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Menu Plan Monday by Orgjunkie.com
We are enjoying our meals using our Angel Food Ministries purchase each month. Here are a few more meals we have made and all our family have enjoyed.
We made ribeye steaks, veggies with rice stir fried together, andwe love lots of onions and green bell peppers mixed in.
I watched the Oprah show yesterday and this is new advice Suze Orman is telling people about paying off credit cards. I found it interesting and thought I would make a written note of it here.
I do feel bad for our situation, and at time just want to put my head in the sand. But in all honesty we are blessed, my husband has not one job but two jobs. I have not one but two work at home jobs. We are able to pay for our home and food on the table. I see on the news about people losing their homes and not having enough to pay their basic living expenses. I watch and listen to the never ending news and tv shows about how other are living in tents and living in shelters and I cringe, because that could easily be our family.
I need to learn to count my blessing everyday and learn that while it is very hard for us someone else always has it harder. We just need to continue forward and try not to be that someone else.
I am so glad we are starting a new month. I have been thinking quite a bit about our debt repayment the last part of March. I am getting antsy about getting to the end, but know that it is quite a ways away. It is still a project in process and will be for at least another few years.
We are working now on getting the house packed as we have decided to finally put our For Sale sign up. We have started packing in anticipation of the impending move. We have a place in mind where we are wanting to rent for at least a year. We are praying that this home will sell. If it doesn’t sell, we need to start making plans for an alternative plan. I have not gotten that far yet in my train of thought.
We have done all we can her with our current situation to decrease our expenses.
We have canceled quite a few things:
– Netflix (gone)
– cable (replaced with less expensive tv service and internet)
– phone service (work phone is free and house phone is only 20.00 month)
– cell phone (replace with a much cheaper on pay as needed) We only use our cell phone in emergencies,
– food (Angel Food Ministries) No eating out at all, all home cooked meals
Our next step to decreasing our debt even more is to sell our home, if at all possible.
Let us see what April brings.