Background: It’s the beginning of the month. so the grocery budget starts over for the month. Since I’m a tight-fisted guy who really wants to squeeze as much life out of a nickel as possible, I’m doing the grocery shopping. The missus is sitting next to me in the truck as we depart one of our grocery stops.
Her: So what happens if we wind up with money left over at the end of the month if we go under budget?
Me: Well, I have a few ideas.
Her: Like what? Do we carry it over to the next month? Buy ourselves some luxury foods?
Me: Well, we could do that. I was thinking we’d take any extra and work on buying more food to put back into storage.
Her: I was thinking the same thing!
And that’s synergy, folks.
Your wife seems much more tuned in than many. Ask her please, if you would, why women are so resistant to what is happening to this world. Is it fear?
I suspect it isnt resistance, its more likely the questions are being phrased wrong.
Compromise and common goals, hopefully discussed long ago. That is what makes for a successful and long lasted marriage. From some old farts who are pushing 45
I am very lucky also. After hearing of Obozo’s 3000.00 “gift” to each taxpayer my wife said ” We sure are going to need to rearrange the storage room. That will be a LOT of food and I want that suppressor for the Ruger.”
“…its more likely the questions are being phrased wrong.” LOL!! …classic…story of my life.
Call me a tool or what not, but when I read “Background: It’s the beginning of the month”, my first thought was of Chris Rock’s welfare carol “It’s the first of the month”.
Yeah, I kinda see that too. But, out of practicality and neatness, the budget resets on the first of the month.
Re. your food posts….sometime back you mentioned in your part of Montana that some big box stores started selling those #10 cans/kits of Augason Farms foods and such…Utah company….we now have them for sale in our part of NC at WalMart, of all places, so i examined the cans carefully….there is a manufacture date and a place on the can label so you can list when the can was opened, etc., but there is not mention that i can find of a USE BY type of date….is there a rule of thumb for these freeze dried or other items in Augason #10 cans that you can use for shelf life estimation?….i would like to stock a few of these items, but don’t have any idea of their shelf life….pls. advise when you have time….hope you have a good time away…rgds, redclay7 6/29
Check with their website, they should have it there in a FAQ or something. however, my experience is that long-term foods properly sealed/stored in #10 cans are good for a couple decades.