Frugal tips for fall

[baymule]

I got a mutant zuchello one year, volunteer plant. Interesting zucchini green band in middle, yellow on both ends.

 

[flowerbug]

Hopefully the seeds will be genetically good, so you don't get the mutant sqazuchpumpkin plant next year

true, but since i'm always up for squash gardening adventures of this sort anyways it doesn't bother me to have to try out some new ones that show up from time to time.

 

[flowerbug]

That would save a lot of money!

i would like to do that for about 10 years at a time, just wake me up for a potty break once in a while and a stretch, let me read the headlines and see what's up and then go back to sleep again. i do want to see what happens over the next 500 years as i think it will be very interesting, but i'm not likely going to make it another 30 - 50 years at the rate things are "going".

 

[tortoise]

If you want to feel warm on chilly fall days, don't use a heating pad or take a hot bath! This causes your body to acclimate to hotter temperatures which leaves you feeling more cold for longer!

Instead, get cold. Think cold shower. Go outside without a sweatshirt or jacket. Your body will adjust to colder temperatures and you feel warm. Temperature acclimation takes 2 weeks.

Exercise is great for feeling warm. Cardio! Vibration, dry brushing, or lymphatic massage to increase circulation to the skin.

Then you can set your thermostat to a less expensive setting without actually feeling cold.

 

[flowerbug]

i agree with exercise being a great way to warm up. wearing more clothes and a hat indoors will help even out the cooler temperatures. in the past few years we've been keeping the house warmer than in the past (Mom feels the cold a lot more now) so i'm not as able to acclimate as much as i'd like (same for the summertime AC running more because she can't tolerate the heat as much either).

the recent weeks we've been going from cold to warm and back again so it's not been any kind of weather to acclimate to at all... this morning it is cold again then the next few days warms up and then we go back to cold again. which is ok with me - i can use a break if it rains or snows.

 

[baymule]

I layer up to go outside to do chores. When I come in, it feels hot and layers come off. I keep the thermostat set usually at 68.

 

[tortoise]

DH set the thermostat to 69. 🙄 This is the man who, when I met him, only heated one room of his house and kept it maybe 65 degrees.

I programmed the thermostat to 68 daytime, 60 nighttime.

Yesterday I bumped it down to 67 daytime. Nobody noticed. 🤷‍♀️

 

[tortoise]

Tip regarding turkey sale prices: https://www.sufficientself.com/threads/cheap-turkeys-around-thanksgiving.17303/

 

[flowerbug]

In my area the county is trimming trees and branches that are died or in the way of power lines.. I talk to them and they are more then happy to let me take what I want.. I get free mulch to add to my garden and compost also free beanches and sometimes already cut trees for you y wood stove. Might be little work but it is free..this year I got lucky they did alot of work half mile from my home.

yes! also you can sometimes get wood chips with more green stuff in them that makes for even better composting and more nutrients than just the solid core wood chips where the bark is mostly gone. it depends upon if you want them for composting or for longer lasting pathway or top mulching type applications.

 

[flowerbug]

Check for winter squash sold as decoration in mid-October. They cost much less than squash at the grocery store.

I got a red kuri, several acorn squash, and 2 spaghetti squash for $1.49 each. Spaghetti squash were $0.98/# at the grocery store and weigh 3 to 4 pounds each!

They keep for months in a cool dry place. You can toast the seeds for a human snack, or feed the seeds and guts to livestock as a treat and DIY dewormer.

if you save the seeds to replant along with sell the seeds you can probably recoup the cost many times over.