What did you do to save $ today?

[FarmerDenise]

For lunch I made chicken livers with onions on sour dough bread. The livers were from the chickens we raised and butchered, the onion - from the garden, the bread - from a friend I visited yesterday, she got it from another friend who scored a big box for free. This is the good expensive artisan kind of bread. My friend has a bread slicer and cut it all up for me too. So I can freeze it in smaller portions.
She is a scrounger also and we often exchange what we scrounged.

 

[freemotion]

I bought a buck today. For $100, I can breed as many of my does as I please (maybe three of the four, two for sure) and then sell or give the buck away and still be ahead of the game. Plan on keeping him for about three months, so feed will be cheap, too. I am still feeding hay I cut from my own field, so my feed bills are low this year. And it was a rainy year, too!

The one doe that I won't breed was flagging her tail at him from the moment he set foot on our property! Poor little hussy!

 

[big brown horse]

for you freemotion!!

 

[freemotion]

I just came in from milking and snuggling with the girls and Te'a was STILL out behind the barn, all by herself in the dark, flagging her tail and baa'ing at the buckling. Well, a girl can dream. She is not on his list. Too old and we love her too much to risk it!

 

[Dixiedoodle]

I didn't spend money on anything today! I am trying to make it to the first of the month (a personal goal) before I purchase anything. Staying out of the stores more, seems to prevent me from buying things on a 'whim'... I am determined to keep my spending down. Even at the groc. store, I find myself--spending money on whim items or junk food that we don't need...

 

[me&thegals]

I got 6 enormous butternut squash (20+ lb?) for only $6! Even with my huge gardens for CSA, my butternuts did nothing this year and it was fun to get so much squash for so little $.

 

[freemotion]

I ran into the grocery store to buy a beet or two for beet kvass and they didn't have any (surprise, surprise....no one cooks anymore! ) and I came out of that store empty-handed! No impulse buys! Even in the produce section!!!!

I chatted with the farmer next door and asked if I could buy some of his leftover pumpkins or some seconds for my goats. He said he would drop off THREE of those gigantic boxes on pallets in my driveway this weekend..... for FREE!!!! He is closing on Friday (for pumpkins....will re-open for xmas trees, etc, soon) and needs to get all the pumpkins out right away or the kids will come in and smash them and do other damage to the farm store. So I imagine they will be in my driveway Saturday morning. I'll have to get them inside before the sun goes down!!! Will post about that on BBH's exercise thread...

 

[me&thegals]

For Pete's sake, not even 1 single beet?!? What an incredible deal on the pumpkins, though!! My chickens would love them

 

[freemotion]

I will be feeding those pumpkins in a fast and furious manner so that none go to waste! Chickens, turkeys, goats.......cats and dogs! Yup, lots will go into the catfood, which I will start this week, I hope to get the whole year's worth done by the end of this year. I will freeze up some for us and some to add to the dogs' twice-weekly "veggie day" meals. And will cook some on the woodstove for the hens and the goats, some raw for the goats, too. Woo-hoo!!!! Next year, I will get brave and ask him for the ears of corn that they strip off the stalks that they sell for fall decorating. I'm pretty sure they just toss them.

eta: oh, there were two bunches of tiny, dry-ish looking beets with the leaves on, at an outrageous price. I can wait until I get to the store one town over and buy one big beet for .69 per lb. I want to make kvass for the goats who are on the list to be bred, and some for the buck. Here's to twins!

 

[PunkinPeep]

Jars Jars Jars!

I had $5 to burn and decided to visit the Senior Center in my town - which happens to be the only resale shop within a short distance. I was just about to leave without buying anything, and then under the clothes, all the way at the end of the rack, i saw canning jars!!!

There was one collection of 19 jars that were marked $2. But there were two more boxes right next to them with no price tag. The nice ladies there let me take home the whole collection for $4.00! That's 3 dozen, mostly quart sized - or large size Classico spaghetti sauce jars - with a few smaller jelly jars and one that is the old style and needs the little clamp mechanism (i'll probably just use that for something other than canning).

But i'm so excited! I had just gotten a new shelf for all my canning jars; now i have to figure out where to put these!

These are good problems!

I couldn't wait to get home and post here!