What did you do to save $ today?

[kcsunshine]

Actually spent money to save money. I installed a wood heater with a nice flat top that will not only save electricity in heat usage, but in cooking. My mom cooked on one for years, but not me - thanks for the horseshoe tip, free.

 

[tortoise]

I killed and butchered a squirrel. I would call it free meat, but the fat little thing had been raiding my duck's feed, so I had been paying to fatten it up

 

[Henrietta23]

Ordered seeds for the expanded veggie garden. While I feel like I spent a LOT, I will hopefully have a successful garden and be able to can and freeze some, as well as save on fresh veggie purchases down the road. That is what I'm telling DH anyway. Oh, and I save by taking off two of the seed types on my order before I made the purchase. They were impulses and I decided if I really want and have space for those I'll look for plants later on.

 

[Wannabefree]

WZ this song is for you... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nlnWfXe5LA

I too murdered a squirrel yesterday, actually BF Goodrich and stupid sqirrel brains did, but I hit the little kamikaze full double thud, but I swear he wanted me too! I could see it in his little beady eyes when he run to the middle of the road and stopped!

I saved money by working late tonight. I just got home a few minutes ago

 

[Bethanial]

REALLY

Reminds me of that one car insurance commercial where the squirrel runs out in front of the car (or was it a deer? or both?), the car goes into a skid and hits a tree, and then the critters do a high five on the other side of the road.

Squirrels are MEAN! Place we used to live at had this huge oak tree in the yard. We would frequently bbq/hang out/etc with the neighbors there (military housing, shared yard). I swear, those squirrels would aim with those stinkin' acorns! We'd be chatting under the tree, and bam! a little acorn grenade would smack one of us on the head. We'd move, and so would the squirrels!

 

[AnnaRaven]

I started a price book so I know how much stuff I'm buying costs at different stores.

 

[AnnaRaven]

Today, I pulled out the dehydrator and filled it with sliced potatoes. Potatoes always go bad on me before they get used up, so this way, I can keep them and not have them spoil.

 

[Rhettsgreygal]

Today, I pulled out the dehydrator and filled it with sliced potatoes. Potatoes always go bad on me before they get used up, so this way, I can keep them and not have them spoil.

Anna,

Do you blanch them first?

Annette

 

[AnnaRaven]

Yep. I slice them (with my mandoline so it's really fast) and then blanch them.

Any that don't fit into the dehydrator went into the freezer or into dinner.

 

[freemotion]

Continuing to get those hogs butchered and processed. Saved a couple hundred or more at the butcher's by doing it ourselves. I have fat rendering for lard in the oven now and a pot of misc. meaty bones on the stove, simmering overnight for broth and soup meat. Got 9 pints of lard so far! Got another half a bucket of bones to make more broth later, too, not to mention 8 hocks/shanks in the freezer for later.

We are sending the bacon out. I will make the salt pork and the corned ribs. And the liverwurst, head cheese, and cretons.

This is a first for me and it is a blast. I feel rich!