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  • Unintentional Bulk Cooking

    Silly since I’m striving to live a more intentional life. Sometimes circumstances call for extreme measures!  Several days ago, I made a huge grocery trip to Sprout’s, where I purchased large quanities of {expensive} organic grassfed beef in the form of stew meat, ground and sirloin steaks.  I asked Jake to put all the meat…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 10

    Lucky #10! 😀 I spent not a cent today, although my oldest daughter did her best to persuade me to make a trip to Dairy Queen/Orange Julius tonight!  As yummy as an Orange Julius sounded (amazingly to me I prefer those over ice cream!) I held on and refused to go.  It’s rainy anyway…not a good…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 9

    Dairy Queen – $15.17 Home Depot – $78 (paint, painting supplies, light bulbs) I’m trying to think I really should have just called this a “low-spend” month.  I’m really trying hard not to spend on things that aren’t a true NEED but I’m having trouble balancing being frugal, being practical and having fun.   *sigh*   Like the…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 8

    Grocery shopping @ Trader Joe’s – $154 (yes, I was going to wait till Monday to shop but I was close to TJ’s and didn’t want to make another trip back…) **brings January’s running grocery total to $446 and we are again out of milk…saving grace is that I have enough meat and veggies on hand…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 7

    An easy day not to spend frivolously, until dinner time at least!  I had a chorus rehearsal from 12-3pm, so that kept me busy.  Once back home, Katie and Dakota had a trial tumbling class at 5pm.  That cost me $183 because I registered them both for a month of tumbling and signed Katie up…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 6

    Well…not a bad day all in all.  Not a great day but not too bad. $25 for lunch with hubby–something we plan for weekly and consider a necessity.  $8 for frozen yogurt.  Eh, could have gone without but hubby really wanted it. 🙂  $8 at QT for some water, some cashews and a bag of gummy…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 5

    I’m on a roll!  Tee hee!! I almost ordered from OldNavy.com and backed out at the last minute! I almost placed a produce order for next week even though I have tons of produce already. I spent $25 on milk (we buy organic…Shamrock Farms’ 96oz containers are $3.68 at Wal-Mart and by far the best…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 4

    I did pretty well today!  I had a planned grocery trip (Sprout’s), during which I really only bought groceries.  I spent $225 (wanted to stay at $200 or less….bah) and bought a LOT of beef (mostly organic, grassfed) and some turkey breast filets.  I also purchased quinoa and some quinoa pasta (Dax is really into pasta…

  • Low-Spend January: Day 3

    Technically, I didn’t spend anything that wasn’t a NEED today!  Go me!  I did buy sour cream and cheese for dinner, but since we’re eating primal again for the first time in months and quinoa, black beans and chicken wouldn’t have been very yummy (or fatty enough) without the cheese and sour cream, I authorized it…

  • Getting things done!

    One of my goals for 2013 (resolutions are too easy to break, in my opinion) is to make progress on the house every day.  We moved in August and I’m still not completely unpacked and organized.  The schoolroom and my master bedroom have turned into dumping grounds for all the miscellany I haven’t figured out…