What did you do to save $ today?

[Boogity]

I made 5 gallons of laundry soap yesterday. I am selling some of it, and it will pay for ordering more supplies, so I'm happy with free laundry soap for a while

How are you selling homebrew soap? Are you a vendor at a market somewhere? Do you have a method of getting the word out to perspective customers? I'm just curious because I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy homemade laundry soap. I admire your ability to sell things.

 

[Wannabefree]

I made 5 gallons of laundry soap yesterday. I am selling some of it, and it will pay for ordering more supplies, so I'm happy with free laundry soap for a while

How are you selling homebrew soap? Are you a vendor at a market somewhere? Do you have a method of getting the word out to perspective customers? I'm just curious because I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy homemade laundry soap. I admire your ability to sell things.

My friends and family love it. They just don't wanna MAKE it. They still can get it cheaper from me than from the stores, so we help each other out My husband jokes that I could sell ice water to eskimos I don't really try to sell stuff though, just ask for a bit of reimbursement for my time and ingredients if folks want the goods I just make enough change off of it to get free soap supplies out of the deal, and everyone is happy I mean, it's not any trouble to triple a batch I am already making...takes a few seconds more to measure and that's it, so I don't mind at all. These are folks I see all the time anyway, so I usually drop it off, which sweetens the deal for them because it gets delivered and they don't have to haul it from the store. It pretty much sells itself that way.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

I do the laundry detergent (liquid) but never sold any, although I have given some to my sister n law to try and I think my sister. My sister wants to be here when I make my next batch and I have my family saving their empty detergent bottles for me to re-fill for my own use, but if I can determine that a few of them like home-made detergent, I can see nothing wrong with me getting brother to buy me the washing soda, sister to buy me the borax and parents to give me a bar of soap.
Think I will use the 2 wimpy bottles my sister gave me to fill as samples....just to see if they like it. It costs me so little to make that I can afford to do that to turn them on to the idea.

 

[savingdogs]

I make the laundry soap too and give it to family but they all think there is "too much" to make themselves. I do about two or three loads of laundry a day so it is so cost effective for me.....it is silly NOT to be making my own. I think my washer works better too.

But my thing I did to save money, yesterday I made my famous clean-out-the-refridgerator-soup, which basically calls for a chicken soup like base and then dumping every rubbery or unpopular veggie and side and what not into the mix. Then I made some bread sticks to go with it and it was a huge hit! Then I froze what was left in a container for another dinner. So all those foods ready to be tossed to the chickens in a day or so were used instead.

 

[Wannabefree]

I only started charging for the laundry soap when EVERYBODY wanted it. My mom tried it, and let her sisters try it, and they let ther kids(my cousins) try it, and well...now everybody wants it and nobody wants to make it

 

[Marianne]

Made 3 qts of the best Greek yogurt ever! It's almost as thick as spreadable cream cheese. Ate too much of it and still want more.

Bone broth cooling now from the 30 pounds of pork necks I bought a couple days ago.

Did some touch up mudding in the upstairs bathroom and started architectural plastering in large front hallway. Fought occasional pangs of envy as a friend hired a crew to hang drywall and mud all of it - entire new house...done in just days whereas this is taking me for-ev-er. I had to remind myself it's either DIY or PAY.

I don't like the envy thing. Usually don't have it, so I don't know why it hit me like it did! Oh vey...

 

[Wannabefree]

I picked all my carrots. A vine was taking them over and smothering them, so I went ahead and harvested them early. I got 2 pounds of baby carrots for a 25 cent investment, not too bad

 

[dragonlaurel]

I know this might not seem like as big a deal to other people, but it's incredible for me.
I'm allergic to peanuts and most commercially made nuts, and seeds are high risk for exposure to peanut products. Walgreens discontinued the only brand of sunflower seeds that I knew was "safe" about it- so I was Not a happy camper.

I planted some sunflowers in my community garden bed but didn't have room for many. They had a bunch more sunflowers planted in the public " pretty area". Somebody ripped out the sunflower plants from the public beds today.
They were sitting piled sky high on top of the compost pile so I clipped all the mature flower heads off and took them home. I'm gonna pull them out myself and have lots of sunflower seeds this year for FREE ! Instead of paying 3 bucks each for 8 oz bags of them.
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Since I filled 2 cloth shopping totes with flower heads- that's gonna be lots of free, safe sunflower seeds.

 

[freemotion]

I sent my does into the woods today and yesterday to forage. I worked in the nearby garden to keep an eye on them, and put them out there about an hour before milking so they wouldn't go too far. The didn't. They all came in to chew cuds in about 30-45 minutes, full of good, free stuff. Only one minor scratch on a teat yesterday, and I think she learned to be careful today.

 

[dragonlaurel]

Free- Wish I had goats. I know of a nice patch of poison ivy they could snack on.