Feb06
--afternoon volunteering at Seniors Home...always makes me thankful for family, home, and health and
makes me worry less about stuff.
--Supper was some cooked beef that was frozen, a package of gravy (really am cleaning out food..lol) potatoes, carrots and mixed frozen veggies.
thats all for today
Mostly like a lot of us just not spending
DH had a JCPenney shirt that we returned yesterday for an exchange - the fabric had torn away from the cuff - I appreciate that they stood behind the product. We also picked up a new set of sheets that I had found at 50% off - they are supposedly wrinkle resistant but more importantly, reviews said they were soft from day #1. He wanted to go to McDonalds for dinner but I convinced him that a large salad with chicken left over from Monday would be a fine dinner. We stopped for a bag of lettuce and a loaf of ciabatta bread - dinner for less than $3 and so much better for us.
Of course, this morning he woke me up to say he was taking 1/2 day of vacation and when I pick him up at the bus, we should head for McD's for lunch! The best laid plans. . . . .
cdttmm--you have plenty of food! I predict you'll make it till Monday--easy. Another spend day. $2.80 for library fines. Really dumb to let that happen but I just did it anyway!
If it were up to me, we could make it until at least the following Monday!!! But my dearly beloved does not enjoy the game as much as I do. He insists on "real" meals. Whatever that means!Originally Posted by onlinemoniker
I was too lazy this morning to make lunch to bring to work. But it all turned out fine because my student worker brought me a cup of soup and a roll from the student senate recruitment event. We still had some oranges in office leftover from last week's breakfasts. And a student surprised me with a bag of peanut M&Ms. Plenty to eat at no cost to me. Score!
Tomorrow will not be frugal. The nearly 18 year old cat is going to the vet for blood work and a check up.
The brain is wider than the sky. -- Emily Dickinson
Selah, I would have done the exact same thing - maybe the media has us trained to over-react to the C-word, but I think the price, in your case, was very reasonable for peace of mind. To me, that is a good-value expenditure. I'm trying to focus on our frugals too, instead of beating myself up about our outlay, which for the most part I am not currently able/willing to change. Wednesday I saved some gas because my mom's neurologist appointment was cancelled due to weather and by the time I found out, it was too late to bother driving in to work on awful roads. So I burned a day of personal leave, but I'm ok with that. I had time to make a pot of turkey-corn soup with stock made a Christmas, and a loaf of bread made in my yard-sale bread machine. Yesterday, work provided lunch unexpectedly, so that was good, and yesterday's lunch became today's instead. Tonight we just had egg sandwiches with some eggs my three little hens decided to grace us with this week. I paid some bills online, saving stamps, and carefully kept my post office receipt for some work mailing that I will be reimbursed for - as long as the receipt doesn't get misplaced! Turned in my mileage for January also. Small things, but that's all I have at the moment.
Feb 07
---made a pot of soup using a large container of saved veggie water, some celery/carrots that needed used and the bones from
a rack of BBQ ribs bought home from a restaurant meal. Stained the broth and put soon leftover turkey chilli I froze last week.
It was super good!!
--no drive and no spend day....way tooooo cold to leave the house, but, I am sure I do not want to see my Natural Gas bill this month.
--but, we are wearing extra sweaters, socks and warm pants around the house and using afghans when watching TV
--sent for two samples...hehe...every little bit helps
Relaxing day for the most part. Took the cat to the vet this morning, fortunately he seems to be doing fine so we are just waiting on blood work and urine culture. He's almost 18 and has chronic renal failure and IBD, both of which are being managed so that he continues to have good quality of life. A few days ago he was having some vomited and I gave him an anti nausea med and crossed my fingers that we wouldn't be headed to the emergency vet that night. Turned out I made the right call and he was fine. My regular vet suggested that we start him on prednisone when we get the blood work back and she said she would give me the prescription today so that I didn't have to come back in on Monday. I told her I already had a stockpile of prednisone on hand from the last cat and she laughed and said, "I should have known that, you probably have quite the home pharmacy at this point." She's right. We do. But I just keep the meds from the various pets because there's no point in throwing them out when we might need the same thing a few months later. She prescribed him B-12 injections, too, which I told her I could do myself, no sense in paying a tech to poke him when I have plenty of experience. She was fine with that since she knows I've done this all before. So at least I saved a little money on the vet visit!
Otherwise we're just doing the usual stuff. I'm making a batch of brown rice in the rice cooker. Should be enough to last me about 10 days and it's the last of the brown rice that we had in the pantry. Woo-hoo! I'll start eating down the quinoa next.
Probably going to make some popcorn (on the stovetop, none of that microwaveable stuff) and binge watch the entire third season of Sherlock later today. Frugal fun!!!
The brain is wider than the sky. -- Emily Dickinson
"binge watch" - love that term! Great descriptor for what we do with TV series from the library!! Two loads of wash hanging on the racks, and a loaf of bread just finished in the breadmaker for lunch with the last of our turkey corn soup, extended with some chicken broth from some leg quarters I cooked off this past week. Will pick up necessary groceries from ALDI on the way to my mom's to check on her. We have some flavored coffee and a tiny pot stashed at Mom's so we will make some coffee there, avoiding the strong pull to Starbucks or Boston Stoker.
We got a free stroller from a friend. The only bummer was that the friend lives about 25 minutes away from us in an area that I frequently work in, and I was in the area in the afternoon, but forgot to pick it up on the agreed day, so DH and I had to make the drive back out there in the evening. That's ok, just a few bucks in gas for a pretty nice stroller. DH cleaned it up (had been in their garage) and it should work just fine for us!
I'm bringing chili for a potluck on Tuesday, but shouldn't need to buy anything additional in order to make it. Just need to put some beans in the crock pot today to get them ready for using in the chili later on. And we have a new crock pot with a lock down lid so I will use that one for transport to the pot luck!
People in Israel often leave their unwanted clothes next to their apartment building's dumpster. Sometimes it's neatly folded up, sometimes not, but clearly it's meant for anyone who wants it.
A new charity store has opened up in town, where the proceeds go to feed hungry families in our city. The food is donated by local restaurants, shops, and factories, and then packages of groceries are prepared and distributed weekly. About 200 NIS (USD $65) worth of food is provided to qualifying families, who only have to pay about NIS 15 (USD $4.50) for them.
Although I don't have cash to donate (other than via my own purchases at the shop) I've begun picking through the clothes I find on the street, choosing the ones that are in good condition, and then taking them home and laundering them. Then I donate them to the store, so they can be sold (VERY cheaply) and the money can stay in the community. My only cost for this hobby is the tiny portion of expense to launder the items, which just get thrown in our regular washing.
My other frugal way of contributing is to pick up seashells and sea glass (broken glass that has been tumbled smooth by the ocean and then washes up on the beach), and good-condition empty cardboard jewelry boxes, and give them all to my friend, who makes and sells her own jewelry. Having a significant amount of her art supplies and packaging/display materials coming in for free really helps her bottom line. (DH says I'm just justifying my love of picking up garbage, but hey, it's all good!)
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