So, that's where I've been. I truly could not string together enough words to create an upbeat and positive blog post and still have energy to take care of my family and myself.
We've still been living frugally -- who hasn't during the pandemic when you couldn't go out shopping, eat in restaurants, go to the movies, theme parks, or any other activity that has an admission fee.
To restart my blog posts, I thought I'd list out some of my recent frugal activities with
the penny-wise dozen edition
- 1) cut my own hair, several times over the course of the last 4 months
- 2) colored my hair with a kit in a box
- 3) made rosemary and rhubarb preserves
- 4) restocked and expanded the pantry to develop an emergency pantry while we seem to be in a good place with grocery shopping -- store shelves are full once more and autumn stockpiling has yet to begin. I used our vacation fund for 2020 to pay for the purchases. Also, we've increased our monthly grocery budget to $250.
- 5) made a long-term food use plan and have been sticking to it. Doing so ensures we have well-rounded meals for a long stretch of time.
- 6) still baking sourdough bread -- loaves, hot dog and hamburger buns, and pizza crust
- 7) making yogurt on the reg. I'm a creature of habit and have a small cup of vanilla yogurt every morning and another small cup of chocolate yogurt after lunch.
- 8) I'm harvesting from our garden. Not everything did well. However, in the places where seeds failed, I replanted with other veggie seeds. It looks like it won't be a green bean year -- boo.
- 9) the hanging lettuce baskets are finally looking like I could pick from them
- 10) drying sage, oregano, thyme, lemon balm, and peppermint and freezing rosemary and basil for use in the coming months. Lemon balm and peppermint iced tea has become a favorite in the afternoons.
- 11) playing with ring and pin designs using wire wrapping techniques -- the pins are in gold wire and the ring is double wire (one silver, one gold)
- 12) knitting another dishcloth using leftover yarn (this one is lavender)
What are some of the ways that you've been penny-wise (but not pound-foolish) these last couple of months? Add your list in the comments.
