1. Garden: We harvested spinach and strawberries this week.
2. Cooking: I dried some celery leaves and extra stalks. It was in the 80's this week, so I served more warm-weather meals like taco salad and chicken salad wraps. 3. Free lighter: I found a BIC lighter at a local playground, and it still worked. So I brought it home. I also brought home a soda can to return when the bottle returns open at Walmart. 4. Free audiobook: I borrowed a book from our library's "Libby" app; One Second After. It's a prepper favorite, a fiction work about the devastating effects of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) on a small town. Even better, it was an audiobook, so I was able to knock it out (lol...) in just a few days while weeding my strawberry patch. 5. I used a free curb-picked T-shirt to make glove extensions for weeding my strawberry patch. I have a 300+ plant patch behind my garden that I sell out of for two weeks in June. On a good year I can make about $1000.00. It's a lot of weeding, though, and there is a bit of poison ivy out there, so the glove extensions are helpful. 6. I did my semiannual "big shopping trip" yesterday, buying enough household, personal care and pantry supplies for 6 months. I was a little nervous about it, given the shortages and judgement surrounding grocery shopping. In fact, for the last month or so I have been picking up a few extra pantry supplies (peanut butter, tuna, pasta, etc.) every time we went shopping, so it didn't look like I was "hoarding". But thankfully we have a small enough family that I got out of the store with just one cart full of stuff. Excluding a few garden and wardrobe purchases, we spent around $150.00. I did use a $1.00 off coupon on a big (already cheap) container of laundry detergent. Well, that is about it for this week! ~Prudence~
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