What are you doing frugal today?

[MrsB]

What frugal things are you doing today?

I have a load of clothes on the line outside. And I've had all the lights off all day.


MrsB

[danni]

I hung up the sleeping bags on the fence outside to dry.

We aren't allowed to have clotheslines so I'm calling all the stores to price out drying racks. I hang alot in the bathroom but with 5 kids there is too much to dry and because it is crowded it takes forever to dry.

We went for a bike ride and found $0.30 in pop cans

Cooking from scratch.

Picked enough peas from my garden for dinner tonight.

Had everything turned off all morning because we were out.

Try to keep the air conditioner on for only a few hours.

[Persimmon Lace]

Had breakfast and lunch here, supper will be the same.

Canning peach jam

I don't have the air off but the lights and everything else in the house is pretty much shut down.

[banana]

I hung 2 loads of laundry on the line. Shut my central air off at 8 am. Ate lunch at home and will cook a simple dinner.

[MOMMYDEAREST]

drying all the swimming towels on the fence....reusing freezer ziploc bags....keeping all the lights off & keeping the blinds closed to keep it cool in here.

[smk0817]

-clothes on the line to dry in the hot, baking sun
-all meals at home today
-curtains kept closed to keep it cooler in the house
-all lights and TV off
-painting hallway, not tempted to go out with paint all over me!
-all ceiling fans on

[lilk]

3 loads line dried today.
Making sun tea for supper.
drinking water rest of day.
All meals at home.
Calling phone company to see if I can get a better deal.

[starsapphire]

Cooked chicken on the grill early (before it gets too hot) for dinner, we're having that and salad for dinner. Just finished cooking a pot of beans with ham, we'll have that for dinner for at least two nights this week. I'm waiting until I can't stand it to put the A/C on.

[guest32]

It's supposed to be over 100 all week....so I'm not doing any laundry, and very little inside cooking. Dh will grill tonight. All the lights are off and the blinds are closed to keep out the heat! A/C has to stay on as dh hates it when the house is over 75....he doesn't take the heat well at all.

[2boys2girls]

Staying home, using box fan to assist the ac, cooking in the microwave to keep from heating the house, all blinds shut.

[jzkitten]

~did laundry in cold water
~hung laundry outside
~drinking water all day
~Ceiling fans off
~all meals at home
~all lights off

[barky586]

Ceiling fans off? I'd turn them on to keep the a/c from having to be so low.

[PrairieRose]

We use our ceiling fans too, they make a huge difference in how much less we run our a/c.

I actually had leftovers that we brought home from our dd's in a cooler (she lives 3 hours away) from the weekend. We had eaten out several times and got carryout boxes for the left overs. I ate 2 meals today from those leftovers and now they're gone.

[marei]

Laundry in cold water and hung outside.
Made homemade ice cream.
All meals at home, potato salad with free potatoes just dug yesterday from a neighbour and coleslaw from a cabbage from the same neighbour.
Leftover ham from the freezer.
Nice breeze here all day so sat on the porch and read and just turned the fans on,
Picked red currants to make red currant jelly - have been picking for days - they are just loaded. Cleaning and freezing until I am sick of picking and then will juice them all at once.
Made homemade salad dressing for my potato salad.
Think that's about it.

[Amanda W]

* Washed 2 loads of laundry and hung to dry
* Packed hubby his lunch
* Got 16 more bottles of Sunsilk for free
* AC up to 80 during the day and 78 at night when hubby is home
* Cooked dinner in the crockpot to avoid heating up the house