On Sunday the weather was
absolutely beautiful. We got home from
our weekend getaway and we got right to work unloading the food from the
motorhome refrigerator and starting a load of laundry. While the washer ran I vacuumed out the RV
and she is all ready for our next trip. That is how we roll! 😏
I hung the Sunday washing up
outside on the clotheslines. My first
time doing so this year. I love the
fresh smell of the towels when they dry outdoors. Hurray!
After hanging up the wash I made a quick trip
to the Fred Meyer gas station to fill up my car. I used my rewards card and saved 10¢ a
gallon. Yay! Then we were off to Trader Joes
for produce to round out what I already had at home.
A friend lent us some DVDs so we
finished off our weekend with a Sci-Fi themed Family Movie Nite.
Monday I had to drop my daughter
off at BSU to play in the band for graduation.
I took that opportunity, since it is close to the library, to drop off
the books I had finished in the drive-thru book return. I did not pick up any new ones to read as I
am now trying out their eBooks on my Kindel.
Tuesday we went to my youngest's
outdoor orchestra concert to enjoy their final performance for the school
year. It was very nice and the weather
couldn't have been more perfect.
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| Penelope laid this double yoker! |
Wednesday one of my dear friends
came over for a quick visit. While she
was here she bought 2 dozen eggs. Our
next door neighbor came over a couple days later and bought a dozen. The chickens have now earned enough to pay
for the bag of feed I bought for them last week with money left over. Love that!
We gave the chickens our kitchen
scraps and some stale bread. I also picked
them a huge pile of dandelion greens from our back yard which they love. Right now we have a lot of good weeds in the backyard
for them. We also let them out to do a
bug patrol in our yard, which we do quite often. They
keep the earwigs and ants in check quite nicely.
On Thursday a coworker bought me
lunch at Subway. It was totally
unexpected and very much appreciated.
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| Yogurt dippers on markdown |
I printed several $3 OFF
coupons for laundry detergent from Coupons.com.
I also downloaded a gob of digital coupons to my Fred Meyer rewards
card and the weekly
Friday Freebie for a pint of Silk almond coffee creamer. I chose caramel flavor.
Saturday morning I was up bright
and early and ready to make the most of my three day holiday weekend. After a fried egg sandwich it was off to
Walgreens to use those laundry detergent coupons. They had the detergent on sale for $3.99 so I
picked up four bottles at 99¢ each. The
regular price was $6.99 each. Holy
smokes!
Next stop was Home Depot to return
a few items I didn't need. I had paid
for them with a gift card so they gave me store credit which was perfectly
fine. We then wheeled our way through
the store and picked up a hodge podge of items to complete a whole
slew of different projects I had on my list. I used my
store credit plus a $25 Visa gift card I had and all my supplies were FREE!
Be sure to check out Thursday's post
to see what all I did over the weekend.
It was a bunch of stuff, let me tell you.
Fred Meyer was our final stop to
pick up fresh produce and a few other items for the holiday weekend. Because in addition to all the projects going
on at our house we were also entertaining guests.
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| I grabbed ice cream and rootbeer on sale to make floats |
Throughout the week I washed out
several ziploc bags to reuse. I
composted banana peels, egg shells and coffee grounds.
I pulled a few leftover items from
the freezer in the kitchen to use to prepare meals throughout the week. I still need to work on clearing more items
out of there.
Phew! How was your thrifty week?
You have been busy! We get free eggs from my dad who has his own chickens. We've become spoiled by those yummy eggs and hope to never have to buy store bought eggs again.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing better than fresh eggs you raise yourself.
DeleteSounds like you did great!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much!
DeleteI really, really wish I could find those marked-down veggie trays at our King Soopers... sigh.
ReplyDeleteI went and redeemed the free Monopoly coupons today, along with a bunch of others were expiring. Apparently everyone and their sister had the same idea, because there were a bunch of folks in Safeway comparing coupons and lists. I'm glad they do this, but by the time you trudge around finding everything, you're exhausted. (At least I am.) Best buy: those Magnum bars, which the Brick would practically kill for -- reg. $4.95 on sale for $2.50. I had a coupon off, so $1.50. (Yes, they're worth it.) 99-cent ice cream Lucerne bars, and $3.50 for a huge pkg of Blue Bunny sundae cones (reg $6 or $7, I forget) -- plus I had TWO coupons, each $1 off that they honored. It was worth it, getting them all stuffed in the freezer. Ice cream goodies all summer: Whoo hoo!
OMGosh! Those Magnum bars are sooo good. You did fantastic with the coupons.
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