One Frugal Thing — Free Haircut!
by Katy on September 26, 2025 · 5 comments
I got my free Supercuts training center haircut, even though my day was incredibly busy. (So busy that I forgot to take a “before” picture!) The manager told me that a lot of clients don’t even show up for their appointments, which is insane to me as there’s nothing short of a natural disaster that would keep me from my free haircut!
The newly hired stylist was coached by her boss, so there was zero possibility of a botched cut. Plus, the cut was done quickly, so it didn’t eat up my day. I’ve gotten free cuts from beauty schools before and it took a loooooong time, as the students had to get each step approved before moving onto the next step.
As always, I tipped the stylist $5.
Now I’m good to go for six months or so.
Unrelated, but please enjoy that I’m rocking my blood money free American Red Cross Goodr sunglasses!
Now your turn, what frugal things have you been up to?
Katy Wolk-Stanley
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Haircut looks great!!
1. Continuing to enjoy my neighborhood and all it offers with a new free Zumba class at the library. It was SO fun and even my friend who doesn’t like cardio asked if we could come back next week. We’ll be there!
2. Came home and made peanut butter noodles with the bottom of a jar of peanut butter. They came out great and filling. The sauce came from here (I used chili garlic sauce instead of sriracha and added pasta water to loosen the peanut butter): https://peanutbutterlovers.com/recipes/almost-empty-jar-peanut-butter-sauce/
3. Looking forward to a quiet night in tonight. I love my friends and busy life but sometimes you just need a down day. I’m going to watch TV, play video games, and likely fall asleep early.
4. Big donation day at our local food pantry/free store Sunday. Going to clear out any fall clothes or costumes and bring them over. It’ll be good to get stuff out of the house and know it’s going to good use. They always need reusable bags to pack donations so I’ll be going through those as well.
5. I ordered a new work dress off Poshmark and the seller cancelled the order. Oh well, a disappointment but not the worst thing. I moved the refund into my savings account instead of rebuying something.
What a good idea for the last bit of peanut butter! I’m stealing it!
Love the long layers!
Today is freezing corn and making a big batch of celery soup to can. We grow celery for V-10 juice, this years crop of celery is so yummy, so soup for the win and zero waste.
Picked a bushel of pears to can tomorrow.
Harvested the butternut squash, washed them and they are curing for 10 days in the greenhouse, then to storage/root cellar.
Only came up with 3 things, the day is not over!
1. I just got back from getting my Covid shot, which netted me another 20% off coupon from Walgreens. In the next few days I’ll be thinking over how best to use it.
2. My expected company had to cancel due to a water problem at her house. I’m disappointed, but also somewhat glad, because my budget is shot, and I would have felt bad about spending anything.
3. Logged last week’s flu shot into my Medicare Advantage rewards record — $5 for groceries next time I shop.
4. I found five receipts to scan to Fetch.
5. Frugal fail — burned two homemade personal size pizzas– one was edible, but I threw the other one away.
Oh Katy, you look like one of those “who is that behind those Foster Grants?” advertisements. (Foster Grant sunglasses had glamorous movie stars posing for their full color magazine ads, many years ago.) Hope your stylist got an “A”. She may have launched your modeling career, LOL.
Today I was a frugal superstar, if I may say so myself. I scored a bunch of freebies!
1. I have allowed myself to be “volunteered” to chair the Blessing of the Animals event next month at church. Due to the local fair and rodeo, ours will be about a week or so late, but still I’ve got to get my act in gear. Had the church office make up some brochures for said event. So they paid for the paper, ink and used their printer….I no longer have a working computer printer.
2. Frugal fail update: After my frugal fail ruining the bedroom drapes, I’ve shopped at 2 Walmarts, Target, Ollie’s Outlet, Home Depot and Lowe’s for replacements. Totally struck out. (What’s this thing about grommets all of the sudden? Thought that fad had passed.) I wanted to find some secondhand ones but my windows are horizontal and very wide, so I need 6 panels for each of 2 windows, and all dozen have to match. And they have to be thermal/energy efficient. Little chance of finding that at Goodwill or other thrifts, so I had to (very sadly) shop at stores I’d rather boycott. The good news is: I didn’t buy a thing at any of ’em. Now I’ve got to look online. Does anyone know of a frugal online store for curtains and drapes???
3. Saw a yard sale sign while driving. Stopped in and Eureka! Remember yesterday’s discussion of finding mundane things at such sales? I got a bag full of canned goods, including a Del Monte canned fruit can (which now that DM is kaput, I will wash out and keep for a souvenir pencil holder.) They were 25 cents each. Someone had gotten some donations they didn’t want and put ’em out for sale. At those prices, I’m only too glad to take them off their hands and use them for a future meal. I filled up a plastic grocery bag for $2.25. All food.
I then found a huge bunch of pencils, at least half of them new, rubber banded together for $1; a package of notebook paper and three notebooks for 25 cents each; and more. Our church is collecting school supplies for an urban “Title I” (poverty area) school district. So these items were dropped off at church and will be sent to the school.
Then I found a few more items for myself: a bundle of 3 new dishtowels (the kind that have the crocheted tops you can fasten to cabinet handles) and 2 crocheted potholders for $4. (The craft mall vendors sell these towels for $4 or $5 each.) The yard sale hosts were selling food, including BBQ Sausage on a Stick for $1, and that was my lunch today. Yum!
>>>> BTW, this was a neighborhood yard/garage sale to support one of the residents who is running for school board. All her friends and neighbors got together, brought their discards, and had this huge rummage sale. They had everything from baby play pens to VHS tapes. Proceeds will go toward campaign expenses. Thought that was a nifty idea, and wanted to share it lest any of our NCA friends are wanting to run for office. (The one thing they should’ve done and didn’t: print brochures and give them out to the shoppers who lived in the candidate’s district.)
4. En route home, saw a billboard advertising a senior citizen’s health fair at the local mall. Went there and gathered up 2 bags full of advertising bling. All of it free, including the 2 shopping bags. So heavy I could hardly carry it out. Took the free advertising pens to church for the school supply collection. Gave the secretary some of the notepads. (Hope she is not put off by the fact most of it has the names of nursing homes, funeral homes, hospice, dementia care and other not-so-fun businesses printed on the items.)
Every single table at these events hands out candy. Always. So I grabbed handfuls of same. I’m now supplied with peppermints from now til New Year’s. Took all the other candy to church for our Trunk or Treat activity this Halloween — we were asked to bring candy to help support it. I had to get a plastic bag from the kitchen, one that the red paper cups came in, and I filled it 2/3 full of Tootsie Rolls, Twix, Reeses, gummie bears, Smartees, Dub-L-Bubble, etc. All individually wrapped.
5. I got other items free from the free health fair. I’m keeping the bags of chips and cookies and moon pies that were given out. Free groceries! I’m also keeping the free lip gloss, hand sanitizer, and other useful items. Didn’t need the advertising coffee cups and plastic drink cups, but I will donate those items to Goodwill in exchange for their 20% discount coupon. 😉
And I will recycle all the leaflets and brochures they gave me.