An unfrugal day yesterday in some ways, frugal in others. Went to Target and bought the flannel sheets I wanted and they were 2 dollars off, so the set was 24 dollars. My phone cards were on sale so bought two months worth and saved 3 dollars. Should probably go back and buy more of those.
the flannel sheets were an extravagance but my others wore out and these are so nice, and so inexpensive compared to regular sheet sets. You can keep the heat comfortably lower if you have flannel sheets so that is frugal. The MRs. Meyers pine scent cleaner was an extravagance, but it only comes once a year and makes the house smell so nice and Christmassy!
bought my son and grandson's Christmas presents. I also put money in each grandchild's brokerage account for christmas, depending on how the year has gone. This year has gone very badly so they each only got a hundred dollars. But I'm glad to put something in there and it will grow. I have UTMA accounts since I did not want them to have to use the money for college, since I figure there are other ways for them to fund college. My goal is house downpayment for each grandchild, baby! I am with you, Dado, sock the money away for them instead of a lot of toys.
My husband figured out a way to turn the Christmas lights off from inside the house without unplugging them, so we will return the 9 dollar timer we bought a Menards for this purpose. Christmas lights are great example of frugal and extravagant at same time--running the electric for them is extravagant, I bought them on 75% off several years ago when we lived in upstate NY and I loved them, frugal; the first string is not the good kind of lights, extravagant; there's not that many of them and we put them in a new place this year and they light up both driveway when we come home after dark and the backyard, which looks pretty when we are inside looking out.