My library has e books, e magazine and e audio books. I love it, I can go to the lbrary at anytime, day or night.
My library has e books, e magazine and e audio books. I love it, I can go to the lbrary at anytime, day or night.
Lunch was the last piece of pizza leftover from Th night dinner.
That's about the only frugal this month so far
I love that feature, too. I subscribed to BookBub, which sends me a daily email with recommendations to buy/download eBooks. If the books aren't sufficiently cheap/free, I put them on the virtual "for later" shelf at my library. Only rarely do I pay a couple of bucks for them. Needless to say, I'm a few books behind...Originally Posted by Aqua Blue
I was getting ready to go to the store on my Saturday, but I also went back to sleep this morning and am moving a little slow. So I decided to look in the fridge for some things and realized I have a lot of food already! I am eating all the little bits of yummy things, I had a lunch thing with hummus, olives and feta that had a lot left so I got crackers to finish it up. I am going to make a salad to eat the feta. I have half a pizza (kale, mushrooms and feta) left to eat as well. And then I made a jar of tea rather than buying the canned tea I like. In a quart jar I put one black tea bag, one fruity tea bag and 2 packets of stevia and then chill it. So freebie food and no waste.
I kept telling hubby that we did not need to go out shopping. I could feed us well from the refrigerator and the freezer for a whole week. I think he just loves going shopping at the grocery store. Tomorrow we take Mom for her weekly visit and I will have a struggle to keep him from buying more.
No, my parents are too old and too ill to travel. At this point, who we go to see is kind of on a triage basis, as my son was in crisis mode. Any phone call from now, my parents could be in crisis mode.
If you can think of xmas traditions that don;t involve spending money on thing or spending money on travel across the country, I would love to hear them!
Friday was a no driving or spending day. Today we had dinner out. Paid $15 for a family of three by using coupons.
Gretchen Rubin-- The Happiness ProjectI didn't want to look back at the end of my life or after some great catastrophe and think, 'How happy I used to be then if only I'd realized it.'
In my neck of the woods lots of Libraries are being closed or are very limited in days/hours of operation.
If your parents want a visit, are you expecting to see them soon and again at
Christmas time? Do you normally travel to them?
If you already spent travel money seeing your son for an emergency, surely he and his siblings would understand that another visit isn't possible. i am not sure who travels where in your family. But believe me when I say it isnt necessary to do the winter travel thing, everyne will srvice if there is no Christmas togetherness.
Just yesterday I was wondering when the first of the holiday stress posts would go up here. It is a hard time for many.
I am sorry that your income is cut in half, that surely does take adjustment.
We have pretty much eliminated the holiday gift-giving from our lives (except for obligatory work gifts), but back when we did exchange gifts, we would sometimes have a friend or family member bake cookies or not return a gift for a gift due to being out of work or something, and that was more than fine. I mean, these are people I love and if I wanted them to suffer financial hardship to get me yet another thing for the holidays, then I wouldn't be much of a friend, right? We also found that people were very quick to agree to eliminating the gift exchange when we proposed it a few years ago, so I think sometimes the expectations are more internally imposed than imposed by others. I'm sure the dynamic is different when children are involved, but for us that wasn't the case.
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