I at all times really feel like I publish many how-to’s and never many “actual lifes”. Though I do attempt to incorporate that into my newer posts, I’ve usually thought that it is likely to be much more useful for my readership to get a greater glimpse inside what our easy/homestead/from scratch/frugal life actually seems to be like.
Frugal Friday Week #37
So I’ve began a collection referred to as Frugal Friday and want your assist. My concept for this collection is to share a number of the tasks/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, typically, simply what life seems to be 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 obtained bored and felt like nobody was studying it or cared, and I moved on to different tasks. So what I want you to do every week is to share what your week appeared like within the feedback part. I feel it might hold us ALL accountable and will function an encouragement to others!
Facet Word: When you missed the final weeks, I reshared that we’re at the moment dwelling in a tiny house (camper) to journey and do ministry work in rural locations for now as we take a brief break from our homestead.
Meal Highlights
I saved a strict meal plan this week since we’ve been within the camper, and I’ve no different alternative proper now! Right here’s what we made:
Purchasing We Did
I needed to get groceries once more this week. I’m not used to getting them every week however that’s actually all of the area now we have for them within the fridge. I’m additionally starting to cook dinner for different volunteers on the venture we’re engaged on (for lunch) beginning at this time, so I wanted additional.
I had to enter city to do my laundry, so I purchased my groceries this week at Kroger, Walmart, Aldi, and the native Amish market. Now that I’ve checked out all of these locations, I feel I can slim it right down to the place to get meals subsequent week. I spent $150 once more on meals for the week which I believed was good contemplating I’m feeding an additional 10ish individuals for lunches.
I’ll even be purchasing a bit at this time. I at all times use Black Friday as a strategy to fill up on fundamental family items and Christmas Presents. I additionally purchase backyard seeds. I don’t want the family issues this yr, however I’ve already been wanting this morning on the Schleich toys web site for some items, a brand new pair of winter boots for myself, and I’ll be utilizing some low cost codes at Pinetree Seeds and Excessive Mowing Seeds, two of my go-to seed locations.
How We Lived Frugal This Week
Moreover the cash spent on groceries and laundry (and no matter I find yourself with from the Black Friday gross sales), we stayed near the place we’re working and spent nearly nothing. We’ve been dwelling 100% off solar energy and propane for almost 2 weeks now, and we discovered that we are able to get water totally free from the native hearth division.
I nonetheless have some meals I introduced from my house pantry, so I’ve been utilizing these and being extra inventive with my meals to attempt to use what I have already got or cheaper elements.
Weblog Posts I Wrote This Week
I didn’t do as a lot writing and enhancing this week because it was a vacation week however listed here are the weblog posts I labored on:
Wanting Forward to Subsequent Week
I haven’t had a spare second but with the vacation to work on my weblog publish about my First Help Equipment, however I’m going to attempt to do some work on that over the subsequent week.
I additionally need to model out a bit and take the youngsters exploring within the space we’re in now that we’re slightly acquainted. Plus, I’m including in all that additional cooking for a volunteer crew for lunches so it needs to be a full week!
Merissa Alink
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 freedom on the About Page. You possibly can ship her a message any time from the Contact Page.
