2023 Household and Personal Care: September

Household

Measuring cups, cheesecloth, craft scissors  $6.27     Dollarama

Personal Care

Hair clips    $7   Canada shop

Yardley soap, hair clips    $5.    DollarRama

Total:   $12

YTD:

Household      $3.36 under

Personal Care         $81.64 under

2023. Frugal Things: September

 1.   I took advantage of a free laundry service and didn't have to pay the $118.25 normally charged!  Yay!  Free is so much nicer.

2.  More free laundry service and a savings of $68.25.

3.  Additional free laundry, saving us $123.00.

4.  The ship was selling a tour for $89/person.  We found the same tour locally for $25/person:  A savings of $128.

5.  More laundry.  We saved $65.25

Repetitive, boring but money saving.

2023 Buying and Eating: October 5-15

 Monthly Allocation October 5-31      $286.    We are back from vacation.

Cushion:   $519.27

What We Ate:  Cincinnati chili, cheese muffins, applesauce;         Ham and 5 bean soup, apples;     Bbq beef sandwiches, baked beans, baked sweet potatoes;     Potato and chick pea curry, dahl, salad, homemade flatbread;     Chicken parmesan casserole, eggplant caponata, salad;     seafood crepes, salad, lima beans;     Harvest meatloaf, parmesan rice patties, pear and bleu cheese salad;     Leftover crepes, asparagus, salad;     Leftover meatloaf, French fries, Green beans;     Tuna chowder, cheese and crackers;      Homemade calzones, chips

What We Bought:

Sanders:  potatoes (10#),  sweet potatoes (2)  $3.89

Aldi:  baking powder, pears (3#), cream cheese, Romaine hearts (3), bananas (1.75#), cucumber (2), acorn and butternut squash (3.75#)   $12..97

Price Rite: sugar, pot pies (4), carrots (2#),red peppers (2), tomatoes (5), apples, (6), cheese (2#)   $18.25

Subtotal:  $35.11

Eating Out:

   $0.00

Remaining Allocation:  $250.89

2023 Linus and Such: July-September

 Linus Blankets:  21

Chemo caps:   34

Operations Gratitude Scarves:  9

Pet blankets:  5

Mission Thrift:  15 skeins     $16.02     $1.07/skein

Canadian Thrift:  5 skeins     $4.00       $0.80/skein

Thrift Store:  40 skeins       $50.05          $1.21/skein

Salvation Army:   30 skeins     $30.    $1.00/skein

Linus donation           25 skeins                 free

Goodwill.         64 skeins.         $50.63.           $0.82/skein

Goodwill           124skeins        $43.00           $0.35/skein

Thrifty Shopper      40 skeins    $36.00.         $0.90/skein

Buy nothing group.    36 skeins      free

Goodwill.         18 skeins             $23. 00.          $1.29/ skein

A generous friend        7 skeins of merino wool.         Free

404 skeins.         $253.70

YTD:   516 skeins.       $447.71           average of 87 cents/skein

Linus  68

Operation Gratitude    44

Animal Blankets  14

Chemotherapy Caps   57