Thursday, Thrifty Thursday

 I did not get one thing done on my list for Wednesday.  Not one thing.  Although I was busy most of the day.  Did get some awful curtains done that I was dreading and also got another batch of curtains ready for tomorrow morning, so the whole day was not a complete waste. I also had a pile of Valentine napkins and table runner that I needed to iron, so I did get that off the board.

As the sale papers come out on Wednesday, we usually do our major grocery shop that day.  This is a small town and shelves of specials can be emptied if you don't get right on it.

Again there were no real stellar sales on things at Albertsons.  But they did have really good burger $1.99 a pound limit 2-6 pound packages.   So I picked that up.

The rest was bought at Winco and I really should not take hubs as he buys some things I would not, but then he has lost 45 lbs and keeping it off is important to me. SO when he puts a $5.00 bag of nuts and a $6.00 package of dry salami in the cart I have to turn a blind eye. We just barely kept it in budget, I would have seriously been below if not for hubs.

I had a weird experience.  I have a little cash box that I used to use in the shop, but gave up using in after my purse was stolen out of our garage.  The police that came to our house just said with a business in a home it is a bad idea and not to have it out on display.  So I put it away in a drawer and have not used it since.  I pulled it out the other day to use as a bank for one of my saving challenges and it was jammed.  I had hubs help me un jam the drawer.  When it finally let loose, three checks fell out, that were behind the jammed drawer.  They totaled $85.00.  I did not think I could cash them any more as they were over a year old.  But I looked on the internet and it said unless marked with an expire date most banks would not take them after 6 months.  But there was no hard and fast law on this and to see if my credit union would take them.  They did!   I did contact the person with the larger check to make sure it would not overdraw the account.

Although I know I have had checks that I have written that have been cashed after a year.  Have any of you had any experience with this? 

I really do have to get my but in gear today. I hope I can find some motivation.

Thrifty Thursday

1. saved all my coins

2. filled my $36.00 weekly envelope challenge

3. saved all y $5.00 bills up to $120.00 for the year

4. filled two of my 100 envelope challenge

5. cooked all meals from scratch at home

6. picked up $7.44 from some consignment items

7. Found $85.00 worth of checks I did not know I had!

8. Filled gas tank at reservation saving .30 a gallon

9. used ibotta to save $6.80 at the grocery store, on raisins,crackers,chicken broth, tortilla chips

10. used coupons at grocer for triscut and salad dressing.

11. use a $4.00 off coupon for nice razors for Hubs who has sensitive skin and breaks out from cheap razors.

12. Bought 7 zippers at Jo anns, used one 50% off coupon  and a $5 off $35.00 coupon to lower bill from $35.16 to $20.79

13. pulled a carhartt zipper head off a zipper I was replacing and put it on a coat that had lost its pull.  Made $5.00 how easy was that?

14. Using face lotion,perfume, and make up that were all gifts. I rarely have to buy anything in this category.  I ask my girls what they are not using and they give me stuff they have bought and don't like.  Plus Sluggy keeps me in beauty.

15. made a conscience effort to turn off lights

16. tried to double cook so I save on time and utilities. 

What have you done this week to save? Do you have any reagular savings challenges, if so what are they?

Sam at  Sam, coffee, money and Thyme wrote about using more beans and she had a picture of navy bean soup.  I love navy bean soup and I just found a package of ham in the freezer so that is on for the weekend.  Yum! Don't you just love finding something you didn't know you had in the freezer (like ice cream?) like a bag of ham slices?  It is like a buried treasure.

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim