BULLOCKS: Bitching About Budgets

With all the talk in Washington D.C., Indianapolis, and City Hall, about budgets, I figured I would share our household budget for a two week period for groceries, as one of the things that gets touted aimlessly about is social security welfare and food stamp benefits reduction without reserve or cause. This is just food and doesnt include somethings as it is always an on going process and shifting from one thing to another to make things stretch and operate with less than you have or need. But as with every budget process you have to start somewhere in order to figure out if you have fucked something up along the way. I prefer to start at the top and work my way down.

One thing that is not listed in the budget is our beverage consumption as it varies based on the individual another is that I try to set aside up to $40 per month for really good deals that come up over the course of the month that allow me to stock up on stuff that then gets dissipated over next several months of savings by not having to purchase stuff at normal or increased prices and or quantities because I was able to purchase for dimes on the dollar now. This doesnt happen every month but its always in the back of my brain as a consideration. It also helps that I own a deep freezer too. Anybody hit a deer lately?

I encourage everyone to put their grocery budgets out there on the web, especially FACEBOOK, as a way of telling Congress (tag your member of Congress) and your State Legislature and City/County Council and pundits to get real about debates and budgets and have an honest conversation about where our dollars are spent, and quit trying to use or malign those whom barely have enough to survive on a monthly basis or receive benefits, because as I can attest below, it doesn't go to waste.

Grocery $77 for two weeks for basics for 3-4 people.

30 medium eggs $ 2.85 = $74.15
3 Gallon vD Milk $ 7.50 = $66.65
2 8oz pk cream cheese $3.21 = $63.44
3 loaves of bread $3.00 = $60.44
8 5oz cans Tuna $5.60 = 54.84
(+or 2 cans of Salmon $4.00 @FD)
3lbs roll of hamburger $6.00 = 48.84
Cottage Cheese tub $2.50 = $46.34
2 lbs Turkey Lmeat $8.00 = $38.34
1 48oz Butter Tub $ 2.25 = $36.09
3lbs Turk Burg/Sausg $6.00 = $30.09
3lbs Chicky Breast @1.79/lb = $24.72
Cereal/Oatmeal/Waffles $3 = $21.72
2lbs bolonga cheap shit $2.50 = $19.22
Herbs and Spices (AN) $3.22 = $16.00
Veggies Can & Froze $8.00 including:
+ 2 1lbs Broci &Chz Sau $4.00 WM/F
+ 2 13oz net Mushrooms $3.00 WM/C
+ 4 28oz cans of tomatoes $6.00 SL/C
+ Unknown Carrots/Peas/Corn $4.00
+ 3lbs bag of yellow onion $3.00
+ 5lbs bag of taters $3.00
1 8.5oz Olive Oil $3.00 = $5.00
1lbs Colby Cheese $4.00 = $3.00
1-3 pkgs of seeds $1 = $00 budget met

Happy Valentines Day: "Now Go Forth And Make Babies!"

....But don't ask for an exemption on them....

*lifts glass of wine* Here is to all those who have someone to snuggle with; and for those whom don't, here is to hoping Cupid hits the right ass cheek with his arrow of love. Cheers!

In other news our Governor encouraged recent graduates of Anderson University by ejaculating, "Go forth and make babies." which University President, James Edwards, dutifully chided him for during his introduction of Mitch Daniels as he came back to the University to clarify his original remarks that were met with "gasps from the parents’ section and cheers from the student section". To which end, Daniels clarified his remarks with circular logic beginning with, "(I meant it) within marriage, of course." followed by a senseless ramble of, "... adults make children, but it’s also true that children make adults." (HT: Jennifer Wagner's Taking Down Words) [F6 Source Text: Justin Schneider @ The Herald Bulletin]

In reports elsewhere, When you get your tax rebate in the mail DONT SPEND IT because they are going to take it back next year. "the rebate is in fact a "prebate", just like the one in 2001. Lake County resident, Buzzcut, over at Blue County In A Red State, citing an article in Forbes, with some authority while still scratching his head that, yes in fact the Economic Stimulus Porkchop the United States Congress recently approved "while diminishing from $800 to $300 per exemption will also have the prebate deducted from your tax refund next year."

Now for the age old question, Whom is to be my Valentine? Gotta love his eyes and smile!

[F6 PHOTO SOURCES: BUTT BOYS and FLIP FLOPS BOY]

Another way the State of Indiana wastes our money

(Lafayette, Indiana - AP) Cameras at six Indiana attractions will soon give online viewers a glimpse of fall color. The state's "leaf cam" Web site updates images of the six locations every 15 minutes.

Cheri Daniels, the wife of Gov. Mitch Daniels, says the leaf cams might help Hoosiers decide where they might want to go for a day trip to see vibrant leaves.

So far, though, the leaves are mostly green. Leaf Cams are at the Lafayette Municipal Golf Course, Hilltop Cabins in Brown County, Conner Prairie in Hamilton County, Spring Mill State Park in Mitchell, Fort Harrison State Park in Indianapolis and the French Lick Resort Casino.

Check out the Leaf Cam by clicking here.

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Story from News Channel Fifteen
Hat Tip to the Fort Wayne Uniblogger
Photo credit FlipFlopsBoy