Saturday, October 25, 2014

Saturday

As always these past couple months busy busy busy LOL!

Todays frugal.. my friend Dallas is not being dependable here lately so the sinks he promised to fix he reneged on this week.  I called my friend Melissa's brother and he came over and fixed both cheaply.. so Yay on the frugal find of a back up handyman.

Got a lot of discounted food at my store this week, mostly cheese marked down so my fridge is stocked up good!!  5 lbs. of Pepper Jack $14.00.

Anna

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Sunday

Frugals today?

Will be eating leftovers from the past week that are in the freezer or fridge.  I made a big pot of veggie soup yesterday so we'll eat on that, maybe later BBQ Pork Sandwiches that we cooked last weekend (big dbl. rib I bought at work on discount).

All meals from home this week I hope.. I have a board meeting Tuesday night at CWA so if I'm not organized with my time we could fall into the trap of fast food, sigh!

Anna

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Sunday

Gosh how life changes in just a few days:

Friday when I got home from work, dh has been looking at Pets Without Parents website every day at work and saw that they had a batch of puppies just come in.  I came in the house, pulled up the site, saw the adorable babies and the bad condition they had been rescued from and fell in love.  We immediately got in the SUV and went up to look at them.  Just adorable even with their bellies full of worms.  So hard to choose but we finally decided on one they called Giselle, strange name but she's a cutie.  They are daschund hound mix they think?  Look more to me like mixed with golden lab, odd bunch.  2 are golden yellow, 1 is white with short ears (Giselle) and 2 are are choc brown colored (the two boys).  The boys were the cutest but we only do girls.  So we filled out the application and got approval today.  We will have to wait till Thursday evening as they are getting fixed on Thursday morning.  So frugal just went out the window this month.  $175 adoption fee, trip to the Vet $45 and then Cocoa is due for her shots this month so another $200 for her.  Doggies are not cheap but so worth it.  We don't do vacations or go out to fancy restaurants, we stay home with our babies instead.

Oh one frugal on this:  We already have cages here that we have saved for the past 20 years a large one and a medium one so all set up for any new arrival.  I was trying to figure out what we could do about newspapers for the new pup since we don't get the newspaper anymore and we can't trust anyone else's used due to the threat of bed bugs in our city, what to do?  Remembered I have a roll of painters paper in my closet that I used to use for stamping designs and wrapping my soaps.  I think a roll now runs about $15 these are huge!  They are the same kind of material as paper grocery bags are made from.  So got the roll to start with and will buy more from Lowes as needed.  A good healthy alternative.  I thought about butchers paper but I think it's lined with wax which could slide around and hurt the pup.

Addendum:  This new little pup will in no way replace Windi but will help us in our healing and give a shelter dog a chance at a good life.  We don't give up on our dogs no matter what so no chance of her being sent back to the shelter.

Frugal was made a big batch of chili today for dh's lunches for the next 3 weeks.

Tomorrow dinner will be cheeseburgers and fries.

Tuesday I am off work and will make a big batch of veggie soup and possibly a meatloaf so that I can use up all the potatoes before they go bad.

Anna

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Wednesday

As always lately been busy with work and life.  I'll be printing coupons from my store this morning to buy bacon $2 off.  Can't remember how many pounds it is but we like right now BLT's using the last of our tomatoes from the garden.

Did a mini grocery run yesterday.. used more of the coupons Buy 3 Hunts spaghetti sauces, get a box of Kroger brand spaghetti noodles free.  I probably have about 20 lbs. of noodles assorted stocked up now but we have Spaghetti or Rigatoni once a week so no where close to what we need to have for a year of stock up.

I have also started stocking up on meats, the plan for now is to have at least 30 days worth of meat not counting canned so that I am less likely to fall off the frugal wagon, if you have meat you can make a dinner plan.

Life is still very lonely here with our precious Windi gone.. her little footprints are everywhere in my house and yard and in our hearts.  My comfort is that someday we will be together again in heaven, all of us free from pain and stress of this earthly life.

Frugal is keeping my budget in line, putting money in the savings account every week, paying my car payment 2 weeks early again this month.

Being grateful today that I still have a job.

Anna