Hi all! For those of you following along, I know I still owe ya’ll a final installment in the KISS budget series. It’s coming, I promise! A variety of random busy-ness has kept me, well, busy the last week and blogging just hasn’t been making the cut at night. I used to really enjoy being busy, but more and more I find myself longing for my couch and a cup of tea at night. I think looking after a toddler is so constantly busy that being busy no longer feels satisfying.
Anyway, I haven’t done one of these posts in awhile, so here are five frugal things I’ve done in the last week or so. What frugal things have you been up to?
I turned random leftovers into soup
I made a roast on Sunday for company and had a bunch of roast and carrots/potatoes left over. So today, I dumped all of that, plus some beef broth and a bunch of random leftover veggies that were hanging out in my fridge and freezer in my crockpot and voila! Vegetable beef soup for dinner. F. and I ate it with some leftover rolls I had lying around and now we have an abundance of soup left over for the week.
I made icky bananas into yummy banana bread
I had two bananas that were going bad and one sole banana hanging out in my freezer, so I used them to make a couple of loaves of banana bread. So very yummy. Also, a fun toddler activity, as F. currently loves helping me cook.
I returned library books on time
F. and I head to the library every three weeks to return books and get new books. My library very helpfully sends me an e-mail reminder when our books are due, so it’s easy to remember to return them. F. loves going to the library and I love getting new books that we don’t have to pay for.
I bought chicken on sale at the grocery store
We eat a lot of chicken in my house, so I’m always on the lookout for a good sale on chicken. Aldis has pretty good prices on chicken, but they often add salt water to their meat, which I’m not a huge fan of. A regional grocery store around here had boneless, skinless chicken breasts on sale for $1.88/lb so I stocked up. My newly emptied freezer is now bursting with meat again. I shouldn’t have to buy meat for another couple months!
I bought F. some used shoes at Once Upon a Child
When F. moved shoe sizes, we got a bunch of hand-me-down shoes from a friend. However, the shoes had been through quite a few kids by the time they got to F., so she had worn holes in nearly all of them. However, I’m real averse to paying full price for a new pair of shoes. So we headed over to Once Upon a Child, which is a resale shop for kids clothing. I got F. a new pair of tennis shoes for $4! I’ll call that a win. That’s about $15 cheaper than a shoe store and keeps another pair of shoes out of a landfill somewhere.
What frugal things have you been up to??
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