Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Storms and Rambles

This year has been interesting. We had a wild winter, a white Christmas that had people snowed in. I had to go to work the day after Christmas though, just because I have a bad job. Tornado's ripped through Alabama and NC/ few other states, the Mississippi river is flooded. I think the big question would be, Is this normal? I do not remember it being normal, not in my childhood, teenage years or where I am now. we are breaking record books or coming close to with this weather. I remember el nino and la nina when they hit seeing that summer haze on the water. I remember when it snowed in NC in 93. seeing it last year I saw it snow on Christmas, and that is something I have never seen.

The purpose of this blog is to go through survival ideas, mine mostly, perhaps others if they decided to send in articles they write, or if I get a helping author. life is lived constantly on expectations, I normally know what to expect with the weather, which extremes I have to deal with for the area I live in, since I have lived in the same state in the same county my entire life. Life has thrown me many curve balls, loosing houses, moving many times, my father passing, its all things I look at, turn off, and move on. A person tends to worry about their own well being, if you are to continue living the way you expect, in the environment you are used to. I suppose I am rambling out of the many things I miss in this world, as prices soar for every product nameable, I guess the price of expectations has gone up most of all

Monday, May 9, 2011

Stages in life

It is human nature to always look for something new, want the next thing, perhaps even being unachievable. I have a new car, making payments on it yes. Next thing in my life is to move from my apartment to some place bigger. I think its a possible approach to go from renting to owning a home in this current market. All of these foreclosed homes in my area could lead to me having a larger home for a price per month cheaper than what I pay for rent. There are so many websites out now listing free and paid for foreclosed homes. I think my next step will be to look through them. It is odd for me to go from canceling television and internet because of the added bill, to thinking about moving, but if I can make the move cheaper on me than my current rent, then it is a profitable situation.

Even in these times leading toward economic downfall, and possible shtf there is still room to improve your situation and control your surroundings.

Friday, May 6, 2011

The Road

Over the course of a few nights, I read this book at night while being unable to sleep. I downloaded the book to my phone, and read it in the dark, for me I never saw this book as story book really, I gathered information from it mostly. Learning the biggest thing they seemed to stress in the book. Have good shoes. Through out the story of this book I thought the idea behind a man as depressed as he was and his son actually to make it through this Barron world that was described. All plants and most animals seem dead, from fires or some other disaster, the air filled with ash, and they are walking along a road in aim to go south. They did not give a reason for them to be going south, the only reason I saw in the book was the idea of avoiding winter. which they went through many hard nights, some when they had a fire some nights not, they remained careful to keep themselves hidden for fear of other people. Apparently people lacking a food source will kill anyone else if needed, like we didn't already think this. This man and his son neither of which are ever given names in the book remain aware of their surroundings while always on the move even when finding random points of Paradise. This is not a bad book, the dialog between the man and the boy was a bit hard for me to follow. 

I do realize there is a movie to this book, I didn't read good things, but there is one thing I know about myself, if I read the book I do not care about seeing the movie, If I watch the movie I get very interested in the book.

I hope I did not give too much away with this book.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

coupons?

Okay I do believe my wife has this figured out, in this receipt she bought 14 things? Two bags of frozen veggies meals, Three bags of frozen corn, 5 power bar energy bars( why did we need these I do not know?), Four tubes of toothpaste( finally something we needed).  retail price 37.46 she paid 7.98, 30 dollars saved, its not 1000 dollars worth of food but it is a start. She did this in a hurry tonight because she saw sales were going to end so she acted quickly on them, do not know if that was good or not.


In other news for me. I had to cancel my tv/internet wont really effect me being here I still have my phone to use for a modem. This just reduces my speed online greatly.

Oh yeah Osama bin laden was killed I think. I prefer more confirmation and I dislike the sight of the president patting himself on the back taking the credit hoping for his own reelection when it was a soldier that did the work.

Friday, April 29, 2011

all work all play

I have kept my plate quite full, after healing from my eye I have been constantly working, and when not attempting to be social in the world. my hand is broken still but I am moving around it working left handed mostly.

Crazy weather huh? To all those hit by the tornado, I am sorry, I wish you the best, and condolences to loved ones you may have lost. I suppose when not living in a flood plane or earthquake area, hurricanes and tornadoes are coming and we should just move under ground. This weather is odd, in NC I have seen and lived through one tornado in my area in my life before this year. that means 25 years, I have seen one, and that was when I was in grade school, elementary school mind you. I honestly believe this new condition's of weather are the effected jet stream from the gulf oil spill but I will never be able to confirm this unless the government decides to do so.

That being said, I am doing well beyond being broke and broken. my mind just needs time to recharge for some new content to be unleashed here.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Extreme couponing attempt 2

This time, smaller haul attempt and it was just my wife going out while I was at work. Baileys Coffee Creamer, she only bought one bottle, costing  2.15 with tax, she had two coupons for a dollar off coupons for the item, ended up paying .15 for the bottle, odd thing in these attempts, we really didn't need the creamer beyond getting a new flavor I suppose.

I would honest like to see our possibility of making a shopping trip and paying little to no money for most of the items, and I will keep trying for this goal for now, in some way I am sure we are saving money. With Fuel prices continuing on the up I believe everyones pockets are nearing empty or at least hurting. I just hope with these shows now on tv, that have caught my notice, and the notice of others, do not effect the coupons, or stores doubling them, or accepting them all together in the way people are using them on these shows. I heard a conversation about it between a cashier and a customer while in line at the local store today.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Extreme couponing wtf?

Well it has been awhile hasn't it? its been a bad two weeks for me really, I am typing currently with a healing broken hand, and a healing scratched cornea in my right eye. I have been kinda out of commission for the internet, Yet I still had to work. Today on my first day off in awhile and not injured too badly I made it my mission to attempt this couponing thing I have been seeing on Television. Last night after returning home from work, watched an episode of this show Extreme couponing and started looking online, my wife informed me of a website called southernsaver.com and I really had to go on help from my wife since the show its self does not show the store names, or the websites where they get the coupons or how they get so many.
found a deal on this website at CVS Pharmacy for 5 for 5 on floss, tooth brushes, tooth paste and a few other random soaps. Then they show a printable coupon for reach brand floss a dollar off, and coupons 2 dollars off two reach tooth brushes, I print off enough of these coupons to get 4 packages of floss and 6 toothbrushes, this should be two of the 5 for 5 deals, for free.

At the store, there were 4 floss packages, and no toothbrushes, so we attempt going to another store, other store there is only one package of floss. In the end we go back to the first store, get the 4 packages of floss, no toothbrushes, and a bottle of Listerine that was included in the 5 for 5 deal. my total? It should have been 1.08 by my logic, a dollar for the item I did not have a coupon for and the NC state sales tax for that item, No the total was 1.40 I paid sales tax on 5 items, 4 of which were free. I was taxed by the state for something that was free, do help me understand this?