Mine is a basic... buying a frozen turkey and not letting a bit of it goes to waste! Basics on eating Thanksgiving dinner with the turkey, then we go straight into getting everything we can off the carcass. We make it a family occasion actually. (of course the "prize" is the wishbone!) Once he's all clean, into the crockpot he goes. With the usual suspects; carrots, onions, celery, salt & pepper. What results is an AMAZING broth that can be boiled down to be super concentrated, put into ice cube trays, frozen then put in a bag for later use. Typically I get enough to use for a year. Turkey broth is a seriously versatile stock we use all year long! The rest of the meat goes into small baggies and used for fresh soups, stews & sandwiches.
I have to say I agree!!!!!
I watch house hunters on HGTV, and listen to the whinning women!OMG!!!!!!
I want this, I want that!!!!!
Americans need to buckle down on their spending and get real! If my husband I can live in a 3 bedroom 3 bath suburban home, off my one income of less than $100,000.00 per yeat others can too! We cook our wonderful meals instead of eatting out, we don't buy all the latest gadgets, just to have a iPod or iPad, or the latest cellphone. I spend $48.00 per month on my cell phone of 1000 minutes per month. I don't even use those minutes. If people need to talk to me, call me on my land phone.
It's all about managing what you have and being grateful for what you have.
I just paid off my past due house payments plus stayed current with my house payments, and have not missed a payment prior to losing my job, and since getting hired again. Again, my husband has to stay home to care for our son who is autistic. When we made the decision for us to live off one pay check, we cut pack, on extra spending and haven't missed a thing.
If anyone wants to know how to live off one paycheck under $100,000 email me. I'll tell you how.
It is great to see someone lay out the options. I say before doing anything map out the real numbers and figure out what your goal is. Eliminating debt or building your wealth. The strategies are different!
I like making my own baked beans as well, and one other big advantage is that you can control the sodium if you make your own. My husband has high blood pressure, and canned baked beans have 1000 mg of sodium in a small can! I use a product called "No Salt" and low sodium turkey bacon instead of bacon or salt pork, so there's almost no sodium at all in it. I use my turkey roaster pan - the huge, once a year one - to make big batches once or twice a year, and we eat them with omelets, fried eggs, low-sodium hot dogs (surprisingly delicious, from my local kosher grocer), and more. Other frugal recipes I love are home-made macaroni & cheese (when I can get a really good deal on cheese), chicken-heart stew (delicious, iron rich, and dirt cheap - my family just ate for 2 days off $1 worth of chicken hearts), chicken-liver grillades (this feeds us for 2 days for about $1 too), stir fries, omelets, and casseroles. Crock pots are also great for making tough cuts of meat very tender. I have a barbecue-flavor pot roast recipe that involves vinegar, and it makes the cheapest meat come apart with a fork. I've even used it on meat that was almost, but not quite, freezer burned, and it worked. If anyone wants recipes, I'm happy to share.
A great tasting Thanksgiving budget food item would have to be Zatarain's Dirty Rice Mix. Just add ground beef and you're done! It's delicious, cheap, and easy to make!
One thing not mentioned is the educatIon effect. Nowadays, the vast majority of jobs "require" a college education, regardless of whether the degree is actually necessary to do the job or not. And the cost of education is absurd. Tuition is spiraling, even at many public institutions - not because the colleges are greedy, but because public funding for education has gone down so much. In the 1970s, my NY-based institution received nearly 80% of it's operating costs from government. Now, it's barely 30%, and declining. Do we no longer care about educating anyone but the children of the rich? Now, parents are supposed to foot an ever-growing bill, or supposedly condemn their children to poverty - which is overblown, but still, it is all so unbalanced.
After 30 years of frugal living, my husband and I built our modest " dream home on the land where we already live in a dilapidated farm house. Our payments were very affordable and we we're paying off a 30 year mortgage in 15 years. Then I got multiple myeloma ( terminal cancer), after a time was too sick too work. My first round of chemo cost $69,000.00 per months and latest almost two years. This summer I was in the hospital two weeks. Just my room was $78,000.00. Insurance pays 80% & we pay 20%. We are buried in debt, my income is gone. We are not irresponsible and people who think that everyone who is losing their home is doing so because of over indulgent spending is living in a very blessed place to be so naive. I have multiple friends who had six figure salaries who lost their jobs three years ago and still haven't found a job. This article show a some compassion to people who are going through a living he'll!
At the outlet malls in my area, most of the clothing is barely discounted. I've never found anything in any of the stores that offers savings that match, say, what I would find at Nordstrom Rack or even Ross. And I HATE Ross, so that's really saying something.
My favorite budget Thanksgiving dish Cheesy Potatoes. You can make this easily and pretty inexpensively...buy a bag of potatoes (on sale of course). Cook up about 5 of them and when they are almost soft grate them into a 9x13 dish. Add a can of cream of chicken soup (bought on sale...about 24 cents a can) and a 16 oz container of sour cream (again on sale about 99 cents) and grate an onion (about one cup) into the mixture and add 1 cup of grated cheddar cheese. Top with bread crumbs or crushed corn flakes if you like. Bake for about 40 minutes at 350. It's a wonderful alternative to mashed potatoes! We have this every year and everyone loves it!! Enjoy!
I think this article is exactly right, and I think it actually presents an encouraging thought for those of us with decent career prospects: most of what has changed is consumer attitudes, something a consumer can change back through sheer will if they are aware of it.
Of the 5 major points, 3 of them amount to people getting away from basics. Marketing, normalization of credit, and starter homes are all things that we as consumers can fix individually without any help: buy only what you need, use credit sparingly, and buy only what you need (important enough to be the solution twice).
The change from a stable, secure economy to a dynamic, unsettled economy (points 2 and 4) is problematic if you are an American who traditionally would have made a living via labor intensive work. That's been a pretty dependable way to get a job for most of human history until right now. There is no easy fix here other than adapting to the new reality if you are young enough to do something about it with education and choosing a career path that is harder to outsource or part of the new economy. If you are late career and this happened to you now, I wish you luck because I know that stinks. As a country, I think we should do something to take care of these folks, but beyond direct employment programs or direct benefit programs, I don't know that there is an easy fix.
I LOVE this advice (even if I'm bad at following it!). One of my goals is to get better at doing the dishes while I'm cooking instead of leaving them all until the end.
Thanks for the heads-up on the crockpot size, guest. I always cook these in the oven. The recipe can easily be halved for a crockpot if you feel like yours is too small.
As for the servings...I think it just depends on how much you like baked beans!
I'm not a BoA customer, I was both surprised and thrilled when I heard about their decision to roll back the $5 debit card fee -- hopefully other banks won't institute similar fees now. And giving feedback is a great note. It's so easy to just quit something you don't like, but it's much more helpful to share why you're doing it.
Have any readers switched banks recently? If so, how did it go?
I like keeping chocolate in the back of my freezer anyway -- it's hidden there when I really want something sweet, but it's not staring at my every time I open my cupboard.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is a fruit salad that is time consuming and comparatively expensive to make. It does not keep well either, so Thanksgiving is just about the only time I put the effort into making it, especially since most of the family is not as fond of it as I am.
I tend to do both. I get the safety of removing debt and have the liquidity of investments.
Mine is a basic... buying a frozen turkey and not letting a bit of it goes to waste! Basics on eating Thanksgiving dinner with the turkey, then we go straight into getting everything we can off the carcass. We make it a family occasion actually. (of course the "prize" is the wishbone!) Once he's all clean, into the crockpot he goes. With the usual suspects; carrots, onions, celery, salt & pepper. What results is an AMAZING broth that can be boiled down to be super concentrated, put into ice cube trays, frozen then put in a bag for later use. Typically I get enough to use for a year. Turkey broth is a seriously versatile stock we use all year long! The rest of the meat goes into small baggies and used for fresh soups, stews & sandwiches.
I have to say I agree!!!!!
I watch house hunters on HGTV, and listen to the whinning women!OMG!!!!!!
I want this, I want that!!!!!
Americans need to buckle down on their spending and get real! If my husband I can live in a 3 bedroom 3 bath suburban home, off my one income of less than $100,000.00 per yeat others can too! We cook our wonderful meals instead of eatting out, we don't buy all the latest gadgets, just to have a iPod or iPad, or the latest cellphone. I spend $48.00 per month on my cell phone of 1000 minutes per month. I don't even use those minutes. If people need to talk to me, call me on my land phone.
It's all about managing what you have and being grateful for what you have.
I just paid off my past due house payments plus stayed current with my house payments, and have not missed a payment prior to losing my job, and since getting hired again. Again, my husband has to stay home to care for our son who is autistic. When we made the decision for us to live off one pay check, we cut pack, on extra spending and haven't missed a thing.
If anyone wants to know how to live off one paycheck under $100,000 email me. I'll tell you how.
It is great to see someone lay out the options. I say before doing anything map out the real numbers and figure out what your goal is. Eliminating debt or building your wealth. The strategies are different!
Thanks for the quick list of money saving tips! Some great ones especially about insurance shopping.
Great ideas... thanks for sharing these. I had no idea they could be used to repel insects... I am going to try this one in the spring for sure!
I like making my own baked beans as well, and one other big advantage is that you can control the sodium if you make your own. My husband has high blood pressure, and canned baked beans have 1000 mg of sodium in a small can! I use a product called "No Salt" and low sodium turkey bacon instead of bacon or salt pork, so there's almost no sodium at all in it. I use my turkey roaster pan - the huge, once a year one - to make big batches once or twice a year, and we eat them with omelets, fried eggs, low-sodium hot dogs (surprisingly delicious, from my local kosher grocer), and more. Other frugal recipes I love are home-made macaroni & cheese (when I can get a really good deal on cheese), chicken-heart stew (delicious, iron rich, and dirt cheap - my family just ate for 2 days off $1 worth of chicken hearts), chicken-liver grillades (this feeds us for 2 days for about $1 too), stir fries, omelets, and casseroles. Crock pots are also great for making tough cuts of meat very tender. I have a barbecue-flavor pot roast recipe that involves vinegar, and it makes the cheapest meat come apart with a fork. I've even used it on meat that was almost, but not quite, freezer burned, and it worked. If anyone wants recipes, I'm happy to share.
What's your favorite Thanksgiving budget dish or comfort food?
My favorite Thanksgiving food on a budget is Devil Eggs! They are sooooo goood!
A great tasting Thanksgiving budget food item would have to be Zatarain's Dirty Rice Mix. Just add ground beef and you're done! It's delicious, cheap, and easy to make!
One thing not mentioned is the educatIon effect. Nowadays, the vast majority of jobs "require" a college education, regardless of whether the degree is actually necessary to do the job or not. And the cost of education is absurd. Tuition is spiraling, even at many public institutions - not because the colleges are greedy, but because public funding for education has gone down so much. In the 1970s, my NY-based institution received nearly 80% of it's operating costs from government. Now, it's barely 30%, and declining. Do we no longer care about educating anyone but the children of the rich? Now, parents are supposed to foot an ever-growing bill, or supposedly condemn their children to poverty - which is overblown, but still, it is all so unbalanced.
After 30 years of frugal living, my husband and I built our modest " dream home on the land where we already live in a dilapidated farm house. Our payments were very affordable and we we're paying off a 30 year mortgage in 15 years. Then I got multiple myeloma ( terminal cancer), after a time was too sick too work. My first round of chemo cost $69,000.00 per months and latest almost two years. This summer I was in the hospital two weeks. Just my room was $78,000.00. Insurance pays 80% & we pay 20%. We are buried in debt, my income is gone. We are not irresponsible and people who think that everyone who is losing their home is doing so because of over indulgent spending is living in a very blessed place to be so naive. I have multiple friends who had six figure salaries who lost their jobs three years ago and still haven't found a job. This article show a some compassion to people who are going through a living he'll!
At the outlet malls in my area, most of the clothing is barely discounted. I've never found anything in any of the stores that offers savings that match, say, what I would find at Nordstrom Rack or even Ross. And I HATE Ross, so that's really saying something.
Hmm thats hard. I would have to go with either Apple Pie or Ham.
(the other comment wasn't 2 sentences)
My favorite budget Thanksgiving dish Cheesy Potatoes. You can make this easily and pretty inexpensively...buy a bag of potatoes (on sale of course). Cook up about 5 of them and when they are almost soft grate them into a 9x13 dish. Add a can of cream of chicken soup (bought on sale...about 24 cents a can) and a 16 oz container of sour cream (again on sale about 99 cents) and grate an onion (about one cup) into the mixture and add 1 cup of grated cheddar cheese. Top with bread crumbs or crushed corn flakes if you like. Bake for about 40 minutes at 350. It's a wonderful alternative to mashed potatoes! We have this every year and everyone loves it!! Enjoy!
My favorite budget thanksgiving dish has to be homemade macaroni and cheese. It's so easy to make and very budget friendly.
My favorite Thanksgiving budget dish AND comfort food is the same thing - green bean casserole! Relatively inexpensive to make, and it tastes so good!
I think this article is exactly right, and I think it actually presents an encouraging thought for those of us with decent career prospects: most of what has changed is consumer attitudes, something a consumer can change back through sheer will if they are aware of it.
Of the 5 major points, 3 of them amount to people getting away from basics. Marketing, normalization of credit, and starter homes are all things that we as consumers can fix individually without any help: buy only what you need, use credit sparingly, and buy only what you need (important enough to be the solution twice).
The change from a stable, secure economy to a dynamic, unsettled economy (points 2 and 4) is problematic if you are an American who traditionally would have made a living via labor intensive work. That's been a pretty dependable way to get a job for most of human history until right now. There is no easy fix here other than adapting to the new reality if you are young enough to do something about it with education and choosing a career path that is harder to outsource or part of the new economy. If you are late career and this happened to you now, I wish you luck because I know that stinks. As a country, I think we should do something to take care of these folks, but beyond direct employment programs or direct benefit programs, I don't know that there is an easy fix.
I liked this definition of 'Organising things':
A place for everything and everything in its place. What can be more succint than that?
Veevip Sarathy
I LOVE this advice (even if I'm bad at following it!). One of my goals is to get better at doing the dishes while I'm cooking instead of leaving them all until the end.
Thanks for the heads-up on the crockpot size, guest. I always cook these in the oven. The recipe can easily be halved for a crockpot if you feel like yours is too small.
As for the servings...I think it just depends on how much you like baked beans!
I'm not a BoA customer, I was both surprised and thrilled when I heard about their decision to roll back the $5 debit card fee -- hopefully other banks won't institute similar fees now. And giving feedback is a great note. It's so easy to just quit something you don't like, but it's much more helpful to share why you're doing it.
Have any readers switched banks recently? If so, how did it go?
I like keeping chocolate in the back of my freezer anyway -- it's hidden there when I really want something sweet, but it's not staring at my every time I open my cupboard.
Use them as a base filler as well. Especially around a vanilla candle. Smells amazing.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is a fruit salad that is time consuming and comparatively expensive to make. It does not keep well either, so Thanksgiving is just about the only time I put the effort into making it, especially since most of the family is not as fond of it as I am.
I know you said only art on the walls was made of coffee beans, but I read 'walls' and though of the Bud Light house Super Bowl commercial, haha.
I can attest to the odor fighting power - coffee was a great way to eliminate the smell of college living.