Sandi's 2018 Miserly Minimal Expense Journal

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SandiSAHM wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:19 pm
alliesmama4 wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:25 pmSandi I put my faith and trust in the in The Lord. Before I bought this house I prayed that for whatever reason do not let me buy a house that is not for me. Each time something came up. I bought this house without even going in to it. It was an answer to a prayer..I had seen this house when I drove by but never saw the inside but liked what I saw. Janet Alliesmama
I'm good with whatever He wants. It's just that I want to know what's going to happen, now. I have control freak tendencies. Good in business, bad in the current daily grind.

Ps 27:14, about waiting on the Lord? Just popped into my head.

Wow, I need to find something productive to do.

Have a great day! :)
Sandi I think someone is trying to tell you to be patient.. lol. Not easy when you want to go forward and it is not time yet. A friend of mine was complaining that the Lord was not listening to his prayers. I told him maybe you are not listening to the Lord. My friend would make all kinds of plans and tell Him what he wanted and when it was not done yesterday he would get upset. I know it is hard we are human and want to get things in the proper order but it does not always happen like we plan or think it will be. Janet Alliesmama
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2 out of 11 - 18.18%

Oh, how the optimistic have fallen ;)

Today would have been no spend but I had to mail something fast and insured.

Stir fry tonight! Uses up leftover mushrooms, carrots, onion, adding frozen broccoli, peas, peanuts and sesame seeds. And chicken substitute. With short grain brown rice.

Doesn't sound or look fancy but wow it's good.

Day 8, if you only count working days, of the school strike - ah... I mean "walkout." From the looks of the neighborhood, these kids are getting reeeeally bored.
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SandiSAHM wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:59 pm 2 out of 11 - 18.18%

Oh, how the optimistic have fallen ;)

Today would have been no spend but I had to mail something fast and insured.

Stir fry tonight! Uses up leftover mushrooms, carrots, onion, adding frozen broccoli, peas, peanuts and sesame seeds. And chicken substitute. With short grain brown rice.

Doesn't sound or look fancy but wow it's good.

Day 8, if you only count working days, of the school strike - ah... I mean "walkout." From the looks of the neighborhood, these kids are getting reeeeally bored.
Sandi It is amazing how a stir fry of odds and ends can be so tasty..not always picture perfect but still yummy. Janet Alliesmama
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Sandi, stir fry is a staple around here to use up all those bits and bobs. It is never the same twice and Hubby just loves it.
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alliesmama4 wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:20 am
SandiSAHM wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:26 am I have empathy for her upbringing - her very early years were in Nazi occupied France, her dad was a POW who was mentally and physically affected, she was the invisible kid while her little sister, a post-war baby, was doted on (and is still a spoiled self-centered mess). She hated my dad but chose him because it was an escape as far from home as she was likely to get. You make your choices, then you live with them. You don't gripe about things you chose NOT to fix. She didn't divorce him because she wanted the security of his multiple retirements. Even tried to get agent orange $$ because he died of cancer. He spent minimal time in Vietnam, smoked like a chimney for nearly 70 years, his cancer was the 2nd most prevalent among smokers, and she thought the government was going to look at his history and think oh, yeah, must have been the chemicals in 'nam. I asked her what she was thinking, she said it was worth a try.

I can't get around the mindset, so I live far away. She could CHOOSE to be consistently loving, at her age there's not much to be gained otherwise because I don't trust her to not say something hateful to my kids. Because they're MY kids, and just like me, they're related to my father, so they must be horrible. She needs a shrink, but doesn't see that.

Day 19. RAINING, with thunder. Those groceries can wait. 4 of 19 = 21%
Your Mom had a sad childhood and life.. So many people have had to deal with horrible things too but they work to overcome them. We have a local man who was a child in the death camp at Auschwitz. He came to this country as a poor immigrant. Not sure how he got his start but he has a construction company and has donated millions of dollars to local needs. Am entire floor at a Catholic hospital. He is Jewish by the way but has done a lot for the Catholic nus in our town. . A wing at a local college.. When the local Catholic hospital was sold and the nuns had no where to go he provided 4 apartments,for free, to the 4 younger nuns who were still out in the community working.. the list goes on.. How someone can come from being in a death camp to such a successful life is amazing. It is hard to understand.. For some reason my Mom would single someone out of the herd to constantly pick up. then after a while that person or grandchild would be dropped and then someone else picked. She went to her grave not wanting to see or speak to her oldest daughter. How does one do that? I sympathize with you and agree you need to think of your children and yourself first. At her age she is not going to change. So sad..
My mother had a hard life. She was born in 1917, her mother died in childbirth, her father remarried right away, my mother had brothers born in 1919 and 1921.

Her step mother was wonderful, she loved my mother very much, my mother loved her brothers an her brothers loved her, but she didn't know that her step mother wasn't her mother, and her stepmother died when my mother was just 8. she heard "on the street" so to speak that her stepmother was not her mother.

Her father remarried and she and that step mother didn't get along.

She was engaged at age 20 and at age 21 her finance died.

When she was 25 her step mother died and when she was just 27 her father and grandmother died.

Even with all of that she was a caring and giving person, with many great friends.

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Dgflorida wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 7:47 am That issue of the hotel bill, is it daily or when the bill hits, is interesting. Most people do not realize that they spend money every day regardless of leaving the house or not. Every day, property taxes, insurance, electricity, phone, internet...... One of the questions we argue over is whether to charge monthly property taxes to our expense report or wait for the once a year hit. Right now, we are letting it be a once a year hit on property and insurance.
I do ins and prop taxes monthly, Thank goodness for 360capital (the old ING)

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