My oldest daughter had a guest come over Sunday afternoon. I served them popcorn made with real butter
and mixed up some lemonade. Her friend
was quite impressed by the "homemade" popcorn. Honestly, you can't beat it. So much better than microwave popcorn any
day.
I watched last week's NASCAR race and an old western movie on
YouTube. Sam Elliot is so yummy.
I sent out Easter cards I purchased at the dollar store for 50¢
each and stamps I had purchased last year.
At Home Depot I spent $1.97 for some wasp & hornet spray
because the hornets have moved into the inside of my retractable clotheslines and I
don't want my kiddos to get stung, or myself either for that matter, when we
hang our laundry up to dry. I try not to
kill insects but the hornets are pretty aggressive and plentiful around here.
I also spent $15.97 on a new hoe for our garden and to help me
clean our chicken coop. I used some of
the money from the sale of the little washing machine to pay for this.
Gratuitous chicken shot. |
I mended another pair of my work pants.
I filled out another online survey for Fred Meyer and earned and
extra 50 fuel rewards points.
I baked M&M cookies with M&Ms I had bought both on sale
and with a coupon. My daughter took some
to school to give to her band instructor.
Friday evening I ordered our ever bearing strawberry plants from eBay. $10.95 for ten plants with free
shipping and they are guaranteed. I used
my PayPal account to make the purchase so I don't have to pay for the plants
until May, interest free.
I cleared out the crisper drawer in my refrigerator of all the
older veggies that had collected in there.
I cut them all up and made a big pan of stir fried vegetables in my
wok. I cooked them up in a little bit of
olive oil along with a couple cloves of fresh minced garlic, chopped onion, some
Asian seasoning sauce and a good squirt of Sirachi. It made a delicious side dish. I added a little of my Thai Chile Sauce to my
serving for some extra flavor and kick.
We started giving our chickies some veggie scraps. They LOVE mushrooms.
Saturday afternoon we dyed Easter eggs with our homemade egg dye
which uses white distilled vinegar and food coloring from the cupboard and some
boiling water. I reused our black
plastic Halloween tablecloth to cover and protect the table while we dyed the
eggs.
I tried a new method of cooking the eggs by baking them in the oven. It really worked well and I'll
probably do that from now on when I want to make up a big batch of hard boiled
eggs. I like too that there is no typical sulphur smell from the eggs and no odor from them in the refrigerator. Nice.
Beautiful! |
Aren't these cool? I have some seriously talented daughters. |
I made four pints of vanilla yogurt.
How thrifty were you last week?
Well, we were on vacation, so we weren't super thrifty, but we did go to the grocery store and buy cereal instead of going out to breakfast.
ReplyDeleteI love your chicken pictures! :-)
- molly
I've done that and saved on breakfast expenses. My girls are taking so many pics of the chicks these days. I love them too! :)
DeleteI love the eggs!
ReplyDeleteThanks!!!!
DeleteThe girls did a great job on the eggs. They are really cool !!!
ReplyDeleteI had some thrifty moves last week. The first is getting our Easter ham on sale for $1.98 a pound. I saved $2.00 per pound or an $18.00 total savings. Because I hosted Easter dinner I got to keep the leftovers. Little one and I should be able to dine on these for at least three days. Oh, and don't forget the ham bone which I plan to make a big pot of ham and beans to share with the family this weekend. I also got three McCalls patterns for $5.00 at JoAnns. If I would have purchased them at regular price ( which there's no way that would ever happen) it would have cost me $50.00!!!!!!!
I'd say I had a pretty good thrifty week that has flowed into this week too.
Vanessa B
You did fabulous! Can you believe the price of patterns?! They should be ashamed. I only buy them on sale like you did. Enjoy your soup. I'm thinking split pea this time with mine. Yum!
DeletePretty eggs. I got a box of 64 diapers for $7. They were on clearance with an additional 50% off that and I used a coupon. Really good deal.
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Good for you!
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