Quick update to October Shopping

Shopper's Drug Mart........$50.00

This is a quick update to yesterday's post. My husband was going to Amerstview to pick up prescriptions for all three of us, so I asked him to buy a Shopper's gift card. When you buy a store gift card, you get points for what you pay, as well as points for the merchandise that you buy with the card. (kind of like double-dipping) Anyways, I asked him to pick up milk  ($3.97 regular price), one can of mushroom soup for 79 cents (on sale, but not a huge sale, so only one can) and two jars of instant coffee. The frugal fail was my not paying attention to the flyer. He paid $3.49 each for the Maxwell House, but if I had sent him in one day later, it would have only cost $2.99 each. The sale flyer announced clearly that it was a 2-day sale, but only on Sunday and Monday. It is still a sale price, but not the price I wanted. Lesson learned. The total came to 11.74

There was still $1.22 left on last month's card and 10.52 taken off this new card, so there is $39.48 left on the card for bread and milk and ??? for this month of October.  So far, I have spent $97.99 of my $300 food budget. 

In my kitchen I have four of these old track light fixtures that I love. They are directional so I can have light directed to my main working areas. However, three of the four compact fluorescent bulbs are gone. Before I change out the bulbs I wanted to wash the dust and sticky ugly kitchen grease off the fixtures. That took some time, but now that it is done, it feels so good. I will be able to see what I am doing now. Ha. 

On Friday night, we "entertained" our son's girl friend again. I had to clean off the "crafting table" again. I used one of those eye of round roasts that I picked up for dirt cheap and cooked  in a slow oven most of the day. It was fan-ta-bulous. I will see about picking up some more if I can. I cooked the roast because my free  turkey had not thawed yet. So yesterday, turkey is what we had for dinner, using up 3 packages (15 cups) of bread cubes from my freezer to make the stuffing. That is why I had to have the celery this weekend. We will have another turkey dinner tonight, but I have already cleaned the rest of the meat from the carcass and frozen it. I have also frozen the carcass to make turkey soup one day....but not this week. This coming weekend is our Canadian Thanksgiving and we are going for turkey supper at Charleston Lake on Sunday, and one in Smith Falls on Thanksgiving Monday. Good thing we love turkey. And good thing we have friends and family who are willing to feed us. 

This weekend I have washed, line dried and folded three super loads of laundry. 

I have made more laundry detergent, Miracle Spray Cleaner and Dog Biscuits.

I brought in most of my green tomatoes. I'm afraid one of these nights we will have frost. I also brought in my three tiny green peppers that did not do well this year. And can you believe it? I harvested more green and purple beans. 

Last night I attended a fund-raising concert with three of my friends. It was a trio of female vocalists who also played keyboard and guitar, and they performed in one of the local churches. Beautiful music soothes the soul. Hope your weekend was grand.