My last
Thrifty Week post for 2013, but alas, I'll be back with another one next week
in 2014.
Amazingly,
I did not do any grocery shopping this week.
I didn't read the ads or worry about clipping coupons either because we
are so well stocked up at home. I also didn’t
buy any gasoline or propane. How about
that?!
I
cleaned out and reorganized the cabinet underneath the bathroom sink. I was able to combine the items from my
overflow storage tote with the items I store there and eliminated the tote
altogether.
Guess
what? When I was reorganizing the
toiletries a I found a small half full bottle of lotion. I thought we'd gone through all of those and
taken care of them, but apparently not.
I was laughing about it to my oldest and she handed me another one she
had found amongst her things that was about a third full. Where did they all come from?! So now we are on a mission to use these two
pesky little bottles up so we can enjoy our new stuff we got for Christmas.
I made
more refill solution for the foaming soap dispenser in our bathroom.
On
Christmas morning I gathered up gift bags, bows, gift boxes and tissue paper to
re-use for next year. I consolidated
everything so it fit inside one medium sized gift bag with all the bows inside
a gift box. It takes up much less
storage space now in the storage area underneath my bed.
One of
the gifts the girls received were throw blankets. Each one had a wide grosgrain ribbon tied
around them. I saved them to use for a
ribbon to wrap a gift. All I'll have to
do is press them with an iron to remove the wrinkles where they were tied.
My
daughters made thank you cards to send friends and relatives for their
Christmas gifts.
The
semi-annual coupon pack from Fred Meyer arrived in the mail so I was uber excited
about that, cause I'm weird that way. I
have several coupons to use next month when I go grocery shopping that will
help me save quite a bit. They even
included cat food coupons.
That
pretty much sums up my thrifty week. How
about yours?
