Happy Late Thanksgiving

                                                          Hello Cheap Cheetah Family

Sorry so late, but Happy Thanksgiving anyway. Hope that you had a good one. Being a cheapskate, mine was simply spent if with family eating what needed to be eaten from the freezer, which was a basic turkey parts and some beef I needed to use up before it went bad. What about you? I was watching the Black Friday craziness, which wasn't as crazy as before, no long lines and a busy mall. People are doing most of the shopping online these days. Also, I saw where a woman had set up in the park and was giving her stuff away for free. It was her campaign on the anti-Black Friday sale. the people loved the idea didn't like the name so much. 

So are we planning our money-saving strategies for 2006 yet? I have some ideas, but not sure which way I'll be going next year. Just wanted to say, have a safe and Happy Holiday.

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It Can Be Done

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It can be done if you're careful. I went to a Walmart yesterday, and I was looking at the prices for a Thanksgiving dinner. With the way the store rolled back some of its prices. I'm talking 50 cents for a package of corn bread mix, 98 cents for a can of soup, $1.15 for a box of stuffing, and 95 cents for a can of cranberry sauce, pasta .89 cents ,pasta sauce 1.25. You get the picture; the turkeys were 89 cents a pound, and they were large. I'm sure you can find smaller ones that are cheaper. Their discounted area had dinner rolls and sweet stuff marked down. I got a pack of sliced Italian bread for $1.25. So, you can make Thanksgiving dinner for like $25 if you go fancy, and maybe buy a dessert, it might cost you, say $30, but that should feed two or more people. If you budget and plan your meals right.

The Walmart I went to was packed. People were definitely looking at prices and only picking out what they really needed to buy. I don't think Thanksgiving will be a big food event like it was in the past. Since people are just returning to normal. Those who didn't get their SNAP benefits for a while and are just now getting them back. For me, if I were doing Thanksgiving, I would definitely do it from Walmart. It would be cheaper to buy the store brand than the name-brand items. So what are your frugal/cheapskate plans for Thanksgiving? Whatever it is, have a happy and safe one and be blessed.

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Is it Just Me???

                                                  Hello, My Cheap Cheetah Family

Happy November. Is it me, but how many times will you let someone or something knock you down before you fight it? I mean, I have seen all these government workers who were laid off, and now they are in lines for food. I'm not knocking them; you do what you have to do to feed your family. I know I would. This isn't the first time the government has laid off its workers. If that was me after the first time. I would be going into super cheap mode, trying to save every nickel I could get my hands on. So if I were laid off a second time, I would be prepared. You can only kick me one time before I get the message. I know things are hard right now, and money is tight. I get that, when I was working, no matter what, even if I could only save $5 out of my check, I did it for the just-in-case moments. Like the ones these government workers are having. For you to rely on someone that you've worked for 20 or more years is crazy. You have to rely on yourself. Am I wrong in saying this? I'm sorry, it's just how I feel. I've been kicked too many times financially not to come out swinging. When you get fed up, you do something about it. When the government workers do go back to work. I hope they realize that the only person they can count on his themselves.

 Sorry for the rant, anyway, we are starting the second week of November.How's your savings progress going? Mine's slow, but I'm wrapping my coins and donating a lot of stuff that's really not needed. Did I mention that getting rid of clutter helps to save money in the sense that you don't need to clean it, mend it, or even look at it if you get rid of it.

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November

                                              Hello, My Cheap Cheetah Family

So, how was your Halloween? You know the Halloween candy is 50% off right now. If you need some. To me, the candy nowadays doesn't taste as good as it used to be. Anyway. It's November 2, and I'm challenging myself to get back to the way I used to be, and that's being a cheapskate again. Especially since all the crazy things are going on with people not getting their SNAP benefits and the government laying off workers, besides other companies. These workers were living paycheck to paycheck, now relying on food banks to feed their families. These are scary times we're in. So that's more of a reason to tighten up and get our money right.

My goal is to get back to the basics of knowing where my money is coming from and where it's going. Meaning I hate to budget, but I will. I was starting to get wasteful when it came to food, so I'm cutting back on that and also just walking into a store and buying stuff that's not needed. I'm also paying close attention to my credit card bills since sometimes I have to question what a charge was and end up getting it corrected. I find that more often than I use to. Also, I'm just trying to figure out ways that I can still maintain my standard of living, which is sort of low if I lose any income for whatever reason. All of these things I'm challenging myself to do this month because the last thing I want to be is hungry and homeless, especially since I have medical issues that suck up a lot of my extra money.

         So, what are you doing to save money? Let a renewed cheapskate know.  

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