A Practical Walk

I feel so behind on my gardening! My garden theme this year is, “bigger and better than last year!” But despite my overwhelm, I have started some seeds. We’ve spent money on this garden, my husband even bought me a brand-spankin’ new raised bed! Anyways….my point here is that while we have spent money on gardening, I’m also working on ways to save. For example, my seeds are being started in all sorts of things: last year’s seed trays, tp tubes, cut paper towel tubes, plastic cups leftover from my son’s birthday party, and even a washed out blizzard cup! I might have to go buy more blizzards, so I can have more seed starting cups!

I had some milk that needed to get used, so I followed in the footsteps of The Frugal Girl and made her pudding! I think my teens were happy with this endeavor!

These little jars made perfect puddin’ cups.

We had a meatless meal this week of beans, noodles, and bread like the street food we used to get in Africa. I like to eat it by putting it all in a big hunk of bread as a sandwich. This is one of my son’s very favorites….only he misses the Bama brand mayonnaise there. I very much miss the baguettes we’d buy fresh there, so as a substitute I made another Frugal Girl recipe, her French bread.

I had a very successful run today, and I don’t mean that in the sense that the run itself was particularly good, but I scored a dime and a wood chair! Someone was giving it away FREE! I called my husband to come pick it up. It needs some re-upholstering…we’ll see how that goes, but other than that it’s a great chair!

Nacho wants to share his frugal hack with you. If you need a pillow, flip-flops work pretty well in a pinch.

What frugal hacks have you been up to lately?

And I just want to share that the bluebonnets are a bloomin’ and the tumbleweeds are a tumblin’!