So we were supposed to know yesterday about whether or not DH's company got the contract. Well, we still don't know. Apparently they are taking 2 MORE weeks to decide. Something that should have been decided in January. I am not holding my breath about 2 weeks from now, either. Do they not understand that they are fooling around with people's lives here and their livelihoods?
I am just hoping that DH can get some overtime in. There appears to be the work for it. If he can get in enough OT to get the EF up to $20K, I might (probably not), just might relax a little bit.
I have decided to do an eat from the pantry challenge for the month of April. I want to cut our grocery spending all the way down to $400. If I can, it will go a long way towards easing the pain of the pay cut. I don't need to buy meat at all during this month. I don't need to buy potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, pasta, tomato sauce, rice, or flour, or sugar.
I am allowing myself to buy fresh fruit, milk, and some greens and onions if I run out, but that is all. I will be baking all my bread, rolls, and buns. I've got plenty of food in the freezer and on the canning shelves. My Aerogarden is producing a couple of salads a week. I've got lettuce planted that will hopefully take off by the end of the month. This should be easy. It goes without saying that there will be no eating out.
If I can figure this out and stick to a much stricter grocery budget, and we can get used to not getting everything we want food-wise all the time, then if his pay does go back up, we can save the difference then, too. That would be nice. And if it doesn't, we'll know we can get by on much less.
Life in Limbo
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In the future, for onions.... we grow Egyptian walking onions, which are a perennial onion. Look them up. You can eat the bulbs fresh, like a normal onion, use the early greens like chives, and eat the bulbs that form on the top in summer (taste like garlic).
They are wonderful, and provide us with onions 9 months of the year with zero effort. I could send you some bulbs for them in summer, if you'd like to try them. They are one of the best things I've ever grown.
April 2nd, 2016 at 05:47 pm 1459615647
Here in our oil patch, jobs are vanishing by the hour, not just in oil and their support industries but filtering down to every service. The 6 pm news is a daily announcement of business shutting down. There are so many homes for sale here it's going to put folks in other, unrelated groups underwater regionally. It's really scary
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Laura--Thanks.
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I'll take you up on the Egyptian Walking Onions when we move. I really don't have a place right now where I can let them take over, but I have wanted to grow those for a while now. We have a mess of chives right now and I just pulled all the leeks that overwintered. I'll be putting in green onions as soon as the starts are put out and regular onions, too. I still have some green onions that overwintered. So I really shouldn't actually need to buy onions at all. I wasn't thinking about all the stuff I actually have.
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