Rolling pennies for cat food
By sweetdesign
@sweetdesign (5142)
United States
March 20, 2009 9:07am CST
Times are indeed tough. It is a hard week for us as it is a week before payday and the last payday was very small. So of course we run out of cat food, the dogs have plenty of food and we are making due on noodles and sauce but the cats are completely out of food.
So here I sit rolling pennies to be able to buy them some food. I am out of money in the bank and don't get paid for another week. I did manage to sell a ceramic dollhouse bathtub and two ceramic eggs on etsy this past week but then ebay took thier fees out and on top of that I screwed up making a shipping label so waiting for the post office to refund that. Had I not screwed that up or if ebay hadn't taken thier fees I would have been able to just go buy the cat's food.
So my question is this.....What are youdoing to scrape by?
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
20 Mar 09
Learning to cook more things from scratch. And ask anyone who knows me, cooking is so NOT my thing. I dread trying to make bread. Again. Even the dogs won't touch my boo-boos on that. They do avoid me for awhile afterwards, guess they think I'm trying to poison them. Sigh.
We might buy some chicks and raise for broilers. It's cheaper than buying them in a store. Learning to make my own pizza is another step.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
20 Mar 09
I was offered a full time position with a raise at just about the time the economy went down the drain, so I am one of the more fortunate. We owe quite a bit of money quite a few places, but that was true a year ago as well. I have paid off a couple of very minor bills. If things continue as they are we will pay off a second mortgage sometime this year, and that will certainly help. My bank does not require us to roll the coins. They dump them in a machine that counts them for us. Things I have done when under employed have been product demonstrations, product merchandising, mystery shopping, selling aluminum cans, delivering newspapers. I have almost always worked at least two jobs.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
22 Mar 09
We are eating out less and cooking more casseroles. I use my crock pot alot more and we are eating more soups and stews as well. I have started shopping at a salvage grocery store again. I used to shop there all the time, and then we moved and I quit because I didn't save much by driving there. Now that we have moved back to this area *After 3 years* I love the bargains I find there. I'm sorry but I don't understand the people who won't eat a box of pasta if the box is dented.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
22 Mar 09
I don't have a problem with buying less than perfect food I wish we had a store like that here. I do always check out the "damaged" or "day old" racks in the stores when I shop. Our food budget dropped from $380 a month to $136 a month talk about hurting it hurt! So I am growing a lot of veggies to suppliment what I can.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
23 Mar 09
We discussed last night the possibility of getting some window boxes and wondered what we could grow on the balcony of our apartment. Kristen and Jon (my daughter and her boyfried) both shouted tomatoes! We also thought about zucchini, cucumbers, and maybe even some cantelopes! We're planning a trip to Home Depot to see what we can find!
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@madasp (563)
• United States
21 Mar 09
Instead of just throwing our cans in with the rest of the recycling and putting it on the curb, we now seperate and bring the cans to the recycling center.
There are a whole lot of other things that we do, but they are things we've always done. So cashing in cans is the only new thing we do since the economy went south.
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