Hello there! I'm glad you stopped by. For those of you who don't know, every Thursday I do a recap on thrifty projects and activities that I've completed over the last week. Usually I try to think of at least five things, more or less. Here are this week's thrifty things:
1. Packaged cured garlic for storage in our garage. I dug up the garlic several months ago; for this step, I basically clipped the long tops and scraggly roots, while peeling away any clumps of dirt. Then I reused a clean produce bag (pictured above) for storage. This is not my first year growing garlic, but it was my first year properly storing it. I learned this year, for example, that when you refrigerate garlic it is more likely to sprout. A sprouting head of garlic in my fridge proves this point. LOL! 2. Harvested from the farm/garden: cucumbers, three types of beans and eggs. I also picked the first couple of ripe tomatoes this week! I will have to take a picture of some of them, as they are a beautiful heirloom variety. 2. Worked on off-grid cooking skills. Mainly using a campfire and/or rocket stove with cast iron. I have a long way to go with this, but our family had a good time around the fire and afterward admiring the beautiful night sky. This is something that, while technically a "survival skill", is also a good candidate for family tradition. 3. Food preservation: froze and dried beans from the garden, dried zucchini from a family member, dried a single drop apple (the first one of the year!) and also some colorful bell peppers that I bought on sale for $0.25 each. A fabulous deal! I also did a little bit of canning: pork loin, bacon and sausage purchased inexpensively at Walmart and Aldi. I am finally feeling a little better about our canned meat supply now, since we have at least three month's worth of shelf-stable meat on hand. 4. Line-dried a few loads of laundry. 5. Continued listening to the audio book The Accidental Presidents while weeding in my strawberry patch. One interesting tidbit that I learned about was the Panic of 1893... eerily similar to what is going on today with unemployment, food shortages, etc. A Youtube search for the same event led me to a lecture on that topic and then another lecture on Grover Cleveland. After listening to all this, I came away renewed and refreshed that there is nothing new under the sun. That is all for this week! I hope you all have a fun and highly productive weekend. God bless, ~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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