5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

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1. I made 3 loaves of English Muffin Bread instead of buying English Muffins

2. I did some price comparison between GFS and SAMs club to see who has the better price on some items I needed. SAMs won for most of them.

3. I bought Kid # 5 a Christmas present from Target using an $10 online coupon print out I received the last time I shopped at Target. I also used my Target Redcard to receive free shipping and another 5% off. I spent less then $5 on the gift. 

4. I am slowly organizing my spare room closet. I bought two orange/ black storage tubs at Target and used a 20% off Cartwheel from the Chartwheel app on my phone to get them cheap and store my Halloween decor in. This makes it easy to know exactly which tubs this stuff is in. I plan to do the same with my Christmas decor. 

5. I needed a trash can for my 1/2 bath with a lid to keep my dog out of it. The cheapest I had seen them was about $14 and that was on clearence. I found one at Goodwill for $3.99. It just needed cleaned up and a little spray paint to be the color I wanted :)

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

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1. The previous owners left this Dawn foaming dish soap stuff here.  It was a half full bottle so I used it up and really liked it.  When I ran out this week I googled how to make more using my regular dish soap.  Works great!

2. In this new house we have a small front porch.  I have a Halloween wreath for the front door but wanted a Fall one to hang up after Halloween is over.  I spent about $5 to make this one.  I had most of the items.  I just bought the orange and green tulle.

3. We ate all our leftovers :)

4. We have slowly been doing house projects that will help us be more organized. Yesterday my hubby built these shelves in our guest room closet for me. We spent about $35 doing it. Money well spent though in order to be able to find our stuff :) 

5. I returned some items to Menards that we didn't end up needing. A refund is always a good frugal thing! 

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

1. I made a meal plan and a grocery list to go along with it. This really helps keep my grocery budget low.

2. I have shopped a ton of yard sales in the last few weeks.  Kid #5 has grown over 3 inches in the last 6 months and she needed clothes.  I found her a ton for pennies on the dollar :)

3. A couple nights ago I wanted to have sub sandwiches for dinner but we didn't have the bread I like to use for it.  I used the bread maker to make some.  It stuck to the pan and kinda fell apart.  But I salvaged it anyway and Kid #5 and I managed to get a sandwich each out of it :)

4. I planned my shopping this week and hit the stores I like to go to all in a row.  Saves on gas and my time

5. We ate our leftovers and if we didn't I stuck them in the freezer for easy future meals.

Well I Should Prolly Get Back To This...

Hello Blogger World!  

I am still here!  We are moved and have been in our new town and new house for 4 months now.  Finally we are starting to feel settled.  

Kid # 5 has started her new school and has been attending for about a month now.  She seems to be adjusting well enough.  Yesterday she had a neighbor girl over that she has met and became friends with.  I consider that to be a good sign :)  We have also found her a dance studio to take classes at and a music store to take piano lessons at.  I have even manage to work those into our budget lol :)

We have managed to unpack most of our boxes and most of the things are put away.  I am still working on organizing different rooms and I would not call any one room completely done.  But hey this is a marathon not a sprint.  Slow and steady wins the race right? 

I have done lots of projects on our new house nothing major.  Just little things.  Here are a few pics of things I have done.  Also if you follow me on Instagram you might have seen these already.

I did this to my walk in closet.  There will be more to come on this....

in the same closet I added this using a over the door towel rack I didn't need anymore.  I love Pinterest for organizing ideas :)

In my hubby's closet ( yes I have a walk in closet all to myself!!!) I needed a place to store his many many hats.  Pinterest to the recuse again!  A dowel rod from the garage and some curtain clips I already had.

The first weekend we lived here and were waiting for our stuff to arrive on the semi, we painted Kid #5's room.

Her room is actually about done.  I will post photos of it soon :)  I did a few DIY projects for her room.  One was this stool I found at Goodwill for $12.99.  The fabric I already had.

The other was this necklace hanger.  I just repuposed items I already owned to make it.

We also added this shelving using items out of the garage that the previous owner left to Kid #5's closet.  This closet had basically nothing in it when we moved in.  She is lucky and has two closets in her room.

This is probably my favorite corner of my house at the moment.  I just love how all of these items came together.  All of it was items I already owned.

Anyway, I am still around and we are keeping busy.  I hope to make more of an effort to keep up this blog now.  I'll be back soon with more house updates and frugal things I am doing to make it our home.  I also will update on our debt free journey soon.  We are currently working on Baby Step 3 for you other Dave Ramsey followers.  Somehow I thought this step would be easier :/

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

Been a while since I have been here and done one of these. Maybe time to get back in the swing of things....:)

1. I had over $60 left in my two week grocery budget.

2. We ate our leftovers

3. I sold an item on our local Facebook yard sale page and made $25

4. I made Kid #3 a Halloween wreath for $1.67. I used up items I already had :)

5. We were low on snacks so I made a pan of Rice Crispy Treats. I had all the items needed in my pantry :)

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

1. I search Pinterest for a way to organize my husband's hat collection. This is what I came up with and I used items we already had :) 

2. Again I used Pinterest to organize some items in my own closet. I spent $2 at Dollar General for shower curtain rings. 

3. I made $40 selling a couple of items this week

4. I made this hooded towel as part of a baby gift. These are now my go to gift for young kids and babies. Théy are frugal to make and everyone likes them :)

5. I didn't grocery shop this week and we ate our leftovers :)

5 Things I Did That Were Frugal This Week

1. We ate at home.

2. We went to the library and got our new cards for our new town. Kid # 5 checked out some movies to watch.

3. I made sure to unplug items that we were not using to save on electric

4. We went on a picnic one evening and checked out a local park. Free entertainment :)

5. I ordered a couple things using my Amazon Prime but opted of the slower shipping so that I will receive credits to use towards movies, or music or books instead. Nothing I ordered was needed right away :)