Friday Jan 4: What did you do frugal today?

[mikandmari]

Got an early start today (for me, anyway ):

Laundry - cold water, hanging 1 load out, in dining room & over radiators
Inventoried freezer
Counting change from change jar

[redhead68]

Nothing yet. I'm still in bed!

[yonksgirl]

Laundry~cold water
Tuned down the heat
Ate home made muffins for breakfast
Going to be:
Shopping for food after looking for the best deals
Picking up canning supplies I got off freecycle
doing all my driving in a special route in one day
buying a new showerhead to save water
Make dinner from scratch

That is all I can thing of right now! I am have a good day!

[LexTysMommy]

Today will be a day for me.

Also I have made breakfast for little bits of leftover stuff. Sounds yummy huh? LOL

I have turned heat down and threw on sweater and thick socks.

I have unplugged some things, and cleaned out a drawer and found a couple reciepts for tax time!

I also worked out this morning, and drank water. I will work out later and drink more water instead of juice, or tea.

I called to lower my insurance, my car almost paid off and lowering to minimum i can, and also having them recheck my credit since it went up back when i had bad credit. Now that it is up 140+ points they will recheck if I fax them my credit report. Will do that later.

Paid some bills online, saved stamp and envelope cost, and got paid on time! Even paid 10% more on each bill, so next month I owe less, I figure if I pay extra for phone, electric, cable, etc. then one month this year I wont have to pay! LOL

[shoiji]

Late start today.

Need to use up some bread soooo, will be making some bread pudding, can't wait it is sooo cold here.

Clean out some more drawers and closets.

Dust and vacuum the place.

[mommy4ever]

making sure all lights are off in areas not being used. Started the fireplace(with free wood) turned off the furnace. And about to turn off the computers for the rest of the mroning.

[mmy2grls]

laundry in cold water

turned the heat down to 68 and opened the blinds to let sunshine in

paid bills online saving a stamp

did errands after taking daughter to school saving gas

decluttered and got a grocery bag of stuff to throw away

[Peaches]

Lights off and curtains open.
Made homemade gnocci out of leftover mashed potatoes. Kids are eating it now.
Laundry in cold water
hanging laundry to dry

[lori17048]

1. made hm muffins for breakfast
2. packed my husbands lunch
3. one load of laundry done in cold water and hanging to dry
4. made 6 cloth menstrual pads
5. turned the heat down
6. having leftovers for lunch and dinner.

[Squirt]

forgot my lunch but then realized I had a veggie pocket in the fridge here. I successfully resisted the temptation to go out and buy lunch anyway, as these veggie pockets aren't all that good. Tonight I'm eating leftover porkchops and veggies- was finally smart enough to cook a ton of them at once in my electric skillet.

[3hungryboys]

DH was able to figure out what was wrong with our heater by calling his cousin who does heat/ac work up north, AND he was able to fix it. Saved a service call and lots of $$$.

Heat set on 68, bundled up.

Cut coupons, reviewing sales circulars before grocery shopping, making a list and menu plan.

Paid bills online to save stamps.

Made pancakes from scratch for breakfast and popped some popcorn kernels for a snack for the kids.

[LexTysMommy]

Made some homemade soup ( a big pot ) for $2.86! It will last me 2 lunchs and feed my 2 daycare kids today and 2 daycare kids monday. Then feed my own kids and I dinner one night.

That and watered down the juice in my fridge, used up some hotdog buns for garlic bread that were getting stale.

[miss_thrifty]

doing 3 loads of laundry in furnace room to dry
dishes by hand , still not using dishwasher, kids are my dryer lol
using panyhose on swiffer to pick up dust
small dinner--tomato soup waterted down some and grilled cheese sandwhiches

[Ceashels]

So far I have:

made Dh's lunch
kept heat on 66 and lit some candles in the room i was working in
had soup for lunch and bread (both from scratch)
decluttering house into yardsale bins for future $$ making
went shopping online for some organizational items and found lots that I wanted but only purchased what I needed... one item, I did however hunt for the best price.
washed towels in half cold half warm water with cold rinse cycle with homemade laundry detergent

[McD]

-no lights on
-heat turned down
-grouped errands together
-working the envelope system
-used coupons at grocery store
-shopped for sales on milk---got 3 gallons for 99 cents a piece.