What did you do to save $ today?

[me&thegals]

That's what I keep telling myself, too Our car is nearly as old as our marriage, way older than our kids at 13 years old. It looks pretty blowsy, but I keep telling myself No Payments! Think of how many garden seeds you can buy with just 1 car payment! (or 1 month off cigarettes)

 

[gettinaclue]

I hear you meandthegals! My car looks like it could use a kick stand LOL! But runs so so well.

We took that monthly car payment and paid down our debt and put a down payment on the house (at least part of it). I can live with debt now though. We have 3 1/2 acres and lots of potential.

 

[miss_thenorth]

We have 3 1/2 acres and lots of potential.

What do you plan on doing with your 3 1/2? We have almost 3, 2 of which are used up by horses (which we still have to supplement a bit of hay for). The rest is yard. I do have a small garden plot that will produce more than enough for us. I have about 1/2 an acre of yard that I am not sure what to do with.

Maybe we should start a different post on this, since it is not quite fitting for this topic, but I am curious the hear what ideas ppl might have.

 

[MorelCabin]

We have 3 1/2 acres and lots of potential.

What do you plan on doing with your 3 1/2? We have almost 3, 2 of which are used up by horses (which we still have to supplement a bit of hay for). The rest is yard. I do have a small garden plot that will produce more than enough for us. I have about 1/2 an acre of yard that I am not sure what to do with.

Maybe we should start a different post on this, since it is not quite fitting for this topic, but I am curious the hear what ideas ppl might have.

You can grow fruit trees, a mini orchard...or grapes...you can keep bees, or you can keep a couple of milking goats... I soooo wanna get off this lake where the rules are stingent and the land to rocky to do anything I want here! I see that building prices have come way down...not sure about in this area though...ahhh, and I found 6 acres on sale for $18,000, just a ten minute drive from here. But DH is not willing

 

[gettinaclue]

I just posted my response on the thread "how do you use your space"

That way we don't highjack this thread

 

[freemotion]

I finished my milking stand and dragged it out to the barn, where I saw the error of my ways.....too high, too slippery. So I will bring a saw out tomorrow and saw the legs right there, and maybe put a doormat on it to make it more attractive to Mya, who just would NOT get up on it.

I also made a set of goat hobbles for those days when she is grouchy and for the times when someone else has to milk for me and she might give them a hard time. Didn't try them on, but they look like they will work just fine. I used the picture from the fiascofarm.com site and used materials and hardware salvaged from discarded horse blankets. New velcro, though, at a cost of maybe $0.20 or so.

I also made two proto-types of heavier-duty incontinence pads for a friend on a fixed income. Hope she likes the easier one! And I finished up the last of 15 pads for another person and put them in the mail today, now they have 22 and can go a while before needing to do laundry.

I am sick and can you tell I spent the day in front of my sewing machine, then I couldn't stand it anymore, and finished the milking stand! Sniffle! (that flood is not from my eyes, but from the structure on my face between and below my eyes.....)

edited for spelling

 

[freemotion]

Oh, and another $$$ saver....I was gonna make nest boxes for my turkeys and was toodling around on byc for dimensions and such....and someone said to make a brush pile in the corner they are laying their eggs, they will prefer this and make a nest in it. So I found a huge pile of soft balsam tips leftover from wreath-making on the xmas tree farm next door. They'd been under the snow all winter and were just-picked fresh! Made a huge pile in the pen. So I saved making nest boxes, and will have materials to add to my compost heap, too.

 

[gettinaclue]

I went to the grocery store and saved 20 on my grocery bill of 100 getting buy one get one free, and sale items.

I also recycles the pots that had come with some seedlings we bought last year by planting some lettuce and such in them.

I have also made more pots from newspaper.

We had left overs for lunch.

I'll be making more laundry detergent tonight.

 

[freemotion]

Well, I sawed a few inches off all the legs on my milking stand, even though each time I went to the barn and peaked over the wall, Mya was standing on the stand. Then when I go in and ask her to get on the stand, she pretends she has no clue. That wiley goat knows a newbie when she sees one! The new lowered stand should take care of that, because I can give her a boost onto it without her slipping.

I resisted the urge to get Chinese take-out tonight.....soooo tempting, both dh and I with bad colds and both teaching today and not getting home until 6:45 and still have chores to do....but here I am eating steamed carrots and brocolli and will cook a couple of Nathan's hotdogs (we all have to have vices!!!) on a bbq fork in the wood stove....mmmmmmm!

Let's keep this thread active and lively.....I get so much support and inspiration from all your posts here.

 

[gettinaclue]

Today, I quit smoking.