My to-do list from last time:
Continue vacuum
sealing oats. Done! I added 3 more quarts of
quick cook oats to my pantry that we got on clearance at Sam’s Club a while
back.
Bargain shop! Done! We found Skinny Girl stevia extract on a
half-price clearance sale at Walmart. We purchased 12 bottles and added them to
our pantry.
In addition:
Our Sam’s Club
purchases this week include some things from the damaged/clearance section in
the back of the store. We found a double
bulk box of Honey Nut Cheerios for $4.02 (We won’t eat these but they make
great snacks for the little ones in our life), a bulk box of parchment paper
for $4.02 and a bulk package of Lipton tea for $7.02 (It appears that .02 is a
popular number in their markdowns!) The
packaging on all three of these items was damaged but the contents inside was
still sealed and intact. I’ll vacuum
seal the Cheerios in jars as well as the Lipton tea bags! SCORE!!!!
We visited a dear
friend and her husband since I last wrote and she and I did some swapping. I got popcorn tins and she got empty amber
vinegar bottles. (She had been saving these popcorn tins for me for a while.) She also gave me a pretty bottle that we’ll
use for saving our change in and a book on sewing dolls. I was so glad to get those popcorn tins, I
love old bottles and of course with 2 precious little granddaughters this book
will get lots of use! Thank you Pama …
yes, she is a member of this group … and by the way her pantry rocks!!!!
I purchased this book … Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails: A definitive guide to
essential oils that could save your life during a crisis using Swagbucks I had earned. This book
was recommended by a member of the A Working Pantry Facebook group and I was delighted to have enough Swagbucks
to convert to purchase it without having to spend any money out of my pocket. (The link to this book can be found at the bottom of this entry.)
We visited a
non-electric Mennonite store and I restocked my spices. They have a wide variety and I can buy larger
quantities at better prices. I also got
some dehydrated ginger and a couple bars of lye soap. I’ll use the lye soap for stain treatment and
to have on hand in case we run into any poison oak or ivy.
I added 2 bottles
of clove essential oil to the medicinal part of my pantry this week purchased
at this same non-electric Mennonite store.
We learned about the benefits of clove essential oil and oral health in
our discussion last week on herbs/essential oils/home remedies in the A Working Pantry Facebook group. This upcoming week our studies will take us in a different direction.
I got the idea for
the cutest little Christmas favor from another friend. She had purchased it at a craft fair. I think these will be fairly easy to make! What do you think?
This same friend and I went
shopping at JoAnn’s and then to Hobby Lobby.
We shared the coupons we each had and when we didn’t have coupons we
found them online. Shopping with
like-minded friends is so much fun! I
found self-adhesive vinyl to make letters for my gallon pickle jars turned canisters,
added some ‘on-sale’ fabric to the fabric part of my pantry and treated myself
to a cross stitch magazine that I had never seen before … it was way more than
I usually pay for magazines … I have been devouring it’s pages since purchasing
it. It’s an Australian publication
titled CrossStitcher and I don’t regret spending $11.99 for it one bit. I’m planning several projects from this
magazine in the very near future. Sometimes
you just have/need/got to treat yourself!
We added $4 in
change to our change jar!
I completed a
Pinecone Survey this week.
I borrowed the
book, The Color of Grace, How One Woman’s Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors
of War by Bethany Haley Williams, from a friend and am reading it. I am thoroughly enjoying it. (The link to this book can be found at the bottom of this entry.)
Here’s my pantry to-d0 list for next week:
Bargain shop
Now it’s your turn, what have you done to build up your pantry or
live frugally ?
patsi
