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Today's cheapie plans!

January 3rd, 2007 at 04:22 pm

I have 5 lbs of chicken cooking on the stove right now. After it's cooked and cooled, I'll de-bone it and put the chicken in containers in the fridge and we'll use it over the next few days.

Tonight's dinner will be... chicken! Surprise! I'm not sure what I'll do with it but it will either be homemade chicken pot pie, a real favorite around here, or perhaps chicken salad rollups and sandwiches.

I need to wash a little laundry again and hang it on the line. I make a confession to you all right now. The "boys", ages 22, 21 and 16 don't like to use towels more than once. They're funny about that for some reason and while I don't have a problem with it in theory, in practice it creates more work and expense for me. Although the guys wash and dry their own laundry, they don't normally wash and dry towels; I do it. So yesterday I got a bright idea. I hung their wet towels on the clothes line and when they were dried, I just folded them neatly and put them on their dressers. They'll use them again today. Now, why didn't I think of this sooner? I haven't a clue! At any rate, if I can make a towel last two or three days instead of just one, it's less laundry which means less money spent and less work for me. Yeehaw, I like it. Smile

I'm working online today, earning what money I can. And I shouldn't spend a thing. The only money spent today should be whatever DH spends while he's out making calls.

Posted in Goals and Objectives, Daily Spending | 6 Comments »

6 Responses to “Today's cheapie plans!”

  1. nance Says:
    January 3rd, 2007 at 07:03 pm 1167850998
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    Do the older boys contribute financially to the household? If not, maybe you need to let them know that you are struggling with bills, and they either need to pay rent, or find other arrangements. Even if they are in school, they can still work part time, and help out. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

  2. denisentexas Says:
    January 3rd, 2007 at 07:07 pm 1167851242
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    The oldest works at a job that pays cash and much less than minimum wage. He and I had a talk about this yesterday and he's offered to pay something weekly. I don't have a figure in mind but anything would help. He does occasionally buy groceries and he pays half the ISP bill so that helps. Plus, his truck just broke down and he has to fix it. Argh!

    The next older son is between jobs and is seriously looking for work but not having much luck.

    I won't harass them but they both want to help, I think.

  3. nance Says:
    January 3rd, 2007 at 08:58 pm 1167857882
    1167857882

    It is good that they want to help. Hopefully, this will be a better year for all of you.

  4. denisentexas Says:
    January 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm 1167866015
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    Nance, I sure hope so! We need a good year. Smile

  5. sparkysgirl Says:
    January 7th, 2007 at 03:33 pm 1168184030
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    I took every recipe from your blog! you have some great advice!! thanks so much for sharing with us!!

  6. denisentexas Says:
    January 7th, 2007 at 06:07 pm 1168193271
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    sparkysgirl, I hope you enjoy the recipes. I have a lot more and will keep posting them.

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