1. Little Shitters: We have 2 9 week
old foster puppies visiting who are weeing, pooping, crying machines. While I
don’t get the paper, my father is an avid reader so I texted him when I knew
they were arriving and had him put his paper aside. He brought it yesterday and
today we subbed the non-eco-friendly and more-expensive-than-free puppy pads
for newspaper in their puppy pool. Here are the little poopers pre-newspaper..
2. Vanilla Extract: After a large
baking spree after being in the hospital from Christmas to New Years, I am out
of real vanilla extract. I have imitation. Blech. Yuck Fooey. I did however
purchase 3 vanilla beans for $8.85 on my last visit to Seven Arrows farm. I
then bought a $6 bottle of vodka (yuck fooey)… with the plan to just put the
vanilla beans in the vodka… then I realized someone would probably drink it… so
I filled a left over resealable beer bottle with vodka, vanilla beans and then
topped it off with Bacardi. In 6 weeks I should have vanilla extract! That is
16 oz of vanilla extract for about $15. Amazon sells 16 oz for $16.18 or 2 oz
for $4. I guess compared to buying 16 oz on Amazon, it isn’t much of a
savings..
3. MissingMoney.com: I checked
missingmoney.com to see if we are missing any money. We are not.. so this isn’t
really frugal for ME, BUT… I found my husband’s late- grandmother THREE times.
After confirming, yes, I know the family tree, I filled out the information to
file the report for my father-in-law. Two listings were > $100 and one was
<$100, so I hope I have found them a good chunk of change! It looks to be
from a life insurance policy. A great reminder to make a list of that stuff
before you plan on dying.
4. Bulk Buying: I’m on a mission to
reduce my environmental impact (beep beep- Prius driver!). So I thought a good
first step would be to start bulk buying things. I researched, got my
containers ready and went into Whole Foods to get dried beans (also a frugal
and new thing!) and some others. I was told they couldn’t tare my jars. Boo. So
Instead I just filled their paper bags. At least I didn’t get the Goya plastic
baggie or the baggie inside a box, but still not my whole intention. I was
pretty surprised at the prices- they seemed high. Pinto Beans (dry) were
$3.19/lb and Black beans were $2.99/lb. I am going to compare to the other
stores out of curiosity. I didn’t remember to check if they were organic, which
could make an impact, but I will have to go back and find out!
5. Cooking: I’ve been doing really
well at cooking lately. I made a Chicken noodle soup, Chicken tortilla soup
(with the left over chicken that didn’t look like it was getting eaten AND
pinto beans- new thing), and a bean and beef chili. The chili wasn’t great. The
others got five star reviews from hubby though. I’ve meal planned my next 3
meals- just have to make a quick stop at the store on the way home- and then I
should have what we need for the rest of the week.
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