What did you do to save $ today?
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deb4o
Lovin' The Homestead
today was one of the stores in towns annual cereal sale, they put general mills cereals on sale for 1.79 a box. Then I had been saving my cereal coupons for over a month, with using them it brought down the price to 1.37 a box. The best part was when I checked out, I got 3 other coupons,so of course after work I went back and pick what I needed to use those coupons,got those boxes for 1.45.Saved over 3.00 a box. We now have enough cereal for a year and all for under a total of 35.00
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I used the last little bit of our peaches, ugly ones too, to make baby food. I added a little bit of lemon juice and organic succanat, because these peaches were a little bland. After cutting them up and cooking them a little bit, I used a blender to mush them up into sauce and canned them in 1/2 pint jelly jars. For now we will use fresh fruit to make baby's food, but sometimes it is nice to have something ready made. I ended up with a total of 11 jars. Compare that to a jar or organic store bought baby food at $1.00 per jar and thosee jars are much smaller!
Marianne
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I got a gallon of goat milk from our neighbor for free! I gave her a sack of potatoes from our garden. She spotted a stock tank we weren't using, asked to buy it, but I said she could just have it, plus threw in a short roll of really heavy fencing that we didn't need, too.
Know what's better than owning a tractor? A good neighbor that has a tractor. He's coming over this weekend to mow our back field for nothing. Woo hoo!
Know what's better than owning a tractor? A good neighbor that has a tractor. He's coming over this weekend to mow our back field for nothing. Woo hoo!
savingdogs
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Having a good neighbor can save you LOTS of money. We keep one neighbor stocked with eggs, they are selling us our wood this year super super cheap. We share a well with these folks too. Great neighbors are worth their weight in gold.
moxies_chickennuggets
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Hmmm..a nice surprise. We harvested our sweet potatoes today. Got about 25 pounds maybe. I took 4 nice ones to the next door neighbors. Really sweet people, a couple in their 70's. She turned around and gave me 2 dozen fresh laid eggs from her chickens. It's so nice to have good neighbors. 
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
You are so right.savingdogs said:
I came home just now and a neighbor was chatting with SO, he had brought over the paper, which he does every day, so we do't have to buy it and a pair pair of jeans for me, that he got at a bargain store for $1.
I went to Borders. Their books are now at 80% off. I found two books to bring home. "Farewell my Subaru" and "Foxfire 40th Anniversary" book. Both having to do with living off the land. I saved $26. paid $7 for both of them. Hopefully I will also find a bit of wisdom in them that will save me even more money
... or should I say, recoup the money I spent on the books.
freemotion
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Took my foraging pail with me when walking the dogs tonight and came home with a bit more than a gallon of wild grapes. I'll be going back to that spot with a step stool for more, maybe tomorrow.
I felt like eating out tonight. But we didn't budget that sort of thing, so we stayed home and had a good meal here. Cost was about 1 $ per person. Otherwise, it would probably have set me back 20 (for McMeals) or 40 (for better fare). Pretty much forgot about going out by the time I started going through the motions in the kitchen.
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I had about 1/2 hour to kill before milking the goat and all othr animal/outside chores were done. I decided to grab sveral small containers and gather seeds. We often let plants go to seed. I gathered cilantro/coriander, beet, swiss chard, garlic, peas. Earlier I packaged and labeled seeds I hd gathered a week ago: parsley, red cabbage and millet.
s I harvest our fruit of the garden, I save the seed from the best. I scoop it out and place it on a paper towel to dry. I immediately label the paper towel, so I know exactly what kind of seed it is. If I get rushed later in the fall, I can just grab the paper towel and put it in a baggy, since it is already labeled.
The labels state whatever I want, so I can identify the seed. For instance, I have a package sitting on my desk. It reads: Red Apple, Pine Hill Road, 2010. I know this is seed from the apple tree above my parents house that we discovered last year.
I love using our own seed or seed I got from friends and family an seeing how it turns out. Usually our own seeds do better for us.
s I harvest our fruit of the garden, I save the seed from the best. I scoop it out and place it on a paper towel to dry. I immediately label the paper towel, so I know exactly what kind of seed it is. If I get rushed later in the fall, I can just grab the paper towel and put it in a baggy, since it is already labeled.
The labels state whatever I want, so I can identify the seed. For instance, I have a package sitting on my desk. It reads: Red Apple, Pine Hill Road, 2010. I know this is seed from the apple tree above my parents house that we discovered last year.
I love using our own seed or seed I got from friends and family an seeing how it turns out. Usually our own seeds do better for us.
