Diary of a Money Saving Queen

[moneyrant]

Not sure if this will work. Diary of a Money Saving Queen. Use your imagination. Keep the story going. Leave an ending so the next person can continue. Have fun. Imagine. Go wherever you want. See where we end up.


The Money Saving Queen awoke to a fresh glass of rainwater funneled from the roof so she didn't have to use the faucet. The rechargable battery powered clock (both clock & batteries purchased for pratically nothing at a garage sale) read 6:00. It was the start of a new day.

The Money Saving Queen crawled out of bed, took a sip of water and...

[terry1156]

...looked over her shoulder at Spendthrift King still snoring away.

"I love him to death," she thought. "But how can I make him change his ways?"

She walked to the bathroom and cut open the end of the toothpaste tube to get the last drops to brush her teeth.

"Honey," the Spendthrift King called from bed. "I need you to..."

[sarah]

...to stop doing things like that. It is unseemly in a Queen and besides the money you save is insignificant." Money Saving Queen took a deep breath and...

[midnight]

...hissed back, "this insignificant savings lets you have beer and snacks with your buddies as you watch satelite pay-per-view sports on TV every weekend!" She pinched off the toothpaste end with a clothes pin knowing there were still a couple of more good squeezes left and walked back into the bedroom.

Spendthrift King was now out of bed walking to take a shower. Money Saving Queen stopped him in his tracks and said, "If you can't appreciate what I do...

[sdc2027]

I'll turn our now comfy 120 degree water OFF, while you take your shower".
Saving Queen then walked to her desk that was impecably organized so she could find anything at a moments notice; and picked up her Grocery price book to.....

[2moretrees]

take downstairs and compare it with the Sunday paper coupons. This was her favorite morning when she could find the best deals of the week. In her excitement, she accidentally tripped on her way down the stairs, but luckily...

[Tree0164]

she was able to get up and didn't get hurt. She walked over to the 15 yr old coffee maker that she picked up at the thrift store for $1.99 Why do people ever buy new stuff when some of the old worked just as well. She thought. She walked over to her stove....

[terry1156]

...and threw a couple of logs into it (why pay for electricity or gas when you can burn wood scraps for free?). She walked outside and got some eggs from the hens they kept & a few oranges from their tree and began cooking up breakfast.

Spendthrift King came down the stairs just as Money Saving Queen finished...

[Jo Bo]

"Well did you save it", she asked. "No' he said testily. "Why you would want me to save my belly button fluff is beyond me". 'Because I'm using it to stuff a cushion for my Mother for Christmas", she explained patiently as she moved the drying rack festooned with yesterdays cling wrap and foil she had washed before going to bed. Rolling his eyes skywards he sat down at the dumpster dived packing case they used for a breakfast table and asked her........

[2moretrees]

"aren't ever going to have something different that eggs and orange juice for breakfast? We've have the same exact meal for the last 10 years since we have been married. I want something new, just for once!"

Money Saving Queen looked across packing case/kitchen table and...

[Jo Bo]

said, "I'll see what I can do dear. I read about a pantry challenge on the Savings Advice newsletter so lunch will be something yummy made up from some spongy carrots, beef drippings, a slice of dried up sponge cake and a bag of 3 year old chillies from the freezer". The Queen returned to her daily job of removing the dirt from the tread of the family shoes. She had quite a collection now and was just hoping it would be suitable for the mud brick chicken house she was planning. No one could tell her it was impossible to build in mud brick just because she lived in the centre of a city! As she scraped carefully at something she hope was mud and not doggy doo her eldest son entered the kitchen. He was a smart young man, his appearance only spoilt by...........

[marla]

the fact that he was wearing clothes for a 8 year old even though he was now 12.

"Mom, these clothes are too small. I can barely fit into them."

"They still have plenty of life left in them," MSQ said. "Take them off and I will let out the seams and sew some more material scraps to them so that they fit better. Now sit down for your eggs and orange juice."

"Mom, can't I get new clothes like the other kids?"

"You should be very happy with the clothes you have. Let me tell you, when I was a kid...

[Jo Bo]

we lived in a mansion with servants, a Rolls Royce, a yacht and holidays to Europe twice a year but.......

[terry1156]

...it meant nothing at all. It was all handed to us on a silver platter. It isn't until you dive in a dumpster to furnish you house that you become alive to all your senses. You become one with the world. You...

[Jo Bo]

can spend all the spare housekeeping money on vodka. Just kidding son! You have to appreciate the fact that you may not have had the most up to date designer clothes, (well, not until they turn up in the charity shops and then they aren't so 'up to date'! LOL!), but how many of your friends can say they have bought the designer labels, by that contributed to charity, and not contributed to child labour in third world countries who are producing some of your friends' clothes and shoes! Anyway son, get out of the kitchen, I have to shake up a batch of ziplock ice cream for your father. He's complaining about the eggs and oranges I give him. It doesn't seem to have done you any harm - except for your................."

[marla]

hair that looks like a rooster. I bet if we put some raw eggs in it, it would take that rooster look waya in a second and you would have a nice, shiny coat of hair just like our dog Rover.

"No thanks, mom. I'm outta here."

"Don't forget your lunch," MSQ said holding a brown bag lunch of leftovers. She always felt proud that she could cook one meal and be able to give leftovers for the entire next week.

SP got up from the table. "It's time for me to go to...

[Jo Bo]

I have to go and put in my four hours at work". "Well I think that proves my point", said the MSQ. 'What point?", said her DH. "The fact that because of my careful frugality since our marriage you only have to work outside the home 20 hours a week and can devote some of your spare time to the volunteering you love so much!" "I suppose so", he admitted reluctantly, "I wouldn't be able to do the homeless soup run until 0300 4 nights a week if I was still clawing my way to the top in the corporate world". He picked up his brown bagged leftovers and got out his trusty 25 year old bicycle for the short ride across town. "Don't forget you promised to build me another window box later", she called after him, "I noticed those gourmet salad bag mixes are an astronomical price and I can grow them for pennies - and don't forget to take this recycled plastic bag and call at the police station on your way home - the sergeant has promised me some poop from the police horses for the compost". She settled back down to the kitchen table and took out her 10 year plan. The MSQ had been planning for years to move to a little block of land in the country and every morning she reviewed her plan, counted the savings she had made and added them to the 'escape fund'. This morning she noticed........

[2moretrees]

that the funds were gone! Nada! Not a penny left! She couldn't believe her eyes. All her hard work had disappeared in a second. But how could this be?

At that moment she remembered the Spendthrift King had been unusually happy this morning. Could it be that he had taken the money?

She raced outdoors...

[midnight]

screaming and yelling at the top of her lungs, but Mr. King just smiled in the rear view mirror and gave a little wave before he spead off in the 100,000+ used car that Mrs. Queen estimated still had a good 5 more years of life.

"This must be a bad dream," she muttered as she walked back into the house. She sat down at the table and began to think.

"I know!" she said. "and..."

[nate]

"Forget this!" she said as she quickly stood up from the table and looked over by the door where her husband had left his bike (apparently he decided to take the car instead at the last minute).

She jumped on the trusty 25 yo bike and peddled off after the direction he had driven. "It's a good thing I pulled out 2 of the spark plugs this morning and sold them on ebay." she thought. "He won't be able to drive faster than 20 mph! I can easily catch him..."