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| Salvaged wrap, bags, bows, gift boxes & tissue from Christmas morning. |
The
Sunday paper held nothing of interest for me last week so it ended up in the
recycle bin rather quickly this time.
Nice not to be overly tempted to go shopping.
I
made a double batch of pumpkin pie spice and refilled my spice jar.
I
made two batches of buttermilk dressing filling up two pint jars.
While
we opened our Christmas gifts on Tuesday morning I collected all the reusable
bows, bags, tissue paper and gift wrap and stashed it in the gift wrap
tote. I also acquired a couple gift
boxes for clothing, which is great because I was completely out of them.
On
Wednesday I stopped at the dollar store and picked up two rolls of Christmas
gift wrap for half price and two packages of tissue paper to re-supply the gift
wrap tote. I now have plenty of wrap for
several Christmases to come. Total spent
on these items was $3 plus tax.
Thursday
I headed to Bed Bath & Beyond with a 20% off coupon and a $25 gift card I
had received for my birthday back in September.
I didn’t know what to use it for until it occurred to me that they sell
kitchen knives – duh!
I
was able to get a really nice Cuisanart sontuko knife to replace the one I
broke in half at Thanksgiving. This one
is a little heavier duty and I made sure it was full tang so I won’t have to
worry about it snapping in half, hopefully.
The coupon saved me $4 off the regular price and I still have funds left
on the gift card for something else.
Because
Petco is in the same parking lot I popped in real quick to use a coupon I had
printed online for a free can of cat food.
I grabbed the food and the girls checked out all the pets they had for
sale. I did have to pay the sales tax
but still a great freebie.
We
pretty much abandoned our meal plan last week because of an overwhelming amount
of Christmas leftovers. We polished off
clam chowder one night, shrimp pasta alfredo the next, stuffed mushrooms and
rice pilaf after that and then used a leftover pork chop in pan fried noodles on
Saturday. The leftovers also provided us
with lunches. So delicious and no food
waste!
I
started an afghan using yarn leftover from previous projects. I’m making granny squares.
Our
chickens blessed us with 12 eggs this week and one was another double yoker. You go girls!
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