I have been so busy that it seems I never have time to catch up on here but have been trying to be frugal:
Sunday was my dd's birthday, we drove down to her house on Saturday. I took her candles, jelly, jam and Pineapple Ice Cream Topping that I had made earlier this summer. Alex's birthday is tomorrow and I bought him a giant Rice Krispy Treat bar and gave him money since it's hard to know what he's into. He turned 12. It was a beautiful day, we resisted the temptation of buying fast food though dh was awfully grumpy coming home without eating since breakfast. We came home and made pizza's instead of caving and ordering a pizza for pick up on the way home.
On Sunday CWA had their annual Cat Caper 5k Run. As you know from reading my post on here I spent a lot of time doing fund raising for the raffle. We ended up with 57 prizes, combining one huge lot of gift certificates totalling $300 in one gift along with tons of other gift cards and items that were donated. We actually sold out of raffle tickets. Peggy my former boss made a run and bought another roll so we could continue to sell tickets. I don't know what we made but I know people were buying tons of tickets, they were priced very cheaply $1 a ticket, $5 for 8 tickets. Wow, what a turn out and great weather. I had a wonderful time took 97 pictures LOL! My Vet and his wife were there which was nice.
Windi our dog has been very sick for over a week with a bleeding ulcer in her tummy so I've been spending a lot of time with her. I gave her a warm water enema this morning and she finally after a week had a large bowel movement, solid waste so I am thanking God today for his guidance and wisdom to not allow us to cave in and have her put down. We have had Windi since she was a puppy and she is 13 years old now, love her more than anything in this world as I do my other doggy babies. God guides me in my travels through this earth and has given me the guidance to buy certain things that prepared us for this time like rubber gloves, the enema kit (emptied and used just warm water), those sheets that are plastic for adult's who have accidents in bed, can't think what they are called but I give credit to God for telling me to buy them at the thrift store for 99 cents and put them back for the "what if's". He often speaks quietly to us, we just have to listen.
Frugal this week is continuing to stock up on food, from what the Farmers Almanac is saying we are going to have another very bad winter so making sure we have ample food in our home.
Another frugal is I quit smoking last week. I am using the ecigarette and am not missing cigarettes very much, they now smell awful to me and taste pretty nasty too. Dd and her husband were both smoking Saturday and I had no desire to light up a real cigarette. Eventually I'm sure I'll let go of the ecigarette too.
Have a great week everyone.
Anna
Monday, September 22, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Thursday
Frugal Today?
Made candles for my dd for her birthday: Satin Sheets, Pina Colada, Pumpkin Pie and Fresh Linen.
New Car bought gas milage for dh to drive to and from work 5 days a week: $10 a week for gas, Yay!! Versus at least $30 a week before.
Made homemade vegetable soup with items on hand and homemade (boxed) Corn Bread for dinner, plenty of leftovers and Oh was it good!
Anna
Made candles for my dd for her birthday: Satin Sheets, Pina Colada, Pumpkin Pie and Fresh Linen.
New Car bought gas milage for dh to drive to and from work 5 days a week: $10 a week for gas, Yay!! Versus at least $30 a week before.
Made homemade vegetable soup with items on hand and homemade (boxed) Corn Bread for dinner, plenty of leftovers and Oh was it good!
Anna
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Saturday and Sunday
Frugal was getting the scratches fixed on our new car free at the dealership.
Frugal was using 2 complimentary coupons I received from a customer at work for 2 free meals at a local restaurant yesterday.. value $21
Frugal was getting my flu and pneumonia shot free at Krogers today with my insurance plan. Working in a grocery store I am exposed to all kinds of germs so hopefully this will give me a added layer of protection.
Unfrugal is Windi our oldest dog is very sick.. she has a bleeding ulcer, cost us over $300 yesterday and more meds purchased today. What can we do? We love her and don't want her to suffer.
Anna
Frugal was using 2 complimentary coupons I received from a customer at work for 2 free meals at a local restaurant yesterday.. value $21
Frugal was getting my flu and pneumonia shot free at Krogers today with my insurance plan. Working in a grocery store I am exposed to all kinds of germs so hopefully this will give me a added layer of protection.
Unfrugal is Windi our oldest dog is very sick.. she has a bleeding ulcer, cost us over $300 yesterday and more meds purchased today. What can we do? We love her and don't want her to suffer.
Anna
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Thursday
Today is my day off.
Frugal so far:
The 25 lb. bag of flour I bought last week at my store $9 I am packaging up into quart canning jars with 2 bay leafs in each bag to kill any weevils that might hatch in it. I save my lids from previous canning jobs and am using those with the caps to keep my flour organized and ready when I need it.
I will be going out to the stores here shortly and will be concentrating on stocking up some today for the winter and hard times. My job has not been very stable here lately with some inner office issues that may mean losing my job or changing positions in the store that don't give as many hours. I hope it all resolves itself but there are no guarantee's and finding another job right away may not be possible. So keeping that in mind and knowing we may go back to just dh's salary I am preparing for the future by stocking up on frugal food items to keep us all fed frugally and healthy.
Today's stock up will be dog food for my girls. Peanut Butter and spaghetti items. I have the flour which I can use for making bread, cookies and homemade noodles for chicken and noodles this winter. I'm also still working on organizing my basement storage. If it isn't being used, it is getting tossed or put away for yard sale season next year.
I will also be buying more sugar when I go back to work tomorrow and thinking about buying frozen fruit (have a coupon) to make freezer jam. Now that winter is coming I am less leery about storing items in the freezer and having a power failure that might mean loosing some of that food.
A friend posted this link to another site yesterday and if this prediction is true (lets hope not) I want to be ready. I have been getting my truck worked on for winter readiness frugal is my having my friend Dallas do the work instead of hiring a expensive repair shop (thank you Dallas).
http://empirenews.net/meteorologists-predict-record-shattering-snowfalls-coming-soon-bread-milk-prices-expected-to-soar/#.VBENHn4bxAw.facebook
Anna
Frugal so far:
The 25 lb. bag of flour I bought last week at my store $9 I am packaging up into quart canning jars with 2 bay leafs in each bag to kill any weevils that might hatch in it. I save my lids from previous canning jobs and am using those with the caps to keep my flour organized and ready when I need it.
I will be going out to the stores here shortly and will be concentrating on stocking up some today for the winter and hard times. My job has not been very stable here lately with some inner office issues that may mean losing my job or changing positions in the store that don't give as many hours. I hope it all resolves itself but there are no guarantee's and finding another job right away may not be possible. So keeping that in mind and knowing we may go back to just dh's salary I am preparing for the future by stocking up on frugal food items to keep us all fed frugally and healthy.
Today's stock up will be dog food for my girls. Peanut Butter and spaghetti items. I have the flour which I can use for making bread, cookies and homemade noodles for chicken and noodles this winter. I'm also still working on organizing my basement storage. If it isn't being used, it is getting tossed or put away for yard sale season next year.
I will also be buying more sugar when I go back to work tomorrow and thinking about buying frozen fruit (have a coupon) to make freezer jam. Now that winter is coming I am less leery about storing items in the freezer and having a power failure that might mean loosing some of that food.
A friend posted this link to another site yesterday and if this prediction is true (lets hope not) I want to be ready. I have been getting my truck worked on for winter readiness frugal is my having my friend Dallas do the work instead of hiring a expensive repair shop (thank you Dallas).
http://empirenews.net/meteorologists-predict-record-shattering-snowfalls-coming-soon-bread-milk-prices-expected-to-soar/#.VBENHn4bxAw.facebook
Anna
Monday, September 8, 2014
Monday
Thanking God today that he has granted me more time on this earth. My 2nd mammogram and ultrasound came back negative, I do not have cancer. It is just a cyst nothing to be worried about. Feeling very grateful today.
Anna
Anna
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Sunday
Quiet weekend at home, no working this weekend. I will work 4 out of the next 5 days this week and have the weekend off again it looks like, at least Saturday. Nice!
Unfrugal was fast fooding Friday and Saturday nights, sigh! Friday was our anniversary so yeah, excusable but Saturday night dh wanted pizza and wouldn't order unless I ordered too. Total $55.00 spent that shouldn't have been. We have a freezer full of food dh is bad lately about not wanting anything we have here, a lot is sports on TV influence. Gotta start thinking of things we don't usually eat but would appeal instead of fast food like making our own pizza's (gotta buy pepperoni) and maybe putting stuffed bell peppers on the weekend menu (buy bulk peppers at my store). Cheaper than fast food and healthier.
Frugal today was eating from home.
More truck expenses seem to be looming in the future.. I think the brakes are going bad on the truck starting to hear a little grinding noise. Dallas knows how to change them so we'll save money in labor cost again letting him do that after we buy the brakes ourself.
Anna
Unfrugal was fast fooding Friday and Saturday nights, sigh! Friday was our anniversary so yeah, excusable but Saturday night dh wanted pizza and wouldn't order unless I ordered too. Total $55.00 spent that shouldn't have been. We have a freezer full of food dh is bad lately about not wanting anything we have here, a lot is sports on TV influence. Gotta start thinking of things we don't usually eat but would appeal instead of fast food like making our own pizza's (gotta buy pepperoni) and maybe putting stuffed bell peppers on the weekend menu (buy bulk peppers at my store). Cheaper than fast food and healthier.
Frugal today was eating from home.
More truck expenses seem to be looming in the future.. I think the brakes are going bad on the truck starting to hear a little grinding noise. Dallas knows how to change them so we'll save money in labor cost again letting him do that after we buy the brakes ourself.
Anna
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Saturday
Unplanned but grateful frugal: Took Windi to the Vet this morning, she's had this growth between her toes, a large tumour. I was afraid it was cancer but it's just a infected skin gland they drained it with a needle and syringe, told me it'll probably come back and just to bring her in.. $15 is all it will cost. Thanking God nothing is wrong with my dear old girl. She's 13 now.
Started new job training yesterday: Now working in the cooler unpacking boxes and putting items in the coolers. It is COLD in there! They have some jackets but the only one I could find was a size 4X definitely way too big for me. And of course I am still doing cashiering, winter is coming so I went to the thrift store, bought 2 black fleece type jackets and a couple more work shirts in different colors. Also found a nice small wooden table with slider doors on it to replace a stand in my bedroom that doesn't work.
Anna
Started new job training yesterday: Now working in the cooler unpacking boxes and putting items in the coolers. It is COLD in there! They have some jackets but the only one I could find was a size 4X definitely way too big for me. And of course I am still doing cashiering, winter is coming so I went to the thrift store, bought 2 black fleece type jackets and a couple more work shirts in different colors. Also found a nice small wooden table with slider doors on it to replace a stand in my bedroom that doesn't work.
Anna
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Thursday
Finally on Monday afternoon got my truck tune up done. Frugal is all the things that needed done including Dallas's labor less than $200.00.
Monday I bought 25 lbs. of flour for $9 and 10 lbs. of sugar for less than $5 from my job. I use a lot of flour in the winter for homemade noodles, want to get back into making pizza dough and try my hand again at homemade breads which taste so incredibly good! Gotta research and try to find the recipe I had for no rise pizza dough.
Goals is to start stocking up now on pepperoni for the pizza's this winter.
Today's frugal is paying my new car payment ahead of time. I pay it online through our bank but it's a envelope payment so it takes longer to get there, I'll need to try to track how many days so I know how soon it needs to be paid to get there on time sure don't want any late payment penalties.
So though work has been incredibly hard and stressful this week I feel blessed to have a job and work with good people and of course have money to pay my bills and have a little something left over.
Anna
Monday I bought 25 lbs. of flour for $9 and 10 lbs. of sugar for less than $5 from my job. I use a lot of flour in the winter for homemade noodles, want to get back into making pizza dough and try my hand again at homemade breads which taste so incredibly good! Gotta research and try to find the recipe I had for no rise pizza dough.
Goals is to start stocking up now on pepperoni for the pizza's this winter.
Today's frugal is paying my new car payment ahead of time. I pay it online through our bank but it's a envelope payment so it takes longer to get there, I'll need to try to track how many days so I know how soon it needs to be paid to get there on time sure don't want any late payment penalties.
So though work has been incredibly hard and stressful this week I feel blessed to have a job and work with good people and of course have money to pay my bills and have a little something left over.
Anna
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