Trying to make life easier on DH

I am new to this site.  Not new to blogging.  However have never done a blog to a specific genre (frugality).  This is more hard than I thought.

A little back story first.  I'm married.  going on 10 yrs in Feb.  Both of us had good paying jobs for the first 8 yrs of our marriage.  His job at Boeing petered out and i had to quit my job d/t health issues.  Now we are a one income family.  It's been hard the past few yrs while DH went to school and I fought with workmans comp for every little penny they wanted to give me (which wasn't very many pennies, LOL).  But with time all bad things eventually get better.  We now have a home that's bought & paid for (thanks Uncle Ed---RIP).   DH has graduated school and took a job with COX communications doing IT work and I stay at home trying to figure out ways to save my honey money.

It doesn't seem like I save very much though!  I spent $205.00 @ Sam's on Friday.  Ok...so I won't have to go to Sam's for 3 months (or do much shopping other than bread, milk, butter..stuff like that) but still...that's a lot of money to spend at once.  Then I went to Dillon's and spent another $120.  Ok..20 of that was cash for my pocket.  Then filled my car up with petrol to the tune of $1.99 a gallon = $24.00  better than the $36 it was taking to fill it up just a week ago (and now gas has gone down even more, to $1.97).  So I guess all-in-all I do ok.  $300 for approx 3-4 months worth of groceries isn't really too bad.  That averages to $25 a week for 2 people.   Actually less than $25 because it's sometimes  5 or 6 months before I have to do any serious grocery shopping, just picking up bread, cheese, staples in between.  Mostly just bread.  We don't eat a lot of cheese, butter, milk, eggs...your typical staples.

Well, hubby has just come home from work.  He works a split shift so I really don't get to see him that much.  He leaves for work an hr after he gets up and I am usually in bed an hour or two after he gets home...sometimes I miss him but mostly I enjoy the time by myself.  I have DDD (degenerative disk disease), FMS (fibromyalgia syndrome) and the rest of my joints are ate up with arthritis so I pretty much hurt all the time and don't get out much.  My computer is my lifeline to the outside world (pathetic but true) and I really think I would go crazy without it.  So now i must give up my laptop to visit with him for a bit, heat him up a plate for supper and then I'll go to bed after he eats.

I'll try to write more tomorrow.  I'm not real good about sticking to something but I'm gonna try!

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I am a bit homebound myself, so I know how it feels - There is Sticker Shock when one goes to the store, isn't there? It's amazing how much we got for $50 at the 99 Cent Store!! (but when we go to the drug store we just get one bag for the same amount of $!) So we have to be as clever as possible to get thru. Try those freebie sites, you won't ever have to buy shampoo again & not much lotion, either!

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