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KT Engine's Kevin Troutman decks the block. Standard deck height on a Chevrolet small block is 9.025 inches, and with the flat-top pistons required by most racing classes, one of the only ways to increase compression ratio is to cut the deck of the block down so that the piston top is closer to the combustion chamber at top dead center. Troutman cuts the block so that the piston is still 0.005 inch below the top of the deck at TDC. In order for your machinist to deck the block correctly, he must know your crank's stroke, rod length, and piston compression height (the distance from the center of the pin hole to the top of the piston). Being able to take the compressed head gasket thickness doesn't hurt, either (this information is available from your gasket manufacturer).
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KT Engine's Nathan Allmond handles final cleaning on our finished block. This is a labor-intensive process and one that definitely should never be short-changed. Dirt or grit left anywhere inside a block can be very harmful to bearings or other components. Make sure to scrub out all the oil galleries thoroughly and then blow them out completely. This requires a specialized set of brushes you can pick up from places like Powerhouse Products. Don't try to get by with stuff you have laying around the kitchen. Begin by washing the block with water to cut the soaps in the cleaners used in engine shops. Then follow up immediately with lacquer thinner and a coat of automatic transmission fluid. The ATF is not only a good cleaner, but it will also stop rust from pitting the freshly machined areas such are cylinder bores.
This is a deck bridge tool, and it has a number of uses. This one came from Powerhouse Products, and it can be fitted with either a single dial indicator in the center or two on the edges. We're using two here to check the piston height to the deck at TDC. You want to do this after the block comes back from the machinist to make sure the deck is machined correctly. Using one set of bearings, one rod, one piston, and the crank, mock up the assembly in each of the four corner cylinders. Spin the crank until the piston is at TDC (the closest to the top of the bore). Use the two dial indicators to make sure the piston is level (both readings should be the same), and measure the distance from the deck of the block to the piston top. You should have already zeroed out the gauges on a flat surface, and make sure the dial indicators are on a flat part of the piston, not the pocket. The distance from the deck of the block to the top of the piston should be the same at all four corners. If not, the deck of the block may have mistakenly been milled at an angle.


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SEATTLE (AP) - More than 20 years after he last coached a game, this week for Washington is all about Don James.
The former Washington coach, who led the Huskies to a share of the national title in 1991, died Sunday at age 80 from pancreatic cancer. And Saturday night, when the Huskies (4-3, 1-3 Pac-12) host California (1-6, 0-4), will be the first chance for the school to pay tribute to James. Washington is also trying to snap a three-game losing streak, while California has dropped five straight.
James' family will serve as honorary captains and the school will have a halftime tribute. James was so respected among his conference peers that California will wear ''DJ'' decals on the back of its helmets even though he dominated the Golden Bears during his Washington tenure, going 12-2.

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The Kansas City Star's Public Editor, Derek Donovan, explains why the paper considers "Redskins" — as in "Washington Redskins" — unprintable, after a reader called out the policy, saying the issue wasn't nearly as important as war or homelessness. His take:
As I've said many times, I'm not big on comparisons unless they're awfully close parallels, and I fail to see any relationship between war and the name of a football team.
And here, I also agree very strongly with The Star's longtime policy on this matter. I remain unconvinced by every argument I've ever heard that the name is not a racial epithet, plain and simple. And I'll even break my usual rule about commenting on issues outside The Star's journalism to say that I find it inconceivable that the NFL still allows such a patently offensive name and mascot to represent the league in 2012.
I almost always come down on the side of publishing a word when it's the crux of a debate (as I did here in the first paragraph). It isn't healthy for discourse to pretend any words or thoughts don't exist.
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My little lambie...I thought this was adorable. He's God's little lamb, it's in blue so it's boyish and this is probably the only Halloween I can get away with dressing him in this.
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Current Newsletter From Our LeadersOur bake sale fund raiser is Monday, Feb. 4th. See email from Joan for details.
There is still time to sign up for Mall Mania, Apr. 4-5 at Oakland Mall. No additional mom's are needed, just girls!!!! Contact Deb for more information.
All Schroeder Girl Scout Daddy-Daughter Square Dance is March 7. I believe the cost is $4 per couple. If you want to attend, let Amy know. Money is due at our next meeting. If a dad is unavailable, grandpa's, uncle's, friends are welcome too. We will also be collecting cereal for the Haven that week as one of our service projects.
If you are interested in the Joe Dumars event, let Deb know by Monday, Feb. 4th. See attachment.
Next meeting, Feb. 12 at Build-a-Bear. All bears will be donated to Beaumont. This will be our only February meeting.
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This is the final reminder for the Bake Sale on Monday, February 4th 6:30-8:00PM at Schroeder. The schedule for volunteers is below, please wear your vests. If your Brownie still wants to work a shift, let me know. Also, please drop off your Baked Goods at Schroeder between 6:15PM 6:30PM. If it is helpful, you can drop off baked goods at my home this weekend, I promise to keep them safe from my hungry kids!
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Its time for our 2nd annual Bake Sale at the Schroeder Boy Scout Pinewood Derby. Last year our Troop raised $110 for just 2 hours of work. The Derby Bake Sale is February 4th from 6:30-8:00PM at Schroeder. If you have never seen a Pinewood Derby, it is fun! We need 2 things:
1. Each girl please provide 1 dozen of a bake good item (preferably peanut free) such as: Rice Crispy Treats, Cupcakes, Cookies Deliver baked goods to Schroeder between 6:15-6:30PM or drop at Joans house by Monday evening (4653 Rambling Drive). If you know your item is peanut free, please label it Peanut Free.
2. We need 6 Brownies to work at the bake sale for a 30 minute shift (please wear vests). Please reply via email with the shift you prefer. We have enough adults so you can help, enjoy watching the Pine Wood Derby for a bit, or leave your daughter and I will give her a ride home. If your daughter needs a ride home, please let me know. The shifts are: 1. 6:30-7:00 2. 7:00-7:30 3. 7:30-8:00
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Hello to Troop 3567 Parents,
I really appreciate all the parents helping their daughters keep track of the orders. To make it easier --- the best way to keep track of all the orders is to keep your 1st (initial) order separate from orders taken after you submitted the initial order. I am sending this email to hopefully answer several questions that have come up about ordering, paying, and picking up cookies.
1. I submitted paperwork with the troops total orders on Jan. 18th, so anything after that will go on the 2nd order submission. The troops initial order came to a whopping 1033 boxes!! Fantastic!
2. Now that the initial order has been submitted, please do not send emails adding on a few boxes here and there. Start a new list. I need you to keep track of any additional orders taken since you submitted the initial order.
3. Any emails with a few add-ons sent prior to 6pm Jan.18th were accounted for in the initial order. I will send individual emails with what I show as the girls initial order totals - so you can keep your lists separate.
4. 1st (initial) orders can be picked up starting after 5pm on Feb. 9th from my house - 2057 Sundew Dr. 248-267-1219. If you cannot pickup on the 9th or 10th - please call me to arrange a later time.
5. $$$ Payment is due when you pick up your cookies. Cash or checks made out to Troop 3567. Be sure to get a receipt from me.
6. Have your daughters keep taking orders. I will send an email for the 2nd order submission in mid-Feb.
Thanks for your support. -- Keep smiling! BETSEY
The 1st COOKIE BOOTH is Sunday Feb. 10th from 12-4pm at the Troy Sports Center.
The following people are signed up to work this booth:
12-4 Betsey & Emma Hagen
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* if I missed someone please let me know.
ANOTHER BROWNIE IS NEEDED FROM 2-4 OR THE ENTIRE TIME 12-4 - I can pick up and drop off if from 12-4.
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Your Cookie Mom -Betsey Hagen
The following people are signed up to work this booth:
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* if I missed someone please let me know.
ANOTHER BROWNIE IS NEEDED FROM 2-4 OR THE ENTIRE TIME 12-4 - I can pick up and drop off if from 12-4.
Thanks from, Your Cookie Mom -Betsey Hagen
|Troop Meetings
We will continue meeting the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. Our meetings will run from 3:10 to 4:30. Remember to send a permission slip to school with your Girl Scout so she can attend, have her wear her vest to school and bring her folder.
Activities For 2007-2008
Feb. 4th - Pinewood Derby Bake Sale Fund Raiser
Feb. 10th - 1st Cookie Booth is from 12-4pm
Feb. 12th - Field Trip to Build-A-Bear and the bears will be donated to Beaumont Hospital
Feb. 23rd (Saturday, During Mid-Winter Break)- Field Trip to The Troy Nature Center...Watching Wildlife
Mar. 7th - Daddy Daughter Square Dance for all Schroeder Girl Scouts
Mar. 11th - Puppet Try-It / Joan Awards Ceremony / Make SWAPS
Apr. 5th thru 6th - Mall Mania at Oakland Mall, 10 P.M.- 5 A.M.
Apr. 8th - Michigan Try-It / Make SWAPS
Apr. 22nd - Bridging Activity with Cassie...maybe at her home...maybe on a Friday Night with Dinner??
Apr. 25th thru 27th?? - Mom and Me Weekend at Camp Storer
May 13th - Honor Mom's with a Tea Party
May 27th - Field Trip to Leader Dogs for the Blind in Rochester??/ Early Registration
May 28th (Wednesday) - Bridging Ceremony 6:30-7:30 with all Schroeder Girl Scout's, Daisy's and 3rd Grade Brownies Bridging
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The Wall Street Journal: Health Law's Impact Has Only Begun
On Jan. 1, the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act took effect. Americans gained access to new health plans subsidized by federal dollars. Insurers no longer can turn away people with existing conditions. Millions are now eligible for new Medicaid benefits. But the federal law also upended existing health-insurance arrangements for millions of people. Companies worry about the expense of providing new policies, some hospitals aren't seeing the influx of new patients they expected to balance new costs and entrepreneurs say they may hire more part-time workers to avoid offering more coverage (Mathews, 2/18).
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Moira worries for Adam's future. Andy refuses a new job offer. Lisa resorts to desperate measures in order to lose weight.
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Charity is not in a good way. Andy and Katie book a date for their big day. Kerry has a plan to bag some extra cash.
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Division 3 Leedstown 196-8 Constantine 200-6 Leedstown lost at Constantine thanks to another Graham Griffiths show at Boulder Parc. He took 5-35 in Leedstown's innings and scored 105 not out in guiding Constantine to their win off the last ball of the 45th over (of 47 permitted due to a short rain stoppage). This was Graham's second century in succession, having scored 143 the week before against Mullion.
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Division 3 Leedstown 181-4 Praze 184-7 Ben James made 67 and Tom James 47 as Praze successfully chased down a good Leedstown total at the Playing Field, in a well contested game. Ty Hendra had earlier top scored for the visitors with 53 and Nick Verran made 44. Leedstown take on Wendron this weekend and Praze visit Botallack & St Levan.
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Falmouth record two-run victory over Camborne Cricket Club
7:48pm Sunday 22nd July 2012
There was a close match at Trescobeas on Saturday as Falmouth beat Camborne by two-runs to stay third in the ECB Cornwall Premier League.
St Just win Vinter Cup with victory for ninth consecutive time
2:03pm Thursday 19th July 2012
St Just have picked up the Vinter Cup for their ninth consecutive season after they defeated Redruth by 76 runs last night.
Mullion fall to thier ninth defeat of the season at St Just seconds
7:20am Wednesday 18th July 2012
Mullion went down to their ninth defeat of the season when St Just seconds won at Garro Lane by 76 runs.
Helston drop to third in division two with loss to Truro Seconds
6:40pm Tuesday 17th July 2012
Helston's title hopes suffered a blow when they went down to a six wicket defeat at Boscawen Park against Truro seconds.
Stithians Cricket Club record eleventh win of the season
5:00pm Tuesday 17th July 2012
Stithians won their eleventh game of the season with a demolition of Redruth seconds who were dismissed for just 66.
Porthleven in switched game at Gulval
6:51pm Tuesday 17th July 2012
Some quick thinking enabled this game to go ahead. It should have been played at Porthleven but the ground was unplayable. With Mullion seconds having conceded their game at Gulval the game was switched to Gulval.
Superb spell from Bostock helps Perranarworthal to welcome win against Wadebridge
4:34pm Tuesday 17th July 2012
A superb spell from Phil Bostock helped Perranarworthal to a welcome win at Tredrea – their first league success for over a month.
St Gluvias CC up to second in Cornwall County Division Two
4:29pm Tuesday 17th July 2012
St Gluvias are in second spot in division two after this win at Rosudgeon but are 34 points behind Stithians.
Falmouth Cricket Club looking to get back into top three with win over Paul
11:23am Friday 13th July 2012
Falmouth Cricket Club will be hoping the weather holds off tomorrow as they face Paul at home in the ECB Cornwall Premier League.
Falmouth captain happy at halfway stage of the season
9:00am Wednesday 11th July 2012
One of the most disappointing of summers for cricket in recent history took another turn for the worst on Saturday as the weather all but washed out the local programme.
Stithians Cricket Club record two victories despite weather
9:30pm Tuesday 10th July 2012
It was a good weekend for Stithians CC as they managed to record two victories despite the weather.
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trekkingirl, glad turbotax is helping you get more money back. I love it because it keeps all the data from the previous year.
Oh, yeah, our tax return is pending to be posted tomorrow into our checking account! Our green card removal of conditions should be funded! Yeah! I think my DH needs an "attaboy" right now, although it will probably just be the money to buy me a valentine treat. I also sold a couple little things on etsy and ebay so have a bit money to buy business related items like more thread and fabric. Also exciting.
Just made arrangements to look at a vehicle on Saturday. It's selling for $6000, which is well within our budget for the "new to us" family vehicle. We're actually looking at minibuses. We currently drive a 12-passenger van and were planning to go up to a 15, but they are super hard to find around here with the last row seating, and if you do find one, there is no room behind for anything. I need to carry a stroller for the twins, and we've got to have room for shopping bags or such! Also, I've wanted a diesel for a while because the gas mileage is so much better. I'm excited to have space in the vehicle! I've been watching minibuses on Craig's list and Ebay and I think we are fortunate to find this particular one in our state, so we won't have to fly out and drive back or anything. Great mileage, great price. Crossing my fingers that it'll be right for us.
If this one works out, we'll be able to pay off dh's car and make a good start on our FFEF!
We just found a new apartment for a bit less money and twice as much space!!! And closer to my frugal single mom friends. I'm really looking forward to it, but it does me that our debt snowball payment went to first month's rent and security deposit. I know it's irrational, but I'm kinda bummed because it was going to be the last payment for one of our debts. I was so psyched to have that paid off this month. Also, I worked some OT that they forgot to pay me for, and now they're telling me I'll have to wait for next pay period... all of that was also for debts.
In the grand scheme all minor setbacks, but still feeling a bit setback.
So I used turbotax to file for the first time today. My return is bigger than it's ever been! I won't count my eggs till they hatch but I think I should have baby EF complete, plus pay off my two credit cards. DH wants to make some major repairs to his motorcycle so he can keep using it to commute. We hopefully will have money for that too. Fingers crossed!!!!!!
esg, a week at a time for me is all I can handle in meal planning, otherwise I get overwhelmed or food gets bad before I can eat it. I am vegetarian and usually have my core carbohydrates of potatoes, pasta, rice, couscous, biscuits/bread/pizza dough, tortillas which I complement with beans or eggs (and the occasional meat replacement) and vegetables.
I am totally stoked after watching the dumping debt myths video in class last night. Now to get my DH on board that having a car payment is dumb and we can save for a car and pay cash next time. Sold another dress on ebay. Not counting the money yet but it will likely go into the gas fund as DH didn't get the reimbursement he was expecting this pay period.
Back to building my emergency fund starting from zero.
I helped a lady jump start her car and she gave me $5. I gave my sister one. - $4
I found $0.11 -
one of my dollars didn't take at the ATM - $1.00
My aunt is giving me $10 for an errand but I may keep that for gas
So I'm now at $5.11
I finally have the stroller loose and washed. I think its dry now so I can sell it hopefully tomorrow.
I see meal planning up in the comments. I'm trying to work on a February meal plan but I'm a little intimidated. I usually do a week or so at a time so if anyone has any tips on how to shop, how to plan, how to put in leftovers, I'd love to hear it. I'm going to go back and read some of thee comments.
Meal planning and cooking on Sunday to eat the rest of the week needs to be one of my focuses.
Got my taxes done last night! Yeah! IRS had accepted the federal ones already this morning. Yeah! Refund coming between Feb. 7 and 14. Getting a refund from federal taxes but owe on state and local taxes. Need to change W-4s to reflect our changes income so we don't owe next year. Thankfully we will get the federal refund back and then be able to pay the other two since I didn't wait until the last minute to do the taxes. DH needs them to file financial aid papers for college.
Thank you, laohaire! I will be looking into it, for sure. I am on the GAPS diet right now, so veg is a huge part of my diet. I'm learning all kinds of new ways to process stuff. I made my own sauerkraut last week. ;)
I have a bad headache but wanted to let you ladies know I read your responses and got some good ideas. Thanks
This is an excellent resource for finding local CSAs and farms in your area:
You pay for a membership at the farm, rather than per item. Different farms have different specific policies, but most of them have you pay a yearly membership, and then you come every week and pick up a box of produce. If the tomato harvest gets wiped out by late blight (as nearly everyone's did a couple years ago) then you don't get much or any tomatoes but the farmer at least doesn't go under. On the other hand, if a bumper crop of something else comes in, you get to enjoy lots of it.
Generally, it's a good deal for you - though obviously it varies from farm to farm and also from season to season. But of course, for it to be a good deal, you have to use all (or most, at least) of the produce. Some people have trouble keeping up.
For me, I have figured that I am basically getting the freshest organic produce at conventional in-season produce prices.
I consider the main value in the quality of the produce I am getting, not so much in the money saved. I can buy the stuff at the grocery for the same money, but it's not near the same quality. Unfortunately, one drawback is that I just can't go back. And I think it's really helped my health overall as well.
ETA: This is the ideal time to look around for CSAs - now through early spring, whenever that might be in your neck of the woods.
Please explain how a CSA works and how to find one. I have a general idea, but I'd like more specifics. I live in farm country so I should be able to find something around here, but no idea how to go about it! Thanks!
Originally Posted by lilacvioletiris
laohaire, I kind of feel like my grocery trips don't always mean I have something to eat. I have been trying to meal plan a least half of the evening meals for DH and me. I buy the ingredients and then because I have to actually "make" the item, the ingredients sit in the cupboard and go uneaten. I come home late and there is "nothing to eat". I could eat potatoes with veggies, baked beans, and cottage cheese every night if my DH would let me. He wants "variety" and honestly so do I but I don't always have time to cook variety. I need to get better at that, because I have spent the food budget and I have little to show for it.
Another thing I do is use Cook's Country 30 minute recipes... they come on the cards in the middle of each magazine, and every time I get a couple of cards that look like fun. Cook's illustrated/cook's country really uses a lot of the same ingredients for many of their recipes, so once I started cooking regularly from there, I wound up with a lot of their ingredients on standby so I go through them even if I just use part of it for any given recipe. It allows us to change things up a bit, and their recipes are so explicit that you never wind up with a real disaster on your hands. Plus, if people like it and it was easy, you can put it into your rotation of meals everyone likes!
Recently I found a chart of ideas for leftovers, which I'll (at this risk of making this post insanely long) excerpt from here:
Steak: slice very thin and serve on crusty bread with leaf lettuce and horseradish mayo (three parts mayo with one part prepared horseradish)
Pot roast: chop the meat or shred with a fork and stir into leftover gravy. Serve over toast as an open-faced sandwich, or as a topping for baked potatos
Chili: reheat and serve over baked potatos -- add cheeze if interested. Alternately, put chili in a baking pan and cover with cornbread batter. Bake at 400 degrees until cornbread is done.
etc... it's a really long chart from a home ec book I took out of the local library.
Finally, nothing makes "variety" better than a couple of tastey snack type things, even if you're eating essentially the same entre. So, if you can make or buy some dips or cheeses and serve them with crackers/chips/veggies, even if the entre is a little boring no one feels deprived. I'm not above plating it pretty to make the repetition more palatable, either.
Anyway, good luck! Meal planning took a lot of energy at the beginning, but as you get used to it and build your pantry, things get a ton easier.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. My husband, when he goes shopping, has a similar thing going, so what I do is something like
Fish: Salmon or Cod... but if you get Salmon, pick up some maple syrup, and if you get Cod, pick up some bacon.
Breakfast: Bread or cerial. If you pick up bread, please get some preserves. If you pick up cerial, grab some soy milk.
and so on... obviously it would be tedious to do it for everything on the list, but this gives him enough freedom to pick stuff while at the same time lets him "shop". We also have some standing buy parameters, like "If you see ground beef for <$1 per pound, buy five pounds for the freezer", "'never buy spice from the big grocery store... we get that from the ethnic store, etc." That lets him feel like he's "shopping for a deal" when he's in the market.
As far as meal planning, it can be rigid or flexible, depending on how you do it. We have a couple of meals picked out each week and assign each to a day, but then flex things around pretty regularly (e.g., this week Monday was supposed to be a little on the elaborate side with a new recipe, but I was exhausted so it wound up being an old standby recipe that I have ingredients in my pantry for, then we did the more elaborate thing another day.). I think it's one of those things where you start out rigid, but as you gain fluency with meal planning it'll get more and more second nature. You'll also eventually have the pantry to back up your go to meal choices, so shopping for your meal plan becomes less of a production. For example, when we first started meal planning, I'd have to pick up every one of five ingredients for Chicken Adobo every time we did it. Now we already have canned peppers in adobo in the pantry, frozen chicken breast in the freezer, rice in the pantry, onions and garlic hanging about etc... so we just pick up one or two ingredients if we want to make that.
When you crave variety that you don't have, what do you do?
If you order out... yeah, that's a bit of a problem. You could at least improve on that, though. Let's say you usually order out 2-3 times a week, you can promise yourself you will only do it once a week. You don't have to plan which day if you don't want; just get home and say "let's use our Order Out day tonight, whattaya say?"
Also, it is possible to build home-cooked variety into your meal planning, but obviously that takes more work. I mean, there's nothing stopping you from planning entirely different meals every week, if that's what you usually do - except the effort.
You could also do something like make a 4 week meal plan (and not necessarily all at once, you can build it over time). Having a meal once a month is pretty infrequent, so if you do 4 different weekly plans, then you can rotate those.
I said I start with my CSA vegetables, but I realized I also start with the sales. Both my local groceries put their weekly sales online, so I can browse through them when I make my list. I only buy sale meat, for example - so if pork chops are on sale, then we're having pork chops that week (along with whatever other meat on sale that week). Some sale meat is packaged in bigger quantities, so I'll buy it and put the remainder in the freezer for next week. I've got 3 different pork chop recipes I use, so even if we have chops every week, there's still a variety.
You can also subscribe to meal plans, and I would say they are frugal if you actually use them. www.cookingtf.com is the one I would recommend if you were interested. She tells you what's for dinner, gives you the recipes, gives you the shopping list as well (!), and also builds in reminders for any prep work you need (like soaking beans the night before, or taking out meat to thaw, or starting the crock pot in the morning).
I don't use her meal plans but I do use her recipes (and make my own meal plans) - they are terrific, yummy and healthy. But that brings me to another thought, and that is style of cooking. Before I got into local, seasonal food and traditional foods, I had a mishmash of recipes that called for all kinds of unrelated ingredients. So if I wanted to make a particular dish, I had to go out and buy three different things that just were not staples in my pantry (or very expensive that time of year - good luck getting asparagus and red bell peppers at the same time for cheap). But cooking from scratch and seasonally uses core ingredients in a way that is much more economical - while also still being fresh and exciting (you always get excited about the next food in the season).
Meal plans don't have to put what's for dinner a certain night in stone. You can just have a list of 6 or 7 dinners and decide each day what you feel like, then cross it off the list. But having at least a loose plan also helps because it eliminates the just-got-home-now-what? tizzy which can make you give up and order out.
Anyway, just some ideas.
ETA: I think that, bottom line, planning SOMETHING is better than not planning at all. Even if you are not planning cheap meals. Even if you order takeout or go out to eat sometimes. You are still going to save money when you plan than when you go the store every day or two (and grab impulse items each time as you go), and you are still going to save money when you decide to do takeout X times a week instead of Y. You don't have to be perfect by any means, but any type of planning will already get you somewhere, at least that is my own personal experience.
laohaire, I kind of feel like my grocery trips don't always mean I have something to eat. I have been trying to meal plan a least half of the evening meals for DH and me. I buy the ingredients and then because I have to actually "make" the item, the ingredients sit in the cupboard and go uneaten. I come home late and there is "nothing to eat". I could eat potatoes with veggies, baked beans, and cottage cheese every night if my DH would let me. He wants "variety" and honestly so do I but I don't always have time to cook variety. I need to get better at that, because I have spent the food budget and I have little to show for it.
not really sure what you mean anka?
We tried meal planning when we had a house with a kitchen and while it was helpful I found it to be really rigid. But I guess budgeting is too. Perhaps my carefree days are over. IDK?
Trekingirl -- that sounds really annoying, but I'm glad you're able to be so sympathetic to your husband in the face of that annoyance! Would his shopping urge be filled if you wrote shopping lists for each meal plan, then let him pick six "sets" of things?
Meal planning.
I will list 7 dinners for the week, and write a list of exactly what I need to make them happen. Obviously I think about what we already have. We also are CSA members, so our veggies are the base of my plans. The meal plan doesn't have to be exciting - you can have the same 7 go-to dinners every week if you want. You can decide ahead of time what you are having on what day, or you can just see what you feel like each day, but you know your list.
Breakfast and lunch, I think about as well though I don't carve them in stone like dinners. So you figure you need your sandwiches or your soups or whatever, and make sure they are there.
DH does all the grocery shopping but I tell him exactly what to get. It's only fair - I do the cooking, so I am the one who knows what I need to make it happen.
I noticed something that's driving me nuts and I have no idea what to do about it. DH has been doing the grocery shopping with me. We end up staying on budget, that's not the problem. The problem is he gets a bunch of stuff that don't equal meals. He has cut back his spending to the point where this is really the only shopping opportunity he has. For example we spent $60 on groceries today and I have nothing to make for dinner. I can't tell him I'll just take care of it. If he has no means of shopping he'll just go blow our budget on something stupid.
Tell me about it - years ago we were making significantly more money than today. Like, half again as much. We have NOTHING to show for it - n-o-t-h-i-n-g. We're better off today with 1/3 less income but our belts tightened, crazy as it sounds. Far better off.
I still kick myself... I mean, we could have had our student loan paid OFF in ONE year. And still had extra left over. If we'd only been halfway smart about it. KICK.
I tell myself over and over, if things get easy like that again, I WILL NOT FORGET. Good times makes it easy to just slack off and forget. I will treat good times like it was a very temporary respite - and if it's not, then I will have no debt and a pile of cash to show for it when the good times keep rolling.
I'm really glad I asked about sinking funds!!! I just set up an extra checking account at our bank yesterday which I'll use for that, and keep track of what is in what category on my budget/debt spreadsheet.
Laohaire, what you said about plugging leaks really rings true for me, also. When we first started a few months ago, I ran through my bank statement in preparation for writing my first ever budget. I found about $100 in recurring payments that were from things I had signed up for a "trial period" and didn't know I had to cancel! That's $1200 per year I was just throwing away. No single one of them had been big enough to draw my eye, but $15 here and $15 there really adds up fast. Then the eating out hole that you mentioned... for us it added up to $200/month (half of our current grocery budget). So, just by drawing up a budget and meal planning, we saved $3600 per year. I feel like such an idiot for going the way we had been for so long, but I'm thankful that it ended when it did. I'm definately going to see about that auto insurance thing, though... DH didn't know if we were paying an extra fee or not, but we're gonna check into it.
As always, ladies, you are such an incredible resource.
That's one of my goals this year - to pay off the auto insurance instead of doing monthly payments.
So, today I asked my sister (who lives with me) if she could help with the remainder of the mortgage and low and behold she said yes.
It's usually the hardest thing in the world to get her help on bills but she said yes which means I can begin to breathe since I should be making double starting in 2 weeks!!
My BEF is depleted but I'll put the $100 back in soon and pick up from there. Gah, I'm so glad today has turned out well.
laohaire - 2 years ago, our car insurance came due on an "extra" paycheck period, so we did the same thing, paid it in full. I was able to use that money that would usually go to a payment to snowball on our other debts. While I hadn't set up a fund initially, by the time the insurance was due again, we had freed up enough money to start our sinking fund about 4 months in advance. It was just a small stretch to cover the full amount again. This year I have a fund. Since we bought a much newer car recently, we had to pay the difference, and I've had to increase payments to the fund by about $5, but far less painful than making a monthly payment with interest!
I agree, there was a definite tipping point where our process went from seemingly impossible, to a ball rolling down hill. We are still very low income for the size of our family, but we don't feel desperate anymore! In just a few more months, we'll have two fully paid for reliable vehicles, our sinking funds fully funded, and be making good progress on our cc bv FFEF.
I kept thinking about what I posted because I felt like I wasn't able to put my finger on what changed. A year ago I saw no end. But at some point the process speeded up - and it was not because I got a raise.
I still don't know if I understand the whole of what happened, but I think a large part of it was plugging leaks. When I got on the ship, so to speak, there were leaks, and I had to spend a good year bailing out. And it's hard to feel like you've made any progress when there's still water in the boat. But at some point the leaks were plugged and suddenly we were getting somewhere. Maybe not super-fast but getting anywhere feels incredible after you've felt like you were sinking.
One of the leaks were just prior spending habits. We were never spendy - we're just not like that. But even non-spendy people can really spend way too much when they aren't careful. If we went out to eat in a restaurant once a week - hardly out of control by American standards - heck, that's half the month's grocery budget right there. That was probably our biggest single leak. We plugged that baby, but it wasn't like us stopping going out to eat suddenly got us out of the water. It took time, because the effects were spread out. Us going out to eat for a couple of years meant we had no buffer in savings, for example, so when things came up, they hurt. Slowly, slowly, we rebuilt the buffer, and at some point things just changed.
Another (smaller) leak I could think of was our auto insurance policy. When we were making our monthly payments, we had to add $6 "processing fee" for each payment. We were on a 10-month payment plan, so that was $60 a year we paid for the privilege of owing them money every month. Our payment was $60-ish a month, so I started paying them $75, figuring I could eliminate the last payment and save a whopping $6. At some point I started paying them $100 a month. Then when I paid it off (2 or 3 months early) I put $100 a month into a sinking fund for the insurance. When the next bill came due, I had most of it saved up. I coughed up the extra $200 and paid it off in full. Not only did I save $60 that year, but they, to my surprise, gave me 3% off the annual total for paying in full. That wasn't a ton of money (around $18) but on the other hand, I was paying $78 a year to insurance, for nothing. $78 is like a 13% surcharge. That's a leak, folks.
And here's another way it suddenly starts catching up to you in a good way once you plug it - I never stopped putting aside the $100 a month for auto insurance. I paid it off in November. I'm going to have next year's full premium saved in 6 months. When that time comes, suddenly I'm going to have 6 months (until my next bill) with $100 extra that I don't need to set aside for the insurance. $100 extra a month to savings or to paying off my mortgage is going to be a big deal. For example my regular monthly payment to my mortgage pays down only $151 of the principal - an extra $100 on top of that is going to go a VERY long way.
I do want to add that I don't think we HAD an extra $40 a month we could throw to this at first. That's why I started with $15, and that was an adjustment by itself. But as our savings very, very slowly expanded, I felt like we could free up another $25. So I just wanted to explain that while, yes, we are fortunate enough to have that extra money and not everyone does, it was a process to get there, and even the initial $15 a month was painful.
I figured our progress was going to be a lot more linear - it took me a year to save up $1000, therefore I thought it would take me 10 years to save up $10k. But there was a curve. Maybe even an exponential curve - I don't know yet, I'm still relatively early on in the process. So, sorry to go on and on, I am just pretty analytical and felt dissatisfied with my previous vague explanations.
laohaire, thank you so much for a success story! The sinking fund is exactly what I am trying to convince DH of. We created separate savings accounts on ingdirect.com so I could see "car repair 400" and know that the fund needs $400 so we can buy new tires or "professional dues 300" and know that when they come up for renewal in May I will have the money for them instead of having a "I don't think we have money for food, since it is the last category we can "borrow" from on our budget." Last night hearing DR talk about the Four Walls and how people "below the line" in the budget where the money runs out don't get paid was inspiring to remind me that I must take care of food, shelter/utilities, transportation and clothing first before I pay back creditors, even though I want to, it won't be best for my family. I am still wearing clothes I bought 4 years ago and have a crisis each time I need a new pair of pants or a shirt because I really don't have "clothing" in my budget right now. Need to talk to DH about that, tonight.
laohaire, I always like to hear/read success stories. Hopefully I can start on mine soon!
Yeah, keep plugging :)
A sinking fund is money set aside for specific things.
For example, I have a life insurance policy, let's say it's $160 a year. Instead of having a hard month when the bill comes due, I put money into it every month.
There's also categories that aren't fixed costs but you can guess you might need: like medical/dental (even just for copays), or auto maintenance (oil changes or repair).
I keep track of each category. So if I've got $100 in my auto maintenance fund and I can add $12 to it, I mark that it's at $112 now. And if I withdraw $55 from it to cover whatever, then I adjust the amount.
I think it has an advantage over having just a lump of savings sitting around. Sure, you could just say "well, I've got $1000 in my fund for whatever I need it for." But I think having a purpose for each dollar keeps you focused. Of course if we had a big emergency we would take money out of other categories to cover it if we needed. (Thankfully we never had to). But otherwise it really helped me have a really good feel for where we were. Having $1000 or $2000 or whatever doesn't mean anything unless you know you could cover all the expenses you can foresee: you know the life insurance policy is all set, that you have the amount of your medical deductible set aside in case you have to run it up, that you have $500 sitting around just for the car when you realize you need a whole new set of tires, and so on. Conversely it helps motivate you when you realize you've got nothing set aside for your next dentist appointment, or you only have $200 to buy heating fuel to get you through the winter.
So for me, it provides context for the money, and it really helps. If you are going to spend some money on extras like vacation, you can have a fund for that too, and you know it's ok to use it. Or you know you really shouldn't because if you landed in the hospital you have nothing to cover your deductible. So it helps you prioritize and understand a lot more clearly what you have. If you have $4k in your savings account, you might think - hey! Let's go to Disney! Cause you do have the money - but do you really?
laohaire - Thank you for posting! I'm feeling a little in limbo at the moment, because we are waiting for our tax return to buy a new to us van. Almost every penny of our monthly savings goals are going to this, and I wish I could be putting that money into our FFEF. But buying the much needed van must come first. Your story is inspiring to me to just keep plugging away.
sinking fund is a stash of money that prevents you from sinking. For example every march I have to pay $180 for the registration on my car. In the past I would be turned upside down and stuck with late fees while I scraped together enough money to pay this. With sinking funds in place it's ready when I need it just by putting a little aside each month for this expense.
Furniture replacement
car replacement
clothes replacement
an unexpected dental visit
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