1. Groceries: I went to Kroger this week and bought a lot of pantry fillers. You can see the haul below:
I also froze and canned the venison we harvested from a road-kill deer last week. I canned most of the chunk meat and froze the backstrap in steaks. We already have a lot of ground venison from a deer that my BIL gave us last month.
2. Thrifting: Volunteers of America had their 50% off sale this week. I got quite a few things:
-A book for me.
-Three books for our daughter. We have a good selection of books at home, but I’m just tired of reading them. Seriously, I can quote those books better than my favorite movies. These new books were just $0.30 each, and have a good storyline, morals and illustrations. I’m okay with buying a book and donating it again if it doesn’t fit that criteria. Little Golden Books are usually a good choice, but I’ve even passed on some of those; especially the ones with trademarked “characters”: Sesame Street, Disney movies, etc. I don’t have a beef with characters, but I do prefer a clean, vintage aesthetic over a cartoon-y one.

-A lamp…post. It still needs a shade, so it’s just the metal post. It cost $4.00, but it works. I really liked the bronze finish. After I bought it, we went to Walmart and I was disappointed to see whole lamps for just $10.00. We bought one. Then we got it out of the box, and I realized why it was only $10.00. Hubs threw me one of the shades. “Try breaking this!” he said. It bounced off the floor. Dumb globe wasn’t glass, it was cheap plastic! In fact, the whole thing was cheap plastic, but I guess it won’t hurt anybody if it falls over. LOL.
3. House projects: we moved the washer upstairs, and Hubs hooked up the dryer. YAY!!! Now I have a functional (if not completed) laundry room! Our cabinet guy also put the stained glass insert into our corner cupboard, and the last of the cabinet hardware was purchased and installed. I know I promised before-and-after pics last week, BUT…
I hope you all had a wonderful week!
Til next time,
-Bethany