Thrifty and Frugal Thursday

Thrifty and Frugal 

I have been staying close to home over the last week. We are however having a date night tomorrow. A little more expensive than we are used to, but so looking forward to a night at the live theater we have in our city. I was surprised at home much the tickets have gone up, but I guess all prices are rising.

So what frugal and thrifty things have we been up to this week.

1.  Hubby cut down some branches which we will chop up to use as kindling next year.

2.  Hung all our clothing on the lines outside. Even managed to get the sheets hung up as well.

3.  Reading free books that I downloaded onto my ereader.

4.  Using things up from the freezer. This week it has been my practice to use up some apple sauce, and I will be using the frozen tomatoes from last year to make sauce and clear out room for the harvest this year. No wasting allowed.

5.  At the end of last week I added $85.00 to the savings envelope, and 85 cents to the change jars.

6.  Picked and dehydrated various herbs for use this winter.

7.  Made yogurt.

8.  Decluttered more recipes that we did not enjoy.

9.  Worked on using up more yarn in both the mitten knitting and the weaving. 

10. Lights off for most of the day pretty much all week. Only keeping a few lights on (the one above my chair) during the evening.

11. Using the samples of hand lotion I have gotten over the years.

12. Using samples of bath gel I have gotten over the years. 

13. Copied some patterns to use up more scraps of fabric to make small Christmas gifts.

14. Did some surveys and scanned in my shopping for points to use towards gift cards.

Those are the few that I can remember, probably more that my old brain can not bring to the forefront right now. 

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.