The girls are on our cell phone plan because they don't have jobs (this is on the agenda for things they need to correct) and my husband sleeps better knowing that they can call home at any time for any reason. There are things we do around here solely because they help me sleep better at night, so I'm not about to challenge him on this. Their phones are HIGHLY restricted. Every time they ask when the restrictions will be removed the answer is "when you pay for the phone yourself."

I'm a stockpiler, and I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out a way to secure the stockpile in such a way where the girls will not be able to access it, but the rest of us will. Such trains of thought lead to visions of a chain wrapped around my refrigerator, and my husband a very angry man. I'll probably do it anyway. It is AMAZING to me how much they both take the stockpile, and my mad frugal shopping skillz, for granted. Until I can reasonably control access to the stockpile, giving them money and telling them to fend for themselves at the store is going to be a challenge. I'm up for the challenge, it's just making my brain hurt thinking about emptying my cabinets, moving canned goods to the shed, and putting padlocks on my stockpile closets so that they can't get in to them.