Happy Thrifty Thursday, everyone! There are a lot of exciting projects I've been working on this week, and some great deals that I scored.
1. Girls' bedroom: I finished up spray painting some accessories (photo frame, mirror, coat hooks). I also hung up a world map that we already had. I put pictures of people we know on the map, with a string going to where they live. Second, I started buying things for the knock-off Beddies project. So far I've spent about $45.00 on the top, minky for the inside and an extra-long zipper. I'll be using a bed sheet that we already have for the bottom. Right now all I need is batting for the inside. If I were feeling ambitious, I would pick apart an old quilt or comforter and use that batting. But for convenience I will probably just buy a roll of regular batting. 2. I harvested radishes and swiss chard from the garden. My row cover over the spinach is working very well. I would love to have fresh spinach in December. We'll see if that happens! 3. I went to a scratch 'n' dent grocery store with my grandparents. I bought sausage, ham, deli turkey, and bacon for about half of what we usually pay at Walmart. I also got a KILLER deal on chocolate. You can see some of what I got in the photo at the top of this post. They were selling 12 ct. boxes of organic, fair trade chocolate for $4.80 per box, or $0.40 per bar, for bars that normally sell for $3.50 or more each. I bought two full boxes and another half box, so in theory I "saved" $93.00. In actuality, one of the boxes was expired, and the chocolate had discolored and the texture wasn't quite right. However, I can still use those bars for baking hot chocolate. The other 18 bars were great. One box expires in December and the other half-box in January, though, so I will try to use them or gift them before too long (the bad bars were about two months expired). I don't like keeping candy around the house for us to eat, but I do like to have nice things for guests when they come over, so I put the chocolate by our coffee/tea bar. 4. Coffee bar: In addition to the $12.00 I spent on chocolate, I also broke down and bought a $40.00 milk frother/steamer. My sister-in-law recently bought a new fancy coffee maker, and I was fascinated with the steamer/frother. Tea lattes are the new thing, you know! They ended up returning the $70.00 machine and getting a higher capacity one without a milk frother, but the damage was already done. I couldn't get the tea lattes out of my mind. We already have a coffee/hot water maker, so I decided to just buy a separate milk frother/steamer. You can get cheap frothers for $10.00-$15.00, but they don't heat the milk. I wanted something that guests would be able to use themselves without having to run all over the kitchen trying to heat up milk. Where does the thrifty part of this purchase come from, you ask? Well, I was doing a little research on fancy coffee/tea drinks, and the price of a tea latte at our local coffee shop costs $4.50. The cost to make a tea latte at home is something like $0.30-$0.50 depending on the price of the tea bag. The steamer/frother, then, would pay for itself after 10 drinks. Plus, having that level of luxury at your own home is just really cool. 5. I finished Surviving the Coming Economic Collapse. By the time I was done, I had a half page of notes with issues or skills to read up on, along with a list of things to buy. After looking over our finances the other day, my husband and I came to the conclusion that we have some extra money that we can invest or use for something other than the stock market. He has a project in mind to buy some supplies for, and I will be buying some of the self/home defense items that I read about in the book. We don't have any debt and already invest and give some of our income, so it will be fun to use that money on other things. That is about it for this week! I had a lot of fun and I look forward to giving you an update on some of these things next week. Blessings, ~Prudence~
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