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What cheapskate thing did you do today?

20 years ago

I skipped the Sunday Paper, ate all meals at home (made a great roast chicken my "bought on clearance" G Foreman contact roaster), took a walk in Gettysburg, PA for free entertainment and hubby drove the fuel efficient death trap to get there. Guess it was a good day. Anyone watch the Pioneer Quest on PBS? I could live like that but would need bug spray! Kathy_PA

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budster
20 years ago
took a small packet of ground beef out of the freezer (you made that package way too small says DH) and threw together a beef vegetable soup in the crock pot. I am creating a new challenge for myself - to see how little amounts of meat I can use to make a meal and get away with without it being detected by the family....so far I've got it pared down by about a third and no one around here is any the wiser.
Meghane
20 years ago
Got a dump-truck load of pea gravel delivered and made a $73 22'x12' patio. Only downfall is that it was raining all day. The dumptruck got stuck in the yard and I had to pull it out in my Jeep Wrangler. Neither the driver nor I thought I could do it, but it just goes to show a little Jeep can go a long way, even with a 10-wheeled truck attached to it. Now I gotta get some dirt and fix the yard though...
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Went first to Sharp Shopper. Got some nice fresh veggies and a few other things. Then went to KMart. Got printer ink, and they are having the double coupon up to $2 again. I had two Hershey Bliss $1 coupons, so they were doubled. Yummy! Went to $Tree for a couple things, and then to Big Lots which is a couple store fronts from $Tree for light bulbs. Last stop was Krogers for Rx and groceries. Good buys on chicken tenders and stew beef. Used a coupon for free cookies: pound bag of Nutter Butters. Home to unload the car and put away the stuff and like GEM, I was pooped. I hit the recliner, tuned on the TV and went to sleep. You know how it is, you come in with a gazillion bags, and nothing for supper. Had leftovers. There are a few things still not put away and dishes in the sink. Oh, well. Again today, every where I went people were pleasant, but the conversations were mostly about having to count pennies. Weather was nice and sunny. Had the heater on going in, air on coming home. Caroline, that was quite an understatement. Made me laugh. Sue
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Yesterday I played 18 holes of golf and then had lunch with the ladies I played with. Returned some shorts I bought for DH. Then returned books to the library. Played duplicate bridge in the evening (partner and I came in 2nd) Then came home and watched DWTS which was taped.
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I got a bunch of stuff ready to take to Humane Society for their garage sale tomorrow, but had to wait until 11:00 for someone to be there to open the door! What a lot of stuff that had to be marked, and only one woman doing it. I had wrestled the box with my big old Christmas tree into the car, then had to wrestle it out when I got there. That baby was heavy, so I couldn't lift it, but had to do the "walk" with it. Thank goodness that is out of my garage. Of course, I stopped at a garage sale and bought a couple of things, and I'll go back in the morning to see what goodies they will have out. Plus one of the churches is having their huge fall one. I really need to get more stuff, you know!!
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First I made an appointment to get my teeth cleaned, I had to cancel a few weeks ago (go in every 4 months), & was surprised that she had two openings next Monday...which is very unusual. Wonder if The Great Recession is forcing people to cut back on dental work. Then I decided to take a long walk (5 miles up, 5 miles back) to our County Courthouse to do some genealogy research. A lady requested info on a great uncle who left home in Minnesota around the turn of the 20th Century, ended up in California, was rarely heard from again, changed his last name, and died here in 1964 at age 83. She was able to at least obtain a copy of his CA death certificate, but that was about it. The "exciting" part ws I was surprised to find a modest probate proceeding for him at the Courthouse, and since there were no known heirs, a nice sum of money was turned over to the State of California in 1966, which I believe his heirs are still entitled to. I don't know if interest is obliged to be paid by the State on this money, but it felt good to tell someone that they might be getting a little unexpected windfall. So I more than got my daily exercise in & also did my Good Deed for the day.
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Adella Bedella
20 years ago
I tried to make a tasty pizza out of leftover spaghetti sauce and other ingredients I had on hand. The sauce was too sweet and my dh caught me putting carrots on as a topping. I don't think he would have liked the broccoli topping I was going to add either. Lately, I've been trying to use up foods on hand hand and make do or do without. We waste a lot of food around here.
budster
20 years ago
Today I made some bran muffins and threw in some orange zest off a drying out orange...squeezed the juice from said orange and added that......also threw in some marashino cherry juice from a jar which mysterious is minus the cherries, added some shredded zucchini (three medium size firm ones from reduced basket at grocery store - 49 cents - shredded and froze the rest), tossed in some cinnamon sugar and flour left over from another baking project and saved in a small container.....so used bits and pieces of this and that...better to toss into muffins than toss into garbage. Bud.

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