What did you do to save $ today?

[enjoy the ride]

FC- I think you're so right- we've been given a break in gas prices but,unless there is a realllllly long depression, prices will go up agian. I have not taken to driving to town a couple of times a week as I used to do so that my savings on gas, while not as startling, keep on going.
I do hope that the drive to make more effectient transportation that was triggered by the dramatic rise in gas prices does not disappear now that it has dropped.

 

[dacjohns]

We tried something new today. We baked potatoes in the wood burner. It will take some fine tuning. The skins are extra crispy.

 

[Homesteadmom]

Pumpkin pancakes are delicous too!

ITA!!

Okay, not to sound dumb but what does ITA mean?

 

[Homesteadmom]

PamsPride- with big trucks not selling so well, I bet he could find a decent older truck for use around your home at a really good price. Truthfully, I would really miss my 3/4 ton diesel PU - it's sitting in the garage with 2 1/2 cubic yards of bark in it- as soon as it stops snowing for a bit, I will haul it to the horse pens to keep their prescious little feet dry.
A PU with a large bed is sooooo convenient for choes but then I don't have to drive to work. And it's not really fancy and about 15 years old. But I have pulled stumps and fence posts with it among it's typical horse trailer hauling.

We need our PU too to haul hay & bags of feed(I can only put so many 50lb bags in the back of my van) so even though diesel is higher than unleaded we need the truck & at 18 mpg it is not so bad for dh to drive it back & forth to work(60 miles a day).

 

[FarmerChick]

We tried something new today. We baked potatoes in the wood burner. It will take some fine tuning. The skins are extra crispy.

***Dacs that is so cool.
I LOVE extra crispy tater skins...they make the whole potatoe delish! I eat it all, do you? So many leave the skins...??...don't know what they are missing!

 

[dacjohns]

I ate both of them, mine and the wife's. I even ate the charcoal crispy skins.

I think a properly cooked skin is the best part of a baked potato.

 

[FarmerChick]

you said it!


edited to say...that drooly guy disturbs me....

 

[PamsPride]

Pumpkin pancakes are delicous too!

ITA!!

Okay, not to sound dumb but what does ITA mean?

ITA=I totally agree!

 

[PamsPride]

I saved $$ today!! YAY!!
I went out Christmas shopping this evening. I knew that I wanted to get a jacket that my 13 yo could use for hunting....I seen a couple I liked at Walmart last Friday when I was there. Today we went and they were on clearance! The jacket I liked was orginally $67....The one I picked out was marked for $21!!!!! When it rang up it rang up for $49! The cashier had to call for a manager to override the price...she did...the cashier rang me out....while the manager walked back to the coats and found out that they were $49 and then came back and told me it was marked down to $49 and she could give it to me for $49. Ummmm...what?? "You already charged me $21 and the cashier rang me out! I want it for the $21!" I was very nice but firm. I think she realized I was not giving in....afterall I did not put that price on there! So, she walked away put the jacket in a bag and then came back and put it in my buggy!
The cashier made a comment while the manager was gone..."And you wonder why we have so many irrate customers. She HAS to give it to you for that price."

 

[Homesteadmom]

ITA!!

Okay, not to sound dumb but what does ITA mean?

ITA=I totally agree!

Thats what I thought it meant. But I thught better to be safe than sorry later! Thanks for clarifing.