Early start

Well I got an early start already around here to say the least.  Oh well at least I can tackle most of the housework today around here.  That is one good thing about today.  The other is that the faster I get things done the more I can sit around and admire a clean main floor and bedroom around here.  So it will not be to bad for the day just the normal things that I have to do for the place.  It seems strange that I wanted to go cheaper for the place and I got to looking and listening to myself and I have it pretty much down to where I am walking on the cheap side without even thinking of it now.  So now I get the last laugh on alot of folks at this point in the area here.  I look at it like this some want to spend let them I will not argue the fact anymore around the place.  I know in what I do for my place and is it pretty for everyone that I know? No it is not in my eyes.  In what I do will not work for everyone at all.  I know that there are picky eaters out there in the world and they only want what they want and that is it.  I am somewhat picky in what goes on in my household around here totally.  It means that everything is unplugged during the day and don't you dare leave a phone charger plugged in without the phone hooked to it around my place.  It is one of the things that drive me nuts.  When a person starts hollering about their power bill being over 200 dollars at their place and leave the phone charger plugged in at my place I got on the kids butt about it.  Then he realized wait a minute this is what her Niece was talking about in what she was doing.  I am a shrew when it comes down to it around here totally about my power bill.  That is another reason of why I said no around here for some people that have asked me about some things.  When I had seen all the bills going up around here because of 3 people it will not happen at all.  Then be demanded on alot of things it was not worth my sanity nor time to take on some of the punks around the area.  Pluss I had to thing of alot of peoples safety on top of it around here I could not do it.  I could not live with myself if I let the 3 move into the household at all and something were to happen also.  So maybe I made the right choice in the matter around here.  Also I had to think of trying to get everything straight around here before I could even let anyone move in that early into the household around here.  If I would have let my Niece back into the household here she would have freaked out since I had the house phone shut off while I was at it all last week.  This is what I mean by some people not understanding or just do not care at all around the area about saving money.  Granted I niped alot of things with my Niece the first 2 weeks that she was at the trailer.  I had to run a tight ship on alot of things there in order to afford the house.  With that I blocked the cable box up hard to where she could not stay up untill 3 am also around the trailer.  Also she did not like it when I put my foot down at all around the place.  Now instead of having a 400 dollar grocery bill around the place it went down to 200 dollars give and take on the month around here.  And it seems like alot of things are sticking around here totally after I threw her out.  At the time alot of things could have came back on myself and I thought about that also.  It was not worth the headaches of it all and I would put a foot up the girls toush infront of the cops also here in the area.  I am old school in alot of things of no drugs in the household, no drinking under age in the household, and sex not in your life in my place with a boyfriend that is a piece of crud and fake.  So there would have been rules in my place and still are around here to say the least in what we all do in the household.  Maybe that is why she got mad at me after I threw her out.  I tried and her Great Grandmother knew it around here.  My Nieces Great Grandma worries about me also like I do with her.  And I am the only one that can call the woman in what I do at this point in time.  It is out of respect to the poor woman.  Also the woman I have said about has gave me alot of tips and tricks on being cheaper than snot around my place that have worked along with my Grandmother. 

Got out today

Well I got out to Aldi today and took my Husband with me.  They have the best deals for canned veggies most of the time for the flat.  With that being said around here after all said and done I ended up with the rest of the both kitchens around the place for about 65 dollars.  It was nuts when we were there today of course the bread was not there except maybe a hand full of loves.  With alot of things it is well worth going for groceries to Aldi.  Now Save A Lot has alot of other things that I like also.  I look at it like this when I can get 3 huge bags and then some out of the non name brand store for less money than the regular stores then I am doing good for the household.  I have noticed that around here if I hit between Aldi, Save A Lot, and Kmart I do fairly well and now I can go over to Rite Aid also and do well here.  Ok so I can hit up the bargains around the area here.  Another thing is that I have had some folks tell me that they would not be caught in some stores at all.  I just shake my head and walk away from them totally now.  When I can get a whole cart full for less than what they all can get for a quarter of a cart then they all get mad at me.  I did that with one of the complainers years ago at the store.  We both spent the same amount of money at 55 dollars a piece and I ended up with more in the cart than the other gal did.  So now I can say that alot of what I do is price compair while I am at the store and get the best deal that I can.  Now with the cleaners for the household it depends on how think the product is and the best deal for that part of it also.  Now with what I spent today that is the rest of the months food and into next month around here.  This is what some do not understand that about in what I do with very little at all for the place.  With the complainers at this point they get 250 dollars a month in food stamps and I would be in heaven with for my place.  It amazes me in how some on the system waste it all on junk for their households.  For that amount of money around my place I would be totally stocked up in the household on food to say the least.  It seems like I have became more cheap on alot of things around the house here totally. 

Wandering

Well I am wandering in how low I can take the household around here.  I am not to much worried about some hollering at me that I have went totally to cheap/frugal for the household at all at this point in time.  This is what has got to alot of folks that have known me.  With some I have realized that I did make the right choice on throwing them out since somethings have went back to normal around the trailer and here in the household in the past 4 1/2 months also.  Now with the power meter installed on the house here I will be cutting the power down totally around the house.  The space heaters have went and now I have to get them down stairs and out of the way.  With that said the T.V., computer, and other things will be unplugged during the day around here.  The dryer what is that for most of the laundry around here except to defur some things here in the household.  With the washer since I have a high efficient one it is about 14 dollars a year to run it for the place of course give and take on it.  Yes I do save money all the way around with that part of the housework here.  With alot of things some folks do not realize in what I have been doing around here to cut everything down for the household.  I have been using less of cleaners and other things in the household.  I will admit it took some time to do that part of the place.  With others in the household here noticed in what I was trying to do and it was working some did not say much at all.  Now that I am done takeing in stray people into my household I would rather be alone to say the truth since nobody wants to listen to what I have to say.  I have been marked as stupid for what I have done and keep doing to cut the costs in the household around either place.  I can laugh at some since they are always complaining of how I do things around my place.  With alot of things being cut out of the household here my Husband and myself do not mind one bit that it is not here anymore.  Since we had paper plates in the household and never really used them at all, they were used up and I never got anymore for the trailer.  Also for to cut down on the paper towles around the place I had to wait for the dish rags to get ratty and hand towles also to start cleaning with them around the household.  Now one of the tricks that I have found out by accident is with the swifter mops.  To do the light cleaning of the floor during the week put a thin hand towel or a dish rag spray the floor with your favorite cleaner then run the swifter mop with the rag over it and clean spots where you need it for touch ups on the floor.  Yes I have learned things along the way that work in the hotels and for the household around here over the years.  With the prices going up everywhere around us here it does pay to start cutting back, starting out slow around the household.  When I really had to make things work I only had 20 dollars a month for food and other things in the trailer.  Now with the house it is a bit greater with the totals at this point in time of course.  I still watch in what I do for the house still to this day.  That is why I was trying to teach my Niece in what to do when you are totally broke and still need food and other things for the place.  Since the stupid botton as I call it was out on my forehead around the trailer the girl is not learning what I was talking about with her boyfriend.  The girls boyfriend is worse than what I was in the trailer.  I will say this now I am happier without the girl in my household since everything has went down in costs.  That is including my grocery bill totally while I am at it all.  I did not think that my one Niece was totally ungreatfull for what I have done for her around my place.  Apparently she was and still is since she never asked ok do ya need something for dinner in the fridge or anything else like cleaning for the household.  It all came to light after I threw her toush out of the trailer.  So did other things that were missing.  So now I can say the choice that I made with 2 things were right on.  Also the place is still being cheaper without the the girl her boyfriend and their friend moving in around my place.  Maybe I read way to much into it and I highly doubt that part.  I pretty much noticed alot of things when I said no.  Now I know that I am on track for the household around here for being on the cheap side of everything.  Also I have learned over the years that I am not anyone elses maid at all except for my Husbands here at this point in time. 

I have a feeling

Well I of course have more laundry to get done around the household here.  It seems like it never gets done at all along with the dishes.  So I have figured out also that the dish soap has been opened for about 6 weeks around here and I still have half a bottle left.  The laundry soap has hardly been touched it seems and that has been open for about 2 weeks for the place.  I know now what happened with my Niece here totally.  When I tried to tell the girl to use very little of everything she used more than what I wanted her to for the trailer.  I get the task now of streaching things out here in the house to the max yet again.  Now I do not have to worry about if I do or do not do it around here totally.  Some know in how others operate for the household and I will prevail over this one totally.  There are some folks that just do not care and oh lets just spend today and screw tomarrow.  So now I am in the mode to start cutting even more around the household here to pay more things off.  This is why I still have the 3 drying racks and several lines down in the basement here in the household.  With the prices going up all over around the country the news is reporting on tidbits of how to save money here in Western NY.  I think I have them beat to snot already.  Some folks do not understand when the truckers have to pay more for fuel then the costs go up at the stores.  The complainers are some of the folks you can't make understand.  This is why I have been cutting alot of things back since I was in the trailer.  And yes it has dumped over to the house also.  When I do not have any paper plates in the place at all around here the complainers do the best complaining to me about it.  I still refuse to get the paper plates for the place.  Not only that I also noticed that some go thru an 8 pack of paper towles around their place a month.  I asked the one day at the trailer why did you wet down the towles before you started the dishes I got told to wipe down the counters.  I shook my head and said this is why I have cleaning rags for the same thing around the place.  It drives me nuts around the place when some figure that it is ok for somethings that they do.  I have not bought any paper towles at all since I moved into the house from the trailer.  That is how little I use them for the household.  How I have cut that down is cleaning rags for the trailer and the household pluss I have hand towles to dry my hands off.  It does the trick for saving money every month on that part.  Since I have to bleach out at least one load a month around here it all works.  I am figuring on that I save about 10 dollars if not more by 2-4 bleach loads (Hanging up towels on the line after washed) compaired to buying 10 dollars worth of paper towles for the place.  This is what I can not get thru to the complainers in my place.  Since I do cook all of the time around the household here and try to get it as cheap as possible in that area also some do not get it all in why I would rather cook and bake from scratch.  Just like last night I had extra rice that was already cooked.  I looked at http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/ to get some ideas for what to do with it.  Yes rice, pasta, and flour are staples in my household along with onions and potatoes for the place.  So now I can say that some things are about ready to get cheaper for the place and that is how I like it all around here.  Since my Husband does not mind it at all in what I do to try to keep things low for the household.  The man knows that I have been wanting to go that much cheaper for the household here in the past 4 months.  I will also get that done without a problem since I threw out my Niece and told her boyfriend no on moving into the place.  Also I have noticed that the complainers are not coming over at all also and not even bothered to call also.  That goes along with telling them no for money and smokes also.  So yes I have been revamping the budget around here and will continue to do so untill I am happy about some things. 

On the run

Well after being on the run for part of the day along with laundery and cooking on top of it all around here I am almost beat.  With alot of it I am doing on the cheap anyway for the household.  This would make some folks I know very mad if they came over to the household about dinner time.  For one we hardly get stakes for the household except maybe 3 times a year and that is fine by me at this point.  So now with that being said I did pull out a pound of burger and got to looking at it for dinner.  Some just do not get the easy quick meals out of the day and I do not expect them to at all around here.  With alot of folks I know that they can not cook at all nor want to do things on the cheap for the household.  Now at this point I will be getting that much cheaper here in the household for many things that are coming up.  The dryer is totally out of the question now.  Also with alot of the groceries they will be coming out of Aldi or Save A Lot from now on around my place.  I know that alot of folks are not going to be happy at all with me and I do not care one bit about it.  Then I will be shopping over at Kmart and Rite Aid for aolt of things also for the household.  I have came up with a plan for the household that started with the house phone.  My Husband does not mind at all in how cheap I go as long as the place is clean, there's food, and laundry is done.  This is what some folks have not figured out around here at all about me.  With that said this is why I had the lines go up in the basement and still have the drying racks for the household.  There are many ways that I can make the household run on the cheap without the hassles also.  Without my Niece here I have full run of the house to do what I need to do for the place.  This means by not having alot of the power going during the day, no phone modem to keep on, and doing things on the cheap side of cooking.  When I can get dinner down to about 3 dollars around here I know I am doing something good for the place. 

Figureing it out around here

Ok I am figuring it all out around here on when to cut everything off around here during the day.  I already know that my pwoer bill will be somewhat lower here in the house anyway and that is a nice thing about the place.  Now in how I ran things in the trailer will cary over to here in the house.  Except it will be worse over here since I have lines in the basement for the laundry now for to dry things.  Now with that being said for the place that will help out on the power bill totally around here.  I will be dragging in more bottles for the washer also around here so the laundry does not come out totally stiff also for hanging them.  I had asked one of the neighbors to ball park their bill so I could ball park mine.  I knew with the eletric dryer the bill will go up in the house here and a few other things.  So I got to thinking for the place either way I went and figure that since I have the drying racks still along with the lines that helps.  With turning off alot more in the household around here while I am at it will work out for the best also around the place.  All I can do is start laughing at this point in time since I am the tight wad around the block.  I know some folks have me beat to all snot around here to say the least and that is ok.  Since I do try to streach out everything for the place here it seems strange to alot of people that I am doing this all at my age.  Some of the neighbors that are here at the house are amazed in what I have been doing here so far.  With the bags of flour and cutting back on alot of things here in the household it works some how some way.  Also that is what some have not understood that have been over around here totally.  I have also got to thinking about that since I have been really streaching out everything here in the household some folks figured that I have the extra money around the place here when I do not.  I guess that is why they have tried to barrow money and smokes off of myself and my Husband around here in the new place.  So now that I have put my foot down on that part of things around here totally the mud started slinging to say the least my way.  Well I am not totally mad over it at this point in time and realizing in that some need a better budget for their place instead of barrowing off of someone else totally.  So now I keep reminding myself that some folks just do not care and others have just went off the deep end also and do not realize in what they do will hurt them the next month around their place.  Ok so I pretty much stopped the cycle of the barrowing off of my household.  I guess what makes me madder than ever is that the folks that have barrowed money off of us are getting medical and food stamps every month around their place and still want to barrow money.  When their rent is 300 dollars a month and everything is included with the rent at their place except the phone, car payment, car insurance, and food there is something wrong with this picture totally.  The complainers also get food stamps once a month in their place at 250 a month.  It makes me wander in what they do with what is coming into their household during the month.  Now at this point I have the budget of 200 dollars for everything in the household it includes food, cleaners, soaps, paper towles when needed, T.P., cat and dog food, litter, and bird food.  Sometimes I am under it and sometimes I am over it with the budget that I have set up for the household here.  I know folks that have food stamps coming in at 250 and above from the welfare program.  Others have like a 500 dollar budget for everything that is needed in the household.  I was amazed when they said that.  If I had the 500 dollar budget for food and other things in the household I would not know in how to spend it at all.  In what I do is that I try to keep stocked up as much as possible around here with what I have to work with in the budget.  Now with that being said I do get alot of things on sale when I can and hit the off brand stores around the area to make it.  It all works out in what I do for the place.  So now I can say that my Husband does not care in how I do it all around here as long as I can get it done.  The poor man knows that I work at my own pace around here and if I do not get something done then I do not get it done.  Since I do try to get some things done while he is at work he is amazed that I am getting a bit stronger and will do what I can to make the household run while he is gone. 

Ok the last of

Well today is the last day I will be on line all day around here.  With the laundry whats a dryer again for the place???????  I just got the power meter in about 30 min ago around here and do not mind in the least bit at this point in time around here at all.  Since I have the lines and other means of drying the laundry around here I should be ok from now on in the household unlike the trailer.  For tomorrow I will have bare bones around the house running just like with the trailer but worse if that means anything around here from now on during the day time.  Ok so it is a breath of fresh air with the guys showing up around here to put the meter in the house I will admit to it now and with the guy who knocked on the door.  Now I will say also is that the meter did not move while I was outside at all in about the 5 min that I looked at it.  It is better than the trailer ever thought of being around here.  The funny thing is around here is that I can beat the power company at its own game at this point in time without a problem at all.  With that being said bare bones during 5-6 days a week around here I know I can handle that without a problem at all around the house now after today.  Now with myself pulling candles for in the mornings that will help out around the place also while I am at it all.  Ok when you are trying to cut the power like I am around the household here is what I do.  First get drying racks for the laundry and use them as much as possible.  I know some have tight spaces and guess what so did I at one time and not to long ago.  Another thing is to turn off everything that you can like T.V.'s, radio's, and lights at all costs for the household.  Just like at the moment I do not have the one cable box running down stairs at all at all.  Figure it is about 5-10 dollars a month to run them on the power bill at all costs(going by NY State here).  Now I have read that you should keep the freezers full at all costs so it will not work as hard in the household no matter where you are at.  I have seen so so results with that part of things around the trailer.  What I do is start to unplug everything as much as possible around the household.  I noticed it saved me about 50 dollars if not more for the bill around the trailer while I was there totally in just the cut off at 8 hrs a day there.  And yes I was still paying for the block around the trailer at the time.  With the taxes being so high here in NY State on alot of the bills it is finally nice to really sit down and say ya know what you are about ready to be screwed and ya want the Vaseline with it at this time.  I can get dirty with the best of the best let me tell you and the one with the caked on mess is me and I win now.  Yesterday I got dropped on the curb and bounced by more than one person around here and I came up swinging this morning to say the least.  I had the attitude and wrong person to say the least and I let the other person know about it and will let her know on Saturday at the doctors office.  IF the gal thinks she can't stand me now she ain't seen squat untill 2 days from now around here.  And I aplolgized to the regular girl that takes care of me today for the most part.  My attitude carried me into today and I didn't mean for it to at all for the poor gal at all.  The gal understood when the one book keeper desided to lie about me and I put my foot down with the wrong person and she will hear me this weekend let me tell ya.  After 6 months after the accident I will say this I played nice untill my short term memory came back to me.  I was waiting for that to happen anyway around here at either place to be honest about it.  So now some are just on the list of the dog house and they know it as of now today around here and they will hear about it.  So at this point in time yes I can screw acouple of people at this point in time and I have been trying to pay the doctors off as much as possible around here and eat at the same time.  Yes I do streach out everything as much as I can and gee the doctor understands this when I can only pay 5 dollars at a month at this point in time.  Now I need to call a few folks around tomarrow and see what goes on after that and have the guy call the bookkeeper out of the place.  Yes I came up swinging as of yesterday and almost into tears this morning around the office.  It has been a bad 2 days and now I know I have kept my temper in check totally.  The one laywers office while I am thinking of it here do not go to at all if you are in the city of Niagara Falls(Boniello) the would screw a wet dream up in a heart beat for a household or anything else.  Now I had called to asked a question yesterday and got told it was my problem now after almost 4 months of being here that the power company had not put a meter on the house.  Well after being married to an electrition for the first marrage around my life here and knowing that the state of Illinois is much harsher on the electritions than the state of NY ever thought about being I did know some rules and regulations of what had to be done.  I do not blame the apprintice at all for not calling in to the city I blame the person that was in charge of the change of the service at this point also.  Some have dropped the ball around here and I know who to go after up here in NY State totally.  This is why I want to go for the job of lobby on the state senate here in NY State.  So others do not get tagged and dropped on the curb around the area. 

Shaking my head

Well after all of yesterday I am suprized that I did not even blow gaskets.  I will say this I will not recommend the one lawyers office at all around the area.  So now at this point in time around here I hope that was the last major thing that needs to go on totally for the year.  Yes I have the 10 days still and as I told the gal yesterday at the lawyers office fine when the birds start going on me around here someone owes me a good chunk of change around here.  With that said I am not happy totally and that is ok.  With alot of things I am finding out that sometimes it is not worth trying to get some things done around here at all.  Now with today I am on overload with the things I did not get done at all since I had inspectors and others over in the house.  I also know now that in what triggers everything for the most part now with my neck and back after the accident.  The stress was off the charts and so was the pain yesterday around here.  So now that is part of the trigger of what is going on.  I will have to work on that part of it from now on around here.  Also I have figured out that I can think of ways to go cheaper around here to relieve some stress on myself while I am at it all.  Alot of it has to do with useing less power from now on around the place after the meter goes on the house here totally.  This is why alot of things are on power strips so I can turn alot of stuff off during the peek hours of the day.  Since I do have lines up in the basement for laundry around here the guy from the city was impressed about it.  I also have the 3 drying racks down stairs for at least a load of laundry also out of the washer.  That is what gets to some folks also is that I do not mind hanging up things here in the household at all.  This way I can streach my upper back, get something done for the household, and save money while I am at it all.  So now at this point I will come home from the doctors office today and get some of the laundry done around here.  That part of it all I do not mind doing at all since it will be hung on the lines.  Oh well at least I can try to get some things done around here. 

I figured as much

I may as well be moving back to the trailer around here after today.  I already know what is going down around here and may as well hang it up.  I was hoping around here and that has been totally done in of course.  I knew my voice came back acouple of months ago and I still project my voice since I could hardly talk for 4 months to say the least after the accident 6 months ago around here so folks figure I am screaming when I am not around here.  Now I am very adjusted at the lawyers office who handled the house around here totally knowing in what has happened here.  The gal tried to pin it on us who bought the house for the electrical around here when it was not us at all.  So now the guy from the power company told me don't worry for the next 10 days and I still have a plan either way and I will walk away from the house here as of 10 days from now.  I can not help but be stressed at this point in time around here now.  Knowing that stress is a huge part of my neck and back pain at this point I am done with alot of it now.  Now I do not wander in why I say no anymore to folks wanting me to do for them when I can not do it anymore.  So now to go very cheap and be done with it so I can make it in the world beat down and worth less than nothing around here to say the least.  It was fun being a home owner for about 3 months around here and that is it at this point in time.  Since I am not worth a flying rats behind and still an outsider around here in NY State I may as well just tuck what is left of my tail between my legs pack and get out of this Hell Hold state of NY now.  At least I know that I can get a job where I came from easier than what I can now here in NY State.  It is sad that I realize this now at this point months into the household.  That is holding me here and the accident with medical is the other around here.  Other than that I would have totally vanished around here by now.  I know that some of us are cut out and I am not worried about that part of things form some people since they will come crawling back to some of us either way the both of us go around here.  All I know is that I am done around here totally.  I have no love loss with some folks around the area and I will be the first to admit to it around here.  I went down the cheap path for a reason and now I know why around here totally at this time of course.  Then next thing is that I am not going to play alot of the games that I have been around NY State with some people anymore.  Now it will be a whole new game and I just do not care at all on what toes I step on at this point in time.  At this point I will do what I have to do to servive around the area and that is it now.  The cheaper I go the better off I am around here I know this after this morning and afternoon of wanting to throw up my hands and say screw this part of my life again.  It will not be the first time around here at all in what I am trying to do at all and will not be the end of it.  SInce I have already cut the house phone I may as well go all the way around here with everything else in the book weather it works best for me and the household at this time.  I will be pulling out all the old tricks of the traid around here and be done with it all. 

About ready to blow

Well the pannel for the house was never inspected around here and that is why I have no meter around the place at all.  I could not believe it at all around here to say the least and I am not a happy camper at all.  Now to say the least around the place is that I am going nuts totally.  I am to the point of tears almost around here and do not want to go back to the trailer at all for heat and power around a place.  I knew this place was to good to be true around here and will give up on everything to say the least.  I am mad about all of this totally.  I went cheaper so some things would not happen around here and I have all but gave up around here to say the least on everything that has gone on so far.  Now is the time that I really do not need some folks up my toush at all and I am thankfull that I did say no so some people around here.  The power can not be shut off at this point anyway around here since we are still in winter mode around NY State.  I have also came to realize that trouble fallows me all over the place now and what has gone down is not my fault at all around here.  Now I am at the point where just do what ya have to do around here so I can figure out what I have to do and go on from there.  I can not complain to much around here since I do have a fire place and do not know if I can use it or not around here at all.  So now I can say that I will be doing everything in my power to keep things going around the household here and go from there.  Now on I will have to hang laudry and keep everything turned off in the household after today of course.  The boys will miss the extra heat of course and that is ok also.  So now that I am totally stuck around here I will figure out a way to make it all work one way or another for the place. 

Reading alot

Well I was reading the other day that some folks have a 500 dollar alotment for food a month in their household for everything.  All I can say is what are they eating stake almost every night of the week in their place.  I have a 200 dollar limit on everything for the household in my place at this point in time.  Alot of the times I am way under that part totally for the household.  Some months are less than that since I do not need some things for the month at all when I keep stocked up in the household now a days.  This month is alot over since we ran out of alot of things in the household here.  That is ok since maybe next month will be maybe 100 dollars if that on things that are needed around here.  Now with that being said I have hit Aldi and Kmart up along with Rite Aid also this month so far, for alot of things that we were low on in the household.  Since I still have a 6 pack of paper towels left and 18 rolls of toilet paper we are doing good at this point in time.  Also I have been stocked up on dish and laundry soap around here while I was at the trailer.  With alot of it I have picked stuff up on sale around here and it is nice to have some stock here in the household to be honest.  This way I am not paying an arm and a leg for the cleaners and other things in the household at all.  While my one Niece was here she went thru alot of dish soap and laundry deturgent also before I tossed her.  With that said I had opened a bottle of dish soap here 5 weeks ago and I still have 3 quarters of it left to where if the girl was here it would have been gone 2 weeks ago.  Also I have noticed that the food bill has went way down since I tossed the girl once I think about it all around here.  I sit here in the house sometimes just amazed in how alot of the stuff lasts that I have here on the stock pile.  I am also a huge believer of having rags on hand to clean up with and a few other things for the household now.  That is how I have started thinking after I was looking around the trailer and the household here I may as well clean with rags here since I can bleach them out and reuse them for the place.  I know alot of folks have got mad at me for it around here and I could care less in what they think at this point in time about me.  When I really went to the cheap side of life alot of folks did not understand of why I did it at first untill they thought wait I can barrow money off of her totally and not worry about paying her back also.  Yes I noticed that around the complainers also.  When I finally put my foot down on things and stood my ground around the trailer and at the house here I got told that my attatude stunk and that I was nasty around the household.  I looked at all of them and said fine then you deal with what I have been dealing with and see how it goes for you.  So now I have not heard from hardly anyone at all in the past 2 months around here and that is ok by me now.  I look at it like this if I suppossadly have to pay someone to be a friend then they ain't worth the time to be a friend at all around me.  So I have moved on and started to notice around either place that I can still cut things down and off around the household without help and without someone hollering over it all now.  I have learned with up here in NY State that you have to pay people or let them stay at your place for free in order for them to like you or another person around here.  Alot of folks are not worth the time nor truble at all at this point.  I will do what I have to for my own household no matter what others say or do.  WIth my Sister in Law she always said that I was a "Rich Bitch" nomatter what I did for the household. 

Shaking my head

Well I am shaking my head around here to say the least out of the power company.  It is alittle hard to take a reading when there is not one dang pwoer meter on the side of the house.  So I see where this is going to go around here to say the least.  Once the power company gets their heads out of some place then I will start cutting back on the power also around here to say the least.  This is why I have the lines up down stairs besides it is better to dry the bigger blankets for the bed also without them smelling musty.  Oh well at least I know in what I can do around here to cut the power down when some get the meter on the house here once again.  I also have enough candles to last for a good while also around here for light in the mornings when I get up very early.  It works for my place and the last go around I got 300 tea light candles for free with a shoppers card.  With almost 11 dollars so far on the Kmart card I think I will be getting more candles that are nonsented around here once October hits again.  With some people that is what got to them about my place totally when I started lighting candles and got enough light to see in one room with, around the trailer at the time.  Now is no differant at all since the place is bigger to say the least.  Between some appliances that are power hogs around the households everywhere.  I will say that I do not even want the A/C unit even here this summer at all.  It was nice and cool without it in the worst days of this past summer.  Also since I have enough window fans around here I can use them up stairs to move the air around to keep cool with this summer.  With that being said there are alot of tricks to keep the house cool compaired to the trailer any day of the week.  Now that I can say that the bills have came down around the household now without some here it is nice let me tell you.  It seems like the both of us can controle the bills alot better now becuase I do not need to do some things around the household and my Niece is not taking up alot of it at this point in time also.  I know that the water bill will be down from when the girl lived with us over at the trailer and so will the power bill.  There is nobody watching T.V. untill 3 am at all anymore and I had stopped that within 2 weeks of the girl moving in with us.  The perental controles did wanders for the trailer totally.  I have came to the point of I am so glad that I told my Niece and her boyfriend no at this point in time still.  I do not care if some are mad at me for it still since I could see what was going to happen.  Now at this point the bills have came down around here and that is including the grocery bill my Husband and myself would have been stuck paying for everything in the household and I was not going to chance that at all.  Also for the past year around here my Husband and I were talking anout cutting off the house phone totally.  Since the both of us have cell phones I was figureing why bother to have the house phone going and the bill to go along with it all while we were at it all.  So that got shut off on Monday of this week and I have not missed it at all.  My Niece would have freaked out in why I canned the house phone.  With that being done I have notice there is alot less stress on my part after I have thrown the girl out then told her boyfriend no on top of it.  The phone went and afew other things here in the household and the mooches have not bothered to ask for a dang dime nor a pack of smokes off of us in the past 2 months.  I have been impressed as of late around here to say the least in that I have been totally streaching things out to the max and cutting more over at the stores and off the bills around here without help at all.  Also now it seems wierd that I can get alot more done without some people here all of the time and I do not have to keep at them to go looking for a job or reminding some to streach out the dollars that much farther in the household. 

May as well while I am out

Well several of us were laughing and cracked jokes up at the doctors office today.  There are several people that go to where I go that we know eachother alittle to well from years ago.  I looked at the one guy and said ya wanna go shopping after this he grunted and started laughing.  At least now the both of us can really joke around about things.  And since Kmart is on the way home I stopped over there to do some shopping of course since we are running low on some things around here.  I try to keep the second kitchen pretty much stocked up around here as much as possible.  Well with my Husband out on the road alot during the week there is always alot to do without him here in the household to say the least and that is when I do the most shopping and other things for the household.  With today I will kind of take it easy and try to do the light stuff around the place just to be done with it.  The dusting is a light job so is running the swifter(with a damp cloth on the swifter bottom) over the floors today.  Who needs the expensive cleaning pads for the gadget when there are rags in my household totally.  As a friend said I am the cheapest person he knows besides his Mother and that is why he likes me so much besides being brutally honest with folks.  With some folks as I said they do not mind me being totally cheap around here at all.  Like with today I got alot of things from Kmart around here including beer for alittle over 109 dollars today.  And yes there is the nickle deposit on the cans (NY State).  Even the one cashier that I really like even laughed when I asked for the damage total for the day.  The poor woman was even suprized that in all that I got it was that low.  Even for next month I have a 9 dollar coupon off of the food bill and another 2 dollar coupon for cat litter from Kmart around here from today.  So yes I do save money when I can for things around the household.  This is why some do not mind me being cheap around here at all.  Others can not stand the fact that I am always watching in what I do for the place.  Now this does not include the 5 dollars in coupons for Rite Aid also that I have for the place for next month here.  The best part is knowing what is on sale and having coupons for the sale items and useing the item for the household.  This is what the one guys ex wife could not understand about me at all once I think of it.  Another thing is that the person will admit that neither of his ex wives could cook at all in the kitchen.  The poor guy and his boys would come over once a month at least to eat at the trailer while we were all there.  I will say this Teresa could not cook to save her own toush at all unless it came out of a box from the store.  That is why her kids came over also to the trailer to eat.  With that being said some realized that I was in a good spot for seeing what went on with the block in the trailer park at the time and started spying and that is how the 2nd marrage failed.  So yes I can understand in why some did what they did in a way and got frustated with others.  When I got accused of everything under the sun with some people there others knew different on what was going down and who was doing what around the block.  I will admit there at the end with the trailer park I stuck to myself more and more and did what I could to survive there without hurting anyone at all.  Also I tried to keep busy with figureing out in how to be cheaper around the trailer and kept a low profile to where I would leave very early in the mornings to go pick up nickles and walk at the same time and do some shopping after the doctors office visit at the end.  It was like my time out away from the drama in the park and now nobody really has a clue as to what is really going on with me at this time.  I did find out some things while I am out of the park and like I believe the so called manager of Sabre Park any at this point since she has lied about alot of people.  Well I do not get into the rummors of what some people like to spred around and never have. 

Wandering no more

Well I do not wander about some things any more around here.  Alot of things are coming togeather after I started cutting majorly on the bills again here in the new place.  Some did not blame me lastnight at all for cutting the house phone at all around here.  Not only that I have been cutting in other areas in the household also even more so since myself and my Husband have moved into the new place.  I am suprized that alot of the cleaners have lasted as long as they have without some here once I have thought about it all also.  So now with alot of things it seems strange around here that things have finally clicked on the cheap/frugal factor around the new place.  Alot of it has to do with myself looking around and thinking on ways to get things done on the cheap sies also.  Or maybe it is a bigger place and I see more of what needs to be done and go on around the household here.  It did help with throwing out my Niece also in December after trying to explain to the girl that you have to streach everything out around the place and getting ignored on what was said around the trailer.  I also had to reclean alot of things that my Niece did around the trailer.  Now at this point it seems like theres alot less stress on myself around the place without the girl under my roof once I have thought about it.  With alot less stress I have started seeing more things that I had to do for the place and started in on alot of it as of late.  It has amazed me also that yes I still have my bad days around here and the really, really bad days are seeming less since I take my time around here to get things done instead of pushing myself trying to get things done.  I will stick to the work 15 min and sit down for 15 min around my place weather some have liked it or not out of me.  That is what I have tried to explain also and got totally ignored while I was at it.  Now I have learned that saying no is not a bad thing at all anymore in my book.  Ok so some folks have dropped me becuase of it around here and my Niece is one of the folks who have dropped me totally.  Alot of what has happened around here is that since I have started saying no more often, started streaching alot more out around the household, and started cutting and slashing the bills alot of folks in the area where I am at does not like in what I have done at all for my place.  That is with the going out taking a walk and collecting the nickle deposits also while I am out and about here.  At this point some do not blame me at all for cutting back around here while others do.  Either way I just do not care on who drops me anymore over what I do around here. 

Plotting for the day

Well there is so much to do around here that it is not even funny at all.  Alot of it is the hury up and wait on the cleaning part of it.  Since I slacked somewhat lastnight around here it all piled up on me of course.  That is ok by me at this point in time.  At least there is something to do around the place and boardem is not on the list at all around here today.  Also with alot of things going on around here I got a good look around the household here and started seeing in what I will be cutting even more things around here.  It seems wierd that I can get alot of things done without help at all.  Now I am glad I said no to some people who wanted to move in to the household with myself and my Husband.  So now I can work at my own pace and nobodys under foot nor screaming at me to hury up and do this also once I think of it.  With my Husband he does not mind when I take my time doing the housework at all and I get done what I get done for the week or day depending on what is going on.  Maybe I got somewhat spoiled with that part of it all.  Now with myself cutting alot out of the budget yet again my one Niece would be totally mad at me for canning the house phone last week around the household.  My thought on it is that since some did not pay any bills at all then no say so in what goes on totally in the household.  With that said some of us are housewives and do our work by cleaning cooking and shopping for the household pluss paying bills.  Also I do go for walks around here and collect the nickles while I am out.  There was nothing wrong with my Niece at all except that she would not go and get a job in my place at all.  All I can say is that now I am happier without her in the household and less stressed.  With my Husband he did not realize in how much pain I was in at the time with the girl in the household.  So I would get hollered at since some things were not done around the trailer I got nailed.  I had asked, begged, and told for help and got ignored for the most part.  I had asked my Niece to do something right infront of my Husband one day and what does the girl do went out side and took the can out to the curb and did not take the trash out of the trailer at all.  Well after that my Husband knew in what was going on around the trailer since I had just got hurt at the time and was dragging a very heavy bag full of garbage out to the curb.  The man started chewing out the girl instead of me all of the time.  I could not believe half of the stuff that my Niece would do around the trailer and figured it was ok.  Thats why I said alot of the times it was a lick and a promise with the girl in what she did around there.  Now I do not have to worry to much about things not getting done around the new place at all.  Things get done at my pace and that is how I like it around here.  It makes me wander in how some do what they do and figure it is ok at this point in time.  With my Niece living with her boyfriend at this time he figures that what she does is ok around the place.  I guess I was seeing in my mind if I did let the 3 move into the house the place would be like a war head hit the place in the mess that would be made and I had to clean up.  So now at this point in time I can say that I have been cutting back without a problem at all and it is working better than ever for me in the new place.  I guess in what gets to me the most is that it seems that things are sticking around longer without some people here in the household.  Alot of the stuff was just wasted with my Niece and she did not care in the least bit in what was going on for the place.  With my Niece and other folks I guess I was not suppose to be stressed out about things at all.  When you have 4 mooches around you eating everything up, asking for money, and smokes I guess I was not suppose to think about it and just do.  Well after I put my foot totally down around both places I got told I had a nasty attatude and I was nothing but a low life bitch at that point in time.  I have hardly heard from my Niece except once in the past almost 4 months and twice from the complainers.  The complainers that begged me for money and smokes have not asked in the 2 times that they called me.  What does this say I was apparently paying them to be friends I am guessing around here now after 6 years of knowing them.  Now that I am around the new place I am much happier to be alone more than ever around here and do not mind it in the least bit at all.  I know that some folks have totally dropped me around the area and that is ok after I went cheaper for both places and even more so in the past several months. 

Still cutting around here

Ok I am really going to start cutting the costs around here and the first step is by useing coupons for the household once again.  The other thing that I did was cut the house phone around here also.  Now with that part of things I may be able to make it around here with everything.  Another thing that I have found out around here is that I can use the Rite Aid card and save even more around here for some things.  I know that it sounds bad that I am cutting back even more around here and I am doing most of it alone around here while I am at it.  That may get to some folks that have been over as of late also for the place.  For extra savings around here I will be picking up the nickles out of the parking lots when I see them also.  Some that have been over and are coming over will start to understand in how cheap that I am willing to go around here just to get things done for the place from now on.  Things are about to go my way for a change here and for the better with the cheap/frugal part of life around the place.  So I will try my dangest to do what I have to for the place between cooking, cleaning, and cutting down on other things.  Now I will start cooking more from scratch around here and put in a garden also for the household this year.  With the cooking it means that more cakes and things like that from scratch around the househol.  Also I started last week around here with cutting the house phone around here while I was at it.  I hardly use it anyway so I may as well shut that off around here.  Now with the water bill I have a few things on that part also that I do.  Like a low flow washer and I keep it on the auto fill so the water is always right for the laundery.  During the day I flush the cammode every so often like 4 times a go for number one then automaticly flush for number 2 thing around here.  Also I take a shower ever other day around here for the most part while I am at it.  Also with the dishes I fill up 2 sinks of water one of soap for the dishes the next is to rinse them.  When the water gets nasty then I change it and start again.  This is only part in what I do around here for that part of the work.  Another thing that I do for the house hold is use very little of cleaners around the house here.  The back of the bottle is a guide for that and only a guide in my eyes.  Another thing is for a very little squirt of dish soap and there are enough suds to last for a good while.  With alot of people they do not get that at all about my place when I had started cutting back around the trailer when I first started out.  Some already knew of why I was doing what I was from the neighbors that moved out.  The ones that moved in did not know in what I was doing so they started talking of course.  Now I have alot of things just down that people still talk behind me and can not stand in what I do at all for the household here.  The new neighbors could care less about in what I do around my own household and some are scaleing back also for their own place also.  I think that is what got to some people in the trailer park also is that they did not know what I was doing with everything that I took into the trailer at all.  Now I do try to keep stocked up around here as much as possible and will try to keep it like that also around here.  With some things around here I will say that I am a lucky woman because my Husband does not mind in what I do around here at all to try to cut the cost of living either way.  When I can get the cheaper food at the discount stores I feel better around here.  I know some folks that refuse to eat some of the foods that their wife cooks at their place.  With someone like that they get mad at me for the menu for that night when I would envite them to dinner at my place.  With that said I could laugh about it and say eat it or starve because either we are gonna get feathers or start clucking one around here.  After we get the meter back for some things around here I will leave some things on for everyone in the house here now also.  After that when I am home things will be turned off totally and unplugged once again here in the household as normal.  There is just alot of things that I am going to do around here without a problem at all and if some do not like it out of me that is to bad.  I will keep shopping with coupons and other things for the household here.  That is what some holler about is that I can supposadly find all of the good deals around here and it makes them mad becuase I know in what I can spend within a month totally.  While I was in the one mini mart down the street from me I noticed that their prices are competitive with the regular stores around here today.  Oh well at least I do shop around and go from there. 

Shaking my head

Well I am shaking my head around here again because I am still finding out in what went down with my Niece in the trailer.  I guess this is why I said no to some when they asked to move into the household here.  It may seem harsh that I threw out the girl and told her boyfriend no when he started demanding to move in here.  With some things missing around here and that I have notice right after I threw out my Niece around the trailer I do not even want her back under my roof at all.  I have noticed that the bills have gone down around here without some here totally along with the cleaners lasting longer and the food bill went down also around here totally.  Now realizing that some would not have paid to stay here and the kids floating in and out of the place is what I had to think about around here along with the neighbors.  After I got to really thinking of it around here it was not going to be good in what I had to do also.  Maybe that is why I was going out every morning to walk the parking lot over at the mall also around the trailer.  I was getting out and collecting the nickles pluss clearing my mind on top of it all around there very early in the morning.  Then this way I could bring in some extra money into the trailer.  Now I will be taking my walks again here for the household to start collecting again and start paying some of the bills off and try to recover from when my Niece lived with us.  That does not include with what some others tried to do to myself and my Husband also around the trailer and the house here.  So now I can say that some folks have finally stopped asking for money and smokes off of us also.  When I started saying no around both places alot of folks got mad at me about it all and went from there.  At least now that I do not have to put up with some folks that have been over at all anymore.  For at least 3 people they refuse to come over to the house at all costs and I could care less about it.  It is some folks loss and not mine at all around my place totally.  Another thing that I noticed was that some folks stopped coming over while my Niece was in the household also and they started coming back after I threw her out around here.  At this point in time I have tried to explain to some of the whys around here and I get blown off about it all.  Anyway at least I am thinking of ways to start cutting the costs around the household more than what I have been doing before now.  With that said maybe I should be alone around the household at this point.  Just so I can get some things straight around here.  I guess that is what is getting to some folks is that I am revamping alot of things around here totally.  Now that I get the last laugh about this in my own place.  May as well keep busy by cutting alot of the costs out of the household here.  So now I will see what I can do besides cut the house phone around the place here. 

Wandering

Well I know that some are asking more than they all should.  So I told the one person that I will be paying her back here without a problem at all.  It will just take awhile and she will get paid either way we go around here.  Her answer was fine and not a problem at all.  So with that being said I will use the money from the phone bill to be paying her back and at least she will have groceries in her place.  With that being said I will start making more cuts in my place so I can do all of this pluss start picking up more cans around the parking lots around the area.  Nothing like getting a walk in the mornings or evenings to clear my head on alot of things that are going on.  So now I can say that I am willing to go out in the cold and get that part done for the household and split up the nickle deposits around here for extra money for things.  With alot of things that have been going down I am surprised that some have made it thru either way that we all look at it around here from some folks mooching.  With a good friend here in the household she did not mind the Aldi food at all and really liked the sauce that was made.  I told her where it came from and shes like I am there and tough on everyone else.  We both started laughing because I can still slip in the veggies without a problem around here to say the least.  I was asked where I have been shopping alot as of late for the groceries and I told her where I went.  Yes I even have cut the grocery bill down while I am at it around here.  I have been doing alot of cutting and slashing and some know this.  The folks that know this have not complained at all and they also noticed that I am alot calmer without some people under my roof also.  All I can say is that I have noticed that most of the bills have totally came down without me even trying around the household and nobody is wasting things on me at all.  With alot of it I have cut down on things by choice and like it around here in how things are holding up and sticking around longer.  It seems strange that by throwing out one person around the trailer that I thought would be willing to at least try to help out did not even bother except to make more work on myself at the time.  I always wandered in why I did take the walks early in the morning and came up with an answer finally around here as of last night.  For alot of the walks and picking up the nickles was to keep my sanity around the trailer.  The money did not hurt at all niether in what I was doing also.  With alot of things that I was doing did not make since at all untill I look back on it all and then I have came up with the answers around here.  So here I am when there is a will there is a way that I will get things done and paid off around here totally. 

Still learning

Well I am still learning about cooking around the house here and all I can do is shake my head on alot of things here.  I have came to realize that sometimes you have to ask for help around the area with some folks and others you have to beg for help.  I have ran into Amish folks from Mo., Illinois, PA, and NY areas.  The sects out of MO, Illinois, and NY are the best to say the least that I have ran into in my life here for asking for help in some things in how they cook.  I still remember Miss Sarah, and her daughter Sarah from one of the Mo sects.  I have thought about them over the years and have asked also about them all.  I loved both of them since I have met them as an early teen in my life and respected them to the fullest while I was with my one sister visiting.  I thought it was the coolest thing that the Amish Moms always passed the recipes down to the daughters and taught them everything that they needed to know for life after graduating the 8th grade.  I understand about learning or trying to learn everything about running a farm and a household.  This is why I can ask when I want and need the help around here for my own place.  I was down around Collins months ago and had my Husband with me also when we were looking for another car, van, or truck for the household at that time.  My husband does speak some German and everywhere has a dialect of it around no matter where you go.  There are key words that you know and never forget at all.  It is like speaking Italian and Spanish some words are the same others are not.  I looked at my Husband and asked did ya catch something and he said yes it was about a brother/in law and that is what he caught.  I knew the one woman was mad about her Husband totally and that all.  I get mad at my Husband also at times that is part of being married.  The sect here in NY State will teach you everything that you want to know without a problem at all for things that you need to know or should know for the household.  The women are firm and not over powering like some that I know.  When you mind your manners you get further here in NY State with some folks.  In PA you have to talk with the men folk first and then you get some place with manners.  I have thanked several Fathers in the Amish community in PA with their children being good as good in the stores while I was there trying to help my sister in law.  So now I am glad I can ask for the help from alot of folks in the area that are around me totally.  That is including my grandmother also in what she does or has done around the household.

Knew it

Well it was a long day coming around here to say the least.  I will say this that all the pets in this household are spoiled roten, and yes I stopped at the pet store on the way home around here.  It was well worth the trip today around here.  Now to get everything in season around here for fruit and veggies for everyone in the household.  That and grow some of my own around here also this summer.  It is cheaper to get the seeds and start growing stuff around here.  Now with that part said I am thinking around here to say the least on alot of things to go cheaper on for the household here at this point.  The house phone will be off by Monday around here and about 50 dollars into my pocket yet again for the house here.  There are always tricks of the traid in my place that I have done and will be starting to do around here totally.  The fun part is that I may drive my Husband nuts around here also while I am doing all of this around here.  With myself baking around here it is cheaper than what some think it is around here.  At least here for NY state it is cheaper more times than not to start growing stuff and baking from scratch than it is to buy it from the stores around here.  I just got asked today even on how I make biscuts in my place and I started laughing with the Bisquick stuff.  I have found out that flour and other things last abit longer in my household than letting the bisquick in and it goes bad around my place.  Well I make pancakes and muffins also with the baking powder, flour, and afew other things around here.  This is what some folks do not understand about me in what I do for the household here totally.  I got to thinking about this on the way home from Collins this afternoon.  One phone call does wanders for things like that.  Since I am the cheap one out of the bunch around here so it seems to some people and it makes me wander in what some are doing around their household also.  Things like paper plates and other things that get bought and will not be caught in my household at all.  When some folks figure that you do not do things for the household that you talk to right then there is a huge problem around my place to say the least.  Then again I have been labled as stuck on stupid here in NY State also with many folks around the area.  After that I just stopped and took alook in what I was saying and stopped saying what I did to some folks that have come over and have not bothered after we moved to the house also after December around here.  It did not hurt as bad as I thought it would for me to loose more friends or what I thought were friends here.  I have gave up with some folks and went from there.  I have to do for myself and the household and not let others break me from then on.  I have been told differant things by several folks one was my Niece that was here with me another is that I have became nasty with my attitude also.  I figure if some thought I am nasty now then they did not see squat yet and the ones that told me that have been told by others to not waste money on alot of the paper goods that they buy also once a month for their place and not just from myself.  Other folks have stayed away from the complainers and my Niece also once I think about it all.  So now when I said no in December and January around here some do not even bother anymore to ask for anything from myself nor my Husband.  Just like a friend of both of us here in the house I would let him move in since he is a neat freek around a place.  There has been lies about him also floating around every place.  Like I believe what I hear either way untill the person tells me other wise. 

Shaking my head

Well after some of what has gone on around here I am happy to drop the house phone totally around the household.  The cable company called to see if I wanted the phone and I said no.  I am looking at it like this the cell phones are cheaper than the house phone and have saved me when the power went out around the trailer.  So here I am I know what I wanted and it finally feels good that I can cut one thing out totally around here.  Also what got to the guy is that he could not talk me into keeping the phone anymore.  It is nice that I can still save some money around here totally.  Anyway I am going to be cooking here shortly anyway so I can show some in what to do for the leftovers totally.  It will not be that bad for the day at all around here to say the least.  And it will be a cheap day while I am at it all.  I guess this is what some do not undersand about what I do for the household at all.  I am plotting out the day around here to say the least while I am at it.  May as well get some things done around here before 3:45 and be done with it all.  Since I can get alot done for the place even though that my Husband is home at this time here.  And get some help while I am at it for some things for the place now.  Oh well at least I can still do what I can for the household here.  The nice thing is I am still working on the budget around here and still cutting everything down.  So far it has been working and I do not mind it one bit.  Sometimes it is good to think things thru around here.  Just like with the house phone I really do not use it at all around here since the cell phone is easier to make calls from here.  I had got my low flow washer about 2 years ago since the one washer that I had started wigging out.  I noticed that the new washer takes less of everything to run it.  There are alot of ways of cutting back around here and I am trying them all around here. 

To prove my point

Well I have just proved my point with some come get the stuff or I can sell or donate it to a cause at this point in time since I have been treated like I was and am a piece of shit around the trailer and the new place.  I talked with someone who deals with things like this in the court system in the state of NY and some folks were wrong in what they have been told also.  Folks like Nancy Hammond.  Since the laws have changed in the past 20 years she does not have a clue about it now.  Since I do know and talk to lawyers every so often around here and have trust in some that I have known for years (15 and counting) I asked an honest question and got the answer that I was hoping for.  I will give a fair chance and call 2 more months after this to make my point clear on it all around here that I am not playing anymore at all.  One of the rules that NY State has around here to let some know out of good faith.  This is why I told my Niece and her boyfriend and their friend no almost 2 months ago about moving into the house with me.  I was done being treated like dog shit in my own household and now I know why.  I did not get a call unless my Niece was drunk off her toush and she called me Mommy when she is that drunk.  Now I will say this out right the guy that my Niece is with have been convicted as a leval 3 sex offinder and I have had to think of others besides myself in the neighborhood that I am in now.  Do not demand me of squat when you start laying down things that I have to do for his toush when it is my household and not his at all.  I was suprized that the parole department approved the place knowing that there is a school and a park not even 1500 feet from the place with Children and others.  I think it is that time to start making calls again around here.  The guy is not on 6th street at all in the Deep City Of Nigara Falls.  He is on Townsen Pl. ALmost next to the offender on 6th st that is no relation to my Husband nor myself at all. 

Now I know why

Well I am having a good morning so far.  Between the doctors office and 3 other places that I went to already.  Now granted I have not started in on the housework as of yet since everything is still out in the kitchen at this point except what I stuck into the freezers and fridge.  I will say for some things that were not needed and others I got because the house needed it.  Now with that said tomorrow is coming quick around here to say the least and my partner in crime will be here to learn a thing or 2 about cooking without burning food.  Either way I have the nack for it and may as well relax over it also.  That is the fun part about it all here to start in on a Friday cook out around here and get things pulled back for meals down the road also that are cooked and are ready to be pulled out for a quick dinner.  With alot of things around here some do not understand at all in how I can cook for the just in case deals for the household.  When I have no time to really dethaw any major things for a spare of the moment night when some come home or when folks stop by on the fly at my place.  Now that I will be teaching someone tomorrow in how to do things it makes it easier to say ok this is how you do this and this and do not worry about it.  Pluss to give the poor girl times to go along with the baking around here.  That is what blocks alot of people in cooking and what goes together with this and that.  The other thing is that I can shop at Aldi and other places to get good prices on alot of the food that is picked up around here and make things from scratch also.  Even though I had to go over to Walmart to get baking powder this morning.  So it was 18 cents more for it and that is ok.  Now I know I have 3 cans to last me untill at least September around here for that part (I hope).  I know I know some folks no matter in how hard they try they still can not cook at all.  I am still laughing at the Worst Cooks show on the Food Network channel.  I do know some people like that totally around the area.  The little one that is coming over even her mother is one of the worst cooks totally, and this is why I am taking her under my wing around here.  With that being said the girls mother is supposedly a total vegetarian to all costs.  I have not seen it in how she cooks and she is one of the worst cooks in a long time that I have seen.  When you try to tell someone that most sauces that come from Italian shops have meat in them and they do not believe you then there is a problem.  Now with what I am about ready to do around here with the girl the mother will not be happy with me and that is ok by me.  At least I am showing the poor girl in how I do things and it may click with her.  WIth doing things on the cheap side of it all it may work.  I do not have alot of boxed foods around my place and alot of folks would be lost in my household.  There are some things that I am still learning for my place and thanks to some they have either forgot or have not bothered to tell me at all in what they have done.  As some told me yesterday over the phone at least I ask and I am the cheap one out of the bunch also so far and some will figure this all out around here and in Illinois also.  The total funny part about all of this is that some do not get it at all in how I can make things work for the household and still have enough left over to get other things done while I am at it all.  There is alot that I am doing around the household as of now and some do not like it at all out of me.  Cooking on the cheap is one of the things that some do not like out of me at all.  Another thing is that I have scaled back on alot of things for the house also now.  As I told my one Aunt I would rather have the almost 50 dollars that I am saving off the house phone in my pocket than in the cable companies pocket at this point.  Not to be really wierd about some things around the house here at all, I am figuring that ok power outage around here and no house phone anyway so it is a give and take thing also. 

Long day

Well after about 8 hours of not having the gas on yesterday it got turned back on at 9 last night again.  Now I know how to light the water tank and everything else is on auto ignight around here.  I got to thinking around here and on the heavy side and the house phone is gone as of this Monday around here.  I will be working off the cell phone around here and do not mind it at all.  With alot of the bills going up around here I had to cut something and the phone was the first to go.  Now with that done around here I have been thinking on alot of things that could have gone on with some folks if they were still here in the household.  At this point I know that I have done the right thing by still saying no around here.  What I said has stuck with some and that is why I am still saying no in what was demanded of me.  Now with that being said for the place when I let my one Niece move in over at the trailer I had turned off the modem becuase that is what I was use to at the time during the day (had a meter).  The girl picked up the house phone and said the phone is not working at all.  I started laughing and asked if the black box was lit up on my desk and the answer was no.  So I explained it to the girl that if it is not lit up then the phone will not work around the trailer.  My Niece did not get that part at all.  So now the girl would be madder than a wet cat on a hot tin roof knowing in what I did yesterday.  There are alot of things that I told my Nieces boyfriend that he had to think about if I said yes and that I have rule of the household and neither of them at all.  Just like I supposadly would have to tell him when my appointments were so he would not park behind me that did not fly with me at all.  So now I can say that I did peg it right on saying no around here to the demand.  Just like with yesterday with the gas off around here there would be no hot water by the time I got to the shower at all if the 3 of them were here in the house.  I would rather have the gas company turn off the gas to be on the safe side when they were working on the line.  I could still cook and heat water if I wanted to for the household here and someone like my Niece would have been stuck totally here not knowing what to do.  Not alot of the children would know what to do when something major goes on in any household in todays world.  So now I will say that I did what I had to around here to keep everyone warm and to keep busy. 

Figuring out alot more around here

Well I am figuring out alot from around the household here.  I just dumped the land line thru the cable company this morning for the place.  I am looking at it like this every time the power goes out so does the land line for the household so may as well dump it at the door for the place.  With just dropping that part of the cable with the phone is almost 50 dollars a month around here to say the least.  If it was up to me I would only have the inter net and the cell phone for the household as of now.  Since I use the cell phone most of the time anyway around here I may as well keep it and loose other parts of the household at this point in time for the place.  With canning the house service for the phone the girl tried to explain that the 911 is different on every phone and I said to her when the power goes out it does not help with the modem down for the 911 service at all.  That told her something today to say the least.  So now to really go with the saveings here in the household with everything that is going on.  It will be a breath of fresh air around here to say the least for alot of things for the household.  I am just wandering in how long I can keep all of this up around here for the cheap side of life here in the household. 

Now I know

Well I know some that can not cook at all around the area and give the kids a chance to at least get taught from someone who knows in how to.  Maybe the gal that I baby sat for with her 3 girls has finally came to her dang brain and sinses around her place.  If the mom can not cook how do ya expect the kids to either way ya look at it.  Trust me I have seen plenty come out of the one household that would just turn the best cook into tears that some have messed up on around their place.  Nothing worse than when you are broker than snot around the household and can not waste food like I did by Burning the Chicken totally.  So now I will teach one of the girls in what I do for my place and hope it somewhat sinks in in how I show the poor girl out of my kitchen here.  And yes it will be on the cheap side of everything here in my household.  A trip up to either Aldi or Save A Lot is in order for tomarrow around here totally since I am out of some things for the household anyway at this point in time.  The poor girl has not totally forgot in what I did for her and her sisters as of yet and I will continue to do things for the girls and they all know this.  So now I will be taking the youngest girl under my wing to show here it is not that hard at all to cook around the household with a few recipies in what I will send home with her on Friday.  So now I will start planning out things and make a chicken to show the girl in what to do and when to do it also without burning it at all.  At this point I will show the poor thing in how to cook a whole chicken and still have leftovers for the cassarole the next day for at least that meal.  Anyway it is going to be on the cheap side when I show some in how to cook around the household here as of Friday.  So now there is hope for some things that I can do for some of my girls to say the least.

Sitting here wandering

Well as I sit here and wander around the place and knowing some things I am not to worried about what has happened at all.  What makes me mad is that my Niece wanted to be turned loose and got her wish on it all and I hope that she sees that she chose the wrong path way like the others did once they looked back.  I refuse to hold my breath on anything out of the world of the kids today anymore after I had hope for at least 3 of them.  I know now that none gives a rats behind for anyone else and I have came to learn that part of it all around here after wandering and thinking on it all.  I have came to the conclusion on what I tried to teach some that I know was impossible and came to grips with it all around here and I will move on from there.  Now that I have realized this and I am ok with it all I have left is being cheap, reading, and blogging around here to get things done I will start sharing more in what I do for the place.  This is after being hung up on and totally treated like crap from family members for the last time today to say the least.  So expect alot of changes in what I blog about and what works from now on here in the household.  Along with books at a huge discount since I refuse to tear up my truck for the flipping city of Niagara Falls at this point still.  At least I have the books so I can reread them all.  I will be talking with my Husband this weekend about the house phone yet again since I am on the cell phone more and more around here to say the least.  The other changes to the household here he could care less about either way I go at this point in time.  As someone told me this morning before I got home to keep things in a shoe box by the tax forms around here as a new home owner it would be best.  I will take the woman up on that one since she has been married for over 55 years already with grown children.  In how the Woman knew today that I needed a moms advice I do not know and may never know at all.  And the woman did not blame me at all for what I got on sale today when I stopped at someplace at all for a fix with some things.  Believe it or not it was not Kmart at all for the day after the doctors office.  So after thinking alot of things thru around here I do not wander anymore about some things and knew I was on my own from an early age from some folks that are in my family.  So it all hangs now if and when I get to Illinois at this point if at all.  I am just tired of eating crap from family is what it comes down to it all with myself.  So with alot of things since I am good at cracking recipes around here I will start yet again on alot of things for my own household.  I will make sure I write everything down for when I start having my own children.  If not someone would appreciate them either way for what I am doing around here.  Along with the books that I have either way I turn.  So I at least have something to look forward to around the new place to say the least.

Now for the wait

At least I have done most of the housework yesterday during the day.  Well the doctor knew I was hurting when I seen him this morning.  I know I can not just sit around and let the household fall apart with cleaning so I do when and what I can when I am feeling good for a day.  As I told him this morning it was not the housework at all it was kicking the truck into the 4x4 on low and I have always had problems with that part of it.  So now I will sit around for most of the day here and start to plot on what needs to be done for tomarrow to say the least.  Even though I will get the bed changed today sometime.  It will not be that bad for the place at all today nor tomarrow.  I try to split everything up around here for cleaning either way I go and it all works for the best.  It seems like I get more done when I do split it all up.  While I was at the doctors this morning one appointment got changed around and that is ok also since I can sit down for a good while for the blog here and read also today.  That is the fun part about breaking up the whole mess around here and I can ignore the loud mouth bird also abit better so he can get it out of his system.  There is never a dull moment around here at all once I think about it all.  Just like last night when I was over at the trailer I was not there even 30 min and the cops, fire trucks, and the ambulance were down the street in where the trailer sits.  At this point I am happy to be out of the trailer park totally.  It has came to the point of I like the slower life better and will say something if I see it to the neighbors if something goes wrong around the area.  I try to keep an eye out for everyone either way I go and the new neighbors do the same for me now.  At least I know I will not get lied nor rummored about around here at all.  I can have friends show up at any time of the day and it does not matter anymore.  In the trailer park I got accussed of everything from the one neighbor and let him have a piece of my mind on it.  I let the one so called manager of the park have it also.  I knew what was going down and did not care in the least bit since I hardly got out anyway while I was there.  It was a relief for 4-6 days at the time that I went to the doctors office to say the least at the time when it all kicked off totally around the trailer.  I am still mad about it and now since I am not there to complain about squat others started that were around me of where I was at.  That is when Tammy Banks started to take notice in what I was saying totally.  Now at this point in the new house there have been maybe 3 loud car raidios at most around here withing the 4 months that I have been here and all of the neighbors are quiet.  No shock collers required at all now compaired to the trailer park.  What I think is funny is when Tammy Banks told us that she could not afford her house anymore in November of last year.  I do not know if it is a lie or not at this point and the gut feeling says it is a lie and knowing that Tammy is the same as others that have stole off the park owners with prof what does that say.  I will say this I know that Tammy believes the rummors that have went around the park about some of us and that is ok.  Just like in what Leona Cox did and spread.  I am still waiting on the pictures on that part of it and Tammy Banks still believes her.  I droped Leona quick after she said something to me about the people beside her.  I looked at her ex boyfriend and aske when did all this take place when Leona started in on me and was it good because I do not rememmber it at all.  This was way before the accident. 

Not a bad day

Well after I slept on it last night it will not be a bad day after all.  I will do what I can around here this morning and go from there even though I have some running to do of course.  Pluss I have opened some windows around here to let in the fresh air before it totally cools off yet again.  It is nice to have the air coming in around here to say the least.  Anyway at least I know that I can do all of this on the cheap around here today with the cleaning and other things.  Pluss I can get a menu up quickly around the place without any problems at all.  What will get to me the most is that I can start alot of it and freeze it also for the place here totally.  So I will think on that for the week around the household and more than likely make the pancakes and waffles for one meal and freeze it all back.  It is cheaper than going out to eat all of the time and much easier since you do not have to wait on them except to heat back up.  Once you get the hang of cooking and baking on the cheap, working, and having kids at your feet it is all pretty good after the day is done.  I have came to the point around here that it is easier on me to make almost everything from scratch for the household than to have the grocery budget explode on me.  With alot of it I noticed that it is relaxing to me when I start putting things together for a meal that way also.  I know that alot of folks that do not know in how to cook nor bake also around the area.  Years ago I ran into acouple of people like that around the area.  One person that I am thinking of did not have a clue at all in how to do things at all.  The gals husband always tried to crack my sauce recipe so he could make it at his place.  The poor guy could not do it so he would pay me to make some for him and his wife.  The gal could not believe that I could cook as well as I did since she could not do anything in the kitchen at all.  I do not know what happened to the couple at all since we all lost contact with each other.  A very close friend of mine can not cook at all also to save herself once I think about it.  With everything going on and her husband in the studio most of the time she would get a lift from us to go back to the 2nd home.  With that being said I got the poor woman to cook either way for the household.  I made the simple recipes at the time around the trailer that everyone can cook.  There are some easy recipes out there that you can make and this is why I just love Susanne over at the http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/ for some of them.  Alot of the site has the simple and easy recipes that everyone can make and fallow with ease.  I also make alot of the Amish recipes around the household while I am at it around here.  What I do is make the recipe and put add in's into what I am making.  You can come up with alot of ways for one meal. 

Shaking my head

Well 3 weeks ago today I opened the bottle of dish soap around here and only a quarter of the bottle is gone around the household at this time.  So I am wandering in what my Niece really did with the dish soap besides use way to much for the dirty dishes in the trailer.  During the week I have noticed that I only need to get to the dishes maybe twice if that for the place.  So yes I am happy I told my Niece, her boyfriend, and their friend no to move in here at the house.  I have been in the mode of ok what next around here for to cut the costs around the household here and figured out a way.  One was to throw out my Niece and tell her boyfriend no around here totally.  The next thing was putting my foot down with the complainers that asked for money all of the time and smokes from us.  In the mean time an old friend told me that money does not make him happy after I explained what was going on in my place.  I told him that I did not want the money and I was making a point for something instead.  He did not blame me what so ever for what I said.  Since I have been trying at points in time to stretch out things that come into the trailer or the household here it got messed up for about 4 months and I am back on track of doing again for either place.  When I was trying to be cheap in the trailer my Niece took it upon her self to say F*ck the woman who took me in since she is rich.  Yes going by what she has heard since she was about 5 years of age.  What made me rich was my knowing of what to do to cut back for the household and love of some people.  It was not about money at all at the time nor is it now.  As my friend told me last week that I am a bigger Man than he will ever be for taking in my Niece totally and trying to teach her the things about the real world and how to cut back.  Since I was basically thrown to the curb with my Niece and she did not care at all in what was going on I hope she learns now that I tried with her.  So now without some here in the household yes I have started to look around the place and say ok I can do all of this around here without a problem at all.  Pluss do it all on my terms instead of my Nieces around here now.  I think that is what scared some folks around the area about me is that I have had to really think long and hard about some things and make the hard choices in life at all costs to myself, my Husband, and for the household.  Once the girl and others realize this about me then they will understand of why I am doing what I am doing.  If it means by cooking and baking on a very hard budget and trying to be cheap about it by making things from scratch alot of times some have to except the fact that this is what I need to do for the place.  That is along with other things for the household here.  Since some screwed up with the meters around here it is to my advantage also.  Untill a meter goes in I will do what I have to around here totally.  When I start cutting down on the things that use the power then it is time to notice in what I am doing also.  I have lines up in the basement for laundry and the 3 drying racks to hang laundry on and I am not scared at all to use them for the household.  Along with other things around here also to be cheap.  Maybe I get mad because some folks do not realize in what I am doing at all to put food and other things into the household here.  That and I figure in why should some of us suffer around the household here for others poor judgement and poor budgeting around their place.  Maybe that is what I was wandering about earlier this morning also.  In how some households survive besides the government to help them out totally.  Since I am not on partial welfare around here at all and have to pay out of pocket for everything here in the household and others figure that I get the help when I do not.  Since I do shop around for the best prices for the household here I figure that some do not for their own either way that they turn.  This is why I have told alot of people no around here also as of the past 3 months in the new place.