Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
A Gardening, Recipe, Book & Movie reviews, and DIY Blog all done the frugal way! We live the good life on a acre in the city.
My Thanksgiving has always been a mixture of homemade and store bought. I'm not ashamed of buying Hawaiin Rolls for the grandson, Cool Whip for the Pumpkin Pie, or even gravy packets because I'm terrible at making gravy but I want to buy it on sale. So, I wait for a deal. Some of the deals I'll buy more than just for the Thanksgiving Meal, I'll buy enough to last us awhile. Fill up my pantry for a great price!
Now that's not to say -that I'm not proud of those green beans from out in the garden or wow I made a pumpkin pie out of that pumpkin out there but I'm not against buying what I need (or want).
Thanksgiving dinner so far:
I bought my turkey this week at Meijer for 33 cents a pound- it ended costing me $5.10. You can buy one with MPerks -No coupon needed.
I also bought McCormick dry turkey gravy packets for $1.49 each.
I made my pumpkin pie with the one pumpkin I got out of the garden and then froze it. From what I've read you can freeze pumpkin pies for up to month.
Green beans are the ones I canned this past summer.
I plan on getting my sweet potatoes, Hawaiin rolls, cool whip etc. when they come on sale next week (they will).
A couple of dishes are coming from our daughter and the pop has been covered by another guest.
Books for Free from the library:
I finally dowloaded hoopla from my library. I wanted to download a book that I saw on Facebook. You know Facebook can make some books sound so wonderful and sometimes they are not a good fit for me. Glad I found the book on hoopla.
I also requested a book from the library and they sent it to the library by my home. It's a book on propagation,The Plant Propagator's Bible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Propagating Every Plant in Your Garden.
This is a very informational book that I can read in sections. I'm really interested in propagating blueberries. Can't wait for Spring!
It seems like I have a problem reading long novels again. This has happened to me before, it was during Covid. and I think now my concentration has broken by stress from all those tests. Everything will be alright again soon as I'm already reading more for longer periods but right now Jean Kuhnke can not write fast enough.
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Our time is limited. ..We can only bask in 60 to 70 degree weather so long until we have this... snow. Was this click bait...I think so. ha ha.
There are a few little things we didn't get wrapped up outside so I'm going to get the ball rolling today. We won't be able to snowplow with all the things in the way.
to do:
take odds and ends to the trash that are in the yard. I never feel guilty about this because people pick it up before the trashmen come.
empty rain barrels. I have two -one is done
get the chicken waterer heater going.
take up patio rug and move the patio furniture to the side.
I never did get the garden pots all clean -maybe I can get that done too.=I just through the rest into the green house and called it good.
Good deals I bought online this past week: (I follow many different deal bloggers)
I bought a Costco membership for $65.00 and will receive a $45.00 gift card soon (so $20). We have one that will open by us soon and we will decide if we want to keep up the membership after this year. In the meantime we went to the Auburn Hills Costco to start the membership. Let me just say I hope and pray that ours is not that busy!
From Amazon I bought a Duncan Hines Carrot Cake for $1.00, Duncan Hines Whipped White Frosting, 8-14 OZ Cans for $6.65, and Fresh Step Clumping Cat Litter with Febreze Gain Scent, 14 lb for $4.65 (subscribe and save).
Hardcover book I bought this week was When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner. I guess there is a newer edition but I bought this one. I've heard good things about this book.
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We had our porch (mud room) redone this past week. This is the before picture (you can see the donations ready to go on the side).
This is the after picture:
Then I hauled off a trash bag full of shoes to the local free clothing site at a church.
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We did buy tshirts and sweatshirts at a store for half off and they gave us these cups. Good deal.
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It's been so warm here that garage sales are everywhere still. My best find this week is this little raised bed for $15.00. I hope to get more raised beds in the future.
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