Froggy is doing his job and just a spitting away. |
Sunday I baked a loaf of bread and brewed up a new batch of beer. As soon as the beer is ready I seem to have
more company. Funny how that happens.
As you already know I took down our kitchen lights and used
leftover spray paint to give them a free makeover. Doesn't get much thriftier than that!
I used old bricks that I have as filler so I don't need as much soil. |
I filled the flower pots I painted last Saturday with my "homemade"
potting soil. My daughter found two more
pots in the garage and she used leftover black spray paint to give them a face
lift which inspired me to take the pot I bought at the dollar store last month
and hit it with leftover silver spray paint.
I then planted the spider plant I rooted from the cutting a co-worker
gave me. It looks wonderful!
I found two nuts and bolts in my can of miscellaneous screws and
fasteners to replace two that were missing from the handle of our lawn
mower. Now it is all snug and tight. A quick fix at no cost.
I recycled two milk jugs by turning them into chicken feeders. My daughters were impressed. I think they turned out kind of cute.
Monday I picked my youngest up from track practice and we stopped
at Albertson's on the way home to pick up another ten pounds of boneless skinless
chicken on sale for $1.69 a pound and a few produce items to help keep us going
this week. I also picked up two gallons
of milk there for $1.88 each.
When I got home a friend of mine had left me her copy of the
Sunday paper complete with coupons and a few more Monopoly game tickets from
the grocery store. She is awesome!
On the way home from my daughter's track meet I stopped to buy six
packages of tortillas on sale at
Albertson's for 75¢ each and they gave me a free reusable shopping bag because
it was Earth Day. Nice!
I shopped around for the best price for the best quality on plants
for our yard and garden as well as the blue berry and raspberry bushes I
wanted. On Thursday evening I picked up
the girls and we went to three stores, fortunately located right next to each
other, and were able to get everything we needed for the weekend including a
few groceries.
At the feed store I picked up a 50# bag of hen scratch so our
girls could have a treat. They love
it. While there I picked up two packs of
pepper plants, one bell pepper and one jalapeno pepper, for $2.50 each. Nice healthy plants.
At Home Depot we picked up six packs of annuals for $2.00
each. At Fred Meyer I was able to get
the annuals I wanted that Home Depot didn't have and I was thrilled when I
found black petunias. I just love them. The blooms look like black velvet. I also found beautiful blue berry bushes for
$7.99 each and I bought two since they need a companion. Their raspberry bushes were also on sale for
$7.99 and I found one with four distinct canes growing in it so I should be
able to divide and plant them. Since we
are planting in cooler weather they should do well and get a good start.
We got a good rain all day Friday which saved us from watering the
lawn and softened the ground in the front of our house. The girls and I spent a solid hour aggressively
weeding the strip of land that runs along our driveway in the front of our
house. It looks so much better and on
the first good hot day we plan to get out there and spray it with weed spray so
we can get it under control. It was
pretty bad along there, almost embarrassing.
We've also come up with some garden plans for out there.
This is what greets us and our guests at our front door. I love it! |
We used our homemade composted potting soil to plant some of our
flowers. We also tilled a bunch of it
into one of our flower beds and the girls have commandeered it as their garden
spot. They had a great time preparing it
and planting the pansies and zinnias they picked out at the store.
I worked on the baby afghan I'm making to sell in my Etsy
store. It is coming right along.
We watched a couple TV shows on Hulu for free.
Saturday morning I made four pints of homemade yogurt. I then made a batch of chocolate chip walnut
cookies to give to a friend for her birthday as they are her favorite. After that the girls decided to make a batch
of peanut butter cookies. They did a
fantastic job working together and the cookies turned out fantastic.
I planted cucumber seeds
indoors to get an early start.
The youngest and I started
up the fire pot and cleaned up a bunch of yard debris and burned up a big bag
of what I refer to as "shreddables".
Mostly credit card applications, private papers, bank statements and
bill stubs. It feels so good to have
these papers destroyed and to know the resulting ash and wood ash will become
compost and eventually tilled into our garden and flowerbeds.
Here is one of the windows I have listed for sale. I have three total. |
Lastly, I listed some old
windows I had for sale on Craigslist. Hopefully they will sell and I can get them out of here.
How thrifty were you last week?
Those chicken feeders are adorable!
ReplyDeleteI had free dinners 5 different nights. My mom bought my boy some clothes at a yard sale. She also bought a skillet for 50% off and gave to me. I love it!
Lucky girl! 5 different dinners, I'm jealous. :)
DeleteYour new flowers are beautiful. I miss the flowers I used to have but do have a gorgeous Mexican Bird of Paradise that sort of fills in. :-D Just got done with a large batch of oatmeal raisin cookies. nom nom.
ReplyDeleteYum. I need to make some oatmeal cookies next. I've been craving them lately. I am really going to enjoy the flowers this year. We didn't have them the last two so I'm pretty excited about it this year.
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