Living on $1000 month

BobLoblaw · September 2009

[url]http://under1000permonth.blogspot.com/[/url]I stole this from ML. This is insane and the apartment makes me twitch.

noisy_penguin · September 2009

I like how they have to have satellite radio so her husband can listen to Fox News. They can't watch it on TV because the ladies of Fox News are too scantily clad though (and cuz cable is expensive).

Vinny08 · September 2009

How long will it take this woman to be featured on an episode of Wife Swap? We plan on having a large family, not a frugal decision, I know. I will pop out my third baby before I am 25, so I would say it is not unreasonable to expect 10 kids. We are a hard-core homeschool family as well.

salimoo · September 2009

My first thought was "She needs to post color pictures, or no pictures at all." No one wants to look at grey carrots.

buddhagouda · September 2009

I know Moo. I can't figure that out. Color is not any more expensive in digital.

CaliopeSpidrman · September 2009

What's a phycologist?

noisy_penguin · September 2009

The kids' room has what I call a "trundle crib", where the toddler sleeps on a crib mattress under the crib. We've been trying to get the baby to sleep with him so the new baby can have the crib, but the baby just wanders off.

salimoo · September 2009

What the eff? I had to read this part three times before I caught on:I started looking at the town I now live in for low rent, because it is kind of slummy. We had a double homicide a few blocks away about two months ago, and there have been some fires. Our building seems pretty good, though. We think the property manager carries a gun and we sometimes hear him fighting with teenagers in the middle of the night. We're afraid he will get shot, but so far so good..I have had contracts with the state government where I go into stores to see if they will card me for cigarettes. I'm only 24, so they should card me, but they often allow me to buy the cigarettes without me showing ID. So, our car's glove compartment was full of Marlborough Lights. Those have been stolen. We're not surprised, nor are we mourning. So, that gives you an idea of the neighborhood. Not horrible, but not good either.

SarahBethBR · September 2009

I truly think the black and white is because you don't really notice how disgusting the apartment is at first glance. I saw this on MM yesterday, she is insane. They're paying $4000 a year in tuition so her husband can be a pastor. They think he'll make about $500/month, and not get a parsonage, and they don't want him to have another job. And she wants to have 10 kids.They disgust me. I can't imagine having three children in an 8x6 room that's full of crap. She mentioned in the comments on one of her posts that she is thinking about having the new baby sleep in a rubbermaid container.

salimoo · September 2009

I was JUST reading that, Vinny. "But the baby just wanders off" nearly made me pee. Then I felt guilty because that kid is going to hurt itself. But she's so hilariously blase! Which is also sad. But funny.

KristenBtobe · September 2009

Holy sheet. That apartment is my worst nightmare. Dental insurance is not a luxury. Particularly with children. The #1 reason kids miss school is because of dental problems and pain.

BobLoblaw · September 2009

I'm in tears! [url]<a href="http://under1000permonth.blogspot.com/2009/09/lemon-deodorant.html" rel='nofollow'>http://under1000permonth.blogspot.com/2009/09/lemon-deodorant.html</a>[/url]

buddhagouda · September 2009

[i]Dental insurance is not a luxury. Particularly with children. The #1 reason kids miss school is because of dental problems and pain. [/i] Dental insurance is a luxury, but AAA is not. ::lanie face::

melissainabq · September 2009

So, if it takes you four months to get through your cheap $2.00 deodorant, you save a grand total of $1.44 per year. Not a huge savings. But you also save yourself that feeling you get every morning when you put on your deodorant. You know the one where you wonder, "Am I doing the right thing for my body?"Who the eff thinks about what deodorant does to their body but this wack job?

KristenBtobe · September 2009

Make sure there's no pulp in your pits! BAH!!!I must burn through a lot of deo because a stick won't last me 4 months.

buddhagouda · September 2009

I want to know how she will only use two lemons a month. Eewwww.

noisy_penguin · September 2009

Don't worry Kristen, she's homeschooling them so they won't miss anything.

KristenBtobe · September 2009

Golly. She's a genius.I asked my husband what he thought, and he said it was a 10 out of 10. I asked him what he thought the regular pizza was, and he said that was a 10 out of 10 as well. So, that means it is just as good, which is what I was going for.

salimoo · September 2009

Okay this pissed me off. How can anyone HONESTLY believe that resources in America are plentiful when social services are strained beyond belief and unemployment is at 10%? PLENTY OF PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING, YOU FOFFING IDIOT.I buy that maybe in Podunk, ME no one needs your coat because I'd bet most of the homeless population flee Maine for the winter but christ almighty, do not extrapolate your smalltown view to the rest of the country.Who needs my coats? We are in America, where the resources are plentiful and the human reproduction rate is plummeting. There is no one here that needs my coat. We have one homeless woman in our town. She has more coats than I do.

buddhagouda · September 2009

[i]My husband got a letter from a ministry that we like. The letter was an update on what's happening in the ministry and an offer for a free book. Dan had heard of the book and wanted it, so I filled out the form and put it in the envelope provided. I noticed that the envelope needed a stamp. . Now, it was no longer a free book. It was a $0.44 book. With the internet so large, whatever information was in this book could probably be found on the internet for free. Was this book worth $0.44 to us? The point is that it is not a free book anymore. It goes from the "free perks - because we're so clever" category in our budget to an actual expense in the nonexistent "entertainment" category of our budget.[/i] I am pretty darn frugal, and we don't make any purchases that aren't in the budget we both agree on at the beginning of the month, but HOLY MOTHER OF TOAST it's a stamp. You're not buying crystal. It's a mother foffing stamp.

KristenBtobe · September 2009

They eat only baked beans for dinner.Her Tommy Hilfiger coat is used as decoration.

lmydogally · September 2009

This post is a great place for me to bury something. Would you leave your lawyer husband so you could have an affiar with a catholic priest?

SarahBethBR · September 2009

My standard of health is pretty simple and agreeable. If God made it, it's healthy. This excludes, of course, poisonous plants and extremely potent medicinal herbs. If man has changed it, it is not healthy. Man does not know my body better than God does.That is why she feeds her family red hot dogs and boxed mac and cheese all the time.I really want her to expound on genetically modified food. And explain to me why it's so much worse than processed meats and powdered cheese.

salimoo · September 2009

WHY DOES YOUR BATHROOM NEED LIGHT IN IT IF NO ONE'S IN IT????????We also keep the bathroom light on all the time. Our bathroom doesn't have a window to let in light, but we could shut it off when we leave.She seems to only think that leaving the bathroom light on when they go out is "wrong," not that it's on when they're home. My head. It explodes.

Knottie_22382082 · September 2009

Wow. What a loon.Her other blog (unfortunately not updated since May) is a treasure-trove of fundie trip, sure to make you stabby, too. [url]<a href="http://emilysbellybutton.blogspot.com/" rel='nofollow'>http://emilysbellybutton.blogspot.com/</a>[/url]

SarahBethBR · September 2009

I throw garlic in there as well, maybe two tablespoons. I do this because I'm pregnant, have young children, a husband who works at Walmart and who is about to return to college, so I'm concerned about swine flu. I know garlic won't immunize us, but it soothes my paranoid pregnant self. When I'm not pregnant and paranoid, I omit the garlic, so I'm not including it in the cost breakdown.What a maroon.

CaliopeSpidrman · September 2009

I get the feeling that her comment of "the human reproduction rate is plummeting" means she thinks that's a bad thing.

maggiepatch · September 2009

I'm all for being frugal if thats your thing or need, but she is nuts. And her justification of not having insurance is insane. Because she won't be using the school system for her 10 kids, she justifies using the government for medical. If even one of those kids has a life-threatening illness, she will eat away at that so called rationalizion pretty quickly. Also, her menu for eating is so bad that her kids will absolutely have issues. Baked Beans for dinner one night? That's it? And where are the vegetables in her diet?

buddhagouda · September 2009

[i]Also, her menu for eating is so bad that her kids will absolutely have issues. Baked Beans for dinner one night? That's it? And where are the vegetables in her diet?[/i] And they don't buy milk often because it's too expensive. I don't see how she can say they take their health very seriously and blah blah blah and then justify feeding her kids nothing but boxed meals and nothing fresh.

noisy_penguin · September 2009

If the good lord wanted her to have vegetables he'd make some grow up out of that dirty crib.

buddhagouda · September 2009

[i]If the good lord wanted her to have vegetables he'd make some grow up out of that dirty crib.[/i] Or the bottom of the crockpot. The post about baking bread in the crockpot made my clean OCD nature cry.

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