Hello everyone! I've had a busy week. We went to a small wedding over the weekend, and much of the past seven days has been spent picking strawberries for customers. Nonetheless, here are a couple of thrifty things that happened:
1. Stopped at a scratch 'n' dent store after the wedding. Most of these kind of stores are Amish-owned in our area, and they carry a lot of well-priced food items. Sometimes the food is dented, somehow mispackaged, and often it is close to or past the "sell by" date. I was able to get a lot of snack food for an upcoming camping trip, along with regular pantry items like tuna fish and kosher salt. 2. Sold about four flats of strawberries, and earned about $120.00. This money will be spent on improving the strawberry patch, and/or other hobby farm projects. Usually there is more than enough money to fund the homestead, but this year I sunk several hundred dollars into a new strawberry patch and I've earned only a quarter of what is usual. The berries are small and sparse this year, sadly. Still, a little is more than nothing. 3. Went shopping in town and found some deals. We stopped at our local thrift store, Dollar Tree, and Walmart. At the thrift store I only found an interesting serving spoon, a child's rocking chair and a memory game to play with my preschooler. At the Dollar Tree my best find was a comic book version of The Merchant of Venice. I read the original version over 10 years ago, and I don't remember a lot. The other reason I bought it, though, is that we were just in Venice this year and I thought it would be fun to browse the illustrations. Some other notable things I bought were a cat bowl (to replace the cottage cheese container on our porch) and a sewing kit for my weekend/bug out bag. At Walmart, I picked up some regular grocery items along with two rugs that had been marked down to $5.00. I put one in our living room and one in our bedroom. They are a little small for a living room rug at 4'x5', but it is better than what we had before—nothing. The rugs were decent quality, originally priced at $25.00 each. 4. Sorted through some kids' and baby clothes we no longer need. I still have a long way to go, but we were running out of storage space and tubs. In addition, I needed to see what items to look for at garage sales this year. We are finally seeing some community sales reschedule, so I want to have a list ready. 5. Listened to an audio book on Scribd called Fluent Forever. It had some excellent tips for improving your foreign language ability. I've been working on Spanish off and on for years, and to date my biggest accomplishment is buying something at a foreign market. Sigh. I'm hoping some of the tips from the book will help me move forward, especially we have family in a Spanish-speaking country. That's it for this week! I hope you all are having an excellent summer. ~Prudence~
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About PrudenceI am a Christian homemaker who lives in the Midwest. I enjoy sewing, gardening, reading and thrifting. Archives
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