A dolly diaper bag, ready for gifting!
Well, we had another hectic weekend. It's funny, because most people really look forward to the weekends and doing "fun" social stuff. Me, I look forward to Monday when I can have some time to myself, enjoying my home and baby. If it were up to me, I'd spend the entire Christmas season making gifts or ordering them online, reading books and sipping hot tea. But, you know. Opposites attract. So Hubs takes us gallivanting around the countryside on the weekends. I do my best to prepare stuff on Friday and then do damage control on Monday.
- Groceries: I went to two different stores last week: our local higher-priced grocery store as well as Kroger. I'm going to save the Kroger haul video for next week, but I thought I'd mention it because I bought... CHRISTMAS CANDY! With two Kroger eCoupons I was able to snag the candy for between $1.45 (M&Ms) and $2.54 (Peppermint Kisses) per pound. Which is pretty darn good for chocolate! I am going to use some for baking, some for gifts and some for plain old snacking. Nom.
2. Cooking: I cooked one of our $6.50 turkeys from Thanksgiving. I ended up putting just 3.5 pounds in the freezer, but we pigged out on it for lunch, plus I used some for soup the next day. I also made 2.5 quarts of broth with the bones. In addition to the turkey, I canned 7 quarts of free venison that was given to us.
3. Line dried three loads of laundry plus all cloth diaper laundry.
4. Downloaded a free video editing app to my new computer. Yay!!! My Youtube videos have been sadly lacking lately due to lack of a video editor (YouTube dumped theirs in September... thanks a lot YouTube!). The one I'm using now is Animotica. I've repeatedly tried to buy the upgraded version in order to remove the watermark, but I keep getting an error message.
5. Worked on Christmas gifts. I had a fun time this year picking out gifts for people. Prices for gifts ranged from $0.00 to $80.00. I think our average cost per gift between siblings, parents, nieces and nephews was probably between $15.00 $20.00. Gifts are something that we don't try to pinch pennies on, but of course... if I can save a buck, I will.
We had six kids under ten this year to get presents for. I was able to do three of those gifts completely free (regifting stuff I already had, or making things from stuff I already had). One gift cost $2.00, and the other three cost between $7.00 and $10.00. Teens are a little harder to cheap out on because they have specific wants, especially before they're old enough to be earning much of their own money. Even so, I was able to get one teen gift for around $3.00.
So, I think that's about it for this week. I can't believe Christmas is so close!
-Bethany
4. Downloaded a free video editing app to my new computer. Yay!!! My Youtube videos have been sadly lacking lately due to lack of a video editor (YouTube dumped theirs in September... thanks a lot YouTube!). The one I'm using now is Animotica. I've repeatedly tried to buy the upgraded version in order to remove the watermark, but I keep getting an error message.
5. Worked on Christmas gifts. I had a fun time this year picking out gifts for people. Prices for gifts ranged from $0.00 to $80.00. I think our average cost per gift between siblings, parents, nieces and nephews was probably between $15.00 $20.00. Gifts are something that we don't try to pinch pennies on, but of course... if I can save a buck, I will.
We had six kids under ten this year to get presents for. I was able to do three of those gifts completely free (regifting stuff I already had, or making things from stuff I already had). One gift cost $2.00, and the other three cost between $7.00 and $10.00. Teens are a little harder to cheap out on because they have specific wants, especially before they're old enough to be earning much of their own money. Even so, I was able to get one teen gift for around $3.00.
So, I think that's about it for this week. I can't believe Christmas is so close!
-Bethany
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