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The Dishwasher Debacle,LYME Disease Oh My !

November 15, 2019

I started doing it I take one of my
homemade soaps and I put it in this this is only to wash dishes and somebody fill
this up with water it already has the soap in it so I
weren’t doing that so that really helps me a lot eating the water does get tiresome
sometimes but everybody has something in their life that they don’t really enjoy
doing and this just I don’t mind them that bad but eating the water up does
make it kind of burdensome but you know I think about it all the time at least I
have water I’m thankful for that a lot of people ask me what am I gonna do when
I get older you know how am I gonna cope with all of this well I don’t worry
about that because I just take it one day at a time and as long as I can
handle all of the workload then I enjoy it and I’m grateful for all that I have
and someday if I can’t then we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it so the water is heating up so what I do
is I filled my sink with partly cold water and remember I got this at the
thrift store and I use that as a drying mat so I’m gonna had a good idea they
said about putting tea towels and sewing them on the inside yeah that is a great
idea but this girl can’t sell I can’t sell and it’s kind of sad cuz my mom was
an avid sower my mom could so she stood all of my own clothing my mom stood her
clothing and my clothing I didn’t pick up that trait but that’s okay
we all have strong points and weaknesses and trust me I have a lot of weaknesses
in my life sewing it’s just a small minor part
there’s a lot of things I can’t do but then there’s some things that I can do
so we focus on the positive remember and we don’t focus on the negative you right
now a lot of you are wondering why did I get rid of the dishwasher
well it’s twofold first of all it stopped working and I kind of took that
as a sign and also I’m really trying to lower my electric bill because we really
want to try to cut back on some more expenses that we have damn even though
my electric bill isn’t high compared to what most people would say we are at a
time right now where we really have to cut back even more and so it stopped
working and I’m really reducing my electric and I’m trying to cut out on
some other bills as well you know we don’t know what tomorrow brings and my
husband I really would like to get to the point where he can work even less
and less and less and that my son will take over what my husband has been doing
that is our goal is eventually that my son would be able to take over and then
my husband could retire and it’s getting to the point in my husband’s life work
it’s getting very difficult for him to work even the hours that he’s working
now so that means either we gain more money
or we reduce our expenses and for us it’s easier to reduce our expenses
people talk about me and wondering why I don’t work away from home working away
from home was something that I had never been brought up doing I think it’s
amazing how women work away from home I I think that it’s just something that is
so strong in their character some some women are half to some women enjoy it
and I think that is amazing but for my culture and my lifestyle staying at home
was what we did my husband likes me to be at home and so I stayed home and I
try to cut costs and as you know I’m on YouTube and so that income really helps
supplement us at a time when we could use it and so God gives us all of these
things in our life and I do really believe that he gave me my YouTube
channel to really help us you know we never know we never know where we’re
gonna be next year from now or and that’s something that we just strive to
do a very best where we’re at in life and I’m so blessed by having all of you
as my friends and having all of you as my mentors and you’re helping me in
saving more money you’re helping me in so many ways and so I don’t have the
dishwasher and that is great because I’m learning to just go back to simple ways
of living and even though the dishwasher really did help me when it stopped
working I realized you know what if I do my dishes a little at a time
it’s really not a big deal and plus it’s just going back to my old fashioned way
of life and that’s what my channel is about so there’s where the story is
about that so I want to show you something that I was able to get this
month now when you use my Amazon storefront or you use my Amazon links I
get some credit so I bought this dish pan and why is this dish pan so special
well now my water goes into a bucket and I recycle all of my gray water so I
still have to haul it out but I’ll show you why this dish panis is
special instead of having to lift it up and dump it out it has a drain at the
bottom of it and I was share with you the link of it in case somebody’s
interested in it but that’s what it looks like and then you just put the
piece it and you can fill it up again they’re really neat I never knew there
was stuff like that so I started searching and this really helps me out a
little things like that really are blessing in my life and I like showing
you what you do helps me so even if it’s small things like a dish pan still I
think you would enjoy knowing where all of my credits go at the end of the month
when you purchase things on Amazon well like my mom would say it’s
Wednesday and Wednesday means reading up day reading up day means going through
your house and just straightening everything out it’s not a deep clean
it’s just a straightening of everything so I read it up everything in the house
and everything looks just nice and on Fridays is when I do my deep cleaning
but Wednesdays is reading up day so how was everybody’s day today
you know another week I was so unmotivated we all have days like that
some days where we are motivated and other days we’re not I’ve come to
realize that’s part of life the humdrum of life it affects us all on different
levels sometimes I think that my Lyme disease from 2014 affects me yet I don’t
know they say once you have limes you have it in your body forever
in 2014 I had a tick bite and within a couple days I had the bullseye rash and
what happened was the bacteria in the tick bite actually caused me to have a
potential life-threatening condition I received hives all over my body
the hives were in my inside my body and outside my body the hives were in my
mouth and my nose and my ears it was a very scary very scary thing for me and
sometimes I think that my pain I get is from that I don’t know my mom always
told me everyone has a thorn in their side that’s true
it’s on days when we’re feeling really well then we just need to really work
that way on days we don’t feel so good we can take it easier well now we’re
gonna go and dehydrate these did you know that I’m able to make videos like
these because the viewers like you and for that I really thank you also you’re gonna find all of the videos
in the last week I’m gonna put them at the end of this video just in case that
you missed them I know not everybody can watch my videos every single day so here
you go you

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Healthy Sweet Tooth Treat | Dessert And Meal

November 12, 2019

but today you’re in the kitchen with me
and we are going to make some apple crisp it’s that time of the year and I’m
gonna make for you my favorite dessert I hope you stay tuned to find out how do
I make it is a long time recipe from a very close friend of mine who happens to
be very plain Mennonite Espie is really simple we’re gonna take
some of my apple pie filling that i have lots of videos on because because it’s
my favorite thing to can in the fall I have so much Apple that I don’t need to
can them this year so I’ll share with you right above right here see my finger
it’s up here I’ll show you the link to my apple pie filling so we’re gonna make
2 quarts of apples we have my very old Basin here that I use so the crumb
topping is really simple to make notice the vintage items that I’m using
2 cups of flour 2 cups of oatmeal I like the old-fashioned oatmeal not the
quick oats now this is a lot of topping because I
love a lot of typing on my apple crisp and it’s one teaspoon of some cinnamon and then it’s 1 cup of melted butter so here is our butter so I’m gonna go
ahead and soften this butter up just a little bit and then we’ll put the crumbs
of topping on top of our apples go ahead and pour our butter in and we’re gonna
make our crumbs it’s like an apple cobbler I’m gonna go ahead we’re gonna
put our crumbs like this now these crumbs are actually going to bake and
it’s gonna be so delicious this is a recipe that I just love and we have been
using it for all these years I want to make sure we get everything coated on
top and there is our apple crisp now this
has a lot less sugar than what you would find other places want to make a dessert
that is a little bit more healthier and it’s easy on the wallet apple crisp is
what you want to bake so let’s put this in the oven and then I’m gonna share
with you just one little frugal tip that has to do with butter I do almost all my
cooking with butter and butter is something that can be really expensive I
don’t use margarine or anything like that butter is what we use but I would
give you just a little tip I buy my butter like this
and 1 pound block and it’s not cut that kind of butter is usually a lot cheaper
than ones that are cut already in sticks this is what was left over from an apple
crisp so this butter here is going to be used
for cooking I have some butter that’s for baking and so what I do is I already
cut it up and little cubes so when you want to add a little bit to any of your
vegetables that you’re cooking or you want to add it to your peas or you want
to add a little bit to making spaghetti you add a little bit in your water it’s
already cut up in cubes and this is how I have my butter and when you’re baking
you could actually make your own sticks with it and it does it saves a lot of
money at least for me it does in my area as you know everybody’s stores are
different everybody’s region is different but for
me this is a lot more frugal way to buy butter and it put my butter in here and
then I will vacuum seal this and this will stay fresh for at least two months
at a little frugal tip take a look sometime at the store see if you can buy
butter in bulk that’s not cut I bet you it’s gonna be a little bit cheaper at
least it is for me I’ll get back to you in just a little bit when our dessert is
finished yum yum I’m hungry for some apple crisp
one hour later doesn’t that look delicious we’re gonna
let it rest for ten minutes and then we’ll give it a try everyone here we go
for a special treat every time I see this video I’m gonna be hungry for this
I know what’s gonna happen so we’re gonna have a little bit of ice cream and
our apple crisp take and look at that doesn’t that look good
the apples are still hot it was really good take everyone we’ll see you guys
tomorrow make some apple crisp today it’s the
perfect time of the year mmm apples and spices
mmm that makes things really good early on the homestead and it is leaf-raking
season now we have tons and tons of leaves we have trees all around the
property and so the trees in the front get in the garden but these in back here
I burned them simply because it’s just too many leaves to drag so far to the
front of the house so I’m working today and this is just part of my everyday
life every season has its chores and I thought you would enjoy coming along
with me and just seeing what I’m working on today so after I get these leaves
finished then we’re gonna make a meal so what do I do every day I wake up in the
morning I get my household chores done and then I start making videos that’s
usually how it goes I’m the kind of person that I like my environment clean
and I like it already to make my videos so let’s get started oops getting rooked down when you get up
at 5:00 a.m. so these leaves I’m just gonna have to keep breaking on a pile so
they all burn up before it gets windy thank goodness we don’t have any wind
today you know fall season is it’s a lot of wind now I’m gonna have to probably
do this 15 times before the end of the season it is a lot of work but I
realized if I do a little bit at a time it’s not so much and that’s one thing
I’m learning about my age my hubby requests all the time is my chicken
noodle soup I have so many videos on it so I’m not really going to show you how
I make it as far as in detail description because I have so many
videos but I used my homemade chicken broth my home canned corn which you use
the liquid because the liquid has the nutrients so we just pretty much dump
everything into one big kettle this time I have some frozen turkey that we’re
gonna put in it sometimes I use my canned chicken I love to can leftover
turkey from Thanksgiving we’re just gonna put that all in I had some spring
onions that I had frozen we’re gonna just put that in because that needs to
get used up don’t know what I have to do is add some carrots that need to get
used up one thing about soup it’s so neat you can just throw everything in a
pot and heat it up I have two fruit dryers going with the
rest of those limes and finally all the food from this month’s pantry is
preserved today’s a busy day I have a lot of leaves to blow and rake this is a
busy time of the year for me getting all these leaves all these leaves cleaned up
our whole property is full of trees we’ll have in the summertime because
it’s not so hot boy it’s a lot of work though in the fall alright so we got everything put
together looks good to me let me get the lid on it and then I’ll
show you when it’s boiling as you see I didn’t add any seasonings I don’t add
any seasonings until my food is just about finished
it’s because of your generosity and making sure that you’re subscribed to me
and making sure your thumbs ups are sticking and making sure that you’re
sharing my channel it’s because of all of your generosity that is what’s
keeping me going and such times like this you know conservative channels
aren’t very popular on this kind of platform but I really want to thank you
guys for everything you’ve done because you guys were the voice and you guys
made yourself known and heard and I really want to thank you guys for that
because you are the ones that are making a difference in my life and in my
channel take care everyone we’ll see you guys tomorrow
bye everybody

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Even The Poop,Loving Every Minute Of it

November 9, 2019

it’s time to clean out the chicken house
this chicken house needs a major renovation I have been letting it go and
let it go and letting it go and finally I have to clean it so this is just gonna
be a little bit part of a video it’s a happy video to share with you some of
the chores I do on the homestead that doesn’t involve food or jars or cooking so my chicken house is a mess and what I
like to do is I like to put a little bit of cedar shavings in with my regular
shavings it’s just a real mess what happens is if you don’t keep your
chicken house clean your chickens won’t lay in their nesting boxes did you know
that even a chicken likes to have a clean house so this is what happens when
a chicken house is dirty the eggs are all over the place they’re on the floor
and everywhere that is a good sign for you that chickens are not happy in their
house so we have to do a little bit of cleaning in here today and I hope that
you enjoy a little bit about this part of my life it’s something I don’t really
film a whole lot cleaning reminds me a lot of my mother my mother was a hard
worker she was a perfectionist and you know when you get outside and you really
get busy working you can just clear your mind and clear your heart and I can just
visualize that’s what my mom did it was until about in my 40s that I learned
that my mom had some things that she had to work on in her life things that she
kept hidden from me for most of my life and I think about her now and different
the different viewpoints sometimes and how she had to struggle and what was she
thinking as she worked my mother never sat still she was always always working
and sometimes I wonder if that was her downfall in life
she never did sit down she never did take a life easy on herself she worked
hard she worked hard up until she couldn’t work and I often think about it
and often wonder does she work hard to try to forget some of the pain in her
own life and so there’s always the balance between working all the time or
not working at all and these are the things I think about today all right I’m gonna finish cleaning out
this chicken house and I’ll show you what it looks like when we’re finished you know as I brush down all these
cobwebs it reminds me of something when’s the last time that you brushed
down all the cobwebs of your life what are your cobwebs down here pain from
your childhood what did I son you took a broom when’s the last time you took a
broom and you cleared out all of that junk in your life are you like me then
you wait until all get so bad that you have to clean it all out now come on you
know it we let the junk in our life pile up little by little and before we know
we have one big mess get out the broom you get out some elbow grease and clear
it all away that’s what I say and you know what when you clear it all away it
looks brand-new that’s what every day’s like my friends
every day is a brand new day just like this dingy old chicken house just like
this it’s gonna be clean a clean slate and my chickens are gonna be so happy are you taking the mutt get fired your
life are you taking it out and putting new in are you filling your life with
happiness and joy I sure hope you are alright everything’s finished so I get
my shavings from tractor supply that’s the cheapest and I always put a handful
of cedar shavings in their nesting box the cedar shavings help keep rodents
away because rodents do not like the smell of cedar and right away the
chickens love to see when I clean up their house they look they like to look
around they like to see if there’s anything different they can tell
immediately when a chicken house is clean and they love it in an amazing how
the animal world is like us humans they like when things are clean and look how
they’re looking around and everything the rest of the chickens are just going
through all the old shadings and they’re looking to see there’s anything new
there to eat trying to figure out what’s going on chickens are very curious they
want to know what’s up but I can guarantee you they’re happy oh they are
so happy and that’s how we are we’re no different than chickens we’re happy when
we live in an environment that’s safe and clean and we’re also happy when we
take clutter out of our life however that may be may be we all need to learn
a little bit of something from the chickens today I hope this video blessed you like it’s
blessed me and I hope that you enjoyed seeing me out in my chicken house with
my beautiful chickens there’s been many times that I’ve been out here in my
chicken house where I shared happiness with them sadness anger and laughter I
love sitting and watching my chickens they gave me great peace about ten years
ago is when I first acquired chickens I was going through time in my life that
was very stressful I had a lot of anxiety and I had a lot of panic attacks
after I got my first flock of chickens my life really changed and improved
because I was focusing on helping my chickens and feeding them and taking
care of them and they were listening here on times of my life were hard
animals are like that no matter what kind of animal you’re passionate about
whether you love cats or dogs or farm animals like I do animals can bring so
much joy and so much happiness into your life thank you guys so much for watching
and we’ll see you guys tomorrow hey everyone it’s time for Fannie’s
diary and guess what we’re on November the 1st 1943 Danny writes today it’s
raining I attended junior sewing circle at stoners Elizabeth’s buddy Jean was
there and Barbara Whitmer animais were also along all the girls were together
once again if you like videos about chickens
here’s some videos I thought you might enjoy have quite a few of them of my
journey and my adventures with raising chickens

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Better than Wendy’s Fast Food and Only {.50 cents A serving )

November 9, 2019

everybody and welcome it’s Monday I hope
you had a great weekend my weekend was real quiet and a real peaceful which was
great I didn’t have a whole lot to do so today I’m working on my meal plans and
I’m gonna work on what I’m making this week
I love making meal plans it takes a lot of stress off of wondering what you’re
gonna eat for the week today for lunch we are going to have something that is
only 50 cents of serving and for me it’s only 25 cents but I wanted to make sure
I was safe and saying 50 cents of serving now if you’re a person who has a
pantry like I do it’s a lot cheaper than that but I’m working on my meals and I
have my books here and I’ll just show you a little bit of some of the books
that we’re gonna be using this week Irish chef cookbook it’s a neat one
we’re gonna have some tea breads this week I know a lot of you have been
asking you for more baking and this cookbook I got at the thrift store last
week so we’re gonna be using that I have to make some more raisin bread we’re out
of raisin bread and that’s my favorite as you know we’re gonna use out of the
apocalypse this is gonna be for next week so I’m
gonna work on that I have my list of things to do and then I got as a product
review and this was something that was really something I was excited about I
have been turning down product reviews left and right simply because I’m really
not interested and all of those different fancy products but this one
here is called a meal planner life and apples and it’s really cute and I really
like it so hopefully they got back to me in time because I will give you a
description in the description box I’ll let you know about it but it’s really me
and it tells you on the side you can write what you need to buy and then you
can you can write what you want to get and your meals I just thought it’s
adorable I don’t have anything like this now if you have my homemade notebooks
but I thought it’s really cute and I said yeah I’d love to do a product
review on this and I think it’s really great it’s small you can take it in your
purse and go to the grocery store so I really like it I don’t get anything out
of it so you don’t buy it to help me out in any way I just got the product for
free and I thought I’d share it with you guys so let’s get started in our meal
and then I will have a little talk at the end so I have the rice in the rice
cooker while that is cooking we’re gonna make these these things I got these at
the thrift store but somebody said the Dollar Tree actually had these back last
year so what we do is we put the flour tortilla and one of these and we’re
gonna bake it so we’re gonna go ahead and we’re gonna bake them and they’re
gonna be a hard shell made the chili so we’re gonna go ahead and heat that up
now we’re gonna go get some lettuce and some tomatoes and cut that up add some
of the first ingredients so we have some lettuce we have some tomato and then we
have an onion that sprouted so we’re gonna use that onion so the lettuce
isn’t that nice anymore but it’s still okay to eat we just want to make sure we
take off the parts that aren’t so good and then the rest will get to the
chickens so we’re gonna just put our salad we’re
just gonna put our that is part into this bowl now we go ahead and cut up
some Tomatoes adding fresh ingredients to any dish helps to make you dish
tastes so much better and I try to add as many fresh ingredients as I possibly
can this recipe I made based on a meal that was at Wendy’s fast-food restaurant
at one time they had this same meal and it was a salad but it had some chili on
top of it so I decided one day to make something similar all right so we’re going to just put up
two minutes off to the side because we’re gonna add all these on top now I
usually cut my Tomatoes only for what’s needed at the moment these tomatoes were
washed and they also came from this month’s food pantry leftovers alright
there we go now we have this onion so all we got to do is make sure we peel
away all the bad spots see the center the center of it is not too good anymore also the sprout that’s great we’re gonna
cut that up and we’re gonna use that in our meal it’s actually very tasty so
we’re gonna put that in with our lettuce we’re just going to cut around to the
core of the onion so that part of the onion is fine we’re gonna chop this up
we’ll find me now if it was springtime or summer I
would plant this onion but I can’t because it won’t grow anymore in the
season but onion sprouts are amazing so I’m gonna just put that off to the side
as well and then the rest of this stuff goes to the chickens so there you go now
we have all of our fresh toppings that go on top of our chili that we’re making
so I’ll show you in a minute when the flowers your tears are already baked
right so now all we have to do is assemble everything so we have our rice
so we’re gonna put a rice at the bottom now we want to fill these up fairly full and then we’re gonna go ahead and we’re
gonna add a little bit of our chili now this chili I made was chili mac
that’s okay it has a couple noodles in it we’re gonna add some tomatoes and
some onions and some lettuce and we’re gonna add a little bit cheese the only
cheese I have is Parmesan cheese which I knew doesn’t go with it
but that’s what I got and that’s what I’m gonna use and we’ll just put a
little bit of sour cream and there you go it’s a chili and a flower too Tina
that’s baked and I think that is a winner it’s a really good meal even the
children enjoy this kind of meal so I’m going to demonstrate real quickly why I
like bull covers and had a few people ask me about them and why I use them so
this is one of them this one here is I don’t know quite a few months old you
take your hands and you go like this and the warmth of your hands actually makes
your bowl covers stick just like saran wrap see it’s amazing what do I put my
bowl covers on well this is leftover salad that we had today for a meal here
is the leftover rice same thing I put all my leftovers in Bowl covers like
this just use your hands a little bit and it adheres to the side of your bowl
when you’re finished put it in warm sudsy water lay them flat and they will
go right back to their original shape they were in I store them on top of each
other they don’t stick to each other and it’s just like saran wrap so this is why
I love will cover so much now hope you understood this little
demonstration and I hope you give it a try sometime like I said I have a lot of
videos I have one right up above me right now see it right there’s a video
sharing how you can make your own different people ask me if I can use
paraffin wax I don’t know or soybean wax I really don’t know I wouldn’t give that
a try but you could try it beeswax is something that is not toxic
to your food beeswax is actually edible if you want to eat it bad enough it’s
not gonna hurt you so that’s why I go with the beeswax hope you enjoyed the
video I just want to share with you thank you everyone on yesterday’s video
yesterday’s video there was about one minute of no sound and that was not on
my end that was YouTube it’s because of your generosity and making sure that
you’re subscribed to me and making sure your thumbs ups are sticking and making
sure that you’re sharing my channel it’s because of all of your generosity that
is what’s keeping me going and such times like this you know conservative
channels aren’t very popular on this kind of platform but I really want to
thank you guys for everything you’ve done because you guys were the voice and
you guys made your stuff known and heard and I really want to thank you guys for
that because you are the ones that are making a difference in my life and in my
channel take care everyone we’ll see you guys tomorrow
and get ready because what happens if you have some laundry soup that’s over
twenty thirty years old does it still work
oh I wonder I can’t wait to share that video with you bye everybody wait a minute everybody don’t leave yet
it’s time for Fanny’s diary we’re on November the 4th 1943 and Fanny
writes this afternoon mrs. Bernhardt and I were at Hadley long and ecers to make
covers for the church benches

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MCC Thrift With Me // Dollar Tree Haul .Look What I Found

November 9, 2019

buddy its homestead tessie and I can’t
wait to share with you what I got at the thrift store yeah hey everybody and
welcome back that is an old saying that I used to do three years ago hi
everybody its homestead Tassie I kind of got away from that but you know what
that is something that is my slogan and I think I’m gonna bring it back once
more it just shares with you a little bit of my excitement on my channel and
the excitement that I have in life and today is 50 Thursday and I’ll show you
what I got this week but first I want to share with you that I finally got that
whole case of limes finished this is only just one and I’m gonna share with
you in an upcoming video the potpourri we’re gonna make it all the Christmas
decorations we’re gonna use with these limes and they smell amazing
in fact they smell just like a lemon you can’t really tell much of a difference
but I know we’re here to see what I got this week at the thrift store so the one
thing I got which was very unusual for me was this I paid a dollar 50 for it
it’s very hard now the reason why I got is my surface are very old and so
decided myself where the arm is it’s kind of being pushed away and my pillows
that I had they’re my little pillows they’re getting stuffed down to the side
and so they’re not they’re not staying fluffed up and this here is hard so this
here is going to be able to work perfect it’s not gonna get pushed down and I’ll
show you where I put it so I paid a dollar 50 for it working on
not spending you know for things that I really don’t need or don’t use I know
when we go to the thrift store it’s so easy to go and see all these things and
most of times they’re reasonably priced and you think oh I love it and then you
get home and your house is getting so full so try to focus on things
that around my channel around my lifestyle and things that I am really
going to enjoy I got this and I paid a dollar 50 for it it is vintage it’s a
coffee can I don’t know what it was used for it was with their vintage things and
I just like it and I’m going oh my goodness I’m gonna put my knives in it
to use it in my kitchen I think it’s just so cute it says it’s vintage I
don’t know if it’s vintage or not has anybody ever seen a coffee can like this
back when you were a child I mean or did they make it like this don’t know I
can’t see anything with it another question I need all of you is I did a
video last week on my eggs and freezing eggs and a lot of you said that you
freeze eggs and muffin tins I have a question so when I freeze my eggs and
muffin tins do I line their muffin tins or do I just put the eggs in the tins
without lining it for 50 cents I got some of these baking cups do I break the
egg into one of these and then pop it in the freezer or do I put the eggs just
plain in a muffin tin because I would think it would stick I need I need you
guys to let me know about this if I can’t use it for the eggs of course I
will use it for cupcakes and then I got two pieces of fabric because they were
on sale on they were half off and so I got this one for $0.50 yeah I know it’s for pillow I think but
I got an idea for it you know I have to share that with you next I’m not sure if
it’ll be this week anymore but I thought it’s really cute 50 cents for this and
then I got this one for 25 cents this is a little bit like what Owen gave me a
kinda a little bit of one of Owens pieces of fabric you gave me at one time
but I haven’t I have an idea for that as well and then
I went to the Dollar Tree and I really don’t spend a whole lot at the Dollar
Tree but I did get these socks they are adorable
now listen they only had one pair or I would have got more look look look look
are they cute I love fuzzy socks uh it’s a deer I think and not a deer I don’t
know when you get these kind of stuff from China it’s like the animals don’t
look like the real animal but that shirt was like a deer to me but they only have
one pair and my daughter was eyeing it up and she said no she says she doesn’t
mean him I snatched him up and then I thought this at the Dollar Tree but this
was so unique you know you have to be you have to really look because they
have red and white I mean they have red and green so they hardly ever had the
white but it’s a light like that on a rope and it’s clear I want to be clear
so if that’s a light on a rope and it’s clear so that’s gonna be neat I’m gonna
put that on a little Christmas tree I all do a lot for Christmas as you seen
in my last year’s videos I have a little tree that was free to me from my
neighbor when his wife passed away he gave it to me it’s just a little pine
tree and then I have a couple dollar trees that I use so I don’t know I think
that’s cute or I’ll put it somewhere I’m gonna keep looking because this was the
only clear light I like the clear and this was the only one so we’ll be
working on the crafts for that so I think I said it all I think I’ve said
enough for today it’s just such a beautiful time of the year the frost has
hit and so everything is pretty much gone from the garden and now I’m stuck
indoors and stuck around the house here doing things and I’m really having a lot
of fun it’s been a long summer and I enjoyed my summer immensely but I’m
ready for the fall I love the fall time of the year it is my favorite time of
the year I just love the putting everything away outside and cleaning up
and just snuggling in my I enjoy making my home my little heaven
on earth so to speak and I love the old ways and the old things and I’m really
excited to share with you in this holiday season I don’t go too much for
the commercialism of this world my decorations are all going to be natural
they’re all going to be things that you can find just even driving out in the
country a little bit you can find it for free and that is how I like to decorate
so here’s what it mean so I have two pillows here and see how that one gets
pushed down because this is bent like that so let’s go ahead and see once if
this makes a difference so this is my pillow that I got and so that’s hard so
it’s not gonna push down like my other pillows so it gives more of its makes it
more sturdy like that I think that’s gonna work out perfect you know this pillow probably would have
been really expensive at one time bought new and that’s one thing I love about
the thrift store you can get stuff you know even though it was a dollar fifty
it still was a lot cheaper than buying it now and so there’s my sofa and you
know what it is what it is and you make the best with what you got and so I
think that works out perfect I wish you would have had two of them so I’ll keep
my eye out maybe another one will come up this week this week I got this little
box and I got two cards so excited so the one card is from Kim and I got some
garden seeds and the other card is from Peggy I really enjoy Peggy her letters
that she writes to me so this little this box full
treasures is from Brenda and Brenda has a talent that I wish I could have Brenda
crocheted all of these well let me tell you one thing these are beautiful how
precious are they I wouldn’t smell so good well you know
what Brenda I know that you made these to use
but they’re too pretty to use and so I’m going to use these as doilies in my
bedroom I am I’m gonna use them as doilies in my bedroom because they’re so
precious and she gave me these bars is soap
lavender and oatmeal and almond it’s so adorable
these are doing I’m just gonna use these all for to Whaley’s I’m I am they are
just so precious that me I might have to keep this one in my kitchen though so
yeah thank you so much for these crocheted items and you too girls thank
you so much for your cards and I thank you guys so much for watching we’ll see
you guys tomorrow

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The Very Last Day,Time Is Of the Essence

November 8, 2019

my friends time is of the essence this
is the very last day after today there will be no more of harvesting I waited
to the very last minute behind me I got all of my storm windows put in place and
now I have to finish harvesting so many of you have asked me about my flowers
and how to save the seeds so many of you asked me all kinds of questions about
harvesting all of my flowers and things like that so today today is the very
last day before you know it the snowflakes are gonna fall so let’s get
started and today’s chores it stays like this I’m really thankful
for my baskets because I use my baskets to harvest all of my herbs and after
tomorrow a heavy frost that’s gonna hit and that means everything is going to
crumble up and die so we have a few moments yet so let’s get everything
started it is some baskets and a pair of scissors and I’ll show you what we’re
gonna harvest right but it’s about 40 degrees so we’re gonna start with my
marigolds all you have to do is you have to pick the flowers off the maracle’s
and let them dry and those will be your seeds for next this is marshmallow and the leaves of
the marshmallow are really great in making SAVs for your skin so we’re gonna
harvest a lot of these leads now when I make my stabs I only make them with
dried ingredients I don’t use fresh because I’ve always had a problem with
things molding here so I always DRI my things now let’s harvest some tea now I’m going
to harvest my grapefruit tea this is my highly praised tea I love this I use
this for all kinds of potpourri also I can use it for drinking it’s
amazing so this is my grapefruit tea and I want to get the rest of it harvested hey so there is a grapefruit team now
we’re gonna go ahead and we’re gonna harvest my peppermint tea and then we
can call it a day this time of the year the tea is really
straggly the springtime is the best to harvest your teas but with frost coming
we want to get as much of it as we can and now we’re gonna put everything into
my big dehydrator yeah you heard me right this is my greenhouse I use this
as a dehydrator you go in a couple of weeks we’re gonna package everything up
and they will be our seeds and there will be our herbs so today’s the last
day I got some more work to do so there’s onions those are the tops of
the onions they produced all summer long and so I need to cut the tops off and I
need to dehydrate them and those are like chives to me or like onions so I’m
gonna clean up them tubs and I’ll put them in the garage for next year
everything is winding down and they’re it’s the last of my garden it’s been a
good year in the garden now for the finishing work that I have to do today
enjoy it’s time once again for Fanny’s diary
and we are on November the 5th 1943 and Fanny writes today I finished so are you
dressed for Marion no Marion was my husband’s mother and that was Fanny’s
only child I know I get new subscribers every day I got a comment yesterday
wondering if we can buy Fanny’s diary on Amazon that was so precious Danny is my
husband’s grandma and Fanny was like a mother and a grandma to me and I’m gonna
explain to you just why I got married at age 17 and I moved on to the family farm
I moved quite a distance from my childhood home and Fanny lived right
across the field from me Danny lived in a doggy house so what is a doggy house
well in the Amish terms that is a house for the in-laws or a house for the
grandma Marian my husband’s mother was an only
child and so when they built a new house and moved off the farm they built in a
little addition an in-law quarter for Fanny and my husband and I we had bought
the farm so we were all together in one little community and that is where all
of my memories in my just the things I’ve learned in life have come from I
often wonder what would Fanny think knowing that so many people have heard
her diary just remember her diary was for her only and so some of the things
she talks about some of us will never understand fully she never dreamed that
the world would hear her diary you you

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You Asked I Answer ,No Walls Just Truth Q&A

November 6, 2019

Oh everybody welcome to homestead Tessy
hi everybody so today you guys may have remembered a
long time ago I did yes a lot of questions and I said we’re gonna be
doing that video answering those questions well today that video is here
and we have over 70 questions so we’re gonna try and answer them all this might
be part 1 and part 2 will probably be coming next Saturday so here we go
all right green gate garden homestead asked Scott do you have your own channel
yes I actually have multiple channels I have a car channel that is called Reve
line 89 that’s re b li and e89 and that is dedicated to cars I have my
review channel called Scott’s honest reviews that is dedicated to doing video
reviews and then I have a check node we got aunt chronal me and then I have a
random channel where I have vlogs and stuff like that that’s called the random
life of Scott I will have all my channel link in this video description for you
guys and then I have a couple others that I upload from once in a great while
okay and by the way if I’m misspelled a name or something I am sorry about that
but it’s going to happen Numan yes with all these great recipes
that you cook has your mom thought to produce a cookbook that her subscribers
could buy I would love one trouble is I live in the UK so here’s
the deal number one requested all of my subscribers and friends what am I gonna
have a cookbook when am I gonna have a book I am really going to have one it
seems like in the summer time I’m really busy I’m hoping to start working on one
in the spring we’re not sure if it’s going to be an e-book or if it’s
actually gonna be a physical book I do like having physical books that will
look like they’re handmade that they’re made by me I’m not gonna go into detail
about that and give it away but yes we are
working on that and that is it that is my heart’s desire it just takes a lot of
time and energy to do it so that is something that I’m going to
try to work on this winter three musketeers homestead I would love to see
a herb by herb video series from beginning to end you can do and you can
do with each herb I would love to do that I do have a playlist where I have
about 30 to 40 videos on herbs and I do specifically state about the different
kinds I’m going to have more up to date on my herbs but until then there is a
playlist where I do have all these videos for the last three years and I do
cover a wide variety of herbs I do like growing herbs that are more unusual so
you’re not going to typically find the more usual herbs on my videos you’re
going to find more unusual ones but I will write that down and in this spring
we will start again from seed to harvest Linda the canal Nick no sorry
like I said they wanted to say I just want to thank you for helping your mom I
think that’s a wonderful thing you do and you are very welcome I’m glad to do
it so Lynette Jennings tessie no matter what I do when I freeze
meat I always get freezer burn any suggestions well the number one thing to
not have freezer burn in your meat is to get a vacuum sealer now I know not
everybody can afford one of them so the number one two thing is is to manually
try to get as much air out of your food as you possibly can that means double
bag all of your items or layer items flat and use your hands and try to get
all the air out and then and seal it with the zipper seal or however your bag
seals but laying it flat and trying to get the air out and double bagging will
make a big difference in your food okay and also she also added that I want to
help support you as well but don’t have extra money and basically what the last
that we answered watching the ads and if you like the ad click the advertisers go
to the website and just browse their site for a little bit maybe that’s the
best thing anybody to do watching my videos people as how I get paid and
watch the whole thing because yes view time is really important so in
a 10 minute video if you only watch two minutes that doesn’t help me out YouTube
doesn’t like that because they think oh she doesn’t like that video but if you
watch my full video then that really makes a big difference and YouTube will
share me more okay up next is it Angelia or Angela height
or hit again I’m not perfect with grammar or yes well your Duchy Scot
iocked Allah we believe we are Duchy you know Oh
mine do you have special editing software to edit and upload your videos
also Tessie said when she reached twenty thousand she’d be sharing her book as
she’s still planning on doing that well we covered the book as far as my editing
material I do use a movie maker that is on my computer I do have an editing
software that I do not disclose simply because that is something that I do to
make my videos and I feel that it’s something that is unique to me yes that
is I 100% agree on that there’s so many software programs out there that they’re
all just as good if you know you basically have to know how to use it
every severy software editing program it’s almost as good as the next if you
know what you’re doing right it’s not the software it’s how you use it yeah
and it’s just trial and error you have to understand I’ve been in it three
years now that’s a lot of editing Kelly McNeely said I would like to know what
your parents plan for the so she’s asking me what your parents plan is for
the future do they have retirement money seed or are they currently saving do
they plan to continue until God calls them home just curious I’m 52 and my
husband is 59 I don’t work but I am currently looking for part-time
employment my husband has worked as an independent contractor since 1995 we are
currently paying down debt but still have about 30 months to go we have
nothing safe except emergency fund this is a little scary to say the least I
would really like to know tessie’s feelings on this
well that’s really that’s a loaded question so as you know I am a Christian
and I do believe in that the Lord will take care of us yes we do have money
that is saved that we do not touch whatsoever I also believe in living day
per day per day YouTube probably will not be here forever but I plan on being
on YouTube as long as a platform is here this is my calling and this is my
devotion as far as our retirement we don’t have money saved up like some
people do but we do believe that God will be there to support us at times of
need I would like to add also to that because I’m answering questions tessie’s
not exactly thorough as you guys might know so I do want to point out that um
how they live is a big factor because no matter what age they are the way they
live in preserving food and stuff you know for example if we have a financial
collapse tomorrow how they live they can continue to live that way you see most
people live really outside their means a lot of people have Netflix that when
they really don’t need it or cable or they overpay on cellphone bills and all
that stuff that they don’t do that you know if things hit the fan tomorrow you
know your credit card payments to $300 what are you doing
well homestead Tessy and my dad you know my mom and my dad yes tell them that
your father he is just as free goes by if not even more yes yes oh and that’s
why it works in our family because the husband and wife we both agree on it yes
but did you know there are health things that people you know that come and and I
understand that and we just are thankful if we don’t have to go through any
health issues but when they arise we will take it one day at a time and I’d
like to point out that a lot of programs are out there that if medical issues you
can’t you don’t have to just pay the bill and lose everything you have you
can try and fight it a little bit to get the bill lowered there’s also government
programs that can help you on big expenses for medical so just search your
options for stuff and to save up honestly make a list this is my personal
thing I think you should go make a list of all
your bills if it’s a weekly bill a monthly bill a quarterly bill every a
yearly bill make a list of those bills and then go through a seat is that
something that you have to have you cannot live without that bill or can you
cut it back or cut it out a lot of us you know have smartphones and 60 plus
dollars a month bill do you have to have the newest smartphone do you have to
have the newest thing I use a tracfone it’s a smart phone
the initial cost $100 for the phone but my bill is anywhere from fifteen to
twenty-five dollars a month for the cell phone bill now and because I basically
pay as I go and it’s just so many areas like that that’s a whole nother video
but I’m big into like every day I check my finances so I’m big into that stuff
if you guys want to see a video on that please leave a comment letting us know I
hope that helped if not send me a personal email and I will I will give my
best advice I think to a lot of youtubers will say they live on this and
live on that and they really don’t yeah they just do it for show but I think
people my viewers see now they see my house they see what I do they see how I
live and they realize that yes I do live this way I don’t just say it I live it
for example this is homestead tessie’s mansion right here just to show that
it’s not fake you know the way she lives is not fake it’s not we’re not living in
some kind of rich place but then only show in a shack you know it’s
legitimately real so just wanted that was actually yes this is all staged yes
but people are the way they are okay let’s see Traci Sanders Tessie are your
adult children ever bothered by your frugal lifestyle do your neighbors ever
seem unapprove enough how you choose to live your life with all the little all
the little sheds on your property okay so what you have to understand is I live
in a community where everybody pretty much lives frugal so I don’t have ritzy
houses near me we all live this way this is how we live I’m a little more frugal
than a lot of people as you we can tell by now but everybody else
has all of these kind of sheds and this this is where we live this is just
normal for me as far as the children my children have always known me as being
frugal this is this is I’ve always been this way now yes we did do more things
by going out to eat we used to go to rodeos when we spend a lot more money
but as far as down-to-earth I’ve always been down-to-earth never was
very materialistic I think they think I’m rather silly
sometimes in my frugal nests but yet I think they admire some of it because
they know that we are living under our means and we’re not making any financial
mistakes correct like there’s a lot of ways to answer as a child there’s a lot
of things that I couldn’t even do I wouldn’t want to do as a millennial you
know growing up I saw mom you know I was a kid I played in the garden I used to
make well my mom was in the garden I would make dirt rivers and then put
people in the rivers and use a hose and that was fun but um a lot of stuff I
couldn’t live without some of the amenities that they do like fully
running water and that stuff I couldn’t do it I just if I had to I had the
background on it but yes um and also I do want to point out that all their
shacks that you guys might see not every building you see is actually homestead
testis if we look over this way there’s a couple shacks that’s the neighbor’s
property so it’s not hers she only has a garage bran chicken house a chicken
house and just a little hottie shed potting shed and those are both yeah
they’re not that big so other other things you guys might see that’s
actually not her her property just to point that out nothing I have is run
down deep okay can you pronounce that or not Bulova yes it’s good with that d C’s
mightily okay your mother is a kind of sweetest most sincere person on YouTube
I mean that from my heart you take care and God bless thank you so much deep
that means a lot to me Irene Rex’s mummy has she ever thought of getting a goat
for milk also has she ever made homemade cheese if so I would love to see how
neither I’ve never either though as far as you go I really
don’t have the property for the goat for a goat and as far as making cheese I
will try to work on that I know a lot of people have asked about it I simply can
get it so much cheaper than I could make it so I don’t I don’t make it next week
is the last part of all of these questions and some of them are very
personal and I answer each and every one of them a little over two years ago we did the
very same video a Q&A and sitting at the very same place come watch us two years
ago and see how the difference is in our lives and see how some things are the
same also here’s some other videos I thought you might enjoy of my son and I
take care everyone we’ll see you guys tomorrow

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I Think It is About Time ,Just Do It !!

November 5, 2019

I say just do it I say just do it you
know when you were a child every day was new wonderment of life some of you had
happy joyous childhoods others of you had childhoods that were only in your
dreams a fantasy world maybe your childhood wasn’t very happy but every
day you dreamed for a better childhood every day you dreamed for happiness in
your life as the years ago the troubles of the world come upon you and you start
looking down down down and by the time you reach your older age you don’t have
much joy in your life because the troubles of the world compacted on your
shoulders this is how it is for many people this is how life is but I’m
saying just do it alright alright what are we supposed to do you ask I’m here
to tell you you’re supposed to have joy in your heart and do the things that
make you happy in this world is going to be people there’s going to be naysayers
who put you down don’t let them steal your joy live each day in the moment of
your life live each day in happiness and maybe every once in a while be a child
again whether you reminisce about your happy childhood or maybe you think about
the childhood that you wish you had says you’re too old to be a kid and who says
you can’t play in the rain I think I always like doing as a kid is playing in
the rain I hold my head up high and I would let the rain fall you know what
this is maybe a silly demonstration but this is what I’m doing today I’m just
doing it I’m standing in the rain letting the rain fall on me
and I don’t have a care in the world yeah you know in life we’re supposed to
look up not look down and that’s what I’m doing today in a practical way I’m
trying to show you how looking up changes your hosts perspective on life
you know this world everybody’s on their iPads and on their phones always looking
down but the Lord tells us to look up and that’s what I wanted to do today
even if it is pouring rain looking up it’s where you find happiness are you
looking up today and light or are you looking down upon yourself looking up
changes your whole perspective in life oh it’s rather silly for a 49 year old
to be standing out in the rain but who says who wrote the books on the rules of
how we’re supposed to act I say I think it’s great standing out in the rain
every once in a while and having fun so what are the things that you enjoy in
life what are the things that bring you happiness today I’m gonna share with you
mine and I say just do it so what are the keys to happiness you know
if I had the answer I would be a very wealthy woman it seems like since the
dawn of time people have been asking that question people would search for
happiness lots of ways but it seems like happiness is something they don’t
achieve so I’m gonna share with you only what I know how I achieved
happiness there really is no cookie cutter answer to this question
I found this squash out in the garden and an animal must have got at it and so
it’s not good anymore so my chickens get to eat it they like to pick at it my happiness comes from chickens a lot
of you like to sow and read a lot of you like to do volunteer work in helping
others that brings you great happiness so what is the key to happiness I think
it’s finding the things that you enjoy doing and doing them with your whole
heart I think it is finding things in your life that bring you joy and just
exploring those things everybody’s different I think sometimes we get too
worried about what the world is doing and what the world is saying all of the
negativity in the news we forget about our own happiness I think happiness
should be spread among people I don’t think you should just keep your
happiness all to yourself how do you share happiness with other
people well it’s really easy the depression is contagious but not only is
depression contagious happiness is – happiness is contagious
you know when you’re around positive people you tend to feel positive and
when you’re around negative people it kind of puts you in a sour mood but what
is the number one key to happiness what is the number one key it’s so simple
it’s contentment being content with what you have is a number one key to
happiness in your life now being contentment doesn’t mean that you don’t
strive to have a better life or strive to be more intelligent or strive to
learn wisdom or strive in the talent that you have we all strive for these
goals but being content with what we have at
brings great happiness a lot of people are discontent today a lot of people see
what other people have and they wish they had that then they forget about the
blessings that they do have in life being happy is something that is deep
within you and being happy sometimes is a choice people often say to me well
you’re so bubbly and you’re so happy I am that is my nature not everybody was
born with a happiness in their heart some people are more reserved and some
people are more melancholy that’s just the way that they are but that doesn’t
mean they’re not happy it’s just the way that they are my grandma Grubb she was
not a bubbly person she was a very stern woman she was very sober minded and her
face didn’t smile a whole lot but she was still content and she was
very happy how do I know she was happy took great pride in what she was doing
her cooking she took great pride in it she took great pride in her housekeeping
skills and she shared her wisdom with me she loved me dearly she told me so many
times she was very reserved but I sat at her foot so to speak and I really wanted
to learn I loved my grandma grib and I’m gonna be reading her diary more
somewhere somewhere along the line I got lost I’ve said this before to you
and I’ll probably say it again but don’t we always focus sometimes in her life I
mean I’m not the only one don’t sometimes we lose focus on really who we
are in life I kind of did that I think it’s because I want to be liked by
everybody I still do I mean that’s something that’s in me I understand that
I’m not liked by everybody and I understand that that’s an impossible
dream because if you’re liked by everybody that means you really don’t
stand up for what you believe you just pretty much humdrum to what everybody
else believes you know like the politicians you know the ones on this
side and this side and they promise everything you can’t promise everything
in life but I wanted to be I don’t know want it to be something that the younger
generation would like as well let’s face it the older generation is what watches
my videos not all there’s quite a few of you young girls no I don’t think there’s
any young guys that watch me but there are some girls that are under the age of
30 that actually watch me and I am so inspired by you
there’s something very old-fashioned about you in your heart and in your soul
but I wanted the Millennials to want to watch my videos because let’s face it
the Millennials are what takes over the social media right but I realized I’m
just an old-fashioned girl that’s what makes me happy and if I make videos that
don’t really portray me then I’m not being content now am I you know it’s
quality not the quantity and somehow I have to keep that in my mind so the
secret to happiness is is to know your heart and to know your soul and to know
what makes you happy the secret to my happiness is I know the Lord I am a
Christian and I don’t ever deny my faith or ever make light of my faith but I
want to share my life with all of you and I know that so many of you
enjoy my videos I took a deep thought a couple weeks ago really analyzed my life
I really analyzed my channel analyzed what makes me happy truly what makes me
happy and it’s the same as it was when I was 20 years old I’m an old soul I was
born an old soul I was born enjoying the old-fashioned ways of living when I was
a little girl when I was 2 3 4 10 I loved picking flowers and I would
pretend I’m cooking with them mama would get so upset with me because my mom
liked things just so she didn’t like any mess she didn’t like anything out of her
little comfort zone and she would get so upset with me because there I would be
secretly picking some flowers than having a wooden spoon and pretending I
was cooking this is how I’ve always been I’ve been an old soul when you look up it’s a whole nother
world up there when you look up there’s so much that we’re missing in life what
is the last time you looked up the birds of the air the trees the clouds the sky
the raindrops falling on your face you know that songs written about that
when’s the last time you looked up maybe you can’t look up today maybe your
circumstances you can’t walk in the rain so I’m gonna do it for you today here
you go cuz your chance to look up let me know what you see are you ready to look
up are you ready to have your life at a different perspective it’s been brought to my attention that
YouTube is having a glitch of some sort and a lot of my subscribers are saying
they’ve been unsubscribed in the last couple days just look under the video
right now to see if it’s still subscribed and you give me a thumbs up a
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The Girls Day Out ,What We Do For Fun

October 24, 2019

I like to do to have fun that involves
getting in my car getting my seatbelt on and getting my daughter and picking her
up then we’re going to my oldest daughter’s house and we’re gonna spend
the day together and you get to join along doing us and my little adventure
the girls in Homestead tessie’s life and it’s gonna be exciting and fun get ready
whoo are you ready are your seatbelts on let’s get started and it involves this
girl and it involves this girl and these girls a certain point I people I should so we went to Salvation Army and we each
got some treasures now we’re ready to go to our next store and it’s our favorite
store and now we’re for a favorite thrift store reuse it let’s go and see
what they got so we did a lot of things that we
normally don’t do and one of them was going to McDonald’s for lunch
my grandchildren aren’t used to fast-food restaurants in fact they’re
not used to many restaurants at all my daughter does most of her cooking by
scratch and so by going into a McDonald’s was something really fun for
them and they enjoy that we got to go McDonald’s and go to Goodwill and go to
the thrift store and go to Salvation Army and we got to do so many things and
I’ll show you what I got so the first thing I got was I spent a
dollar and I got this and I thought it was really cute and somebody did a lot
of work with it to cook books at Salvation Army now their books are
pretty reasonable so I paid a dollar for each more than a cookbook book and then
I got this one for a dollar and I thought the recipes were really unique
and has all kinds of recipes for non-food items as well so I thought they
were neat and I only paid $1 each for them because they were softcover and then I was at the Salvation Army and
I was said to my granddaughter’s I said I just wish I could find a clock
I want a battery-operated clock for in my kitchen I used to have one and it
fell into my sink and stopped working and we looked and looked and looked and
couldn’t find anything and we were ready to leave and my granddaughter just looks
over she says oh well there’s one and so I got a clock it’s exactly what I wanted
now it was $4.99 their prices are outrageous but it was blue tag so it was
half off so I paid 250 for it so that wasn’t too bad
so I can’t wait after this video I’m gonna put that clock back in my kitchen The Salvation Army is about Oh almost an
hour away The Salvation Army is about 35 40 minutes away from our house so I only
go maybe twice a year I don’t go very often but my daughter wanted to go for
some clothing but I’m really glad I went now I did spend a little bit
I spent $3 for all of these but look at all these vintage lids so we got vintage
lids and they’re really all goes with what I like to do but these were 27
cents at one time and I just thought wow how you need to
use these for display $0.99 so I just stopped there with me these here are
really old so for $3 for all of these wasn’t too
bad so I’m glad I got them and the last thing I got was this and it’s a shredder
but it is a modern one I paid 99 cents for it a goodwill but I’ve never seen
this before it actually came with this on the bottom
of it never seen that and I was using my antique one but now I have this one it’s
so much sharper so when I shred all that bar soap I’m going to use this as my
soap one and I have another one that I can use for food 99 cents I was really
happy about that so I hope you had fun with this really
different video of just me spending my time with my daughters and my
granddaughters and just what do I like to do for fun and that always involves
my children enjoyed this very unusual video it’s about me having fun with my
children and at the age of 17 I got married and by the age of 19 I had my
three children and I’ve been married almost 33 years and I think a lot of it
has to do is because I grew up with my children and so they remained my closest
friends take care everyone we’ll see you guys tomorrow okay I’ll beat elidio it’s a video
everyone there’s Sarah she’s feeling better today there’s a girls I guess
we’re still having a fun girls day even though we are in the hospital right you

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Clean Out the Refrigerator Soup,Poor Man Soup Recipe

October 23, 2019

we are in the kitchen once again and it
is cheap meal Monday on Wednesday I shared with you three pounds of ground
beef and how you can stretch that today we’re using the last of the ground beef
and I’m making what I call clean out the refrigerator soup pioneered times they
had soup and stews and beans because that was very frugal because they didn’t
have any extra money to buy other things and to their gardens only produce
certain things that were in season at the time so we have a little bit of
everything that’s going to go into this soup and I want to share with you the
leftovers of my garden not the refrigerator this is what I have we have
a little bit of green beans left that I did a video last week we have some corn
here we have a little bit of cabbage left we have some carrots we have a
little bit of everything and I’ll show you how I’m gonna put it all together so
everything I have is pre-washed so we’re just gonna put all the green beans in
our kettle to that we’re gonna add some cans of beef broth now I do not candy
froth because beef is so expensive I really haven’t had a place where I can
get beef cheap that I can actually key in the broth and to that we’re gonna add
corn now I want to share something with you a little bit of a tip somebody said
last week about canning vegetables and how it’s not good for you because the
high temperatures take the nutrients out that statement was partly true but
partly it wasn’t and let me share with you why that is partly true the
statement is true because you do use high temperatures you do lose some
nutrients but if you don’t drain your liquid all your nutrients are in the
liquid so all your nutrients are in here some of your recipes you do drain and
then you will lose the nutrition but today it all gets put in here the
nutrients are in the liquid and you don’t lose the nutrients and home
canned vegetables if you can use the liquid here are the carrots so we’re
gonna go ahead and we are going to chop up some carrots as well
I like the crinkle cutters it reminds me of my mom my mom always had one and
they’re really cheap to buy and they just give a little more prettiness to
your dish so we’re gonna go ahead and we’re going to cut these carrots and
then I’ll show you what we add to next we’re gonna add these carrots as well so
now I have a pack of peas and these are so adorable because it’s the
old-fashioned packaging you can actually still buy them today from Birdseye for
50 sets I just think the packaging is so cute as you know then you’re using take
them look what they use they use the same boxes that I like to buy so we’re
going to add 50 cents worth apiece so now we’re going to add some purple
cabbage that I had in the garden these are real tiny so this is real tiny
cabbage we’re gonna go ahead we’re going to chop up some of this cabbage and
we’re gonna use it up I’m actually going to use up all the
cabbage because it needs to get used up here I’m actually going to use all of
the cabbage and doesn’t that make it look pretty now the cabbage I have to cut around it
a little bit because there are some spots in it that aren’t good anymore that’s all right you just cut around it
the same as you would a potato you cut the good parts out of it that’s why it’s
called cleaning out the kitchen fridge because in the refrigerator you have all
kinds of stuff that you really got to get used up and soup is a great way of
doing that and the chickens will get the rest of this and that will make them
happy some peeled potatoes that came from the garden put them in the soup if
you are really observant you’re gonna see some white potatoes and some yellow
ones because I had different kinds of potatoes the Yukon Gold do really well
for me better than the rest the rest don’t do that great for me here in my
area and there we go we got potatoes and use their leftover ground beef mood and starting to look really good
and it smells amazing so the last thing we’re gonna do is we’re going to use
some tomato juice these are from the food pantry the tomatoes that I made now
do we need to add any more liquid oh I don’t know we might need a little more
so let me hide just a little more there we go I added them both so there we go
my friends now as you see I didn’t add no salt or no pepper I will add that
when everything is cooked and marinated better in the soup so we’re gonna put
this on the stove and we’re going to cook it for probably about an hour and
then I’ll let you know what it looks like doesn’t that look yummy just taking
things in your refrigerator and making a soup out of them I was gonna make some
homemade bread and I realized I had this garlic glove that was half off and I got
it for 50 cents so we’re going to throw this out and we’re gonna use this garlic
bread to use it up and as I was cleaning up I saw I had two Tomatoes that should
get used up so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna chop up these Tomatoes
and I’m gonna put this in the vegetable soup as well a little salt and added
little pepper to it and it tastes amazing so here we have all of these
items that were in the refrigerator that needed to get used up and we made some
homemade soup with it all of the different colors it’s really important
to make food that has natural colors in it so you want the natural red and green
and purple all those colors are nutrients that feed your body full of
soup I’m waiting for the garlic bread to be finished let’s give it a taste test
and see what it tastes like and to think I made all this was just a
fourth pound of ground beef so that was three meals with three pounds of ground
beef you can’t get much frugal than that and this soup will last us for a couple
days so basically those meals are giving me many more so the three pounds of meat
gave me two meals for two people with the meatballs one meal for two people
with the burgers and another three meals for two people with the soup now how’s
that for a lot of meals for four dollars we can’t get any more frugal than that
take care everyone see you guys tomorrow from Fanny’s diary we’re on October the
21st 1943 and Fanny writes today I cows cleaned the dining room and then in the
afternoon we went to the sewing circle it was another cold rainy day I want to take this time to thank you so
much for all of your prayers of love and support through this trying time of our
family life is precious and spent time with
those that you love and remember that there’s a lot of hurting people in this
world and when they ask for prayer to take a moment of your time to pray for
them a lot of people are going through a lot of scary times in their life and
fearful and they feel so alone I want to thank you so much for just guarding us
with love and protection and prayers tomorrow this video is actually a video
that we made all of us girls had fun it was the day before Sierra got sick and I
hope you enjoy that video of just spending more time with me and my family

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