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Frugal Accomplishments This Week

2/15/2016

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I've decided for the next couple months to do a weekly "frugal accomplishments" post, as I've seen some other bloggers do. At the end of the post I'll list some of my goals for this week as well. Sometimes I unintentionally put off doing things week after week, just because I forget to do it. I think writing a few goals down on my blog will help me remember.

Frugal Accomplishments: Second Week of February

1. For Valentine's Day breakfast, I made strawberry shortcake with frozen sliced strawberries from the garden. Because I used free strawberries and cut the recipe in half for the two of us, it only cost about a dollar to make.

2. Hubs bought me a dozen roses this week! They didn't come with greenery, so I used a technique I learned in flower school to arrange the flowers in a round bouquet before putting them in a vase.  
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3. We stopped at Goodwill and I found a white tablecloth (shown above) for $3. I'm hoping to use this tablecloth for Easter, Valentine's Day and other special occasions.

4. Started some seeds that were on my February gardening list. For the echinacea seeds below, I used a glass bread pan covered with plastic wrap to keep the moisture in. I used a permanent marker to write the seed type and date on top, in order to keep better track of the different seeds.
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5. Hubs built a bigger goat stand for my Pygora goats from free scrap lumber. This will come in handy when we have to shear the goats and do hoof trimming.

6. I used some coupons to get a free bottle of salad dressing and bag of blueberry bagels.

7. Started to make an apron from some pretty fabric I bought at a garage sale years ago. I'm using a 1940's pattern that came in my pattern treasure box from last spring. We bought the bias trim at Joann's, and Hubs pulled up a coupon on his phone to get 20% off my entire order. When I'm done, I'll probably sell the apron if I don't love it too much. :)
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8. My mother-in-law gave me some seed catalogs to look through, and guess what I found! "Specialty Greens", purslane and a lambsquarter-look-alike! I don't have to buy seeds to grow these!
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9. Sold a book we didn't need on Amazon.

10. Wrapped a gift with free brown kraft paper and tulle that I bought at a garage sale.

Goals for next week:
1. Plant more seeds on my February gardening list.
2. Arrange pictures on the living room wall.
3. Finish blue apron.
What frugal things did you do this week?
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Sharon shutes
2/15/2016 06:27:41 pm

I love that blue material. The rose arrangement is so classy!

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Bethany link
2/16/2016 02:55:31 pm

Thanks Sharon!

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