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I was a little frugal today

August 23rd, 2006 at 01:13 am

I just remembered a few little frugal things I did today.

I used my leaky faucet drip water to water all five baby trees in our yard. Pathetic little things. I also used it to water our plants and we added it to the washing machine for a load. Oh, and lemonade. Can't forget the lemonade! That's a lot of water!

We had meatloaf for dinner and one little single serving remained. Instead of letting DH eat it, which he normally would, we repackaged it with a side of rice and side of corn casserole and (voila!) it is lunch for another day. A homemade frozen meal.

I also rescued a spider plant. I had never been able to keep a plant alive. Then, my grandmother died and I took home a beautiful Daylilly from her funeral and it has thrived since March 2005. That inspired me to try other plants. So a co-worker clipped 4 baby spiders from her plant. I gave 2 to my room-mate at work and I kept 2. My 2 did beautifully over the summer! I put them outside and they are babying like crazy! Well, I went back to work yesterday and walked into the room, and there, on her windowsill, were my roommate's spider plants! EEK! They were so wilted, their leaves were molded to the pots. And they are such tiny, pitiful little things. Here's where this relates to finances:

Past me would have thrown them away and given her new clippings from my plants at home. The new frugal me saw the beauty that was still in those not-dead plants. So I watered them and put them outside on the sidewalk while I worked for the day. I wrote my roommate a kidnapping letter and took the plants home. Just since yesterday morning those plants have perked straight up toward the sun! It's so much fun to watch them come back to life, like on E.T.!

3 Responses to “I was a little frugal today”

  1. HouseHopeful Says:
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    That's great about the plants!! I haven't had much luck with plants myself, but when I get things settled with buying a house, I'm defiantely going to try some plants. I really want to attempt a tomato plant, but I figure I might do that as part of some container gardening project.

  2. creditcardfree Says:
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    I just noticed your debt tracker and in 10 days you paid off over $900!!!!
    That's awesome. And from what you talk about, you are committed...you will be putting that debt to rest sooner than you think.

  3. Kris10leigh Says:
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    Big Grin I'm rather proud of that debt tracker, thank you! It has since slowed down a bit, but we're working on it.

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