Hi everyone! I hope you've had a wonderful December so far.
Secretly, I'm a little happy that almost all of the normal Christmas Eve activities are cancelled this year. It looks like we won't have any church services or any non-family parties this year. I've cancelled some of my own "traditions" as well, just for simplicity's sake. Normally I make a wreath for our front door. This year I didn't make one; I just gathered all of the supplies around and felt guilty about not making it. Finally at Home Depot one night, my husband and I decided to just buy a wreath. The guilt melted away! It was so freeing to NOT have to make that wreath. I'm also not doing a gingerbread house and won't be making obligatory snacks/desserts/cookie plates for neighbors. It just seems like a good year to not do that. Anyway, onto the thriftiness! 1. Swiss chard. I still had a bunch of it in one of my raised beds. Yes, uncovered, in December! I harvested all of it this week. I put one third of it in the fridge to use fresh, one third in the freezer, and one third I dehydrated for use in January/February. I have quite the stash of dried vegetables now, and I'm excited to try making things with it later. 2. The "x" key on my keyboard went caput. But there are ways to get around it! I plugged in my external keyboard, and use that most of the time. But if you don't have one of those, you can still 1) misspell the word and then use autocorrect (for example, "eksternal"), or 2) copy/paste the letter from a website or another document. 3. I bought a large round bale of straw and covered my strawberry patch. One $30.00 bale was enough to cover 300+ plants. Small bales can get expensive, so I think the round bale was a good choice. Last year I didn't cover my plants, and we had a bad year. I feel like a responsible farmer this year to have actually gotten out to do it. 4. I fed and watered the rabbits at my parents' house, as they were on vacation this week. While I was there, I picked up some newspapers out of their driveway. I expected the papers to be our local garbage paper (because there's not much in it besides ads and recycled leftist stories from a bigger newspaper). But instead it was the Wall Street Journal! My mom said she could save them for us, which is an offer I might take her up on. 5. Recycling tidbits: I saved some takeout bags and napkins to use at home. I'd never thought about saving fast food bags for reuse until the pandemic closed everything down, and now we seem to have a lot of bags (as well as napkins) floating around after date night. I saved a cool whip container to grow microgreens in, and I also started saving tea bags to put at the bottom of potted plants for drainage. I love learning new ways to save money! That's all for this week. I hope you're all doing well! Blessings, ~Prudence~
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