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I am 56 live of a pension I have few other streams of income debt and mortgage free though pay government rental

"Retired" last year at 59. Wasn't really my plan, Divorced and then care for my elderly mother for the next six years. Not doing quite as well as I had hoped but the reality is that there are not many good jobs for 60 year old women re-entering the workforce that offer the flexibility I need. I'll make it work....not interested in flipping burgers at this point lol.

I’m GenX , but my parents were from the silent generation. I was raised very similar to you. We had several gardens every year and mom canned all our food for the winter. We never ate out except maybe twice a year at the holidays for my dad’s work. We used a wood stove for heat, and opened the windows during the summer since we didn’t have air conditioning. Living this way taught me so much and we still do these things to this day!

If you have no pension/ssa-are you making enough from social media to pay monthly bills without withdrawals from savings?

Is the $18k for working part time a combined figure for you and your spouse or can you each work part time and make $18k each? ($36k total)?

I go to a hispanic grocery store for laundry soap too! Otherwise I use Native Soap for everything else since it works better than anything I've ever found. It pulls up grease & grime in the kitchen sink, kitchen counters, bathroom sink and tubs. What was unexpected is the freeing feeling of not having those cumbersome large bottles taking up space. Thank you for the tips in this video, I love it! I'

I love red dirt roads!😊

Years ago, a friend hinted at me that she wanted me to co-sign for an apartment for her. I was young but even back then I knew I could get into all sorts of financial trouble if I signed and she couldn’t keep up with the rent. I changed the subject every time she brought it up until she stopped mentioning it…Her sister ended up co-signing and just like I thought, she wasn’t able to keep up with the rent so it fell on her sister until the lease was up and she was forced to move out!

I will look up care credit. Thanks much.

This area looks depressing

But your husbands wages helps pay the bills, doesn’t it?

When I'm using an ingredient that's getting low, I use half (or less) of what I normally would to stretch it until 1) I go the grocery store; 2) it becomes available in my garden; and/or 3) I have the money to replace it. I learned to do this when I lived on a farm 20 miles from the nearest grocery store, 8 miles down a dirt road. It helps you make good with (i.e. manage) what you already have! 🙂

I’m curious how you handle dental bills. I make great efforts to save money and then the surplus is used for dental care. A dilemma.

They are planning 15 minute cities. But that is how they are tracking everyone my privacy is mine it’s not for sale sorry

When in college, if a student wanted to cut the cost of driving home they would look on a community board for people heading their direction and share a ride. The rider would contribute to the gas cost lower the cost of the driver. Same for return trip.

Another good video!

I loved watching Clara. My parents were born in '28 and '30. Even though they were technically out of parameters of the greatest generation, their lives were in it... they still lived it. Our parents and our grandparents filled our hearts, bones, brains and souls with frugality, thriftiness, and saving/using everything up. It's in my bones and has been for as long as I can remember.

I love the tip on eye glass cleaner I am almost out and I use the Dawn/Alcohol/Water to clean and disinfect in my kitchen but never thought about using it to clean my eyeglasses with. If you have a Ulta store in your area they sell empty spray bottles for cheap less than a $1.00 you can take the nozzle off and put it on your bottle. Anna In Ohio

I am one of those who uses my central air a lot in the summer though I do try to not run it 24 hours a day I use fans when I can. I offset that with not using my dryer much in the spring/summer/fall months. I am in central Ohio in a large metropolitan city the capital. It gets hot here without many trees sadly with all the power lines where I live, I just had to cut down one of my shade trees. I just looked at that chart for a Family of 4 here in Ohio it's $209, 331.00 I can assure you we never came anywhere close to that kind of money during our working careers combined. I make about what you and your husband do as a widow. Anna In Ohio

Armadillos are bad here too. Very bad 😳 You came up with a Great idea to save money on your trip 👍 Very helpful video. I live on a very tight budget and I try to come up with thinking outside the box ways to make my situation feasible. Simple living is the way to go 👍 Have an awesome fun simple weekend 😊 Like 254 🌻 🐈‍⬛

Is saw a woman on the news complaining about having to pay $18; for a burrito, well take your lunch to work it’s much cheaper

I have to agree with you about "restaurant quality" meals....so overrated. All those fancy ingredients are not necessary....it's all about marketing! Once we discovered living simply it took all the cooking stress away. Heck the other day my husband made quesadillas with sharp cheddar cheese and mashed potatoes...tapatio hot sauce too....delicious!!! Ate them with a big salad. Simple cooking is sooooooo freeing for the one (me) who doesn't like to cook lol

I think it's hard when you are young. I grew up in a frugal family and always wanted so much - a big house, new car, designer clothes, expensive vacations, going out with friends. Now at 63, it's much easier to pass up these things and save money instead. I have a comfortable small apartment, eat good food, relax and live well. I don't spend a lot but I never feel deprived either. I live in an expensive city (Chicago) and spend under $1800 month ($21,600 a year), well below the amount reports say you need to get by.

Yikes. I’d be concerned about the wear and tear on my vehicle. We were driving on vacation across several states when the car broke down. It was expensive to get it fixed so we weren’t stranded. Not to mention a woman traveling alone is vulnerable if there’s a problem, even as simple as a flat tire. To me, the benefit of saving some money does not outweigh the risks involved.

My Tshirt says, “Just Enough Is Plenty.”

My husband and I and our kids would love to go visit my brother he's got some developmental disabilities and lives in Key West florida. The trip would be really quite astronomical for us. So I like your out of the box thinking. It's not a trip that we are going to be able to make really soon at all maybe even not in the next couple of years but we're hoping that we can make it work somehow because definitely just looking at plane tickets it would cost us thousands and thousands of dollars because we would actually have to purchase plane tickets for more than just my husband and i. With our two children who have special needs who are adults they would not have the money to pay for a plane ticket for either of them. Not to mention housing and food. So we're hoping that if we continue to think of a way to do it we will come up with a good solution. What would be ideal would be to get my brother to come visit all of us where we live because then he would get to see everyone at the same time. Unfortunately with the issues that he deals with he is very rigid about things like that and is not even close to and out of the box thinker and always feels like everyone has to come see him. But we're hoping that may change as well as in about 7 years he will be retiring and then he'll have a lot of time on his hands and the van may feel that pull to come and visit at that time. But we're patient we're willing to wait.

I love your travel idea to go see your grandson graduate very cool😎😎

In our lives we made the decision many years ago that we would live on one income. And other than me working outside the home for a couple of years during our 37 years of marriage I have had the blessing of being at home. So I know the weight of going into retirement really all falls on my husband but he's got a very positive attitude about it and because we've chosen to be a Frugal couple and to live simply I think everything's going to be just fine. I know it will.😊

Even though my husband and I have not retired yet we are getting very close. And I find myself really being very content with less already. I think that when that last day comes for him where he does let his crew go and just does what he pleases with his business schedule, and on his timetable what he chooses to or some days not at all, I think I'm just automatically going to even want to rein it in even more. We feel that we will be able to retire comfortably and not really have any Financial worries, but it's not because we're rich, or because we want to live high on the hog as they say, but just knowing that the simple living and contentment with what we have and where we are will be good enough for us really gives me a lot of peace and comfort. I'm not sure that my husband in his mind yet feels that everything's going to be just fine but I believe that he will , he's been keeping track of things on a spreadsheet and really watching our budget carefully as I've been doing as well and just I think when the day comes I think he'll be pleasantly surprised that everything is going to be okay.❤

I looked up my state from the article that you linked and it's saying $240,000. That is utterly ridiculous. We don't live anywhere close to that at all.

I like what you said in a recent video about growing a garden that you can manage. We have tomatoes, Bush beans, peppers, lettuce, zucchini, squash, and a blueberry bush. And right now the only thing that we have that is ready to eat out of our garden is lettuce. And we're thankful for that and we're praying for a good harvest for the rest of it. But that's about as much as what we can handle cuz my husband really has to do most of the physical labor with that as I'm not able to. So whatever we have to supplement at the grocery store I try to find the best price and then we use things sparingly. I will make a bag of carrots last for quite a long time. I may buy a few tomatoes till ours are ready and I will also use them sparingly. Because I know that we're getting what we need but we also need to be wise as to how quickly we're going through what we have.

You are so right, Society tells us we need to buy this to be happy, we need to do this to be happy, we need to live here to be happy. It's just an ongoing monologue in our head that we need to fight against. I often tell my children that you don't have to live up to society's Norm or do what they do. It's so much better to just Forge your own way. And know that the money you're saving, the decisions you're making, and how you're choosing to live is what's best for you and really can give you a lot of peace❤

Last night I made my homemade meatloaf then also my husband cut lettuce out of our garden and we were able to have a really nice lettuce, tomato ,carrot ,and green onion salad that was quite delicious. My husband prefers a honey mustard dressing that I get for him that's a store brand from the store where I shop. And then I made my own homemade Italian dressing from a packet of organic Italian dressing mix that I had and then I just add my own olive oil. My husband made the comment isn't it so nice to be able to eat out of our own garden. I mentioned to my husband that I was trying to make our meals a little more simply. And it was quite satisfying to just have some meatloaf and a salad. We didn't need a side dish. I do have them sometimes either some fresh potatoes made a certain way, or even my homemade Savory rice, or occasionally something else. But the less dishes that have to make up a meal the less money will be spending the more will be saving and we're still eating well. ❤😋

Love the simple life and always strive to live even more simply 😊

I love your celery, that's awesome what you have gathered 😋

I like how you're saying what is this going to cost me? But not just in money, but in every other aspect of our lives. I can't tell you how many things I bought over the years because I thought I needed them and here they sit on a shelf, or in a cabinet, or in a closet and it was really just money wasted.

As always, for very great insight Bonita ❤

Excited to go on the trip with you. lol ❤. Another great video

I really appreciate the bleach to water ratio for the cleaning solution. Normally I would just (generously) pour bleach into a bucket. Also have never used a packaged soup mix before but I will try out the one you gave. Thanks

We have central AC because we live in the deep South. It's already extremely hot and humid. I have asthma and my son has a severe heart condition. AC is not an option. However, when I lived in NJ, we only used AC units on certain days. We never ran them constantly because we didn't have to.

Your comments about auto-pay were interesting. My late husband retired in 2001. We sold our home in CA and bought a 5th-wheel to live/travel in (and we spent winters in south TX, too and eventually bought a home in Victoria, TX) but we still had expenses and setting them up on auto-pay was the best decision for us. I'm still paying most expenses on auto-pay and have never had any problem. As a matter of fact, a couple of our utility company's want auto-pay and they will give a $5.00 deduction each month for using auto-pay.

Where is the article?? Thanks ☺️ I would like to read it

Here if you don’t have the AC the house with get moldy 😢

Great topic. You found a good solution for your travel needs. Watching for a second time.

I would have to say that you're most definitely right about your inner schedule but then what you've had to grow accustomed to. I had always been a morning person when my kids were still living at home and young and me having to get them going in the morning whether we were homeschooling or whether they were in Traditional School which we did both. And then continue to kind of push myself through the day and then sometimes even be up late at night. Now that I have grown children who are out of the house predominantly. My husband and I have been able to settle into a routine. I definitely have found that I am not a morning person. That I need to go slowly into my day. I don't make appointments in the mornings because typically it's too difficult for me to get myself together quickly to get out the door. But I definitely do much better in the afternoon but then kind of fade a bit in the evening, lol. So my husband and I are typically up in the morning between 6:30 and 7:00 because of having to take care of the goats, and the chickens and the dog. But then I kind of take my time. But then we are ready for bed at 9:30 at night. We really can't stay awake much past 10:00.❤

That's funny that you mentioned only eating when you're hungry. I'm the exact same way. I was joking with my husband one time because he is not able to watch a cooking show without wanting to eat. Where I could watch them all day long and never eat a bite of food and be totally fine😅

My brother who is a couple years older than me and my only sibling reminded me of When We Were Young and I used to make forts in the backyard. It's crazy to think that I don't have a memory of that but he clearly remembers it.❤

I just recently made a frivolous Amazon purchase and realized how foolish it was. I needed something to put my eyeglasses in at night when I'm sleeping That Could set my bedside table. Rather than slowing myself down and thinking to myself what would be a Frugal thing to do I just went ahead and ordered a eyeglass holder similar to one that I'd seen on my mother-in-law's bedside stand. I got the item I used it for one night I pulled my glasses back out and put them on and my glasses were smeared and I said that's crazy I've never had that issue before and it was because of what it was lined with must have had something on it and now every time I would have put my glasses in there I would have had to deal with that. Then I had a light bulb go off and I thought to myself you do not need to have this ,send it back. I did that I got my money back and I went into my cabinet and picked out a pretty mug that my daughter had given me as a gift that I only use occasionally and that's holding my glasses. I should have done that to begin with but once again sometimes I make a quick purchase and then I don't think wait a minute you have something that could fit the bill. There is usually a Frugal alternative already at home!