What did you do to save $ today?

[VT-Chicklit]

Free, I make that same artisan bead and it is wonderful. I always keep a batch in the fridge so that fresh bread is only an hour or two away. YUMMMMM!

 

[freemotion]

I've used the recipe for great pizza dough, but wasn't really interested in a boule....but now that I have chevre to eat, it was really calling for a nice, hot, crusty boule.....wow, that recipe works great!!!! Absolutely wonderful bread, fancy for company.....and fits right in with my goal of adding more and more traditional and fermented foods to my diet. So I add whey and ferment it for two weeks. It is awesome!

 

[unclejoe]

Getting deals like that and Uncle Joe's is a product of good living! Karma pays off!

ETA Silly typos!!

How come I can't find free buckets???

I'll save a bunch for you. Next time your coming through Pa. you can stop and pick them up.

 

[freemotion]

Thanks!!! I'll bring you some goat's milk!

 

[big brown horse]

SEE!! I told you!!!!

 

[breconbcs]

Over the last couple of days we've been busy with $ saved projects/items:

Recycled recycle bins into gardening planters. Not sure where the extra bins came from, I have 2 in use in the house for recycling but I found 3 more around the house not being used. Seeing as we can't afford to put in the raised bed (can't find free wood to do it with), decided to give these a try. Two of them have been planted with beans and peas, the other one and my old worm bin (which was a recycle bin too), I'm thinking carrots and lettuce. Is it to late in the season for potatoes??

Put the kitchen sink in finally (picture in my journal), the sink itself was in trade for labour/parts, the only cost was $60. for the tap and a trap, the lady supplied us with everything for the sink.

Found a pullout couch for free from Freecycle for the basement! Now the kids have somewhere to sit even if we have to wait to do the floor.

 

[sylvie]

A couple of weeks ago I talked with the manager at our local pub/restaurant. I asked if they could keep aside the jars they use for me, if they had no other use for them. She said sure, she would put a note on an empty box for me, to have the empties put in there rather than the re-cycle bin. I was hoping for some 1 gallon jars, but today I got the offerings, and they were pretty meager, unfortunately. There were a few large pickle jars - quart size - but most of them were regular size pickle jars like we might find in the supermarket. No matter, I've taken the larger ones, and washed them thoroughly, and will use them for storage in my pantry. The smaller ones will be re-cycled. Not a great deal, but better than the nothing I would have had without asking .

I got loads of large sized gallon glass jars from a local grocery deli. They saved them for a week for me. When I got them home I saw they pierced each metal lid through the top with a large knife to break the seal. I was never able to effectively seal those gaping holes and bugs did get through them, ruining all that I stored in them. The one jar with an intact lid had no bugs.
Also most of those had pickle products in them and despite my best cleaning efforts, the scent transferred into the dry goods, big time!

 

[freemotion]

Sylvie, do you have a dishwasher? I find that a couple of times through a dishwasher gets pickle smell out of glass. Before I had one, I would send pickle jars to a friend to run through hers, it worked great.

(running off to check Big Y for gallon pickle jars.....)

 

[Okiemommy]

I'm not sure if I mentioned this on here yet, and if I have excuse me, baby brain is getting to me

We bought some 2x6's about a week or so ago for $20 less than they would have been had we bought them new...and they were new! Never been used and in excellent condition!

Today we're saving money by hanging clothes on the line. I would imagine that prob at least 50% of you guys already do this, but it's new for me(as an adult) It was out of necessity: out dryer broke yesterday morning, so my husband built the posts for me today in about an hour and put twine up on it, and we are up and running with clothes out on the line as we speak


We had been wanting to do it anyway, but hadn't got around to building the poles and hanging the lines. Now it's done!!!


ETA: OOPS!! I take that back...We hung our laundry on the line in the first house that my husband and I lived in in Monterey CA for about 5 months before we got this dryer....But the salt was TERRIBLE on the clothes...so maybe that's why I forgot about it....just tried to block it out

 

[FarmerDenise]

It's been a while since I've been on line. Just busy doing all the farm chores. My basic idea is to live the way folks did in the country about 75 or so years ago. Country folk lived a simpler life than city folk, without all the amenities. Often they didn't even have electricity. Though I enjoy some of my amenities (i.e. computer, radio, washing machine) and wouldn't care to do without them. But everything takes a bit more time, planning and effort. .
Now I better go out and water some more.