Sunday
I was up early baking bread, Death By Chocolate Cookies and making a batch of Butter Toffee. The cookies
and candy were my Valentine gifts this year and lucky for me I already had
everything I needed on hand in my pantry and refrigerator. I even re-used bags from my gift wrap stash to assemble all of my gifts.
My
oldest needed a ride to an appointment later in the afternoon and the drive
home found me stopping in at Walgreens once again to pick up two more bottles
of laundry detergent for 99¢ a bottle. I
had no plans to buy these, but my daughters thought it was a good idea so I acquiesced. It really wasn't hard for them to talk me
into it.
They
were on sale for $1.99 and I used a digital coupon loaded to my rewards card
and a paper coupon printed from Coupons.com
to bring the price down to 99¢ a piece.
I also picked up some deodorant for 99¢ each. Since my oldest needed to go to Dollar Tree I
also picked up a deodorant and used a 50¢ OFF coupon making it only 50¢. Two of the deodorants were set aside for
Easter gifts and everything else was put away in the linen closet.
I
made a delicious and super thrifty Sunday dinner using items I'd purchased on
sale and with coupons. We had loads of
leftovers to enjoy throughout the week.
I shared how I did that last week in this post.
I
used a 79¢ cake mix from our pantry to make a pretty bundt cake to take to work
on Valentine's Day. I used a couple
squares of Baker's chocolate (from Dollar Tree), a tablespoon of butter and
some powdered sugar to make a ganáche to put on top. The guys I work with really enjoyed it. The
girls made up a 79¢ box of brownie mix to take into school and share with their
classmates on Valentine's Day. They
sprinkled them with powdered sugar over the top and they looked very pretty.
I
made foaming handsoap solution to refill the dispenser in our upstairs
bathroom.
I
traded my retired plumber friend a loaf of homemade whole wheat bread for a new
flapper for the downstairs toilet. I
think I kind of like this bartering business.
It's a win/win for both of us.
We
composted the usual items, fed our kitchen scraps to the hens, put several
items into our big blue recycle bin and only added one grocery bag full of
trash to our garbage bin. Because the
recycle bin is only a quarter of the way full and we decided not to set
anything at the curb for collection last week.
I
printed off some more online coupons and downloaded more grocery coupons to my
store rewards cards. I checked out the
ads and only picked up a couple things on sale.
I used a lot of digital and paper coupons to pickup low carb yogurts
that were on sale making most of them only 38¢ each. These use stevia and make for a great treat
for me. The pot roast was on sale for
$1.99 a pound so I grabbed one.
I
worked a little bit of overtime.
Some
of the 15 Minute Chores I accomplished
to keep my home in order:
Laundry Room & Half Bathroom - vacuumed
floors & rug, cleaned the mirrors.
Daily swish & swipe.
Dining Room - wiped down the chairs &
table, vacuumed the floor.
Kitchen - vacuumed & spot mopped floor, cleaned all the
shelves inside the refrigerator.
Bedrooms & Main Bathroom - vacuumed
& dusted. My oldest cleaned the
bathroom.
Other - two loads of laundry, dusted &
vacuumed living room, hallway & entry, swept front porch.
How
was your thrifty week?
Wow! What a great deal on pot roast! Congratulations
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was pretty happy about it. :)
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