Five Frugal Things
- I took a family member to a lengthy medical appointment and he bought me a nice toasted bagel from Henry Higgins Boiled Bagels with cream cheese as a thank you. I probably should've photographed it for the blog, but I pretty much inhaled it.
- My husband received a check from our insurance company for the month of work he missed from being hit by a car. It needed to be deposited in person, so I walked the four mile round trip to our credit union as the sun was out and I had the afternoon free from any obligations, which is a rare combination of events for Portland in November. I also returned a couple books to the library along the way.
- I finished reading my library book and then finished up my Libby audiobook. Neither books were my favorites, but I'm happy to have completed them so I can start on something new.
- I stopped into H Mart on my way home from the credit union and picked up a packet of Japanese curry cubes, as they'd been priced too high at Winco Foods. ($4.48 vs. $3.29) I also grabbed four boxes of sale priced coconut milk for the pantry. The true savings is that I didn't browse the store and buy any one of the thousands of irresistible items.
Unrelated to nonconsumerism, but the woman ahead of me in line was wearing a pair of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which I find to be incredibly creepy as it meant that she was recording everything she pointed her eyes towards. I know that they're AI enabled, which gives me the ick, so I grabbed my groceries and got into a different line. - I grabbed a couple of Wint-O-Green Lifesavers from a bowl at the credit union and stuck them in my purse to enjoy later.
My bank has a coffee station with biscotti, so I hit it every time I'm there.
I would love some advice on how to get the most out of Libby. My library started offering it last year, and there's a much bigger selection of potential books than on Hoopla, but few are actually available, and we're only allowed to put 3 on hold at a time, so it takes months to actually be able to read one. I think I'm just too much of an instant gratification kind of girl - physical library books are still my preferred version whenever possible.
I have marked tons of stuff as "want to read" and then just try to check the app weekly by filtering for "available now", but there has to be a better way.