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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 49371" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Here every time the gas prices rise our electric and gas bills go up. Now we pay a "delivery" fee for pizza that is awfully high. No more ordered pizza for us. Our trash bill jumps too.</p><p></p><p>And has anyone else noticed that milk prices seem to be going up and down according to the gas prices? Last time I looked our gas was 3.50 something and so is milk. :surprise: To a family of huge milk drinkers this is horrible. No one's allowed to drink milk as a beverage except Aubrey.</p><p></p><p>husband is loosing at least a third of his paycheck to gas. He has to drive all the way to cincy and back everyday. And he doesn't get paid much since it's a temp co. He told his boss either she finds him work closer to home or a job that pays better or he's headed off to another temp co that will.</p><p></p><p>N has had to cut down her driving lessons to an hour only a couple of times a week.</p><p></p><p>T walks all over town with his cane, unless a family member is headed out in the same direction.</p><p></p><p>I monitor all electric usage in the house. No lights til after dark. No window air conditioners this summer. And God help the person who leaves a light on after leaving a room. Aubrey "swims" in a small rubbermaid tub to keep cool. We were going to buy her one of those small plastic pools from wallie world but it holds at least twice as much water as the rubbermaid. I won't be turning on my gas oven all summer. I have a crockpot, and an electric countertop oven that doesn't use much electric but bakes as well as the gas oven.</p><p></p><p>Groceries have been cut back to the essentials. No snack food except popcorn. And my menus are back to my "poor but filling" type. Lots of mac and cheese, rice, potatoes, hamburger, noodles, ect.</p><p></p><p>If we need something and it's within walking distance, we walk. My friend and I take turns driving to school. And on clinical days we have together we'll also take turns.</p><p></p><p>You know gas prices are too high when at Nichole's graduation they give all the grads a 25.00 gas card to give to their parents. :rolleyes:</p><p></p><p>Let's see, some cheap things I used to do with the kids..... waterguns, wiffle ball, volley ball (made net by recruiting a clothes line and used a 99 cent bouncy ball), we'd gather up the neighborhood kids for Old Fashion games like Red Light/Green Light, Mother May I, Simone Says, Freeze Tag. Kids used to round up my plastic lawn chairs and toss a couple of old sheets over for tents and forts, trips to the park to play and fish using cane poles and worms dug out of the backyard.....</p><p></p><p>I'll have to think on some more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 49371, member: 84"] Here every time the gas prices rise our electric and gas bills go up. Now we pay a "delivery" fee for pizza that is awfully high. No more ordered pizza for us. Our trash bill jumps too. And has anyone else noticed that milk prices seem to be going up and down according to the gas prices? Last time I looked our gas was 3.50 something and so is milk. [img]:surprise:[/img] To a family of huge milk drinkers this is horrible. No one's allowed to drink milk as a beverage except Aubrey. husband is loosing at least a third of his paycheck to gas. He has to drive all the way to cincy and back everyday. And he doesn't get paid much since it's a temp co. He told his boss either she finds him work closer to home or a job that pays better or he's headed off to another temp co that will. N has had to cut down her driving lessons to an hour only a couple of times a week. T walks all over town with his cane, unless a family member is headed out in the same direction. I monitor all electric usage in the house. No lights til after dark. No window air conditioners this summer. And God help the person who leaves a light on after leaving a room. Aubrey "swims" in a small rubbermaid tub to keep cool. We were going to buy her one of those small plastic pools from wallie world but it holds at least twice as much water as the rubbermaid. I won't be turning on my gas oven all summer. I have a crockpot, and an electric countertop oven that doesn't use much electric but bakes as well as the gas oven. Groceries have been cut back to the essentials. No snack food except popcorn. And my menus are back to my "poor but filling" type. Lots of mac and cheese, rice, potatoes, hamburger, noodles, ect. If we need something and it's within walking distance, we walk. My friend and I take turns driving to school. And on clinical days we have together we'll also take turns. You know gas prices are too high when at Nichole's graduation they give all the grads a 25.00 gas card to give to their parents. [img]:rolleyes:[/img] Let's see, some cheap things I used to do with the kids..... waterguns, wiffle ball, volley ball (made net by recruiting a clothes line and used a 99 cent bouncy ball), we'd gather up the neighborhood kids for Old Fashion games like Red Light/Green Light, Mother May I, Simone Says, Freeze Tag. Kids used to round up my plastic lawn chairs and toss a couple of old sheets over for tents and forts, trips to the park to play and fish using cane poles and worms dug out of the backyard..... I'll have to think on some more. [/QUOTE]
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