Emily Answers what Dan thinks about her Frugality...

Unfortunately that wasn't the question that the readers really wanted to know. They wanted to know what Dan thinks about their living conditions, ie: the filth, household hazards, the fermented foods, the lack of food, and the general despair that emenates from those pictures. Anyway, here goes... **********NOTE******* I heavily edited Emily's drivel out of here because she is a whiner and complained to Blogger.

Does your husband support all of your penny pinching endeavors?

Iit doesn't really matter what his take is on it, he will do whatever I say, that's the reason I married this dim bulb]. His frugality could be summed up in no debt and don't spend money. I like that and add in penny pinching[Please add in, living in squalor, danger, child neglect to the point of a coma, and lack of food. Dan really likes food, so we disagree here, but he's getting too weak to put up much of a fight]

I shopped around for auto insurance and got the least expensive apartment we could fit into[I tried to rent one of those U Store Its, but the owner noticed Little Dna and Booby peaking out of their rubbermaid shipping container in the back of the car]. .[The U Store it would have saved us more. I'm still mad at Big Dna for forgetting to cut the air holes in the rubbermaid, thus forcing Little Dna and Booby to lift the lid for air]

Active frugality is what we do now, today [notice my clever use of italics? I sometimes like to randomly bold things too] to pinch our pennies. [I'm so clever, no one ever thought of this before, just like no one ever thought to put reading/writing materials in a magazine rack before]

There are some things we must spend on, food, gas, and clothes[And I do my best to make sure that I spend as little as possible on food, keeps the others weak and keeps me in control. I like to do mystery shops on my own and I cram myself full of food when I do. I tell Dna that all I bought on the shop was gum, and he runs from me. Gum scares Dna] Dan loves my cooking.[I think I have starved him into submission finally! Actually, he's just so dang hungry I think he would like anyone's cooking at this point. It's better than that clown house food that made us bung up!] [He actually is just starving and would eat anything], I do feed him snack food by request. I count on him forgetting to ask for them and he does.[Frugality tip here ladies, pick a dim one, they often forget they are hungry, saves lots of money. We sometimes forget to hydrate the boys too, we give the water to Therese instead]

Not spending money on stuff like new shoes or DVDs is pretty easy for both of us[It's really easy to not spend it on the kids]. .[Note to self, don't slip up and write about buying DVD's again]

Future frugality is in many ways up in the air. We talk of pursuing a pastorate the most, but really we don't know exactly what it is God has for us[One of my Christian commenters told me I need to be open to what God wants, so here I am making it sound like I came to this idea all on my own]. We have both at times felt we might be called to the mission field[I read about this over at Braincells and thought I better through this in there], yet God continues to direct our step toward a pastorate in Maine. Whatever we may do, financial discipline now is great training.

He wants something a little more traditional than a yurt or tipi[or a converted two storey semi trailer, or shipping container, or heated dog house], but is still open-minded. He's all for a small home as long as it doesn't mean we have to get rid of all of his stuff[because Dna would rather have his stuff like Brad the stuffed wonder Ecoli dog than to have a safe, clean home for our boys]. [Except all the notebooks, homeschool supplies, scribbles for Dna's classes that I convert to essays, and Dna's blog scratchings, we use very little paper.]. [Note to Emily, having filth on your floor that you grow stuff in does not make you a farmer, it makes you a slovenly pig]. He lets me handle most of the financial decisions, but he holds the red veto pen[or in Dna's case, the red veto crayon, sometimes he likes the purple crayon too].