We now resume our regularly scheduled program....hopefully

Due to some technical issues(aka computer went postal), I' ve been absent for a bit. With luck, I'll be back on Monday!

Weekly Goals

The kiddos are out today(Monday) so that means I'm short a day to get stuff done. Hopefully, I'm over the plague I came down with this weekend and can get everything accomplished!

Continue working on basement

Sort and put away Joseph's clothes

Clean off corner shelves in the office

Continue decluttering

Continue listing stuff for sale

Deworm the pups

Go through and weed out books in the bedroom

Go through the drawer under Baby Girl's bed

Catch up survey sites

Write one article

Read 2 library books

Take aluminum cans to sell

Mop all floors

Get donations together and take a load to thrift store

Work on 2 bags

Weekly goals

Lot's of things didn't get finished last week, Thing 1 was home Tuesday with a respiratory thing, Thing 2 on Wednesday(with what turned out to be a UTI), Baby Girl came home early Wednesday because she vomited at school(and was out the rest of the week with a viral thing) and Joseph home on Thursday because of weather. I've been to the doctor twice with kids, the pharmacy 3 times, and hopefully, they will all go the rest of the winter without problems.

Here's what I hope to get done this week

Clean off desk

Put away laundry

Straighten up Joseph's clothes

Find crochet hook

Clean off table

Work on 3 bags(if I find my hook)

Continue declutter

Finish up 2 library books

Clean under cabinet in office

Clean under desk

Work on basement

Figure out problem with laptop(run diagnostics)

Freshman meeting with Thing 2 Thursday

Take Thing 1 to baby sit, also Thursday

Thing 1 cheering at a basketball game Tuesday night

Take it Back

The old me would have never uttered those words. 

The old me would have just thrown the leftover party favors in a box and forgot about them. 

Thankfully, not any more.

I had to make sure  I had enough favors to cover the number of kids we had to invite(school policy is the entire class, yikes). Before the festivities started, I told Thing 1 not to open any of the goody bag stuff. We ended up not needing 4 packages(I found the 4th after I took the pic) so I threw everything back in a Walmart bag with the receipt I kept and took them back when I went grocery shopping.

 

 

That's $4.19 back in my pocket.

And less stuff lying about in my house. 

This is posted to Frugal Fridays, and Works for Me Wednesday

Weekly Goals

I survived Christmas, New Year's, 2 week vacation stuck in the house with 3 kids, and Baby Girl's birthday.

Now time to get back to decluttering :)

Here's my plan for the week:

Grocery shopping

Laundry

Mop the floors

Put away Baby Girl's birthday stuff

Continue decluttering

List a TV on Freecycle

Work on Basement, get stuff ready to take for donations

List more stuff for sale

Drop off expired coupons

Drop off magazines to laundromat

Straighten up Joseph's clothes

Do any mending

Make 2 more crocheted bags

Photograph crafts and list on my FB page

Catch up library books and return ones due

Pantry challenge Week 1

Eating from the pantry is easy when you are broke. 

At least that is how this first week went. 

I did have to spend $10 on some ice cream and soda for Baby Girl's birthday party this past Saturday, but there was a ton left over :)

I made the cake and cupcakes with what I had on hand already, and since we rented a community room, I didn't feel obliged to feed guests other than cake and ice cream.

I have a ton of meals that carried over from the last of December, so I thought I wasn't going to need to buy anything, until I actually went to the store today. 

Aldi's had hams marked down(got 2) and a bunch of Christmas goodies. I got, ahem, a few, but they will get used(I'm the hangout for teens so a lot of mouths to feed)

I was actually pretty nauseated after grocery shopping today, I did get what we only need(for the most part, har) and still spent more than I wanted to(and that's passing up $10 whole chickens, $10!) but most will last the month. Hopefully all I will need to buy next week is soda and milk!

Menu Plan Monday

Well, I survived Christmas, 2 week school vacations with 3 kids, and a birthday party. 

Time for a round of grocery shopping(hopefully not too painful since I have a bunch of meals we didn't get to) and menu planning. 

Here's the plan:

Breakfasts

Cereal

Oatmeal

Eggs 

all served with fruit

Dinners

Meat loaf

Sausage and beans with brown rice

Enchiladas

Baked whole chicken

Chicken soup

Ham

Tuna casserole

Fried spaghetti

 

Egg rolls

 

Red beans and rice

 

Tacos

 

Chicken cordin bleu

 

Fried chicken

 

Grilled chicken

 

Goulash

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