Official SS Poll: What do you do to eliminate bills / cut down expenses?

[Dianna Starr]

@Dianna Starr I'm with you there! I'd love to own a place mortgage free as well. With the properties priced low as they are here in Ireland at the moment, a place with lots of TLC needed may just happen for me sometime. I'd love to see pics of your renovation and projects etc, if you have some to share? Just head down to one of the social or random topic sections and hit the "Start a new thread" button and post away

 

[Dianna Starr]

right on sumi , just keep looking and asking the powers that be for your place to be given to you in the best way for all concerned, we didnt have much money but found our place for cheap, it was not the house , but the land that was important & i missed farming & being creative & really needed a place to do that in , so now i have 75 chickens & would never hurt any no matter what and my girls lay 40 to 50 eggs a day they take very good care of me as i do them so im fed well & so are they i feed them sprouted barley & wheat grass & i sell what ever eggs i dont eat ,so my chickens are richer then me HA but life is good & every day is just an amazing gift , im glad i created it , you create what you want in life , faith is very important , so have the faith that what you want will come to you..! in a way you can most afford don't ask how just be glad & stay open to all possibilities & it will come to you, that is truly all it takes & a couple of prayers cant hurt either HA right ..lol... take care & remember keep the faith...!!! O and im also Irish and pretty much a work alcoholic HA, good to meet you

 

[Country homesteader]

In the house I live in there's a dishwasher ( my Uncle bought it when it was just my cousin here seeing how my cousin didn't like doing dishes so he just let them stack up) which I don't use even though it is an energy saver to help cut down on the electric bill. My cousin still doesn't do dishes not even with the dishwasher. There's also a washer and dryer even though I wish I didn't have to use the dryer but my Uncle won't put up or allow me to put up a clothes line. Wish I could so it would cut down even more on the electric bill.
Don't have to worry about a water bill seeing how we have well water but with the price of propane and kerosene attempting to cut down on how often I use the stove ( not using so much of the furnace anymore seeing how winter is gone).

 

[tortoise]

@Country homesteader , my clothesline is literally falling down, but because of that I've discovered I can hang out a load of laundry on an indoor folding clothing drying rack and hang shirts on hangers. The indoor clothes drying rack is small enough I can carry it outside.

We don't need a clothesline anymore. If we ever catch up on our to-do list, we'll remove it rather than repair.

 

[Country homesteader]

I do have a folding drying rack but I'm just afraid that even if I had clothes on it the chickens would think it was a rooster and perch themselves on it. Remember the chickens are free range so they are all over.

 

[tortoise]

LOL! I've been trying to plant seeds and darn chickens keep eating them. DH says to feed them something better somewhere else.

 

[lcertuche]

My sister puts a drying rack in her bathroom or bedroom to dry clothes. I'm thinking I need to string a clothesline on my back porch to save on electricity. With a big family like mine it would save a lot.

People from our church brought us a lot of firewood today and said they have a lot more. They've already brought us about 4 cord today and have at least that much more to bring later in the week. Last winter when we didn't have money for firewood and was burning pine boards they brought us a cord of wood.

They won't take money and say they just need to get rid of it. I'm pretty sure they don't have to cut and split it to get rid of it but do it as servants of Christ.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

my Uncle won't put up or allow me to put up a clothes line

Have a treadmill? They make a great place to hang clothes to dry, lol. Don't ask me how I know...geeze. But, I have one of those folding racks too. I keep it in a hallway right under an air conditioning duct. Those clothes dry fast! I also put shirts/pants on hangers. I have a shelf in my laundry room that I hang them from.

Maybe you could put a retracting line somewhere outside....it would only be visible when you're using it and would then roll back up...?

 

[sumi]

I do have a folding drying rack but I'm just afraid that even if I had clothes on it the chickens would think it was a rooster and perch themselves on it. Remember the chickens are free range so they are all over.

That is exactly what mine did and they broke it

 

[sumi]

People from our church brought us a lot of firewood today and said they have a lot more. They've already brought us about 4 cord today and have at least that much more to bring later in the week. Last winter when we didn't have money for firewood and was burning pine boards they brought us a cord of wood.

They won't take money and say they just need to get rid of it. I'm pretty sure they don't have to cut and split it to get rid of it but do it as servants of Christ.

That was really kind of them!