Have You Ever Run Out Of Money? in Help Me Please

It seems that every month I run out of money but that is because I am on a fixed income and when my money is spent then everything I need is gotten or paid for. And then I know I have a place to live and a phone to use and food in the fridge and cupboards and pantry and I am set for the month. I have lived like this all my adult life and I don’t mind it. And if there is something that I need that isn’t a part of my budget then I will put some money aside and use it for whatever.
And for the rest of the month hubby deals with what he wants to eat and every time we go grocery shopping he always save a percentage on what we get. Sometimes as much as 50% which is pretty good. And when that happens that means there was a some really good deals. Plus he uses the unit pricing thing so he saves even more money. I am pretty good at the unit pricing for some things but not everything but I am learning more every time I go grocery shopping.
I am not sure what I like better.... Going to the actual store and getting my stuff there or shopping on line in the comfort of my home and in my comfy pj’s and house coat. But getting out in the real world is a good thing also because then you get to see people and even smile at them. And things you thought were your imagination playing tricks on you is actually real so that is a good thing also.
But when hubby gets home from work tonight he will be asking me where the melons and other things came from and I will tell him we now have a garden that I can just go and get what I want. then he will ask if I got another money tree somewhere he doesn’t know about. it’s actually a pretty funny conversation and I always smile and say “I want this” And then he shuts up about it and just shakes his head.

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The only thing left for me to do is to start my baking and that will be next week and then while I am doing that I will be planning holiday turkey dinner. I just need to decide what to bake and what to make but that is the easy part. I would ask my son but he always tells me I know what he likes and just do that and hubby will give me some good ideas of what to bake and make so I will do that.

Tonight for dinner I am thinking something left over because I need to have some of my containers cleaned what we will have is still a mystery because I don’t remember all the left overs but they are all labeled so that takes some of the mystery out of trying to figure out what it is. I really don’t like those tinfoil surprises much so I don’t use tin foil.
My grandma was really famous for labeling tinfoil left overs and some of the things she froze was so small it got all freezer burned but that could be because she forgot about it. And no my grandma wasn’t that great of a cook and I didn’t much like what she gave us when we went for dinner. Everything seemed to be over done and dried out. or mushy. But I always went because I wanted to spend time with her and this is what we did as a family . I miss those days.
But the one thing I really miss is when everyone came for dinner during a major holiday like the Jewish new year or Hanukkah and the food was always so good because everyone helped make it and helped clean up.
It just seems that over the years family just went a different way and was doing what they want to do. I don’t think I have seen any of my cousins since the youngest one had her first daughter and that was more then 20 years years ago and there is no phone calls or e-mails either and she now has three children and one of them I have never met so that tells you how un family we all are. But then most of my cousins I find are really stuck up and all into themselves and I don’t like that. The only one in my family that actually talks to my cousins is my mom because they phone her to say say.
But the people I do talk to are the better choice because they are all a lot closer to me and actually care about me and I feel that I can call them anytime I want. And as for my friends I have started thinking that they really are not friends because we never talk to each other and we haven’t seen each other in a lot of years so life just continues on the way it is.

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Here is a question for you....Why is it only at the holiday times do we think about how lucky we are and be thankful for what we have accomplished in life? Why can we not be thankful everyday we wake up and can walk to the bathroom? And why do we have to select certain things we are grateful for? Why can we just not be grateful for being happy and alive? Every day we wake up we need to go smile at the mirror and tell ourselves that today is going to be a great day and then the happiness will set in no matter what.

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Well tonight’s dinner is going to be left over meat sauce so it will be fast and not much clean up and then make fresh pasta.
And I should also get some laundry done but other then that not much else is going to happen and I am not going anywhere so it will be a good day inside here where it’s nice and warm.
Do have a great day.....
Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe and Behave.

Last updated December 16, 2021