think of what I have needed to do and to get done totally here without some folks around me.  Now that I can work on myself alot more and the new house here I feel like I can do all of this and still go cheaper weather some people like it or not out of me.  Now I will be posting in what I will be doing and how much I spend at the stores form now on to show that I am human and what can happen in a household.  With alot of things here I will have to do this and take mini breaks as I call them for the place to let everyone know what I have done and willing to do for the household.