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Sunday I
began my thrifty week with more sorting, organizing, purging and packing. Once again I used boxes and bins I already
had on hand to pack with.
We used
up the last of the girl’s earned free meal awards from school and went out to
lunch Sunday afternoon. They also got a
free dessert which made it extra special.
I used
some of our money from eBay sales to purchase all of us new sport sandals on
sale at Fred Meyer. I also used some of
that money to get the oldest one two pair of shorts and a pair of denim capris
for me.
Once we
got home from our lunch out and running errands I gave the girls each a
haircut.
I used
our reusable shopping bags to pack up the pantry. Despite my best efforts to use up what we had
on hand and eat down our pantry I ended up with six full bags of groceries to
take with us. It will make a nice start
for our new pantry and once again reaffirmed we had a lot of food in this house!
I rented
a Rug Doctor for $35 and completely shampooed all the carpets in our
house. I already had plenty of carpet
shampoo so I didn’t need to buy any. We
also had plenty of cleaner on hand to use to finish scrubbing everything from
top to bottom.
I
bought a box of trash bags for $2.39 to pack our bulky blankets and pillows in.
I
called the thrift store to come and pick up a large pile of donations.
I
shared eight plastic shopping bags of
groceries from our freezer and pantry with some good friends of mine. I also gave a friend all our condiments, a
half gallon of orange juice and a package of celery stalks from our
refrigerator.
I gave
the leftover laundry supplies and our dishwasher detergent to another friend.
I
bought two bars of Fels Naptha soap and grated it. I then added washing soda and borax I already
had to it to make up a big batch of homemade laundry soap topped off our plastic laundry soap
container and then packed it away with our other laundry supplies. I figured it was more efficient to do it that
way rather than packing all the individual ingredients.
I
topped off our Spray & Wash bottle from the refill and gave the leftovers
to a friend.
On
Friday I took a year's worth of saved aluminum into the recycling center. We netted $5.85 for our efforts in addition to
saving thirteen pounds of reusable material from ending up in the landfill.
I
bought us all a pair of flip flops from Fred Meyer's clearance rack for less
than $3 a pair.
I shut
off our home phone, internet, satellite, electric and water services.
I used
my Fred Meyer rewards card to save 10¢ a gallon on a tank of gas at their gas
station.
How was
your thrifty week last week?
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