Fruit salad for Memorial day brunch |
While the
week prior was relatively quiet last week, the final week of school, was much
busier for us. Some activities and
several projects kept us hopping.
I went to
the grocery store and made a huge produce haul.
I picked up a box of fresh blueberries on sale for $3.99. We enjoyed some of them fresh and the rest I
spread out on a tray and froze for yogurt and pancakes. They are quite tasty.
My youngest
and I worked on an inexpensive home improvement project together over the long
Memorial Day weekend. We rehabbed our
mailbox. I'll be sharing that post with
you a little later on, but wow! What a transformation!
At the last
minute my youngest was invited to attend a reception at her school on Tuesday. In digging through her closet we discovered
she'd pretty much outgrown all of her dress options except for a cute little
sundress, which wasn't exactly right for what she needed. Sunday afternoon we headed off to ShopKo to
see what our options were. While we
didn't find any dresses she liked we did find her two pair of blue jeans on
clearance for $5.99 a pair! I snapped
those babies up.
At Ross we
didn't find any dresses either but we did find a cute little shrug that would
work nicely. It was only $5.99 as well! When we got home she put on her sundress with
the shrug. It completely transformed the
look and she was thrilled. Her big
sister lent her a pair of cute shoes too.
Phew! Mission accomplished.
I took my
little scrap pile I had leftover from making my scrappy nine patch quilt
squares and started crazy quilting them together to make a pillow front.
I made two
loaves of oat bran bread. I also made a
pint of salad dressing.
I had bought
some beautiful and very fragrant lemons to slice up for our ice water. Before slicing the first one I zested it
first and put that in a jar to freeze.
Lovely lemon zest to add to baked goods.
The lemon slices have been wonderful in our ice water.
I used my
rewards points to save 10¢ a gallon and filled up my gas tank at Fred
Meyer. I also did a survey so I could
earn an extra 50 bonus points toward my next fill up.
After buying
fuel I stopped in at the grocery store and picked up milk, juice, lettuce,
bananas and another vegetable tray. I
had a two dollar coupon for the veggie tray so it was only $5.99 and a 55¢
coupon for the lettuce making it $1.35.
The juice and milk were 79¢ each with a store coupon. That should hold us nicely for awhile.
While
cleaning out my daughter's closet we found a forgotten bin that was full of
scrap paper. Quite a find, I think. We'll put it to good use.
The last day
of school was Thursday so I took off work early and all day Friday to spend
with my girls. We spent all of Thursday
afternoon and well into the evening purging the girl's clothes and spring
cleaning my youngest's bedroom. We also
emptied out the girl's backpacks and purged their school stuff. We got rid of a ton of stuff and set a very
full recycle bin at the curb. It felt
great.
Friday we
made a quick trip to the orthodontist.
On the way home we stopped in at Goodwill and found several great
items. The girls are cooking more and
have expressed an interest in some cookbooks.
We found four really nice ones for $1.99 each. They are hardbound and appear to have never been used. We also found two pair of gym shorts for my
oldest (she is taking PE this summer at the high school) for $1.99 each, a box
of bands in an organizer my youngest uses for crafts for $2.99, four Corelle bread plates and a saucer
for $2.49, and five skeins of Red Heart yarn for 99¢ each!
Great buy on
that yarn. The plates were also a great
buy (one on sale at the store is the same price I paid for all of them) and
will replace a couple we broke and give us a couple spares. I don't need the saucer so I stuck it in one
of our donate bags.
We had a
credit at Jimmy Johns for three sandwiches so we stopped by and picked those up
and headed to the park for a quick picnic lunch before heading home to work on spring cleaning the oldest's bedroom.
Saturday the
girls and I went to lunch at a favorite restaurant. My youngest was awarded a free meal
certificate so we decided to go and use it.
Afterward we walked over to ShopKo to see what they had on their
clearance racks. After clearing out
their clothing my oldest needed a swim suit (she handed hers down to her
sister) and my youngest needed summer clothes.
We found my
oldest a swimsuit on the clearance rack for $19.99 complete with swim
shorts. We also found her a pair of
those $5.99 jeans like the ones I had bought my youngest the week before. We also found two tops marked down 80% OFF
for the youngest and a darling top and matching knit capris for her on sale for
$7.99 each. My oldest is completely set
for summer and school in the fall. My
youngest is now set for summer and only needs a few things for school. I'm feeling pretty good about that.
How was your
thrifty week?
great finds!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! :)
DeleteGreat finds..
ReplyDeleteHope you and the girls have a wonderful summer . Know the girls are proud to be out of school. My grandkids are.
We are very happy to be out for summer. Hope you have fun with you grandkids.
DeleteGreat thrifty week! Can't wait to see the mailbox makeover :o)
ReplyDeleteTania
It's pretty exciting. ;)
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