Well everyone, happy Thursday! Let's talk about being thrifty.
1. Fire cider: This week I went down the rabbit hole of Fire Cider. First I made the tonic itself, which took a whole afternoon of chopping (which included many interruptions). Then I got to thinking about the ginger and wondering if I could replant some and grow it in my new indoor garden. 2. Ginger: As it turns out, you can grow ginger indoors, and your plant can create a brand new rhizome to harvest in about 6 months! Of course, you'd want to have more than just one plant growing at a time. So I purchased a chunk of ginger with many potential growth knobs, and I'm waiting for it to sprout a little more before I plant it in dirt. 3. Turmeric: But wait, there's more! After I bought the ginger root, I found some fresh turmeric root (not available in our local area), and I grabbed some of that to try and sprout as well. I put the ginger, turmeric, and a small onion in a cheesecloth-covered jar to sprout together. Supposedly the onion will help them sprout faster. I'll get back with you on this project in a couple of weeks. 4. Horseradish: I harvested this from our asparagus patch, where the previous owners had planted it. To my delight, it turns out that horseradish is pretty fool-hardy and it's already planted in a suitable location. This plant is something I've had access to for years, but only now have I utilized it. 5. Thrifting: I found one pair of jeans and one long-sleeved shirt at the thrift store. I also purchased some medical supplies and some VCR tapes with Bible stories on them. Our Pureflix subscription is $100.00 per year, and we haven't used it very much in 2021. There was one series I found that was very good for kids, called Friends and Heroes. We watched that one through twice. We hardly watched any of the adult shows except The Chosen, which I believe is available for free on other apps. The other kids' shows we watched (Bibleman and Veggie Tales) were not to my liking. The Pureflix account was purely for the use of a 30-minute portion of time every day for kids shows. If you divide $100.00 by 365 days, the cost works out to about $0.27 per day. Before we purchased the subscription, I asked myself if it was worth a quarter per day to have specifically Christian content, and came to the conclusion that it was. While Bibleman and Veggietales did include some Bible verses and "moral lessons", they were thin on actual Bible stories or concepts that a young child could understand. I almost preferred showing Barney over Bibleman, because Barney shows real kids doing real things, plus there are (almost) no lasers, superheroes, or mouthy, disobedient kids portrayed. And Veggietales is just silly. The conclusion I came to was that, ultimately, we paid $100.00 to watch Friends and Heroes. I will be searching the used market for DVDs of Friends and Heroes to watch next year, but otherwise we'll be watching educational videos on Youtube, Amazon Prime and Disney Plus. Which, as much as I dislike the Disney company right now, that was a streaming service that we did use quite a bit over the last year. Okay! That is about all I have time to write about for today. Hopefully next week I'll be feeling a little more rejuvenated. Blessings, ~Prudence~
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