saving money, we hope

in the effort to save some money, as everyone ought to do, i did something that i have wanted to do for a LONG time.
for a little over $9, i made myslef a clothesline. we already had the posts in the backyard, so, all i needed was the line and the clothespins. gotta love the dollarstore. i got 140 feet of clothesline for $2, and 56 clothespins for $4. then, i discovered that i needed some more clothespins, so at wallyworld, i got 100 more for $3.
if i don't have to run the dryer all the time, i wonder how much lower my power bill will be? we'll find out!

streaking?

so, i just caught my two children outside. not normally a problem, except that elizabeth was buck naked and taylor only had underpants on.

when did i suddenly get two streakers?!

oven

so, i haven't heard from the landlord about the oven since the 4th of july when we saw them at the parade. i was going to sit down tonight and type up another letter to send to them.he called this morning and said that he was going to come and put the new oven in this afternoon.

WHAT! he didn't tell us he was getting a new one. he told us he got a replacement part.

so, he showed up and put the new oven in, and i'm currently cooking dinner in it!!!

YEAH!

government programs, sheesh!

shauns school money finally came in. unfortunately, it's already gone. i didn't have enough to pay off the credit card, or pay mark and my mother-in-law back. all the bills are current, but there's nothing to get us through until fall semesters loan money comes in.

the food money finally came in also. interesting story that one. i had sent in all the verification paperwork and everything they wanted for both the food stamps and the medicaid. a month later and i was still waiting to hear back about them. so, i tried calling in to get some info and find out what was going on. i got an automated message that said, "for english press one, for spanish press two." i pressed one, it repeated itself, i pressed one again, it repeated itself again. it kept looping.
so, i drove down to the local office, which by the way no longer takes care of anything except the initial interviews, and tried to get some info out of them. they gave me direct phone numbers to call.
so, on the way home, i called those numbers. about the food stamps i was told they were VERY sorry, and would have someone run the case right away and call us back that day with numbers and the money, if there was any, would be in the account in the morning. it was.
as for the medicaid, i was told that they would get someone on it soon and i would be informed. still waiting to hear on that one. when that comes through, i can take the receipts for elizabeths medicine back to the pharmacy and get my money back. that will help, that's a hundred dollars.
basically, they had everything they needed for both of them, but no one had bothered to check back and run them again. idiots!

now if we can just figure out how to survive until fall semester starts.

oh, btw-still no oven, this really sucks!

solved!

so, it occured to me on the 4th, that we have a credit card with a $500 limit on it. it's not being used and hasn't been for almost 2 years.
activating it would solve 2 problems. 1: we have necessities that we can't get because the loan money isnt' in yet. 2: it will help build our credit back up if we use it and pay it off each month.

yes, i activated it and have gotten the things that we needed.

now if the money food would just come in. . . .

money issues

we called the school today to find out where shauns loan money was. turns out the school doesn't get it until the 6th. then cause he's out of town, they will mail it on the 8th. we'll be lucky if we have it by the 11th.
the semester will be halfway over before we see the money that is supposed to get the supplies. there's something seriously wrong with that!