I at all times really feel like I put up many how-to’s and never many “actual lifes”. Though I do try 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 seems like.
Frugal Friday Week #26
So I’ve began a brand new sequence referred to as Frugal Friday and wish your assist. My thought for this sequence is to share among the initiatives/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, generally, simply what life seems like.
I want your assist as a result of I’ve tried one thing related earlier than, and I gave up after some time. I acquired bored, felt like nobody was studying it or cared, and I moved on to different initiatives. So what I want you to do every week is to share what your week regarded like within the feedback part. I feel it might hold us ALL accountable and should function an encouragement to others!
So let’s dive proper into this week!
Meal Highlights
Despite the fact that it’s nonetheless heat, I’ve been wanting consolation meals this week! We made a Beef Stir Fry utilizing my Homemade Stir Fry Sauce. Tonight I’m making a White Bean Soup within the crockpot. We additionally had pizza, oatmeal for breakfasts, eggs and toast, plenty of leftovers for lunches, and ate no matter random meals my backyard produced.
I additionally made a batch of Hummingbird Bread and Chocolate Zucchini Bread that we had for a number of breakfasts this week.
I didn’t grocery store this week, however I’ll have some new fruits and veggies from our coop this weekend so that may assist refresh the fridge.
Procuring We Did
No procuring this week however I’m waiting for a number of gross sales this weekend. Vitacost at all times has a sale over holidays. We additionally want all new mattresses to place within the camper and now is an efficient time to get these.
How We Lived Frugal This Week
I continued to choose some issues from the backyard (no matter it decides to give you at this level we’ll take!), that helps to really feel like we’re having extra recent after we are eating mostly from the pantry proper now.
I forgot to say final week that I purchased some new fabric napkins from World Market. Our different ones have been in use for at the least 7-8 years now and have been getting fairly holey. We’ve been utilizing fabric in our house for effectively over 10 years now and plan on persevering with to take action within the camper. The worth has gone as much as $12 for six napkins (I initially paid $10 for six), however that also means I solely paid $20 for all of the napkins we’ve used within the final 8 years. (We had 2 units.) Price it in my view!
We went on a mini trip this week however stayed with a buddy. She requested that we keep at her house as a substitute of a resort so we gladly obliged. The children had a good time and the one prices we incurred was the fuel.
Weblog Posts I Wrote
I’ve been working tremendous arduous on updating weblog posts and placing out new ones so this *ought to* at all times be a giant checklist any further. In case you missed one thing this week, test it out.
Trying Forward to Subsequent Week
We’re engaged on making ready for a big yard sale so I’m guessing that may take up most of my week. Hoping for some cooler fall temperatures once more nevertheless it doesn’t appear like we’ll get fortunate. We’re additionally beginning again to high school subsequent week!
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.
