Frugal Friday

 

The weather has been absolutely beautiful this past week. Sure there have been days of overcast sky, but the temperatures have been wonderful and the snow is melting quickly. Our gravel driveway is almost completely cleared off and the ice chipping has been going great guns. 

So what frugal things have been taking place on the old homestead this week.

1.  I have taken one or two walks every day this week.

2.  Got a free bottle of water and some small chocolate bars at the Bible study this week.

3.  Using up and refashioning leftovers has actually given us extra meals this week. I will probably be carrying over a few of this weeks meals into next week.

4.  Harvey made fudge last night and while I had to do extra clean up of the kitchen, that fudge sure hit the spot. Also it is much less expensive than buying chocolate bars.😋

5.  Working on projects to use up my various stashes (yarn and fabric).

I was asked where I found the frugal books. Well I have a Kobo ereader, which is put out by Chapters/Indigo here in Canada. They have an online store where you can purchase books or download free reading material. Harvey got me a gift card a couple of Christmas's ago and I am still working on using it up. He got me more this year so I have lots of credit. I have now been checking out simple living books and will more than likely be downloading some of those as well. Then I will move on to some knitting books. 

Now what has been not so frugal on the old homestead. 

While this meant spending some cash it is to replace something we have had for close to 20 years. Our cordless phones bit the dust. They are used daily both upstairs by me (cause I can take the phone into the sewing/craft room) and when Harvey is downstairs it is convenient not to have to run a phone down to him. So we went out and purchased a set of two. I think we will be removing the old wall phone as well. One more item to donate and remove from our home. 

There will be a few other purchases this year to enable us to stay in our home just a bit longer. 

Harvey is having trouble raking the yard in the spring to de-thatch the grass so he is thinking of purchasing an electric de-thatcher, plus a battery operated self propelled lawn mower. Whatever makes life easier is wonderful. While probably not frugal in the moment, they will be frugal as the years progress.

I may have a way to fix Kris's quilt thanks to a lovely reply. Now I just have to figure out an artistic way of doing it, and see how much purple fabric I can locate. I will be haunting the second hand stores over the next little while.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Oh My

 We are back into the deep freeze. At least today, so far we do not have the wind we had yesterday, the slight breeze we have today is making it feel cold enough.

Both our sons should be back at work. Kris actually went back on Monday, or so he informed us when I phoned him last night. Kurt should be back in his classroom teaching today. Nice to know they are both well on the road to recovery.

Harvey and I, well we are trying our best to stay occupied here at home. Harvey has two wine kits working away in the primaries upstairs here (my kitchen, dining room and office smell like a winery) and is busy working on his first puzzle of the winter. Me, well I am sewing, knitting, working on the rug, and doing my organizing and decluttering. I have now got the front of the house done and hope to work on the hall closets, and the hall pantry tomorrow. 

Keeping busy is actually saving my sanity. If I spent too much time thinking about the state of my city, well I just might go off on a terrible rampage online, thus alienating family and friends. Something I just do not want to do. So I take a deep breath and get buried in work, hobbies, or trying to find new and interesting ways to add more frugality into our lives.

With that idea in mind and the organizing of various areas of the house happening I have pulled some reading material from my shelves.

Hoping for some fresh new ideas. If I can't find anything in these there are a few more gracing my shelves that I can dive into.

Everybody have a wonderful evening (or day depending where in the world you reside). 

God bless.