Frugal Happenings

This week was a bit of a different week — a welcome difference.  My husband had a conference to attend, and I tagged along.  It was a vacation week for me.

Sunday October 14th
• I worked on an income producing project and relied on the Crockpot to cook lunch.  There was enough leftover for supper.
• I cooked cookies from my slice and bake freezer dough.
• I ordered my gluten free flour. I use Better Batter blend and was able to get a great price on two damaged bags.  Saving $80 — 40 pounds for $120 versus $200.  I’ll freeze the extra.  This will get us through the next couple of months including our holiday baking.
• I went to Walmart to pick up some items for my daughter for the week, some items for me for on the road, and a few items for the pantry.  The costs weren’t as low as I would have liked, but things never are.  However, the ready made and convenience items are still less than us eating out.  

Monday October 15th
• I spent the day at home.  I had originally planned to go out and have my nails done as a splurge.  I opted to just do them myself.  Money saved — $90.

Tuesday October 16th – Saturday October 20th
• We were away at a conference.  I did pack snack foods for the hotel room to help keep costs down.  We shared a super sized coffee every morning.  Neither of us like strong coffee so by the time we diluted it to what we could stand to drink one was plenty for two of us.  Kind of amusing but true.
• We had meals with the conference for several at no cost to us.  The group also toured the aquarium.  We enjoyed a walk down to the ocean front.
• We had a couple of meals on the road during our travel, which we shared.  This also kept costs down, but more importantly kept either of us from over eating on things we shouldn’t be eating anyway — like fast food.

Saturday October 20th
• We made it back home about midday.  I started laundry and did have to dry some in the dryer because of time constraints.  However, I did get two loads hung to dry.
• We went to the library, where I checked out two cookbooks.
• I went to the grocery store to pick up a few items.  While I was there I found Great Value brand cream of chicken soup (gluten free).  I can rarely find this.  To order it online is $3.30 a can.  However, when I can find it in the store it is $1.42 a can.  I did buy 12 cans for the pantry.
• I baked cookies from our freezer cookie dough.