Frugal Accomplishments This Week
This week was a super busy, great and frugal week. Unfortunately, since it was so busy, I didn’t keep track day by day what was done to save money, but here’s what we did. Foraging We foraged passion fruit, purslane, figs, lambsquarters, crown daisy, capers, wild mustard, wild carrots, sage, and black nightshades. Picked plums […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
Hi y’all! It’s that time of the week where I am excited to share about all the different ways my family managed to save money over the course of the past week! This week I have some super exciting news to share, which saves money and time… and I’ve been waiting so long to be […]
Homemade Hair Donut/Bun Maker From Socks- Tutorial
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’d know that one of the things I get the biggest kick out of is taking things that were destined for the trash, and repurposing it into something useful. I love doing that with food, and that’s when I do it the most, but I also […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
Hi there! This week was a pretty frugal week for us, despite mitigating circumstances that made it harder to be frugal. I would say the biggest frugal accomplishment this week was our not using the AC and barely even the fan, despite extreme heat. Here’s what we did to save money this past week: Sunday– […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
Hi everyone! I hope you had a frugal week this week, a week in which you didn’t spend more than you needed to, a week where you got the most for your money, a week in which you don’t regret spending a lot of money on things that aren’t important to you. Fortunately, I had […]
Homemade Fruit Flavored Water- Refined Sugar Free
I am not the biggest fan of drinking water, unfortunately. I mean, I will drink it, since it’s good for you and cheap, especially important in hot weather like we’re having now… but I get more motivated to drink when I have something other than water to drink. My Laborade recipe is an awesome recipe […]
How To Take Apart Wooden Pallets To Use For Building
Yesterday morning, as I left my house to take the boys to school, I saw two large wooden pallets sitting in the dumpster. There are so many things you can do with wooden pallets, including making it into furniture, so I really wanted those wooden pallets. Only they’re big and bulky, and we live in […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
We had a good, frugal week in our household. Rose is still fully cloth diapered and exclusively nursed, and we’re still working on potty training with Anneliese so not using so many diapers for her. I was trying to make a big emphasis on serving more legumes this week so as to bring down our […]
How I Got Lots of Free Fruit Today
This morning, I started out with a pretty empty fridge. I am planning on taking a trip to the farmer’s market to stock up on produce, so all I had today in my fridge, practically, was carrots. Now, hours later, I have an additional 35.5 lbs of fruit that I got entirely free. Let me […]
Frugal Accomplishments This Week
This Memorial Day I want to give thanks to all the soldiers who fought and especially those who gave their lives for the US of A. Notable among these is my dad, who served both in Iraq and in Kuwait, as part of the Stryker Brigade for the US Military, saw many of his friends […]
