Mid-Week Report

I cleaned my bedroom yesterday. It wasn't a " move the furniture  and dust underneath and behind kind of clean", but thorough enough to last the rest of this year. *laugh* I used a damp rag to clean the tops of my dressers and bedside tables after clearing everything off the surface. I purged some items into bags and boxes to take to the Thrift store. I vacuumed the floor and the corners of the room. I did not wash the Roman Blinds because I have decided I want to replace those with curtains in January. They won't be new ones but perhaps I can find something I like from the Thrift store. I must have tired myself out because I fell asleep last night while watching a program and didn't crawl out of bed until almost 9:30 this morning.

Today was a much slower kind of day. Breakfast was late and lunch was later. In fact, after speaking with my BIL from Tampa (he called me), I warmed up some leftovers from dinner last night and it was already 3:30 in the afternoon. I feel I have done nothing today; but I did vacuum some in the laundry room before the phone call.  I have been making lists......lists of goals for the New Year, lists of supplies I need to buy to do small DIY jobs around the house, and  lists of ideas for future make your own kind of gifts to share.  I have been in a quiet and reflective mood lately.  I didn't leave the house today, so therefore did not spend any money.

I have been racking my brain trying to come up with 5 frugal and fabulous ideas that I have done this past week, but I cannot think of much. Some things I do are second nature now, so I don't consider them as frugal. I guess they are, though.

• I repaired a set of bedroom drapes before hanging them. When I washed them, they split along some of the seams where the trim was attached.

• I sewed on a button that was becoming loose from a blouse I wore last week. I wanted to fix it before I lost the button.

• I cleaned using my DIY Mircle spray. I also use it on stains in the laundry.

• I save all my coffee grounds in an old coffee tin. When it is full, I apply it directly to my flower beds. I refill my reusable plastic coffee pods every morning for the Keurig machine. 

• I did a load of wash last night before going to bed and hung the clothes to dry this morning instead of using my dryer. 

There, I made it through my Fab and Frugal Five.