It was REALLY COLD!!! Penny Pinching Mama 24
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We were poor. Family would bring us food that they had planted. I learned to make patterns and my own clothes for myself and my dolls. We were not allowed to have a new pencil till we brought my dad the stub. I did not know we were poor. It just was a way of life that prepared me for how we live today. I am blessed! Thanks for your personal testimony.
Adele Etherton amen learning to sew was not an option
I grew up on a farm in central Maine. The farmhouse was built in the early 1800s, no insulation with a wood/coal furnace. My bedroom on the second floor had linoleum and the moisture on my feet would freeze when I got out of bed. The water in the upstairs bathroom would freeze so I know about getting dressed fast in the cold. winter of 1969 the snow was so deep that I could go out my window onto the snow. Fun times.
gotta love the mind set, call protective services, What happen to '''How can I help???'''
Too short of episode! Always enjoy your stories! Miss Jill you are so pretty, please post another segment soon. Wish you could do videos from your home and stay more active on you tube!
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Omg! Someone actually asked why CPS didn't come in? As if being poor was abuse? Wow!
I grew up in a family that had no money. We used to put cardboard in our shoes because they had holes on the leather soles and there was no money for new penny loafers. My mother much like you Jill figured out a way to make sure we always had food shelter and most importantly love in our home of 6 children. My dad worked 2 full time jobs to make sure we at least had the basics and also so my mom could stay home and take care of us all. I learned so much from those lean years and that made me a more loving person but also a strong confident woman. I like you Tawra have a hard time when someone is complaining about some small insignificant problem. I look back on my childhood with no regrets but only thank god my parents were there for all of us loving us and teaching us how to be good honest and loving people.
How awesome to get the free insulation! I'm glad you mentioned that excitement made you sicker, as many people don't realise that about CFS/ME! It took me a couple of years to finally realise that I needed to keep my excitement levels down to reduce the fatigue levels later! Thanks for sharing your story. 🥰 Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
God bless you both and your families. we love you guys..
Thank you for another installment of Days of your Life! It's helped me a ton when I get low about my own situation. I often think of your words and it helps so much....janice
Ice on the inside of the windows is par for the course here in my house in Maine 😂 We are replacing windows one at a time, but everyone is used to it. Keep the heat at 60 during the day, 56 at night and yet my kids still run around in shorts and tank tops, ha! It's all a mind set
The painting the storm door was the best tip ever. I had two doors that were rusted. The same quality door would have cost $250 each. I sanded, used Rustoleum primer and paint. They both look great and have for several harsh winters already.
Love hearing Jill's story. Thank you, ladies, for doing these, even though sometimes I'm sure you don't physically feel like doing them. You are both an inspiration to me. Keep up the good work....and I love my Dining On A Dime Cookbook!
We're so blessed that you're doing these videos. I'm so frustrated when I hear that "RUclipsrs" are having to deal with negative comments. I'm sincerely sorry that you're having to deal with this. 😊
I think it's great that you are sharing your personal story and struggle. I can't imagine having me/cfs (chronic fatigue syndrome) and living in the environment you did . You guys are such survivors, you should be so proud for not giving up Jill, for finding ways to work around all these obstacles.
Thank you ladies, I’ve really enjoyed this series. I’ve learned many things from you.
Hello Jill, please do videos regularly, you are an inspiration
It's scary how much people want the government in their lives. I haven't heard one thing about your childhood that would warrant a call to cps, how ridiculous.
Love this series, please keep it going. You both are inspiration to me and I love your cookbook!
I recently bought insulated curtains boy that make a big difference in keeping the house nice and warm got them at Target and Walmart also sells them...FYI
I got my sons for his room used at the local hotel rehab store.
They are from when hotel items get worn so they replaced them .
I have quite a bit of my furniture from them too.
Yay! I've been waiting for this episode! Love this series!!! SO inspiring!,,
Finally getting caught up with watching your videos after the holidays. Please keep the Penny Pinching Mama series coming! I love them because they are so inspiring.
Love this series! Jill, I am south of you in Sumner County and it has been cold recently. I've been in this 1883 house for 20+ years. Early on, no insulation and brutal winters, and limited heat. Ive remodeled and the insulation helps
We had to dress in our beds Too! Frost on the inside Too!
Until last winter we still did.
Love these they so inspirational! ❤️
It’s true.. you just have to provide food, shelter and clothing. You did a great job!
Looking forward to more...
Right just take Day by Day ..god will provide❤️
Oh you guys are an inspiration. All three of you
Another good video! Thank you, ladies!
Hello Jill how sweet it is Happy New Year.
Wow thank you for sharing...sounds very tough😢
Would love to see you guys do a video on tips running small business from
Home!
Tara and Jill, you always have such wise advice. Whenever I watch your videos I feel like I’m listening to a sister or a mother. I’m a homemaker myself, and some of the things I’ve learned from y’all has been great for our budget! One example I’ll give is dish detergent. I think I remember Jill saying to just use less of a product to save money. Well I was previously going through a $20 tub of pods each month (I cool three meals a day plus snacks, bread, dog food, etc..) But now I’m using a $3 box of powder that lasts me for about a month and a half! I did an “experiment” to see how much I actually needed to get dishes clean, and I only need about a tablespoon per load! The directions say to fill up the dishwasher Cup all the way full. Totally unnecessary. Anyway, now that I’ve put a wall of text on here, I really just want to say, THANK YOU!
I don't have a dishwasher but when I wash dishes I only use about a quarter size drop of dish soap to wash a sink full of dishes.
That's great! I've been blessed with a dishwasher in our current house, but have lived in places without them before, and I have to say you have a pretty neat skill to only use a small amount of soap for a whole sink of dishes! Definitely its something I should learn too, because you never know when the dishwasher could break. I do love that thing though, haha. No more dry hands or cracked nails. Plus I can just throw everything in there and let it do its job while I spend more time with my family!
It was a shame no one told you to ask around for free firewood during the summer. Granted you'd have to haul the logs back yourself unless you would have been able to find someone or have it delivered for almost nothing. Where I live we do have lots of trees but maybe in Kansas there isn't as many.
Love love you both...thanks for great tips....very cold in Buffalo ny 2 degrees now...wind chill below zero brrrr!
I just ordered your cookbook, looking forward to getting it! I need some new ideas for cooking and saving money.
Love your channel:)
Something that just hit me was the fact that you didn't know how long it would be when you started living on that $8,000.
Tawra...we bought a 10 lb ham from aldis..for 10 bucks...it was fabulous..tasted awesome...thanks for tips!
I remember living "poor" however I knew that we owned our house outright and felt secure. Poverty should not bring shame
sometimes you HAVE to use daycare With out working I would have no income as a single momma.
Yes, we understand that about the daycare but even with that I encourage moms to look for alternate work so you can be home with your kids.
Hi guys! I’m behind on penny pinching mama. So getting caught up lol
oh you recordred before jill left
Is fibromialgia contagious or genetic? I am interested about how you all got sick around the same time. Thanks for all you do!
We all came down with the flu and never got better. Now we know that it's not contagious but it is genetic. The MTHFR gene is what causes it for a lot of people.
People dont realize how much these disorders and syndromes are rooted in TRAUMA and self-attack.
That is a shame that someone would say something like that well they would not want to see were I come from jajajajjajaja love you lady's!
How did you pay for Health insurance , Homeowners insurance , Property tax ,Eyeglasses dental care ?
She just paid them as they came up.
Jill, how in the world did you care for 3 people with only $ 215 a month for that 3 years ! I keep feeling like I must be missing something .
I know you had your home pd off .
They are on spending spear where that sister of her. ...
As a former social worker, my goal was to help the family was hook them up with programs and resources to improve their situation. We had a program that would go in and teach people to live frugally and make their resources stretch. So not all social workers are out to destroy the family but give them a hand up. On a personal level my father died leaving my mother with 5 kids 5-14 to raise. Mom did very well keeping us cared for. I used to tease her saying it probably would have done us good to go hungry once in a while!! ( We are all chunky LOL).
Child protective services? Please. You had a loving home, just poor. Not poor in spirit, just in finances. That irritates me too.
don't stop with your story I love it.thank you
You both look lovely in red❤. Interesting that some would call social services in a situation like this. Wouldn't it be better to try and help the family? It's not abusive to raise your kids in poverty. But it is a situation that should elicit compassion and action.
I can't believe that people would actually think that if you don't have a lot of money than CPS should be called. Back in the 1930's and 1940's( and earlier)a lot of family had house that only had heat in the kitchen with a wood stove that they cooked on and was a source of heat. A lot of family's had farms to help with the fact that they had very little money and would can and use root cellers and smoke house to have there meat, vegetables and fruit last as long as possible. People would not have very much heat in the bedrooms of the farm houses, they would have 2 or more children sleep in one bed to help keep them warm at night. That was the way it was, so everyone lived the same way, very frugally, and didn't waste anything. Some house didn't have a toilet inside the house and you had to use an outhouse.An inside toilet was considered a luxury.The children and adults walk to work and school, something for miles each way. My mother and grandma lived in this Era and talked about there experiences many times about there lifestyle.
My granny grew up on a farm in Missouri during the depression and she would tell me stories about what they did just to get by. A funny story though my mom fell in an outhouse when she was a kid she didn't get hurt but my grandpa had to pull her out.
Only 20 min!?!😩 I miss Jill.
I was six years old in Charleston, South Carolina in 1956 there where many children did not have shoes they walked to school in the snow, rain, whatever no shoes. It was sad but they survived and thrived not that this is a good thing but in today's world folks would freak out and call those parents abusive, they were POOR not abusive, life was different then, but I will say there were churches and organizations that would have provided shoes but people did not accept charity back then like now, in today's world people expect someone else to provide for them and their children no matter what. Somethings really are better now but the moral fiber and the character of people have really gone downhill. Too often folks think their way is right for everyone else and will run roughshod over others actually thinking they are doing a good thing while destroying families and breaking up homes all in the name of good intentions! But anyone who knows much knows the road to hell is paved with good intentions! Sorry this is a hot-button issue for me.
my grandkids are astounded that I lived in a house of 4 people with one bathroom. I told them really there were 7 people using the bathroom because the people across the street had no running water so the kids had baths and used our toilet . And we would go to their house to have a slice of homemade bread with bacon grease on it because they couldn't afford butter. Both my parents worked, and drank and smoked, so money was tight in our house but there was more laughter at the neighbors. Thank you again for another installment - you amaze me with your resilience.
Hello Tawra and Jill, so happy another installment of Jill and your upbringing came on. I too totally agree about not leaving your kids with others to work. I found that out early with my eldest and after that I never worked out in public again. I stayed home with them, did some babysitting and pet sitting and learned the art of true frugslness. And if someone thru something out, if I could use it or sell it, it was mine! Love you girls..
Great video - I was hoping for a full hour! Particularly interesting commentary as I am a social worker for child protective services. I have watched every video in this series, and believe me, I am in the habit of looking for child abuse everywhere. There is nothing in your stories to suggest that Tawra and David were ever abused or neglected. Poverty itself is not abuse. All of their needs were met, they grew up in a loving home, and they have become wonderful, responsible adults.
Just a quick question, would you allow a family that lives in a car to keep their children ?
I don't want the stories to end because they are so familiar. They bring back some not so good memories.... but many wonderful memories that we laugh about. 🍀🎄
We're missionaries who live in the community of the people we serve, but we still have things pretty easy! We have nothing to complain about at all. A nice church wanted to get our daughter a present so they asked what color her bathroom was. I might have sounded rude, but I chuckled and said "well, the family bathroom is taupe and green". Their response was, "Ok, but what about hers?" When I broke the news that she didn't have her own bathroom they were shocked and sympathetic lol. Also, we were foster parents for a while. It was interesting to see the state's expectations for children. The things my husband and I prioritize as parents were not the priority. Not bashing the system, just saying it was a learning experience.
You are an example of fortitude and faith. Thank you for sharing and teaching us to keep on going, no matter what. God bless you. I love you two.
Great message. I stayed home and we did without, because my youngest was such a handful that I was afraid for her well being. I have done childcare for almost 27 collective years. It is hard work, very stressful and I'm underpaid. 2 of my families are divorced so mom does have to work the others are to keep up with the Jones. Everyone makes choices, good or bad and they reap from those choses. Keep the story coming. It is very interesting and inspiring. Love your channel ❤
Gosh what a major challenge that would have been! $8000 over 3 years! Let alone the house and conditions!
Finally more Penny Pinching Mama!!!
Don't agree with being against daycare, if parents choose to work there are pros & cons & a good daycare is a great choice for lots of families.
Poverty isn't a crime. I did my best to raise my daughter. Some people do need to get CPS called on them, and the workers are so busy some kids slip through the cracks of the system. In my neighborhood there is a family that brags online that they are the cookie gang.The police got the kids before the social worker in charge of their case could do anything. The kids were going around the neighborhood scooping out houses to break into. Come to find out the kids were in the foster care system and their foster dad was a convicted Thief. What a mess!!!
It just seems these kids were just passed through the system,and kept getting bad placements. I felt like a prisoner in my house. The older kids haven't been around lately, so l think they got caught. Their parents didn't care and this kids are just becoming just like their foster father. Who is going to help these kids and the ones like them? I just hope for a better day for them and to live in a different neighborhood. Thanks for reading this story of missed opportunity for these children.
Mrs Jill’s a very elegant woman
I live in Tulsa, OK and the electric company will winterize a person's home if their income is less than $50,000 for free. It is a wonderful program.
Thank you for sharing your life with us. I am encouraged by what you share.
Jill, when you sold your business for $8,000 you didn’t know how long that money needed to last, did you? What happened after the three years? We’re the kids on their own then?
Debbie, no I didn't know how long it needed to last was just very very careful with it and figured when it ran out God would provide something else and He did. We have about 3-4 more videos coming out in the next couple of weeks that we recorded and explains what happens next and more so than I have room to answer here. :)
now a days parenents do something wrong ur in trouble oh jill u live in a condo now?
a house.
My mom had to work till late at night around seven-eight pm. So my brother and I were usually the last ones to get picked up from daycare but the owner of the daycare, her daughter and the other daycare workers were really nice and would treat us like we were their kids/grandkids. On the weekends we would go to some of our family friends' houses since the daycare was closed on the weekends.
Also we can eat dinners and lunches all week and then some...awesome bone in ham..baked it ..yum! Also make bean soup with the ham bone tomorrow!
and Tawra and your brother (with the comment below)
Yeah my dad went every summer without shoes for a long time.
I admire you all so much! God bless you!
Thank you for sharing.
Good show! Thanks ladies.
whats w/that cat howling??
I love listening to your stories, totally humbling. Don't stop with this series, it really is a testimony on how you can make due with what you have!! Thank you, Thank you! Happy New Year!
And now Tawra wants a 4000sq foot house?That is alot of cleaning,heating,cooling, etc.
Not all for house. 1500-2000 would be studio/business section.