How often to you shop for household items? Where do you shop? What does it take per week to run your home?
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i shop from this website online that brings things like cleaning products, snacks for my child.etc to my doorstep that save time and money but whatever i can not get from there i go to wal mart. if you shop on a budget you would spend like under$200 a month if you need some help or advice shivettarussell@yahoo.com
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My dad owns two appartment buildings besides the house we live in. One is a triplex and the other one is also a triplex but with a corner store.\n\nWe try to do all the maintainance ourselves, and if we cannot, we call someone, after researching best price for quality.\n\nKeep the rules tight, no loose ends. Always take the rent for a new resident for the first and last month. That way if they run away (happened to us twice), you do not actually lose anything.\n\nIf the tenants stay in the building for a long time and they are good, we try not to increase the rent much each year. For example, the grocery store guy gives started at like 700 per month, but after like over 15 years, we capped it at 1250.
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You have asked an unanswerable question based upon the limited information you have given.\n\nFirst you need to be specific about "all the comforts of home". Does that incluse a dishwasher? How about a washer and dryer? Being able to take long hot showers? How big must your TV be? In fact, where is "home". Where do you plan to live onboard? In the north, south, east coast, west coast? How many people in the family? Do you like to camp or do you stay in hotels? You need to define what you consider an acceptable "lifestyle".\n\nNext you need to figure out what you plan to do once you move aboard. Do you plan to go world cruising and so need an offshore cable boat or do you paln to sail close to shore on nice days so you don't need the offshore capability.\n\nOK, next, you need to decide how much time and money you want to invest in maintenance and upgrades. You can buy an older boat with minimal equipment for a lot less than a new boat or you can buy a bigger older boat than a newer, smaller boat for your $100,000. Older boats always require a LOT more work and you will need to start replacing older equipment sooner on an old boat.\n\nSo think through those things first. I have lived aboard sailboats (38' and 39') several times and have years worth of experience. It is a great experience but you need to think through what is important to you and how you plan to use the boat and spend your time.\n\nCheers
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its not wrong to be a stay-at-home housewife with domestic helpers if you can afford it and still be comfortable. i used to clean houses for a living and i had 1 that was that way, she had me come in on fridays to do the heavy cleaning, bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming, mopping and sweeping. she would wash the dishes and do her own laundry. i just did the every week cleaning.
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i prefer 24 hour stores cause just in case i need something for the house i can just swing by and get it. even if it's 4 am! ;)
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About 1-2 times a week...it could be for necessities like gas or food or it could be for something fun like clothes.
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I have a garage sale every 6 months. In order of popularity:\n\nBaby & Kids furniture\nToys\n(Very) cheap electronics and consumer products\nFurniture\nVideos\n\nAll the rest (clothes, knick-knack, dishes, broken appliances and electronics, books, and all kind of crap I find laying around in the house) is hard to sell, even hard to give away sometimes.
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I shop.  I always want to buy something.  I am in debt because of it and my account is consantly overdrawn and my bills are always late.  It's a big problem I am trying to get a handle on!
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I always shop at local home owned businesses prior to resorting to the chain stores. I am even willing to pay a slightly higher price at a local business. We as a country cannot afford to lose our "mom and pop" operations.
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to run a house about $5,000.  to add everything else to because it produces DC power (like a battery) and a house used AC power: $50,000 and another $10,000 for engineering, and $5,000 for somebody to install it all for a total of about $70,000 given that the average house power bill is about $100-200 it would take about 30-60 years to break even (not including maintainence costs and its an unreliable power source).  Moral of the story...just buy power from the utility!
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Rent, food, gas/electric, phone ... the things you generally need for living.
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Here's how i make money:  it's like a costco, co-op; you pay for a membership and shop wholesale.  right away you save money and make money telling others about it.   I am doing it and with 3 kids, no job and a home owner, i can tell you it works!   \nI save a lot of driving, gas and time shopping at home from my own mall and i get paid too!   I've included the compensation plan for you to check out yourself:   http://freetime.wwdb.biz   username: dream  password: more\nSee if it could work for you.............  if you are over 18 and  have told someone about a good movie or a great deal before, you qualify, dear\nIt is pretty simple:\nDo you spend money on stuff?\n\nWould you like to save money?\n\nWould you like to make money while you buy your stuff?\n\n \n\nOur business is simple.  We help people save money and make money while they buy their stuff.  Let me explain by asking a few more questions.\n\nAre you a part of a union or group benefits plan?\n\nYou understand how group buying saves money?\n\nThat's the first step of our business.\n\nYou know what a CO-OP is right?  In a Co-op, like there are many on the Island here, you receive a dividend on the products you buy at the end of the year.\n\nOur business is similar, you are a business owner and you can recieve a portion of your purchases back at the end of each month.\n\nTo get this money, we change where we shop.  Your parents shopped ina supermarket that had about 7,000 different products on the shelves.  Today giant stores have over 30,000 items on their shelves.  \n\nWe shop on-line where there is hundreds of thousands of items to choose from.  Would you agree that having more choices is better?\n\nOn to of the money we save, we save time.........\n\nHave you ever felt stressed out shopping for something like toilet paper?  Have you ever felt you could do something better with your time than shopping?\n\nWe'll help you get the stuff that wastes your time by shopping on the internet.  Your stuff will be delivered right to your home, when you need it, saving you time for more important things.  I will make you life easier.\n\nOn top of that, all the companies you buy from will pay you a bonus because they don't have to advertise to get your business.\n\nWe got $380.00 ourselves for our own shopping this month.  We got it for shopping with dozens of the best companies in the world.  Companies like Timex, Panasonic, Sylvania, Calvin Klein, Roots, Kellogg, Nature's Path, Nutrilite, General Mills, Quaker, Lipton's, Christe, Heinz, RBC insurance, Esso, etc.  We get our stuff from the best companies in the world.\n\nThat's how we help you save money and time on the stuff you buy.  Now, about the making money part:\n\nHave you ever told someone, a friend or a family member about a movie, a restaurant or a product you like?   Do you know that your positive opinion is the best advertising a company can get?  \n\nDo you know companies would love to know who you refer to them and to thank you with a cheque?  For them, it is way better and cheaper than spending money on advertising.\n\nToday with the internet, for the first time in the history of commerce, companies can track who helps them with references.  and they'd rather pay the consumers directly than pay papers, magazines, radio and TV ads.  That's how you make money: by shopping and telling others about what you like.\n\nMake sense so far?\n\nLet me show you quickly how the numbers work:\n\nhttp://freetime.wwdb.biz   username: dream   password: more \n\nto view some of the products goto:  http://cgordon.qhealthbeauty.com\n\nRegistering to save money and to qualify for a monthly bonus is around $75 the first year and $50 after.  If you want to make money on your referrals, registering is about $150 the first year and $75 after.\n\nSo, to summarize:\n\nYou spend money on stuff, You'd like to save money, You'd like to save time, and possibly you'd like to make money wi
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create a new budget that is smaller.  This may mean having only one car, or less extras like eating out and fast food.  There are many areas that you can cut the corners.  I have been staying at home for 9 years now and it is only the last 4 years that I have been working at home with my own business.  I do it for fun not because our budget demands it.  \n\nGood luck with it.  If you can't do it in the situation you are in.. either you have to change the budget or your husband needs to get a better paying job.  If both of those are maxed to as good as you both can do - then you may have to work.
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How is it that we are supposed to know what your spending rates are for a year on these things?  Your telephone, cable, and internet should be very easy for you to arrive at.  Just look at your monthly bill.  Same with your utilities. Heating of course will vary with the seasons.  Food is possibly the most difficult to get a handle on.  I alway pay my food bill with my credit card. At the end of the month, I know exactly what I spent on food for the month. Don't forget eating out. You will probably be surprised how much you spend in that category.  And of course there is entertainment. For a single person, that will most likely be one of the major expense items.
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Start tracking EVERYTHING you spend now. And have your boyfriend do the same. THen compare notes and see where you would be saving money. It's hard to say that you should expect to spend XYZ amount per month on groceries. Depends on what you like to eat and whether you shop for top brands, whether you use coupons, and so on. You can get a newspaper or check online for housing costs in the area you plan to move so that will help you figure out rent costs. But by tracking your budgets now and then comparing you should get a good idea of what you both spend your money on, wher eyou can trim costs and save money and so on.
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Live on cheap groceries.  Use half the amount of laundry detergent per load - still cleans fine.  Wash dishes and use cloth towels instead of buying alot of paper products.  Drink more tap water and less pop.  Watch what's on TV and don't go out as much.
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As someone who does work from home, I love it and wouldn't change it.  However it does come with obstacles.  Here is what I came up with just off the top of my head:\n\n1)  Other people tend to think you have it easy, and like to call you and interrupt your day OR think that you can run them errands etc. (my mother is guilty of this).  --- So set a schedule and stick to it.  If people call you simply say, I am at work I'll call you later.  B/c if you don't and make exceptions it will continue to happen and some days you won't get anything done.\n\n2)  If you have children (especially young ones) they may not respect your "office time".  Get a stop sign on the door, and train them that if they see the sign they can only come in during an emergency.  Keep your office locked when you are not in it... little hands like to roam through things they shouldn't.  LOL.\n\n3) Try to schedule meetings and outside work on specific days of the week, that you can set up sitters for if you have kids.  Otherwise having a set "out day(s)" helps you prepare for the coming week.\n\n4)  Even if you are home, still get dressed for work.  Even put your shoes on.  Otherwise it is too tempting to relax more than you should.\n\n5)  Make sure you have adequate storage for your biz supplies or merchandise if you sell from your home.  You spouse will NOT be keen on having your biz stuff everywhere in the house.\n\n6) Get a postage scale and use a service like stamps.com for shipping, have a set ship day during the week the USPS comes and picks up anything you have going out.  Or set up a program with UPS.  THis will save you time & from making repeat trips to the post office.