Five Frugal Things -- My Customized Planner
1) I walked to a Mexican restaurant with my next door neighborhood and used a punch card to pay for my meal. I've been working on this card since my father was alive and almost all of it was filled from him taking me to lunch. It was his favorite restaurant.
I couldn't find a photo of us at said restaurant, so you'll have to make do with this one -- circa 1975.
2) I looked around my house and found a couple random things to list on eBay, specifically this needlepoint pillow that I thrifted at least five years ago. It's always set aside, (wool is scratchy) so it's time for it to find a new home.
Yes, I'm asking a hundred dollars for it, but only because I learned that it's from an expensive brand. Thank you, Google Lens!
Click HERE to see the listing.
3) I stopped into a Goodwill on my way to an appointment, and although I didn't buy anything, I did look up a half dozen or so items. This may seem like a thrift failure, but every one thing that I research increases my reselling knowledge.
For example, the above decorated tile is from New Mexico artist Yvonne Maneger and although some of her artwork sells for $50-$60 on eBay, other pieces sell for around twenty bucks. It was priced at $4.99, so I left it behind.
4) I wasn't all that hungry at dinnertime, as my restaurant meal was pretty heavy, so I just fixed myself a bowl of oatmeal. Yeah, I'm still on a "oatmeal buffet" kick!
5) My husband and I finished watching the first season of Karen Pirie through my sister's Prime Video account. I customized my new planner while watching the show. I even busted out my rusty cursive as an exercise in mild self improvement, which was kind of fun.
Now your turn, what frugal things have you been up to?
1) I did some cooking yesterday to replenish my lunches and freezer reserves. I cooked a bag of dried beans, froze some in canning jars and used the rest to make two Buddha bowls. I then made a batch of carrot ginger soup in the instant pot and a loaf of beer bread (made with sparkling water, not beer). I also steamed some beets so I’d have cooked beets ready to eat and chopped the beet greens, steamed them, and added them to the Buddha bowls.
2) I live in a damp climate (on the coast) so I had a dehumidifier in the kids room to combat some mold issues. It had stopped working though (still turned on but stopped collecting water) I cleaned out the filters but it still didn’t work. I ordered a bigger, higher quality one from the hardware store in town (the broken one was from Amazon), they already had it on stock and set it aside for pickup. Really pleased to avoid Amazon and get a better quality item (even if it did mean more spending)
3) My son saw a new series he was interested in at a bookstore, rather than buy any, I’m getting some from the library so he can test them out (if there’s any he really wants a copy of, we can get it from our local bookstore in town)