I at all times really feel like I submit many how-to’s and never many “actual lifes”. Though I do attempt to incorporate that into my newer posts, I’ve typically thought that it could be much more useful for my readership to get a greater glimpse within what our easy/homestead/from scratch/frugal life actually appears like.
Frugal Friday Week 25
So I’ve began a brand new sequence known as Frugal Friday and wish your assist. My concept for this sequence is to share a number of the initiatives/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, normally, simply what life appears like.
I would like your assist as a result of I’ve tried one thing related earlier than, and I gave up after some time. I bought bored, felt like nobody was studying it or cared, and I moved on to different initiatives. So what I would like you to do every week is to share what your week regarded like within the feedback part. I feel it might maintain us ALL accountable and should function an encouragement to others!
So let’s dive proper into this week!
Updates
Sure, I’ve not printed Frugal Friday shortly. We’ve been busy making large life selections on whether or not or to not transfer, what to promote, and so on. I printed a podcast on this to replace and ended up with a bunch of unsubscribers :(. I plan to do a follow-up quickly! Simply know that proper now, nothing has modified for us. 🙂
Meals We Ate
I’m positive that a lot of you’ll be able to relate, nevertheless it’s been HOT this week. We’ve hardly had any warmth all summer season, so these are the primary days we’ve had 90-degree temps. Watermelon and contemporary veggies have turn out to be my meals of alternative currently. There have been some actual meat meals in there, however the warmth has fried my mind and I don’t keep in mind them.
No, it’s not a elaborate meal plan, however there can be time for all that later. For now, I’m sticking to my Forestburg Melons. (South Dakotans, you realize precisely what I imply!)
For our “campfire fellowship night time” we’re having natural sizzling canines with all of the fixings (we do that each different week with many different households!) and I feel I’d even really feel motivated sufficient to make bars or brownies. We will see. 😉
Procuring We Did
It’s been effectively over a month since I’ve finished buying, particularly grocery buying. We’ve been engaged on consuming what we have now and attempting to eat up issues within the freezer since we took our pigs as much as the meat locker final week.
This previous week I shopped at Costco, Aldi, a sale at Vitacost, and some different small locations to fill up on some pantry and fridge necessities. (Not one of the shops are in my native space, the children and I took a mini journey and bought our buying finished as effectively!)
One factor that I’m engaged on having extra of is a few wholesome snacks for the children. With the sale at Vitacost I stocked up on some issues they will have like gluten-free pretzels however I additionally purchased plenty of fruit that’s at all times a straightforward, wholesome grab-n-go snack for them.
Tasks We Labored On
We’ve been working exhausting on truly ending up our home. I’m proud to say that after 3 years, I lastly have doorways on my closet in my bed room!
We additionally added the trim that was lacking, needed to exchange 2 home windows due to hail harm, and we painted the children’ room in order that we are able to reimagine them.
We started work on our new camper (our different one was totaled out by hail this summer season). I tore out all of the window coverings and a bunch of pointless cumbersome cupboards. Subsequent is the previous carpet!
For sure, we’ve been very busy engaged on initiatives. None of them main, however all must be finished.
As for my backyard….after the third main hail storm, I left or not it’s. No extra watering or weeding, I simply left it alone. To my shock, a lot of it got here again and is producing! Not every part will get an opportunity to provide earlier than our first frost however for now, we’re grateful for all of the inexperienced beans, tomatoes, peppers, and occasional zucchini that comes up.
Weblog Posts I Wrote
One factor I’ve been working exhausting on is new and up to date content material right here on Little Home Dwelling!
Wanting Forward to Subsequent Week
It appears like it will likely be a lot cooler subsequent week so I’m wanting ahead to doing a little bit extra baking then. I additionally purchased some tulip bulbs from Costco and need to get these planted for subsequent yr.
So inform me….what did life appear like for you this week? What did you do, make, or plan to do?
Merissa has been running a blog about and living the simple life since 2009 and has internationally printed 2 books on the subject. You possibly can examine Merissa’s journey from penniless to now on the About Page. You possibly can ship her a message any time from the Contact Page.
