Awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Square Peg
FFF = "Fairly Frugal Fun," a term someone coined here on the frugals thread a while back. Basically anything that didn't cost much and ended up being fun.
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Awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Square Peg
FFF = "Fairly Frugal Fun," a term someone coined here on the frugals thread a while back. Basically anything that didn't cost much and ended up being fun.
Score! It's always nice to have a little refuge away when visiting family, no matter how beloved. Might as well use those points!Quote:
Originally Posted by crunchycon
State Parks often have GPS kits for geocaching, too! Fun stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stella
Not too frugal. Well, it was going to be . . . we found an oil change place near my work for $15 for me (since I work in the area) and $17 for everyone else. We took in both cars since they both needed changes. That is an awesome price for this area. But DH's car conked out on the way home!! Not sure what they did or didn't do when it was in there, but something is decidedly amiss. I am crossing my fingers that they will cover all costs and fix it, but even in that case, we gotta haul our butts back up there to pick it up. I am not going to beat myself up over this because it could have just as easily happened at a shop down the road. They were nice about calling a tow truck - could have been argumentative. So that's a good sign, I hope.
Shopped around for MiL's bday present and will end up ordering it online.
I bought a pair of shorts and some new nighties on sale. It was about $50.
Not a particularly rewarding afternoon, all said. At least every place was air conditioned, unlike our house. SO LOOKING FORWARD to this heat breaking.
Went to TJ's today and stocked up on many items I use that are so expensive. TJ's all the way on the other side of town. Went with a friend and split cost of gas/tolls.
Did other grocery shopping and stocked up on frozen fruit (blueberries, blackberries, cherries and raspberries [got a killer price on all @ Martin's]) bc I make this dark fruit cobbler every week and eat a serving every day. I sweeten it with agave nectar and also use nutmeg and tapioca. Cobbler crust is whole wheat flour, canola oil, soy milk and a little sugar. Then I eat this with soy milk on top. It is amazingly good and so good for me. I feel so healthy eating all those dark fruits. And as I'm trying to lose weight this summer and (aside from 10 servings of sweets in the sweet bank for the whole summer) I'm eschewing eating sweets, this is my sweet for the day and it's very good and isn't spiking my blood sugar level.
July05--not much to date
bke---I now for a fact that lowering (there was no way I was going to be able to stop coffee with all those hormones out of whack) but; back when I was suffering with menopause I did lower it down to 2-3 cups a day. Also, think about other caffine you might
be getting in tea/drugs/pop/chocolate, it is the total in a day that counts.
--Costco run and spent more then I planned but, mostly on really good buys on things I have been looking for.
--bought 5 lbs of ground beef and cooked it all up and packaged in the freezer ready to use--time and energy saver.
Decluttering continues and we start our yard sale today. This week I have spent no money. DH has probably purchased a couple of meals at work (about $4 each).
Interesting too, I have been planning and thinking about doing once a month shopping and cooking but I finally came to the realization that for me, it is not a good idea. I need less stuff in my life, not more. So it is not a good idea to bring a month's worth of food into my minimal storage options.
I like the geocaching idea Kelli!
bunnys your cobbler sounds delicious.
I don't know if I mentioned this the other day, but I have been on a mission to reclaim my house from post-partum neglect. I am feeling so much better now that the kitchen, entry, dining room, downstairs bathroom, living room and deck have been rescued. I really get anxious when things are out of whack and as someone mentioned previously, organization is huge when it comes to frugality.
School has started again in earnest, which is helpful with frugality because it gives us stuff to do. It really helps with our rhythm and routine. The two month evening out on her sleep, sleeping consistantly through the night and taking reasonably predictable naps. Her next older brother, who is 15 months, sleeps for 4 hours in the middle of the day, so I am once again finding time to make things from scratch, teach the oldest kids and do housework. I think baby exhaustion probably costs me about $100-$200 a month at least in compromises for convenience's sake, so regularly sleeping babies and good routines are a huge plus in the frugal column.
I have been rocking the expense tracking and I have talked Zach out of eating lunch out everyday. That was his bad exhaustion-related habit. He usually only eats two meals a day, by choice, so I have been making him breakfast instead. It's working well for him. Seeing how much it added up really made it real for him. We are pretty much spending nothing during the week except gas for him to go to work. With weekends pretty carefully planned, I'm feeling good about our spending. We are on track this month to spend a total of about $1800, including all of our bills. Considering we are a family of seven and this includes a trip to a waterpark for a birthday I think we're doing pretty well.
So very very hot in MN the past several days - stayed home and spent no money - besides the a/c and water for the garden!
Rain just came through - still humid but this too shall pass!
Been reading library books, posting things on etsy, and watching movies old-school -we still have a VCR and I bought some old favorites on VHS for .35 each at the thrift store on Sunday.