A new month
and another busy week at our place. Hope
you all had a wonderful Halloween and first week of November. Yes, November! Can you believe it?!
The first
quarter of school is complete and it was a week of parent teacher
conferences. I managed to get my
youngest one's all done on Tuesday and the oldest's on Thursday. I am happy to report they are doing fabulous!
I stopped
into Dollar Tree to pick up some of their generic Ziploc bags and restock my
supply. While there I perused the
grocery aisle and scored quite a few items I was low on in my pantry. I was really happy to find applesauce, sliced
pineapple, canned pumpkin (yippee!), molasses and candied cherries for making
thumbprint cookies.
I also
grabbed a couple bags of rice and five bags of black beans ($5 stock up item) to
add to my stockpile. They had a new
supply of my favorite degreaser cleaner so I grabbed a bottle of that too. Last time I was there they were out of
it. My oldest daughter wanted to try
their pudding cups so we got a package of those too.
I also found
four nice martini glasses. I decided to
splurge on those since we are planning an upcoming cocktail party quite soon
and I am serving martinis. These are
sturdier than some of the others I've seen so I imagine they should hold up
well.
The oldest
and I made a trip to Cash & Carry to stock up on 80% lean ground beef that
was on sale for $1.85 a pound! Best
price I've seen in ages so I bought 20 pounds.
The youngest one and I divided it up and wrapped it for the
freezer. We us ed some of the ground
beef to make a pot of beanless chili, which is her preference, and got it
divided into containers for the freezer.
I also picked
up two bags of grated cheese, a container of grated parmesan and stocked up on
potatoes and onions. I shared some of
the potatoes and onions with a friend.
I veered off
course from our meal plan a bit to test a new recipe I am quite excited
about. I think it needs a little
tweaking still so I'll probably make it again and fine tune it. Once it passes muster I'll be sure to share
it with all of you.
Another
blogger had a link on her site for really cute pillow covers with cute sayings
on them over at Amazon. They were less
than $3 a pop and free shipping. I decided to go ahead and spring for those
for the girls. I plan to make an
18" square pillow form for each one and then I'll add them to my Christmas
gift stash as an extra. They will be
super excited as they love pillows and these are so perfect for them. I'm super excited to be able to get them an
extra gift and at such a good price.
They have tons of different ones including Christmas designs.
While on
Amazon I checked and found they had dropped the price of my old man kitty's
special diet cat food so I added a case of that to my order too. That Science Diet stuff is so expensive. Anytime I can find it on sale I snap it up.
My youngest
daughter thrilled me to death Friday morning when she told me she wanted to
take up playing the viola as a second instrument. We have been talking about it off and on. Now purchasing a new viola (her school has no
extra violas) is an unexpected and far from thrifty purchase, however I was
able to soften the blow considerably by getting one from a music shop in
another town (they shipped it overnight for free) and putting it on my PayPal
account so I can pay for it over the next six months interest free.
Friday
evening I cut out my daughters new orchestra dress. Now all I have to do is sew it together. No biggie, right?
Saturday
morning my oldest marched in the Veteran's Day Parade downtown with her high
school band. Afterwards the girl's grandparents
took us out to lunch to celebrate the end of marching band and their excellent
report cards. It was the perfect way to
wrap up the week.
How was your
thrifty week?
what is the name of the degreaser you like at the Dollar Tree?
ReplyDeleteAlso do you still do the $5 stock up?
Thanks!
Mean Green is the name of the cleaner. I used to buy it at Walmart until Dollar Tree started carrying it. And yes I do the $5 stock up. In fact the 5 packages of black beans are for that. :)
DeleteNice week and excellent bargains! I love kids playing instruments and especially love the second instrument. At last count Son3 was playing 5
ReplyDeleteHoly cow! Five?! Good for him!
DeleteYou had a great week! I love all the stocking up you did! This past summer we spent an afternoon thrifting and we spotted an instrument case at one of the second-hand stores. My husband checked it out and it was a flute- even the case was in very good shape. It was marked $30 and we felt it was a good deal and we were discussing on whether or not we should get it in case one of the kids would want to play the flute one day. As we were talking about it the saleslady told us that everything marked with a certain color tag, including that flute, were 50% off that day! The discussion was over at that point- for $15 we got it and now both the kids are talking about playing the flute! Haha! (Actually, I'm pretty sure my son will end up playing the drums but he may want to play the flute as a second instrument.) :)
ReplyDeleteGood job on the flute! What a great price. My oldest wants a flute. She plays the clarinet now and is interested in the flute as a second instrument. I doubt I'll find one for $15 but you never know. :)
DeleteAs far as the stocking up I think I am done. At this point right now I'm tired of grocery shopping.