Happy Frugal Friday!
Here is how we saved money/spent money wisely/made extra money this week:
- I purchased a party set from a friend. She had tons of cake plates, straws, plastic utensils, etc leftover from a graduation party. We will keep some and pass some along as well. I'll be able to host 10 or more parties with what I bought and it was at a huge savings!
- I mentioned shopping the Matilda Jane release with our Trunk Keeper Danielle. In addition to my $10 coupon, one of our items was back ordered so the company generously sent me a FREE pair of earrings while I wait! What a great deal! The kids will each get an item and Mama got a free pair of earrings! They are a $16 value!
- Mark and Owen worked on a HUGE project over the course of the week. Our house was built in the late '90s and some of our light switches have begun to go out so this week they replaced all of the ones that have not already been updated. This would have cost several hundred dollars to have an electrician come and do.
- Saturday night, Mark and I had a date night at GRT Hot Glass Studio. This was a VERY generous gift from his parents. I have loved blown glass since I was a little girl and have pieces from years of traveling and visiting museums and antique stores. The gift of making my own was incredible! Thank you Brian and Kristi.
- Mark's brother Luke was our babysitter for the evening. We packed the kids' dinner, they helped entertain their cousins, and we thanked Luke with the gift of coffee.
- We continued our fall clean-out and took Disney and Lakeview hand-me-downs to the cousins. We also donated two bags of items to Goodwill.
- We are located near Camp Atterbury. They are currently 6.000+ refugees being housed there. We have been praying for Atterbury staff, military and civilian, as well as the refugees. After lots of prayer, we were presented with a list of needs for the community there. Many local to us have been collecting and donating diapers and formula for the babies/toddlers so I decided to donate the next most important thing (in my opinion) - feminine hygiene products. If you want to help and want to ship straight to Atterbury you can shop their Amazon list here
- With great help from the kids, I tagged nearly 1,000 items for the Here We Grow Again Sale. This is SO much work but all of the money goes into our vacation fund and that makes it so much easier to push through the work.
And lest you think we always spend our money wisely, I made a ridiculous purchase a few weeks ago and it arrived this week. While I did wait for a coupon code, it was still silly expensive. Check out our newest artwork titled "King Oscar"
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