Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Food, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, Winter Prep, creating a pantry challenge, low-income, tagged "dog house", #2 oil, air dry, banking, blankets, comforters, coupons, discount stores, dishwasher, drafts, Dryer, electric bill, electric company, energy efficient, few dollars, fleece, Food, heat, household items, kerosene, laundry, money, oil tank, payment plan, personal hygeine, plastic, porch, programmable thermostats, quitls, sales, save, save money, save on costs, shannon buck, slippers, slowcooker, steps, stove, temperature, warm clothing, warm jammies, windows, winter, yard sales on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
(Two years old, I know. Perhaps I’ll have the opportunity to post a more updated one soon.)
Preparing for Winter
By Shannon Buck - Copyright September 2006
Winter is not far off, and we are beginning to prepare for this now at our home. These are the steps that we are taking this year. Hopefully some of the [...]
Posted in Clothing, Food, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, School Lunches, Utilities and Other Bills, cheap, free, low-income, tagged Angel Trees, ASPIRE, bills, cable, car repairs, child support, childcare, Christmas, churches, city hall, clearance, college, consignment shops, Department of Health and Human Services, dollar store, Ebay.com, electricity, expensive, flea markets, Food, foodstamps, free lunch, free milk, free winter boots, freebies, freecycle, fuel assistance, gas, goal, Hannaford, heap, heat, homeschool, housing, low-income, maine, MaineCare, money, payment plan, phone, raise children, rent, satellite, school, section 8, sewer, shannon buck, single mom, TANF, television, textbooks, The Salvation Army, thermostat, thrift shops, town hall, utilities, water, welfare, welfare myth, winter coats, work, yard sales on Sunday, September 21, 2008 | No Comments »
By Shannon Buck ~ © September 2007
As I mentioned in The Welfare Myth Part 1, it is a myth that welfare recipients have a lot of money to live off. Most welfare recipients really have little money for day to day expenses, once they have paid the bills. That is, if they can pay all [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Food, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, low-income, tagged money, winter, children, purchase, family, low-income, welfare, TANF, AFDC, home, school, economy, electricity, bills, work, child support, MaineCare, phone, expenses, food stamps, welfare myth, rent, childcare, low-income apartment, washers and dryers, simply, ged, diploma on Friday, September 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It seems that there are still many people who believe that people on welfare are living it up, getting everything that they could ever want, without having to work. While on occasion, people have been known to do this, not everyone does. Everyone is not out to cheat the system. Most people are just trying [...]
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Kitchen Needs, Winter Holidays, tagged canning jar, cooking, food cupboard, gift, holiday, parsley on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My older daughter moved out this year. She lives away so we don’t see her often. We are in touch on almost a daily basis through either telephone conversations, our blogs, instant messaging or email. She and her fiance are looking for their first place. He is staying with his family, while she is staying [...]
Posted in Food, Frugally, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, cheapskate, free, low-income, tagged dumpster dive, Food, free, freecycle, freegan, kitchen, recycling, trash on Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Would I actually do this? No, mostly. If I happen to see something useful on top of a dumpster or trash can, or next to either, then I have no problem taking it. However, I am careful to be sure that nothing gross was touching it, and I can’t ever imagine getting into a dumpster.
Why? [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, free, tagged free, kitchen, dish towels, bathroom, wash cloths, rags, making rags, dish cloths, towels, hand towels on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | No Comments »
It looks like we will be needing rags again. The old ones seem to have outlived their usefulness. I have been saving new dish cloths and dish towels for when I could no longer use the old ones for kitchen use.
The old towels and cloths are very old, stained and yucky looking. I will cut [...]
Posted in Food, Kitchen Needs, creating a pantry challenge, tagged challenge, create, create a pantry, pantry on Monday, August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that step 3 in the Creating a Pantry Challenge has been added to the appropriate page. Please click on the challenge page to view it.
Shannon
