I all the time 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 may be much more useful for my readership to get a greater glimpse within what our easy/homestead/from scratch/frugal life actually appears to be like like.
Frugal Friday Week #30
So I’ve began a sequence referred to as Frugal Friday and wish your assist. My concept for this sequence is to share a few of the initiatives/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, on the whole, simply what life appears to be like like.
I want your assist as a result of I’ve tried one thing comparable 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 want you to do every week is to share what your week seemed like within the feedback part. I feel it might hold us ALL accountable and will function an encouragement to others!
Meal Highlights
Listed here are a few of the meals that we loved this week:
I’m right down to some fascinating issues in my freezer and pantry that must be eaten up so our meals are beginning to get fairly random!
Procuring We Did
I put in an order from Goal this week for just a few extra groceries so as to add to the fridge. As I discussed above, what I’ve left within the freezer and pantry is fairly random, however we try to make use of it up higher with just a few additions from the shop.
Apart from that, not a really thrilling week for buying. My daughter nonetheless wants a pair of footwear for the marriage this weekend. We’re nonetheless attempting to make our summer season footwear final till they disintegrate after which we are going to change to new footwear however she does want one thing for the marriage. 🙂
Not buying I did this week, however now we have had tickets for our favourite band for months now and the live performance was lastly this week! It was a welcome break throughout a busy time.
How We Lived Frugal This Week
We’ve been busy currently so we truthfully haven’t had a lot time to do anything, which I assume is holding us frugal!
We’ve got formally bought our enterprise, and the takeover is in a month. Coaching the brand new household that might be operating it has been taking on fairly a little bit of time. It’s factor although! We’re excited to see what our subsequent journey will seem like.
We picked what was left in our backyard (after deer, MORE hail, and simply letting it go for the remainder of the summer season) yesterday (just about solely onions, cherry tomatoes, and leeks) so we are going to work on utilizing these issues with our meals. Our first freeze was final night time.
We’ve been getting out daily that we will and having fun with the wonderful fall temps. Mountaineering, off-roading, and strolling are all the time our actions of selection since they’re free or solely price a bit in fuel.
Weblog Posts I Wrote
Wanting Forward to Subsequent Week
We might be persevering with coaching for our enterprise takeover subsequent week, and that can take a whole lot of our time once more. I’m nonetheless hoping to get out and luxuriate in a few of the nicer days of fall! My brother can also be getting married this weekend so we’re trying ahead to a weekend of household and buddies.
So inform me….what did life seem 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 revealed 2 books on the subject. You possibly can examine Merissa’s journey from penniless to freedom on the About Page. You possibly can ship her a message any time from the Contact Page.
