Non-Consumer Photo Essay -- Nose Hair Santa
This gorgeous mixed stone backgammon board was priced at $5, but I paid just $4.50 as it was senior discount day at Goodwill. (You only have to be 55-years-old!) I put it up on eBay last night, but I'd be more than happy to keep it!
I walked past Winco's small literary section and took a photo of this book, as The Glass Castle is one of my favorite memoirs. I came home and immediately put it on hold at the library.
I've been known to set coupons down next to their corresponding products in the grocery store, but this was the first time I've been the recipient. Was I planning to buy fondue? Nope! But it was on sale and the coupon made it a frugal impulse purchase.
Thank you, random stranger!
I needed a fresh pack of scrubby sponges and found myself comparing the store and national brands. I noticed that the store brand was cheaper per sponge, but that the national brand was significantly Larger. Big enough that they could be cut into thirds, not just halves!
It's hard to get ahead financially when all your money is tied up in sponges!
Lastly, I present to you the most disgusting Santa known to humankind. Why?
Because his mustache hair is straught up nose hair! gag, barf, gag! Please sign me up for some kind of science fiction brain scrub, so I can erase this memory from my brain!
Katy Wolk-Stanley
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."
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Wow, I agree with you! Gag me. Nose-hair Santa is freakish and icky.
Not as bad as the human Santa I saw years ago who had real nose hairs hanging out; grey, so they didn't even blend into his mustache. I texted my husband, shopping elsewhere in the store, about this grossness and inadvertently called it his moistache.
Now I can't un-see either of the nose-hair Santas: Katy's doll Santa or Lindsey's real human! (Suffice it to say that I won't be playing "Santa, Baby" or "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" ever again--not that either of these were ever favorites of mine anyway.)
BTW, who's up for a round of "My Least Favorite Carols"? In addition to the two just mentioned, I nominate "Simply Have a Wonderful Christmas Time" and "The Little Drummer Boy."
I'm having to endure loud secular holiday music blaring through our store loudspeakers. Add "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Rocking Around the Christamas Tree" to the Bah, Humbug playlist. Oh, and the one Chuck Berry sings. Plus "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" -- the lyrics have nothing to do with the holiday, they just plopped the word "Christmas" in there for the heck of it. All of these tunes, and more, are turning me into a Grinch!
I can't stand "I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas [cause I ain't been nuttin' but bad)". When I worked in retail, they always played it as part of the Christmas song mix. Go figure??
That is better than I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus was popular IMHO as Jimmy Boyd was only 13 when it became a hit.
White Christmas can go on the do-not-play-list as can All I want for Xmas is you.
Santa Baby - is it or is it not a control issue song - discuss.
Run run Rudolph and I have to digress as I like that song as well as your other two. I also like Christmas in Hollis by Run-DMC. I'm okay with Little Drummer Boy but A.Marie is spot on with her other one.
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time makes me want to throat punch Sir Paul McCartney! Hate that song more than any other song in the universe, even more than Baby Shark and What Does the Fox Say.
I heard Santa Claus is Coming to Town in the style of Creep by Radiohead, and its my new favorite Christmas song. (Go find it on the internets, it's such a downer, I love it)
I intensely dislike Xmas music in general, but just yesterday I was asking why Mariah Carey gets all the hate, when "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" is out there? "The Little Drummer Boy" is absolutely the worst though!
Late to the party, but please add Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer to the do-not-play-ever again list. Agree about the Paul McCartney song, Last Christmas, and the awful Mariah Carey Christmas song that I have banished from my memory banks. 🙂
1. The kids and I bundled up and made the walk to the Christmas party their pediatrician's office threw. I had previously said it was about 2 miles round trip, fortunately it was actually 1.5 miles. Unfortunately it is uphill both ways. Good exercise though!
2. There were several snacks and three different types of soup and rolls for everyone to munch on. Naturally my kids ate one packet of fruit snacks and half of a roll and drank half of a juice box between the two of them. Go figure. I grabbed two vegan fruit snacks for later since I have a dairy allergy and didn't trust the rest of the food. I also brought home some cookie goodie bags since my husband and kids will enjoy them even if I can't, and I'll send some home with my mom for babysitting this weekend.
3. There were lots of craft options for ornaments and cookie decorating and handprint keepsakes. The playroom with all manner of donated toys was more interesting to my kids so we only managed one handprint picture from my youngest and the cookie decorating (mostly eating) station. On the bright side it meant less stuff for us to pack home and store later.
4. There was a volunteer Santa and Mrs. Claus who gave out candy canes and took photos with the kids which was a very fun idea! My kids stayed far away lol I wasn't going to force it when there were so many others who wanted a turn. We did still leave with a gift for each of them! I really had to mash the bags into the bottom of the stroller and the bags didn't survive being pulled back out so it gave me a chance to inspect their goods. My oldest had a small magnet tile set and a book, my youngest a generic Little People farm animal figurine set and the same book as my oldest. I know we already have these identical figurines and we don't need two copies of the book so we'll be donating them to a toy drive and I'll re-wrap the magnets for the oldest and the book for my youngest.
5. Lunch was an oldie but goodie: two packs of ramen noodles, with broth rather than the seasoning packet, shared between myself and the kids. And for dinner we're making bagel sandwiches so while my youngest naps I'm going to bake enough to freeze for future bagel nights in our meal plan.
Love the backgammon board! I am a big fan of The Glass Castle, too, but I didn't care much for Hang the Moon.
I had a day at home. The weather was icy and I didn't care to slip and slide. I exercised at home, as I did yesterday, too. Just light calisthenics for a half hour.
I blended some spices to make a Southwestern mix and poured it into a cute little glass container. Stocking stuffer! Though it's actually going into a tin, not a stocking.
I opened the package of socks I bought yesterday and I was pleased to find that there were six pairs, not three like I thought. So each of my boys is getting two pairs of UnderArmour no-show socks.
I rearranged my gift wrap container and found a trivia card game I had forgotten about.
I used up the last of the crepe batter this morning, with a filling of chopped apples and brown sugar.
I found a quarter yesterday, sitting in the snow. I was lucky I saw it. I saw many receipts as well, but they were all soaked and shmushed and couldn't have been scanned. Such a waste.
As an ER nurse, I've seen too many nose, ear hairs and eyebrows brushed up, up, up the forehead. Dry heaving in the corner*
I adore the backgammon board. I would have to keep it and break down and buy the marble pieces. My friend who is a 3rd gen tile setter has a checker board built into his marble kitchen island. So cool.
Congrats on selling all of your cool ugly holiday sweaters. I was actually fond of the dog sweater.
My granny had a santa head something like that and at a very young age I pointed out the nose hair to my brothers..... I think I embarrassed my mom because we were very graphic in pointing it out with accompanying sounds and noises.
I made the rest of the Thanksgiving ham into ham salad today....I don't like to keep ham in the freezer too long....ham salad is good and I am soooo glad to see the end of the ham. Shared with family, only kept about 1&1/2 cup
The ham bone is simmering on the wood stove, broth for soup or beans at a later date....I cannot look at ham or turkey for a very long time.
I hope I can find cranberries that cheap (earlier post from Katy) I can them up and make cranberry juice cocktail.
My state found their nads and voted down the redistricting today, tRump was trying to force it upon us and it didn't work!!!! Of course all sorts of threats are coming at my state, but even though a heavily red state our state senators did the right thing.
JC
Jeannette Walls is a West Virginia author!
I took leftovers out of the freezer yesterday. I thought it was beef and brown gravy, but it was just a pot roast with some broth. Good but not what I was tasting. But today I turned it into a delicious soup with some homemade cornbread to go with it. Three meals out of one cut of meat! That’s what I love.
That Santa is just weird. I wonder if it was a mistake or someone's idea of humor?
1. I bought a rotisserie chicken. We ate it for a couple of meal then I boiled the carcass and we had chicken and GF noodle soup last night and it will be dinner again tonight.
2. A friend came over to my house in the afternoon for a visit.
3. I continue to find new homes for things we don't want via Freecycle. It is hopefully frugal for others and less stuff really is more.
4. DD had a birthday. We gave her a gift card for a restaurant she likes. I purchased it on sale at Sam's Club.
5. CVS sent me $4 in Extra Bucks. I stopped on my way home and bought three 5 ounce bags of popcorn for less than $1/bag with a sale and store coupon combined with the free EBs.
A.Marie,
I'm having to endure loud secular holiday music blaring through our store loudspeakers. Add "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Rocking Around the Christamas Tree" to the Bah, Humbug playlist. Oh, and the one Chuck Berry sings. Plus "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" -- the lyrics have nothing to do with the holiday, they just plopped the word "Christmas" in there for the heck of it. All of these tunes, and more, are turning me into a Grinch!
I can confirm that "Hang the Moon" was a very good book!
A few Frugals - FREE food edition!
Got a coupon in my Publix app for a free half gallon of "barista lovers" Planet Oat Oatmilk. Not normally what I buy, but the price was right and I was out of milk!
A friend brought me over a lovely container of Ground Turkey, Butternut Squash and Wild rice that she had made that evening for her family!
Another friend brought me her "dark meat leg quarters" from a rotisserie chicken that weren't going to get eaten at her house.
I'll have to check on that book also. I loved the Glass Castle. I read that in book club!