This Weeks 5 Frugal Things on a Friday

Hello Dear Reader,

Wow, time just is flying by. I really can't believe how fast this week has flown by, just busy I guess. My days of late are so very different from when I'm working full time, I don't set an alarm, I sleep in till 6 or 7 am. I blame the cold for this, I am such a sissy when it gets really cold here, and I find it has been just so very cold of a morning, it is extra hard to get out of bed. AND I have been putting on the reverse air conditioning to warm the house of a morning, gosh I am getting soft!

I still do my normal morning routine, get up, feed Ninja and let her out, boil the kettle and make my tea, empty the dishwasher, make our fruit and yoghurt bowls for breakfast then head into the office to blog, you may have noticed that I am posting much later than normal, but for the moment it is my new normal.

I have had a couple of really productive days next door, and the difference is our kids are home and have been able to sort through what they want to keep and we have decided as a family to go ahead with how we will divest the rest of the items in my late In-Laws home. It feels so good to have everyone that matters on the same page and now we are really getting somewhere, tying up the loose ends of the estate.

Amongst all of this I have still cooked dinner every night, kept up with the washing and tried to keep life as small and normal as possible. I spent Wednesday with my darling sister, helping her out when she needed me most and I loved every minute of it. We shared a wonderful slow lunch of home made Chicken soup with Kale which was just what I needed, some soothing goodness which was good for me and my soul.

The garden is still a mess with the fencer unable to come this week due to being super busy, I guess because he is a good friend and he is doing us a great deal, we're not a priority, but thats okay, I know it will happen eventually. Lovely Hubby bought a few bags of gypsum to spread out over the exposed ground that had been dug out by a bob cat, we will get the tree removal guy in again with the stump grinder to break up all those left over roots from the golden canes, not even the bob cat could break them up. We're hoping by doing all this preparation, our raised garden beds will have really good drainage. 

Now on with the frugal stuff-

1. I had bought a bunch of parsley for a new recipe I tried this week, I chopped and froze the rest of the bunch to prevent waste

2. Made a double portion of meatballs and baked them while the BBQ was on on Sunday, cook once, eat twice, love it.

3. Caught the train in to see Bea Johnson's talk on her Zero Waste lifestyle, saving petrol and parking fees.

4. Put all the leftovers front and centre in glass containers to make sure they were all used up in a timely manner. I have been slowly replacing plastic containers with glass containers, whenever I go to an op-shop I always check to see if there is any, I have been quite lucky to pick up a few. 

5. Hung all the washing on the line to dry

How have you saved money this week?

Have the loveliest of days

💗Fi

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