I really need to start going to bed earlier.
I had a very frugal day. I made 6 loaves of bread from some bad bananas. I made a whole chicken in the crockpot and ate it for dinner. After dinner I cleaned the chicken off the bone and returned the carcass to the pot to make some chicken stock for tomorrow's chicken soup. I also made some gravy with the drippings to add as thickener to the soup. Yum! And it always makes enough for several meals.
I used my drippy sink water to prepare dishes for the dishwasher. I also watered the plants with it and cooked with it today.
I flushed a toilet using shower water for the first time. It's a novelty right now, so it probably won't last long. But right now, I'm having fun and it's frugal, so why not.
DH took the $70 I pulled out for him on payday to his Doctor's visit today. They told him he was all paid up. Well alright then! So now what do I do with the $70? I could put it in the checking account as padding. I could put it in the savings account to reach my goal of $6000 in there. Or I could send it straight to the CC. I'm actually leaning toward putting it back into savings because the money came from my freedom account, so it should probably return to my freedom account. I want to send it the CC.
I have a college friend driving into town from 5 hours away. Two other college friends and their families live within 10 minutes of me. Basically, we're all meeting for a get-together on Friday and I need to bring a side dish. This was unplanned and therfore not part of my grocery list when I went shopping. Rather than break the challenge yet again, I'm hoping to come up with something in my kitchen that I can take. I think I can do it. I'm going to go sleep on it now.
Another night of random thoughts
August 15th, 2006 at 03:13 am
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I collect water in the shower when I turn the water off and on. So while the water is heating up, it is collected in a bucket. Then, when you go to flush the toilet, you remove the lid in the back first. Then flush and pour the bucket into the tank while it is filling itself. When the water reaches the correct level, it shuts itself off. You know when to stop pouring because you won't hearing the rushing sound of water in the tank anymore. Does that make sense?
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