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 Utilities and Other Bills, tagged maintenance, savings, coupons, heat, financial tips, phone bill, heap, generic brand, store brand, temperature on Thursday, September 18, 2008 | No Comments »
My phone bill is $8.00 a month. I took everything off it except the maintenance plan. I get a discount because I received HEAP a couple of times.
Using coupons can mean a lot of savings, but sometimes you will save more by purchasing a different brand or a generic/store brand. Make sure you always check.
Heat [...]
Posted in Frugally, Utilities and Other Bills, free, low-income, tagged blog, free, pages, traffic, website on Thursday, September 18, 2008 | No Comments »
You will notice that I am adding content to this blog today, and that it is not really “new” content.
What I am doing is getting rid of the website that goes with this blog, but I do not want to lose in information, as it will still help others. Instead, I will be posting the [...]
Posted in Food, Reduce Reuse Recycle, Utilities and Other Bills, low-income, tagged babysitting, bills, blogging, child care, earn money, food cupboard, food stamps, household, income, meal prep, returnables, survivor benefits, writing on Monday, September 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just wanted to update some of you on what my income looks like now. I had been out of work (mostly) for two months. Last week I started back babysitting.
My family consists of:
myself
my daughter
my nephew who will be staying with me until mid Feb.
4 cats: Family, not pets. They are staying no matter what [...]
Posted in 100 things about me, Cleaning, Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Utilities and Other Bills, free, low-income, tagged Food, food cupboard, Crossroads Ministries, fuel assistance, 100 things about me on Friday, September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
#4 I visit the food cupboard. I have had a real rough time, financially, for a few months now, and I get food from Crossroads Ministries. They are very helpful. There is not always a lot of food available through them, but I get things that we can use.
I also donate to them. Most people [...]
Posted in Household Needs, Utilities and Other Bills, Winter Prep, low-income, tagged cold, electric, fuel assistance, penquis cap, phone, winter on Friday, August 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Everyone who may possibly qualify for this should set up their appointments now. I actually did this through Penquis CAP last month, and my appointment is in October.
Fuel assistance will not pay for all of your oil, but it will pay for some. This can be very helpful. There are also other benefits if you [...]
Posted in Utilities and Other Bills, tagged clean, kitchen, bathroom, pack, rugs, brother, appliances, walls, move on Monday, August 18, 2008 | No Comments »
No, this is not really a how-to article, LOL. It is more of an update of my day.
Today, my mother, sister, nephew and I helped my brother to clean and finish packing up his apartment so that he could finish moving. Mom and I each brought a bucket with rags and cleaning supplies, and mom [...]
Posted in Frugally, Others, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged frugal, yard-sale, life, income, changes, Pay it Forward on Sunday, August 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, so my nephew recently came to stay with me. He will be here for about six months. He is 10. His mother will pay for his food and any other needs that he has while he is here. I should only see a small increase in the water/sewer bill.
My daughter just got back from [...]
