Five Little Frugal Things -- Every Shade of Happy?
Today's blog post leans heavily into "little," as I'm in a bit of a hurry.
1) I did a smaller than normal Winco grocery shop, as I still have a fair amount from last week. I picked up dry cat food for "Meatball," but grabbed an extra one for my daughter's cat as I hate to be unequal with my parenting.
This is $2.41 of bulk oatmeal!
2) I stopped at Goodwill beforehand and picked up a $2.99 blank journal, as my last thrifted planner is running out of weeks. It's hard to find blank journals without lines, which is my preference. I'll likely do something to create a new cover though, as "Every shade of happy" is giving off toxic positivity vibes. However, it's the perfect size and brand new.
I'm pretty sure that men don't get pressured to be "happy at all times." Ick.
3) I bought a $10 Goodwill gift card, as I decided to remove the David Hockney framed poster from the $100 Goodwill Gift Card Challenge. (I bought it in late December to resell, but have bonded with it!) I'll then use the ten bucks to thrift things to resell for the Oregon Food Bank.
4) I picked up my library holds, including the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. My husband and I then watched the Below Decks crossover episode last night. One of favorite episodes of television!
Without having to pay a penny to CBS/Paramount!
5) My spider plant babies grew enough roots to transplant them into my hanging basket. I know I've written too much about this, but it's so satisfying to figure out ways to do things for basically free.
I have three more baskets to figure out, but there's no hurry.
Now your turn, what little frugal things have you been up to?
OK, this is a day late and a dollar short but I just had an inspiration: While the Met does not need any fund raising, many worthier causes do. Your area food bank, for example. Or any charities that help people put out of their jobs thanks to these billionaire a-holes.
Here is my devious, anti-social, anti-high society idea: hold a NON-Met Gala party. If you want to raise money, charge admission, or otherwise you can do this just for fun. Have attendees come dressed as their least-favorite snobby member of royalty/celebrity/billionaire/oligarch/politician/Kardashian. (I'm sure Katy and her DH would like to go as the Schmezoffs). Participants should wear trash-picked items or worn-out clothing scrounged from their home or elsewhere. Perhaps a mop head could become a blonde wig, a cardboard egg carton a crown (as seen in the Tightwad Gazette), etc.
The idea is to be horribly CheapAF. Make sure everyone looks as tacky and tightwad-y as possible. You can hold this event on Friday the 13th, Halloween, New Year's, during the Kennedy Center Honors if Trump presides over same and/or names the Kennedy Center after himself) , at next year's Met Gala, or just any old time.
Have the event in a terrible place like your garage, basement, barn or alleyway and call it either the Met or the Trump White House Ballroom.
Collect pennies, thrift store donations or aluminum cans to take for recycling, and donate the funds to the charity of your choice.
I was given several spider plants last fall. How do I get these babies you keep bragging about?
Love the poster! Glad you are keeping it because it goes well with your wall color!
1. Our best hospital in the state has opened up an outpatient residency training clinic nearby and I made an appointment for standard bloodwork to become a patient. Good medical care is frugal.
2. It is in the same town as the new Aldi so I stopped by and purchased a huge long cucumber, I have no idea what this foot long cucumber is called, but I got it for 95 cents, I bought a 14 oz bag of classic coleslaw for $1.89, an eight oz bag of flat leaf spinach for $1.89, 32 oz of plain Greek yogurt for $2.79, hot dogs for 99 cents, ground turkey for $4.69, honey for $3.35, cream cheese for $1.49, bag of plain bagels for $1.99, Deli sliced turkey and deli slice roast beef for sandwiches for $3.09 a piece ( this is why I take pbj sandwiches to work so much bc sandwich meat has become so $$$$$).
3. I just finished walking an hour in my neighborhood.
4. I made a concoction of spinach, little grape tomatoes, scrambled eggs with cheese for supper.
5. Windows are up and no heat or air so as to keep the power bill down from our high as h$&l electric company in one of the poorest states in the nation with one of the highest electric rates in the nation. I used bread bags for sandwiches, and I am enjoying the birds out my window for free.
Cindy, that's a great Aldi haul. You likely purchased an English cucumber. They're so tasty and crunchy. I bought one by mistake a few years ago and I've never looked back.
Came home from vacation to find a $175 class action settlement in our mail. Today I got a $111 settlement via Venmo and $41 coming soon
The only souvenirs I bought on our trip were postcards to send to friends. I used Aisle to submit purchases for rebates. I scanned receipts into Fetch
Maybe you can find some stickers to cover the words on the journal cover.
1. I went out for a walk and came home with 25 cans. I spied a rival canner making his rounds (on my turf), so I’m proud that I had such good luck.
2. I made stock from a rotisserie chicken carcass, and it will become soup for tonight’s dinner.
3. The soup will be accompanied by homemade bread.
4. I bought marked down milk at the grocery store. It won’t expire for another 9 days, so I’m not sure why it was half price. Maybe there isn’t room?
5. I found a receipt in the parking lot that was worth 2000 fetch points. I’m learning that I’ll get way more points when I use other people’s receipts.
I shopped at Aldi today. Some things on my list weren't on the shelf, some things in my cart weren't on the list. I didn't really get an amazing deal on anything, but Aldi is more about steady affordability, not splashy sales.
Today it felt like even at Aldi prices were uncomfortably high.
However, on the plus side, I made a sale on eBay this morning -- another Cubs jersey. It's already been packaged and mailed.
I found a pair of glasses in my car and asked my son and grandson if either of them were the owners. Nope. With some really deep thought I finally remembered that I had bought these reading glasses from Goodwill some time ago and purposely left them in the tray below the dash in case I wanted to look at a map or something. Then completely forgot about them. How embarrassing.