Hello Corsaire, was wondering where you had been. Hope all is well. We have gotten into cooler weather and DH is already freezing. Had to pull out the heavy blankets for him. Soon I will be getting out the small space heater to put near his chair in den. Seems he stays cold these days and I burn up trying to keep him warm.
Still working on kitchen cabnets. Started the rest of the bottom cabnets and got all but the one under stove and sink. Will be doing that tomorrow. DH will be at market cooking collards, so maybe things will go faster in kitchen. Though I did have a lot of food to go through and sort out. But now is organized in the kitchen. All to be used first. After the holidays I will start the closets and try to better organize them. Bought more food from the Farm Fresh that went out of business than I thought. Though I have used some of it, there is still a lot to get organized and put away.
I to have noticed the prices of food and other things going way up. They say here the housing prices have gone down but our taxes did not go down. They went up. Just a bad feeling that I can’t seem to shake on inflation. I think it will go beyond that.
We are on a fixed budget as being retired that is how it usually is. DH little job cooking collards has helped alot. It has put a roof on house, replaced the driveway and front porch and walkway, it has payed for a new boiler and an air condioner. So we never had to use our retirement money for any repairs and was able to pay in cash for all of it. So blessed for being able to do all that without having a monthly bill. Now we have to rebuild our cash supply. The driveway finished us off. But still have a tad bit for emergencies. Just not enough to redo the fireplace. So will be saving hard for that to get done. It is in dire need of work. Guess this is where our stash of food will come in handy as I want to start using up a lot of what I already have on hand before it goes to far out of date. Right now most of it is good and in date with some I need to get into mylar bags soon. But still need to use a lot of it up. Need to get inventory on the food and get a handle on what is in closet in small bedroom. right now I have 10- 5 gal. buckets of food packed in mylar bags. One bucket I am questioning as it contains Bear Creek soups, it is freeze dried or deydrated not sure which as I bought it from grocery store. So don’t know yet how well it keeps. I put in mylar bag in bucket but it is still in the same package it came in. It is about 5 or 6 years past the date on package. So very questionable on how it will taste. will have to pull one out and start the taste test on it. I am hoping they will all be good to go. They make for a fast winter meal. Just 8 cups of water and the soup mix and done in 20 minutes. Though while cleaning out kitchen cabnets I found a pack of it in back of cabnet and it was 2 years past date. It was a gumbo soup mix. Had it last night and it was still good. So hoping the others though they are much furture passed the dates will also be good.