tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post6574321199667673125..comments2024-03-29T00:10:51.155-04:00Comments on Blue House Journal: Small Economies in a Big Economy Worldterricheneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06865436021565986224noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-36698448942600116702016-09-07T18:47:52.618-04:002016-09-07T18:47:52.618-04:00It is sort of like the thing that one penny is one... It is sort of like the thing that one penny is one penny but 10 is ten cents and ten of those is a dollar. Every little bit adds up. Using just enough shampoo to wash your hair and not extra saves on shampoo let alone the amount of water to get it back out of your hair. So and and so on. We do so many 'little' savings things that they surely add up. One leads to another thought and then another. I had a neighbor ask if I had some wax paper. She was out. I said no but I did have some wax like paper from the bags from cereal boxes. She used that. When I later asked her if it worked she said yes. And that she now saves the cereal insert paper too to use too. It gets to be sort of like game to see how you can save here and there. <br />Yes people do not realize how much working actually cost them in lunches and nice clothes and wear on their cars and gas and donations for office gifts etc. Staying home you save that to start with let alone all the man many things you can now watch and work at saving more. Keeping within our individual budgets is our job. Making our husbands wages stretch as far as possible is what we do. Also using the money for future needs and also for those little extras our very hard working husbands love. Saving money does not mean scrimping on fun. I love your thought the you minded the pennies and he minded the dollars. It takes two on the same team. One cannot keep spending more than they make and the other worried snd scrimping and hoping to be able to pay the bills. <br /> I had a friend who when she stayed home did go to CVS and do lots of things in home and out to save money. Then she went to work and had not time for any of that and so spends far more then she used to. Plus of course the basic work expenses. I asked her if what she made now was worth it. She said no but now her husband was used to what he thought was so much more money coming in that he did not want her to stop. She felt trapped. He could not understand that she really was not making that much more than when she stayed at home. Some women make less working. <br />I try to think of a couple skills I want to add each year. This year one is making many more soups and getting back to sewing and needle work. Out side I have redone a lot of things so it is easier to keep up now that I am getting older. Sarah Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-45959344201088019872016-09-06T21:50:23.717-04:002016-09-06T21:50:23.717-04:00Excuse the typos. I type one thing and the tablet ...Excuse the typos. I type one thing and the tablet changes it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-89768398525068036062016-09-06T21:18:30.135-04:002016-09-06T21:18:30.135-04:00Terri, I too wash zip lock baggies.. It is easy to...Terri, I too wash zip lock baggies.. It is easy to do.. and even though, it is a low amount of money, I figure when I add that little savings to the next savings, it will keep adding.. smile.<br />My 15 yr old granddaughter spent the night with me .. I was putting up some bags I had washed, she asked" what are you doing? ' I told her, her response was, " oh no... why would you do that/" So, I gave her a little lesson on frugal living.lol Not sure, she ever quiet came around to the idea of washing baggies.ha Have a great week.Sew Blessed Maw [Judy]https://www.blogger.com/profile/15474519379303505290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959918163454225829.post-22611933870164818182016-09-06T21:13:45.143-04:002016-09-06T21:13:45.143-04:00I have always practiced every small economy also. ...I have always practiced every small economy also. I had a great mentor in my older sister who was a stay at home mom with 6 kids. I learned do much from her. All these economies enabled us to buy a home and pay it off in a very short time. God then blessed us with a fantastic trade to another house and then again to another great deal on our retirement home. We have always made do with one car. I sewed, canned, cooked and pinched every penny. So thankful i did. My husband lost his job because the company was sold. He had no retirement plan and neither did i as i had only worked a few hours a week when the kids were grown. We figured our home as a large part of our retirement, yet we are still living in it and even on reduced SS benefits still manage a nice life and put away xomec8n savings each month. We still do some traveling,eating out and help friends and family when we can. We are living proof that watching the pennies pays off. I to have a husband who is proud of my money skills, and says he doesnt know how we manage so welk6. It does take two. I would not be able to manage if he was a spender. Retirement is possible, and nope you don't have to live on bread and water! Gramma DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com