Frugal Friday ~ July 31, 2020

We received sad news this week. My daughter's first grade teacher passed away. She was only 51 years old and had a heart attack. She had spent a large part of her summer cleaning, organizing, and painting her classroom getting it ready for the new school year. 
She was always so funny and had the best personality. She came to me after Bailey, who was moving onto middle school, graduated from 5th grade to tell me she would miss me being there regularly. This is a huge loss for our small community and honestly we are just heartbroken. 

This week, as usual, we have stayed home, which is a huge money saver. My daughter has had to pay shipping to get inventory sent here, but I told her what we have saved on gas by not going to yard sales more than pays for that postage. 
In My Frugal Kitchen
We put a whiteboard on our refrigerator, so we could list whatever leftovers are in there that need eating. It will save us from food waste, which will also save money. 
I saved multiple jars this week by washing them and removing the labels. They will be stored with my other empty jars and used for another purpose when needed. 

The last of the money saving cookbooks I ordered came to me this week. This one ended up getting lost in the mail, but finally arrived. 
It's Ida Bailey Allen's Money Saving Cookbook from 1940. I've been reading it this week and it really does have good money saving recipes in it. 
I'll be sure to share them when we find and try recipes we like. 

This pair of kitchen tongs loses the parts on a regular basis even when I am cooking with them, which is frustrating. 
I finally fixed them using some Gorilla  Glue. I made sure to put the glue where it would not come in contact with any food. Hopefully this will fix that problem. 

For those that mentioned how good the Tony Chachere's was last week, we agree! I made some fried onions and potatoes this week with smoked sausage and seasoned them with the Tony's and it was very good. We will definitely be using this again. 
Gooseberry Patch has these free printables for Skillet and Slow Cooker Dinners if you're interested. 

This week I received a survey from Consumer Opinion and $5 for completing it. 

Free food for coins. A Chick-fil-A in Virginia needs your coins...badly.
For every $10 of rolled coins that customers bring in, customers will receive the same value in paper bills AND a free entree.
Why are they doing this? To avoid going cashless amid a nationwide coin shortage due.
Entertainment
This week I watched Alabama Moon for free on YouTube. It was a clean, family film, with nothing bad in it. 

This week I fixed my laptop with electrical tape.  The cord continued to fall out of the laptop, on both ends, and then it would go dead right in the middle of work, which was frustrating me.

So, like Amy Dacyczyn, I decided to fix this little problem and used electrical tape to keep it together permanently. It's worked great ever since and not fallen out again.
How has your week been?
Belinda~ Living within our Means ~My Linktree

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