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 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 Cleaning, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, Reduce Reuse Recycle, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged batteries, candles, canning, canvas totes, changes, chargers, cleaners, cloth wipes, collect water, compsot, consignment, cost, crochet, daycare children, deodorant, dishwasher, diva cups, dry herbs, Dryer, earth, electricity, environment, expensive, farmer's markets, flourescent lights, flowers, Food, freeze herbs, fresh produce, fruits, garden, gardening, gifts, goals, healthier, heating, helping, herbalism, herbs, home remedies, households, Infinity Razor, landfills, less waste, money, natural sunlight, oil, oil-lamps, pinching pennies, plastics, power strip, prices, recycle, resale, reuse, roadside stands, rugs, save, saving money, scavenge materials, second hand, shopping, soap, toilet paper, trailer, unplug, vegetables, vegetarian, washing machine, water, water baths, water bottles, yardsaling on Saturday, July 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is an update, my way of letting you know how I am coming along on all of my goals. I may not get to everything this year, but I am hoping to get to as many as I can.
Here are my goals:
(Note Done Yet)* Unplug what I can when the appliances/electronics are not in [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Food, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, Winter Prep, tagged bank the trailer, beans, blankets, breads, candles, DirecTV, electric bill, Food, food cupboard, freeze, fruits, fuel assistance, furnace, heat, heat tape, heating season, heating vents, homemade, household cleaners, leftovers, muffins, oil, oil-lamps, pantry, pasta, Personal Hygiene, plastic, programmable thermostat, recipes, rice, salads, savings, sewer bill, shower head, slippers, smoothies, stews, stimulus check, stock-up, toilet, veggies, warm clothing, water bill, windows, winter months. winter on Friday, July 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have heard from different people that they are concerned about the upcoming winter months. In all honesty, I am concerned myself. How can I make it through a winter here? Will I make it through the winter? Have I cut all of the corners that I can? I have no idea.
I keep analyzing everything, [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, Reduce Reuse Recycle, Utilities and Other Bills, Winter Holidays, tagged bills, cheap, clearance, coupons, Crossroads Ministries, daughters, Deals, dollar stores, electricity, flea markets, Food, food costs, food pantry, freecycle, gas, generic brands, Goodwill, grocery, heat, homeschooling, housing, income, low-income living, oil, pantry, sales, sewer, stimulus check, stock, stock-up, store brands, tax refund, teenager, The Salvation Army, thrift shop, Wal*Mart, water, yard sales on Sunday, June 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Well, part one turned out to be pretty long, LOL, but I do believe that you all know how much income fluctuates from year-to-year, and about what my monthly bills are.
This, by the way, is turning out to be one of the leaner years. We will make do, though. We always do.
Last year was a [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Goals: Save and Help, Kitchen Needs, Personal Hygiene, tagged canvas tote bags, cloth wipes, dishwasher detergent, Godwill, homemade, shopping, thrift shop on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
* Today was our big shopping trip. We shopped at the Goodwill, a thrift shop, Wal*Mart and Hannaford. I used the many canvas tote bags that I have been collecting.
* I’m not sure if I mentioned it or not, but I purchased the cotton fleece for the cloth wipes. Now I have to set aside [...]
Posted in Goals: Save and Help, Others, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged soap, save, money, shampoo, landfills, Infinity Razor, water, sewer, shower, bills, disposable razors on Thursday, May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, I have managed to cut my waters use (and electricity, sewer bills) a little more. Not a lot each month, but it will add up over the course of a year.
My showers are shorter. Generally, I take a quick shower, rinsing my body and only washing ‘the important parts’. This is working. My skin [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, Others, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged bill, broccoli, cherry tomato, cucumber seedlings, Diva Cup, electricity, environmental, flush, Food, goals, money, organic compost, prices, resources, save, savings, sewer, soil, toilet, water on Sunday, May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Diva cups have arrived. We are waiting to be able to try them out.
I wanted to mention that, in an effort to save some money on the water bill, we flush for #2’s but not when we pee. Before I go to bed, I swish the toilet and flush one last time. This saves [...]
Posted in Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, Personal Hygiene, tagged Amazon, compost, computer, Diva Cup, free, infinity, monitor, organic, razor, refurbished, seeds on Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, Zowie and I each have an Infinity Razor now. So far, so good. No razor burns anyway.
I ordered the Diva Cups on Amazon, and am expecting them soon. I spent less than I have found the things in other places.
I had to buy a refurbished monitor for the desktop. I hadn’t wanted to. The computer [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged baggies, batteries, candles, canning, canvas totes, changes, chargers, cleaners, cloth wipes, collect water, compsot, consignment, cost, crochet, daycare children, deodorant, dishwasher, diva cups, dry herbs, Dryer, earth, electricity, environment, expensive, farmer's markets, flourescent lights, flowers, Food, freeze herbs, fresh produce, fruits, garden, gardening, gifts, goals, healthier, heating, helping, herbalism, herbs, home remedies, households, Infinity Razor, landfills, less waste, money, natural sunlight, oil, oil-lamps, pinching pennies, plastics, power strip, prices, recycle, resale, reuse, roadside stands, rugs, save, saving money, scavenge materials, second hand, shopping, soap, toilet paper, trailer, unplug, vegetables, vegetarian, washing machine, water, water baths, water bottles, yardsaling on Sunday, May 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In light of all the goings on (rising prices and the sad shape our Earth is in), I have made some goals for myself. Prices are not going to stop rising any time soon, and I am not going to become rich any time soon, so something(or someone) has to give. That would be me. I [...]
