Here are things I did this week that were frugal. By spending more intentionally we can choose were to spend our money and where to save it.
* Purchased food gift cards at 15% off.
* Didn't buy many groceries this week and everything I bought was on sale and some I even had a coupon to use. I also used a discounted gift card for that grocery store to pay for the shop.
* I had $30 in Kohl's Cash saved up from buying Hubs and College Boy some clothing(also got large pillar candles for $5.99 to put away for next Xmas in these shops too)so instead of using it on splurging out on Fiesta Ware dish sets(a great deal at $32.01 for two 4 piece place settings!)I bought my daughter a pair of sneakers.
I don't "need" new dishes and even though these would be rather inexpensive for that brand they would still have cost a LOT of money for dishes. The sneakers on the other hand will be a need eventually when her current shoes wear out and after the Kohl's Cash only cost me $15 OOP and if she doesn't "need" them until late this year I can put these away until her birthday or Christmas so killing two birds with one stone so to speak.
I had the shoes shipped to the store for pick-up so I saved on the shipping as well.
And I shopped online through a cash back site and got an extra .42¢ in that account. Hey, it may not be much but it adds up over the course of a year. 8-)
* I paid our sewage bill this week. If you pay it annually instead of quarterly you save money. It may be only $30 a year in savings but why not if we have the money, right? Small savings measures add up over the years.
* Actually, this one was last week--I bought dish soap at the Dollar Tree for $1 a bottle. I am very low on my dish soap stockpile so I have been looking for a "deal" on this item but have found none lately. I figure a huge bottle of $1 dish soap is better than purchasing a much smaller name brand dish soap at 2 to 3 times that price.
* When I sent College Boy back to school I sent along a bag of goodies for him to open at Easter(since he won't be coming home next month). That saved me the postage if I had to mail him a box of goodies.
* Not frugal but a result from a previous frugal action.....I received two cash rebates in the mail this week.
$9.62 total back which I will put aside with my saved coins for the year and my assorted online cash back rebate site monies and then dump it all into the food budget for 2017.
* I didn't do much cooking this week as we had tons of Leftovers to use up. This saved me time and money.
* Went on Youtube to watch a couple of cable shows I like that were posted there as well as two movies. We got rid of cable 3 or 4 years ago.
So what did you do this week to keep money in your pocket or add to your savings?
Sluggy
* Purchased food gift cards at 15% off.
* Didn't buy many groceries this week and everything I bought was on sale and some I even had a coupon to use. I also used a discounted gift card for that grocery store to pay for the shop.
* I had $30 in Kohl's Cash saved up from buying Hubs and College Boy some clothing(also got large pillar candles for $5.99 to put away for next Xmas in these shops too)so instead of using it on splurging out on Fiesta Ware dish sets(a great deal at $32.01 for two 4 piece place settings!)I bought my daughter a pair of sneakers.
I don't "need" new dishes and even though these would be rather inexpensive for that brand they would still have cost a LOT of money for dishes. The sneakers on the other hand will be a need eventually when her current shoes wear out and after the Kohl's Cash only cost me $15 OOP and if she doesn't "need" them until late this year I can put these away until her birthday or Christmas so killing two birds with one stone so to speak.
I had the shoes shipped to the store for pick-up so I saved on the shipping as well.
And I shopped online through a cash back site and got an extra .42¢ in that account. Hey, it may not be much but it adds up over the course of a year. 8-)
* I paid our sewage bill this week. If you pay it annually instead of quarterly you save money. It may be only $30 a year in savings but why not if we have the money, right? Small savings measures add up over the years.
* Actually, this one was last week--I bought dish soap at the Dollar Tree for $1 a bottle. I am very low on my dish soap stockpile so I have been looking for a "deal" on this item but have found none lately. I figure a huge bottle of $1 dish soap is better than purchasing a much smaller name brand dish soap at 2 to 3 times that price.
* When I sent College Boy back to school I sent along a bag of goodies for him to open at Easter(since he won't be coming home next month). That saved me the postage if I had to mail him a box of goodies.
* Not frugal but a result from a previous frugal action.....I received two cash rebates in the mail this week.
$9.62 total back which I will put aside with my saved coins for the year and my assorted online cash back rebate site monies and then dump it all into the food budget for 2017.
* I didn't do much cooking this week as we had tons of Leftovers to use up. This saved me time and money.
* Went on Youtube to watch a couple of cable shows I like that were posted there as well as two movies. We got rid of cable 3 or 4 years ago.
So what did you do this week to keep money in your pocket or add to your savings?
Sluggy
