Frugal Friday......the November 19th Edition

 A few frugal wins for this past week..............

*  Friday saw all this going to the local food bank.....

118 items gotten for free or for very low cost with sales/loss leader/couponing/rebating.

*  I spent very little OOP at the grocery store this week thanks to free gift cards.

*  When Sissie came to visit she brought me a giftie I forgot to show last week.......

A neat Santa shopping bag.  I'll think of her every time I use it! ;-)

*  Lots of freebies last week at Rite-Aid..........

I rolled/converted to cash/spent down under $40 in Bonus Cash for all this(+some items not pictured, many that went to the food bank).  Nothing spend out of pocket.

*  Sissie also alerted me that Aldi had butter for $1.99 lb. this week so I hit up Aldi's here and picked up 6 lbs.

*  I attended the Bridal Shower last Saturday for my son's fiancée.  I won two of the games we played.....

The two flat black packages were those prizes(each had a bag of specialty tea bags, a bookmark with a famous author's quote on it and a piece of jewelry).  It was a "Bridgerton" themed shower....we drank tea from proper china cups and saucers and ate finger sandwiches and scones.  We played Jane Austen word searches, had to guess things about the bride and then a shower gift Bingo.  The party favors were the pair of bride and groom pretzels enrobed in chocolate and the cup and saucer with dainty handmade candies and more tea covered with shimmery netting and a bow.

*  Our kitchen backsplash got installed this past week!

First a reminder of the 1980's tile work we had removed.........

And now we are 40+ years into the future.......

                                        

The handyman only took 1.5 days to finish the job too!  While having work done on your house isn't frugal per se, Hubs added up both bathroom jobs and this tile work and it cost us LESS to have our handyman do all 3 jobs than the big contractor company wanted for just the main bathroom job.  So I'm calling this a frugal win! ;-)

*  Speaking of house projects, Hubs tackled a long delayed small job of replacing the hall closet doors.  We actually only had 1 bi-fold door after Ex-College Boy fell into the other door and broke it when he was home from college on break a few years ago.  Hubs finally bought new doors, painted the backsides and installed them(well, he installed them twice because the first time he put them in upside down!lol).  I'll post a photo once we get the fronts of the doors painted. ;-)

We are slowly chipping away at the house projects list......

*  I found money!

2 dimes next to my car in the parking lot at Walmart last Friday.

This nice shiny penny was leaning up on one of the frozen food case doors at Weis last Friday as well.

Found a penny at a Rite-Aid in NJ after the Bridal Shower when I went in to get some gift cards there.

Found a quarter at Weis on Wednesday when I went in for 2 items to finish my Mid Week Bonus.

Found This Week... .47¢
Found This Year...$20.03 

Woohoo!  Passed the $20 0f found change mark for the year!

That's about all I got for the week besides the usual stuff.

What frugal victories did you have this past week?  Let's hear all about them!

Sluggy