What did you do to save $ today?

[framing fowl]

Our apple trees were just planted last fall and we really wanted some homemade applesauce. I posted an ad on CL that I would come pick fruit trees so the fruit doesn't rot on your lawn and make a mess. Anyway, I had a lady call about 2 apple trees so I just went and picked 8 - 5 gal. buckets full. 5 of the buckets have pretty much pristine apples and then the other 3 buckets are windfalls. "Free is a very good price!"

 

[FarmerDenise]

Our apple trees were just planted last fall and we really wanted some homemade applesauce. I posted an ad on CL that I would come pick fruit trees so the fruit doesn't rot on your lawn and make a mess. Anyway, I had a lady call about 2 apple trees so I just went and picked 8 - 5 gal. buckets full. 5 of the buckets have pretty much pristine apples and then the other 3 buckets are windfalls. "Free is a very good price!"

Isn't it great when you can do that?

Those windfalls will still make good apple sauce, or apple cider vinegar.

I got free goatfood delivered yesterday. One of our neighbors was cutting back his blackberry vines. I told him he could just throw them over the fence into the goat yard, and he obliged.
Saved me a lot of time too. I was able to clean out the chicken house and yard, which provided us with free fertilizer for the garlic patch.

 

[pioneergirl]

We stayed home today. Could have gone into town to the summer parade, but not only would that have cost us in gas, but then paying for 'breakfast' or possibly other snacks at the fair. Nah, we stayed home, ate leftover casserole from last night, and my DSS learned more about my potbelly pigs as well as the horse!! A much better day if you ask me, LOL

 

[FarmerDenise]

We totally skipped the Fair this year too. We meant to go afterwards and do a "scrounge" and get haybales for cheap, but we were so busy, we forgot.

 

[beerman]

We do 90% of our food shopping on the clearance rack. My wife works at the store so she tells me when they are putting out the mark downs. Saves us a ton, the variety might not be the best but oh well

 

[pioneergirl]

Made my own bread, and stayed home!

 

[mlynd]

did some canning from my garden and stayed at home too

 

[FarmerDenise]

I am making soap today. I don't make it from scratch. I got soap making kits for next to nothing at out Goodwill outlet store and save all the little ends of soap. We also get hotel soaps from the in-laws. I spend an evening in front of the tv, cutting it all up into little bits and added calendula petals I saved last summer. Now it is sitting in the crockpot heating up. I decided to use the crock pot since I am very busy today and don't want to stand at the stove watching it.

Next I am making tea to put in the fridge for us to drink instead of juice.

 

[FarmerDenise]

Made 4 loaves of bread from scratch. One loaf will be tonight's dinner along with a huge salad from the garden.

Traded a box of produce for a bale of hay.

 

[big brown horse]

Picked up a sweet "Circle Y" brand saddle with a few minor scuffs for $75 at a yard sale today. (They wanted $80.)

The tree is fine and it is a perfect fit for my daughter's rear end and her horse.

these are new, but you get the idea
http://search.store.yahoo.net/thesaddleshop/cgi-bin/nsearch?query=circle+y&catalog=thesaddleshop

This is the second western saddle I got from a yard sale for way cheap. My other one is an old, heavy duty "Herford Tex Tan" roper with perfect white leather buck-stitching and a beautiful tooled horse head on each fender...I also got it for under $100. (Its estimated value was well over $500 at the time.)

(We rode all afternoon, cheap entertainment.)

used tex tans:
http://www.horsesaddleshop.com/textan.html