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How saving a penny, nearly cost me hundreds of dollars.

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If you’ve been here awhile, you know I am very frugal.  You also know that I have a very difficult time throwing away things in the garbage that I don’t believe are actual garbage. Even when they are.

We recycle everything in our house that can be recycled.  We’ve also upgraded some things so that we don’t have to recycle others.  Like water bottles.  We installed an under the sink water filter and dispenser about a year and half ago and we love it.  It has saved us over $500 each year in disposable water bottles and will until it dies and needs to be replaced.

I hate throwing money away and will find a way to circumvent it when I can.  So to throw actual money away is abhorrent to my mind.

When I was cleaning our laundry room a couple of weeks ago, I found a bunch of change in a tray that I had stashed on a shelf.  Quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.  I think it added up to about two dollars and some change.  But it was all that weird green color that change money turns when it gets wet, and rough and scaly.  You know what I mean?  I wasn’t about to throw it away, it was money.  So I brought it upstairs and scrubbed it all with my kitchen scrubby.  Almost all of it came clean, except for a couple of the pennies.  So I ran some warm water into a bowl with dish soap and set it aside to soak.  I have no idea why I thought that this would work.   I mean the entire reason they were in the condition they were in in the first place was because they had been wet. 😕

A few hours went by and I started to load the dishwasher.  You know where this is going, right?  I’m scraping everything into the sink for the garbage disposal, rinsing and loading everything up and I completely forgot about those pennies.  Until I turned the garbage disposal on.  If you have a garbage disposal you know how fast your reflexes are.  It took me approximately 0.0000000001 second to turn it back off.  But that was enough time for the stupid thing to try to eat the penny.

Yes, I know that the disposal is not at fault here.  It was my ridiculousness that caused this catastrophe.  It was a penny for crying out loud.  But I just couldn’t put it in the garbage.  However, I also should not have put it somewhere that it was a given that I would do something like this.  Know thyself.  I do.  I seriously do.  I could have predicted this and I still did it.  Sigh.

Do you know how much a garbage disposal costs?  One exactly like ours was over $300.00. Yeah.  Fun times.  After discovering that little bit of information, I increased my efforts in vain trying to get that blasted penny out.  The last time I managed to feed something to my disposal (I’m giving myself a headache rolling my eyes) I discovered that you can use the key that comes with it to turn it from underneath to UNJAM things.  See!  They built these things with people like me in mind.  Well, that didn’t work this time.  It was jammed in there to stay.

When Denton came home from work I showed him my dilemma and he poked around in there for about 8 seconds and out came the penny.  Can you believe that?penny, garbage disposal

I told him that it was because I loosened it for him.  Look at the grind mark on that thing.  And soaking them did not save them from the crud that is eating into them. Imagine that.

All of that to say:  Note to self, Tracie:  do not do something this idiotic again.  No worries, next time it will be a completely new to me idiotic thing…..

How saving a penny, nearly cost me hundreds of dollars

Projects and more projects 05.12.20

Projects and more projects 05.12.20


Are you working on long overdue projects at your house?  When I can motivate myself, I am.  This extra room in our house has had many, many purposes over the past twelve years that we’ve lived here.  I had thought that I would turn it into an extra bedroom, which is probably what we will make it before we ever sell our house sometime in the nebulous future.  But right now, I am giving it over to Liv as a studio space.  

As you can see:  it needs some help.  For the past six months I have been cramming Christmas stuff here.  I didn’t want all of my Christmas stuff to go back into the attic, because Denton and I have many “conversations” over it when I need it around Christmas time.  Our attic access isn’t one of those handy dandy, pull down jobs.  Oh no, the builders of our house, along with all of the others in our neighborhood thought it would be better to have to drag a giant ladder from the garage every time you needed to find something you have stored up there.  Sigh.

This past Christmas I informed Denton that he didn’t need to cart everything back up into the attic, which he was very pleased about.  Instead, I am taking over our Harry Potter closet.  Which has been a black hole of random things for more than a decade.  I have been putting this task off for MONTHS.  Would you like to guess how long it took me to empty the Harry Potter closet?  Thirty nine minutes.  My life if ridiculous.  I just knew it was going to take me days, to pull everything out of there and find a new home for it.

In actuality, it took a mere 39 minutes.  Crazy town.  That’s where I live.  The shelves are going to go serve their purpose in my laundry room, which will be another project, the guitar cases went to live in the den.  Denton hasn’t notice yet. 🙂   Most of the other things just needed to be recycled.  Do you keep your boxes from things you’ve bought, just in case you need to move and you’ll need the box?  Example:  Our router and a drum kit seat.  I called Denton at work and asked him that if we needed to move tomorrow would we need the box that our two year old router came in?  No and no.  Problem solved.

I love my vacuum.  Another inanimate object that has my devotion, because it does what it is supposed to do.  After emptying out the Harry Potter closet, I vacuumed it out and declared it sufficient.  You will see later that I should have mopped it too, but I will tackle that task at Christmas when I take all of this stuff out to determine what I am keeping and what is going to grace someone else’s home.  I would have decluttered it now, but my Salvation Army isn’t taking anything right now, so I decided if it all fit, it would be decluttered at Christmas this year.

Then I started on the extra room.  I started making piles of like things.  Such as:  478 empty boxes.  I have been keeping them so that when I finally get up the energy to list things in my Etsy shop I won’t have to shell out money for them at the post office.  But they can’t live in this room anymore.

I started carting Christmas stuff into the closet…..

And it all fit!  With room to grow!  hahahaha. Now that the Christmas stuff is out of the spare room, Liv and I can start assembling her studio, which will free up a LOT of room in her bedroom.  Does your house go through transformations like mine does?  When one space isn’t working anymore, we just shift and change and make it into what works for us at the time.  I wish I could go with the flow in my everyday life, like I do with shifting my furniture around!

I hope that your projects are going smoothly!  Stay safe and healthy!  You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.


What are you working on right now?

Projects

Projects and more projects

Projects and more projects


When I can motivate myself these days, I am slowly going through my giant list of “to-do’s” and crossing some of them off.  Simple things that don’t actually take much of my brain power, because, I need all of my brain power to get from waking up to bedtime.  You understand.  Everyones new normal.  So here’s what I have accomplished lately.

I dragged a shelf that I had in the garage out and put a couple of couple of screws in my laundry room wall and – VOILA!  Now my laundry detergent can stop falling off of the dryer each time I do laundry.

Don’t you love my Clorox bottle?  I found that little gem at a thrift store for $0.95 about a century ago.  Sigh.  I miss finding gems at the thrift stores.

I also found this lovely basket there too at some point in the past and it holds my wool dryer balls.  I love those things.  The basket is hand painted and adorable.  Please ignore the hair.  My hair is everywhere.  I’m sorry that you have to see that.  But, it’s a reality here in my house.  Sorry again.

I have been in the process of switching out Liv’s dresser in her bedroom for what feels like 700 years.  It’s almost ready.

I had to look back in my phone to see when I bought this beauty.  It was February 10th.  Long, long ago.  As I normally do, when I spotted this gorgeous specimen, I immediately sent a photo to Liv and said “Yes or no”.  She immediately said “Yes.”  And then I called Denton and said I need you to meet me at the Salvation Army…..He was not pleased.  As usual.  Hahahaha.  $30.00 for a solid wood, lovely dresser that has beautiful handles, that she and I loved at first sight.  Oh yes.  He came right over.  It is missing a small piece of veneer that you can see below, that I will replace later when I can actually go into a store and find some that will match.  In the meantime, we don’t care that it’s missing.

I also replaced another light fixture in my downstairs hallway.

I had found the one I wanted to put up down there a couple of years ago for $3.99 and just put it in the garage until I had a few minutes to take the other one down.  And then I forgot about it.  The other one worked, I just liked the new to me linen one that I found on one of my hunts a lot more.

Man, I need to take the vacuum to my ceiling downstairs…..Or we can just call it “Antique lace” like Hayden and Liv’s Aunty Crystal does and move on…… And that’s what I’ve actually gotten accomplished over the last couple of weeks.  I have other projects I’m working on right now, and as soon as I get them completed I’ll show you here!

Stay safe and healthy!  You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.

What are you working on right now?

Projects

Projects and more projects

How are you passing the gift of all of this time?  That’s how I am choosing to look at this.  A gift.  A gift that I should use to get all of the un-done projects completed at my house that have been waiting in the wings for way too long.

When I can keep my mind from wandering that is.  That happens a LOT.  I’ll start one teeny tiny project, see something else that needs to be done right NOW, and switch over to that.  So, I am making lists for myself.

It works sometimes. 😀   Here are some of the ones that I have actually gotten done so far!

I decided that I needed to get that one last piece of the landing in place so that I could put the trim back up.  There was a reason I had been putting it off….It took me almost two and a half hours to get that last piece cut to the proper width.  The length wasn’t a problem.  But its done!  Yay!  Don’t look at the stairs, just don’t.  It’s on the list.  While I had the paint out, I thought to myself, I should get that small bookcase painted.  I had bought it ages, and ages ago.  I think I may have paid around $3 for it, more than likely because it looked so bad. Liv wandered through about the time I started to paint and asked, Don’t you need to clean that thing first?  And I told her, This has been cleaned!  Pitiful little thing.

I had the perfect spot for it outside my kitchen where I had been piling my number one “to be read” stack of books, a la Martha Stewart style.  It always looks so much better at her house, doesn’t it? It’s amazing what a coat of paint can do.I’ve had one hook outside my shower for years now.  And I constantly put way too many things on it.I’ve also had these two cute ostrich head hooks floating around my house for a couple of years now with no real purpose.  Now they have a purpose…And my shower hook isn’t overloaded anymore.  This project took approximately 49 seconds to accomplish.  Sigh.

Last but not least.My dresser.  You’ll have to use your imagination and “see” this poor thing piled as high as the sky with clothes, random bits of things that did not even belong in our bedroom, because either I forgot to take a before or I deleted it by accident.  It wasn’t pretty.I have been resisting doing this project, because I knew I needed to take EVERYTHING out and do a major purge of all the things.  I hesitate to do things KonMari style because I get so overwhelmed with how much stuff I still have.  And probably do NOT need.  But I set aside an entire day and worked drawer by drawer.I LOVE having my t-shirts folded this way.  It’s so easy to see what I have and what I don’t.  I’m also going to try this with my pajamas too and I’ll let you know how it goes.I took out everything, and anything that said NO way am I ever putting you on my body again, went into a bag to dealt with another day.  Everything else needed a designated drawer or things like swimsuits that I only wear once a year went into a basket to live on the top shelf of my closet.  Why in the world I was letting them take up space in my drawers is beyond my comprehension. It was a long, tedious day, with many, many breaks for my mental health, but at the end of it all my bed was clear and everything was put away where it belongs.  Also yes, that IS another “to be read” pile of books!  Which is another project to add to my ever expanding list, because this pile drives me bonkers.  It was a great idea at the time, but I constantly knock them off and have to pick them up again.Another project I need to check with my Mama about.  I want to change out the pulls on this dresser, but I don’t know which ones are the originals on this piece.  It was my Mama’s Mother’s dresser and it has two different styles of pulls.  Wooden ones and metal pulls on the bottom drawer.

Another side note:  don’t you love my monkey?  He is quite ancient.  My cousin who is almost twenty years older than I am gave it to me when I was about two years old.  Thank you Johnny Ray for that sweet gift, he has been well loved.

Well, that’s it for my week and the projects.  The best part about all of these projects is that I had everything on hand to get them done.  Mostly my time.  Are you working on projects during this time of isolation?  If I can just stay on track, I may get quite a lot more accomplished!  Good luck to us all.

You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.

Stay safe.  Tracie

Five Frugal Things

Every week I do certain frugal things that I know will save our family money. But it’s always surprising to me when I mention one of them to a friend and they are shocked. So let’s talk about some of those things and you can decide if they are completely bonkers or if I am an absolute genius. And then you can tell me what you do to save money every week and we will all win. Right? Right.


  1.  Pickup.  We picked up the vanity for the kids bathroom ourselves.  Savings:  $100.00  Here’s the thing.  I used this app to check out what the fuel would cost for us to pick it up, because they wouldn’t bring it in the house.  The $100.00 would be to drop it in my driveway.  It cost us $6.47 to drive there and back and they loaded it into the back of my Pilot.  Then Denton and I very carefully put it into the garage until after Thanksgiving, when hopefully I’ll have time to tile the bathroom.
  2. CVS.  I used some of my CVS Extra Care Bucks to buy Christmas presents.  I can’t tell you what they are because some of my family reads this blog, but it was a crazy good deal!
  3. Christmas Bags.  I reused some leftover Christmas bags from last year to “wrap” Christmas presents for my family.  We have Christmas at Thanksgiving with my family.
  4. Eating out.  We didn’t eat out every night!  This was an accomplishment all in of itself.  It was very, VERY tempting.  We had Chinese on Saturday night, but the rest of the week I either cooked or it was find what you can.
  5. I didn’t buy this house.  I wanted to, but I restrained myself.  Houses are my weakness.  If Denton would let me, I would buy a new one every week….

P.S.  I want that attic room for my own private reading library.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.

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Five Frugal Things

Five Frugal Things

Every week I do certain frugal things that I know will save our family money.  But it’s always surprising to me when I mention one of them to a friend and they are shocked.  So let’s talk about some of those things and you can decide if they are completely bonkers or if I am an absolute genius.  And then you can tell me what you do to save money every week and we will all win.  Right?  Right.


  1.   I cut everyone’s hair at home.  This is something that I’ve done for YEARS now.  I learned to cut Denton’s hair when we first got married, but he usually cuts his own hair now.  I’ve done Hayden’s since he was around seven and wouldn’t stop crying because none of the hairstylists could cut his hair they way he wanted.  For the past decade I’ve given him a “Peaky Blinders” haircut.  Long before we even knew who the peaky blinders were….Liv gets pretty much the same haircut, but with slight alterations.  How much is a haircut now anyway?  I use these scissors and these clippers.  Both are awesome.

    Peaky Blinders
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  2. We gutted the kids bathroom ourselves instead of hiring it out.  This has been on our to-do list for a few years now.  But we were in crisis mode now, the vanity needs to be replaced pronto.  The builders of our house are crazy people.  I need to do a completely separate post about this, but just a couple of the weirdo things we found when we started ripping out the old bathroom:  the return air vent in our house is open.  Just…..open.  Not in ducting through this room at all.  I suppose they assumed the bathtub surround would suffice?  Also when they installed the tub they put one of those twist up renuzit air fresheners underneath the tub.  Open.  Crazytown.
  3. Aldi Pizzas.  When Liva and I went into the city for the second time last week, we stopped at Aldi (remember it’s a three hour round trip from our house) to get cheap yummy veggies, cheese and other delicious things and we bought two of Aldi’s pizzas to take home for supper.  Instead of swinging by Papa John’s which is normal for us and would have cost four times as much.  We actually really liked the five cheese pizza, but we thought that the pepperoni and sausage was waaaay too salty.
  4. Makeup pouch.  I needed a small zippered pouch to keep my planner supplies in that wouldn’t take up much room in my car bag, so I immediately started looking for one at one of my local thrift stores.  They sell small makeup bags for $1.00.  I bought the one below because it had multiple zippered sections  that I could put different things in and when I got it home I discovered that it had a surprise inside.  This little lovely is not a makeup pouch.  It’s a portable power bank:  IE a portable phone charger.  So not only did I get the perfect sized pouch for my pens and washi tape for a $1.00, but now we have a portable iPhone charger to boot.  WIN!
  5. I didn’t buy this house.  I wanted to, but I restrained myself.  Houses are my weakness.  If Denton would let me, I would buy a new one every week….$4,559,000 6bed4.5+bath5,953sqft0.65acres lot 43223 Calle Dolorosa, Fremont, CA 94539Note:  This post may contain affiliate links.  Check out what that means to you here.

What did you do to save money last week?  It may be something that I’ve never thought of so please share!

Five Frugal Things

Grocery Hauls $179.30

These are all of my grocery shopping hauls for 09.23.19 through 09.29.19.

Hello friends.  Liv and I made the trek into the city again last week.  The last time we were at Sharp Shopper was at the very beginning of August.  We spent a cool $100.00 this time.  I think for a grocery trip that I’m only making about every three months, I can live with that.  Let’s see what goodies we came home with. A new to us type of Capri sun, Buddy fruit tubes, and green tea for 33 cents.  I have learned that if we haven’t tried something before to cautiously only buy one.  There is nothing worse than not liking something and having six boxes of it.  something we did buy cases of were the veggie Capri Sun.  Liv loves those things and so did my niece and nephew while we were on vacation, so that’s something I bought in bulk.   They were 99 cents a box!Bacon bits for Denton and Olivia.  I hate these things, but they both LOVE them.  Coconut oil to take my makeup off at night, a new to us type of Vienna sausages for Denton to try and kraut for our kraut and weenies.Velveeta shells and cheese for soup beans night, town house crackers and more maple syrup.  We go through a LOT of maple syrup at our house.  But we also eat Mrs. Butterworth’s too.  Balance right? Haha.

Pace picante sauce for taco nights, more kraut.  Wine sauerkraut.  Have you ever had this?  We hadn’t so I only bought one and now I am kicking myself.  This stuff is amazing.  It doesn’t taste like normal kraut, but Denton and I both were standing in the kitchen eating it out of the jar with a fork.  It’s very, very good.  I will definitely be on the lookout for more of this stuff and will stock up on it next time.

Liv loves the strawberry banana V8 so we bought three.  We only bought one of the pomegranate blueberry, so I will let you know how that turns out.  I bought straight tomato juice thinking that it was V8 which Denton loves.  I can still use it to make vegetable soup like my Aunt Mary Jane’s.  I need FALL to hurry up and get here.

The makings of my chili…..

Libby’s Peach slices with no sugar added.  These things were a hit at my house last time so we bought seven more.

Snacks are always are good find.  Even Hayden likes the sesame sticks.

Godiva dark chocolate with sea salt.  How could we resist for 50 cents a BAR.  I’ll freeze them and we will have them for quite a while.  Unless Liv and I just can’t control ourselves….

We also ran into Aldi, BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE ONE IN MY TINY TOWN.  We stocked up on all the veggies and fruits along with all the nuts – pistachios, cashews and almonds.  Denton hates wasabi (I love wasabi peas, Liv loves the wasabi chickpeas), so it shocked me that he said I need to buy ALL of the Wasabi almonds at Aldi next time.  They are delicious.  Have you tried them?  We also bought other things like milk and such but no chainsaw’s this time.

Aldi

So how did the grocery shopping go at your house last week?  What did you buy?


Sharp Shopper $100.12 on 0927.19 |  Aldi $79.18 on 09.27.19


Total spent for the last week: $179.30

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes

June $361.33

July $704.96

August $760.65

September $366.24

How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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Grocery Hauls $52.30

These are all of my grocery shopping hauls for 09.16.19 through 09.22.19.

Hello my friends!  This year is rocketing by, isn’t it?  I can’t believe that we are almost through with September.  Especially with the summer temperatures that we are still having.  Don’t get me started…..Where are you Fall?!

I spent a whopping $52.30 at the grocery store last week and I can’t tell you how happy that makes me.  It truly is amazing how much money I can save by keeping myself out of the grocery stores.  I’m working on my self-control around sales.  It’s one thing to stock up on something that I know we will use within a sales cycle – and you can actually track the sales cycle so that you know exactly how many of something to buy when you do find an excellent sale – and quite another for me to buy $15.00 worth of chewy granola bars because they were on sale.  You know, since there is only one person at my house who actually likes chewy granola bars and it would take them nine months to eat that many.  I’m learning, slowly, but I am learning.

Perfect example:

My Kroger had Classico spaghetti sauce on sale for $1.49 a jar.  It was a item that I knew I should  buy five of because I know that we will absolutely eat those before the next sales cycle comes through.

They also had Oreo’s for $1.99 for the family size!  I restrained myself and only bought two.  Liv is correct when she says there is no comparison between the store brand and the real deal.  But when the real deal is $5.00 a package…….  Good thing these were on sale.

Kroger also had the mega stack Pringles for $0.97 each.  Always look at your receipt.  I try to keep a running tally in my head as I shop, especially if I’m only getting a few things and when the cashier told me my total, I knew something hadn’t rung up correctly.  There were already about eight people behind me (it was Saturday) so I just rolled by the customer service counter on the way out and sure enough the register charged me full price for the Pringles. Just by checking my receipt, it saved me over $5.00.  That’s almost enough to pay for two rides on the subway in New York.  But I HIGHLY recommend buying the unlimited pass if you are going to be there for more than a couple of days.  It’s much more cost effective.

Money takes on a completely different connotation when you attach it to things like that.  Don’t you think?

Liv and I also bought things like broccoli, cauliflower, avocados, lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries.  They are already importing strawberries from far away places in my town.  The summer berries are gone.  So summer needs to go too!!!!  Alright, I’ll stop harping about the weather for today.

So how did the grocery shopping go at your house last week?  What did you buy?  Is your town already importing strawberries too?


Kroger $35.11 on 09.21.19 |  Walmart $17.19 on 09.21.19


Total spent for the last week: $52.30

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes

June $361.33

July $704.96

August $760.65

September $239.24

How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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Grocery Hauls $90.48

These are all of my grocery shopping hauls for 09.09.19 through 09.15.19.

Hello my friends!  Liv and I went into the city last week to see if we could find any treasures (we did) and we stopped in a Kroger to stock up on Dr Pepper while we were there.  They had 24 packs for $4.77 with a $1.00 coupon attached to most of them which made those drinks $0.15 each.  Woohoo!  Like I always say, if you’re going to buy it, buy it on sale.

They also had their Honeycrisp apples for $1.87 a pound.  Our local stores sell them for $2.87 a pound most weeks, so I stocked up on those too and bought 5 pounds.  That should last us about two weeks.  Maybe.  I also bought Denton some Coke Zero because he doesn’t share mine and Hayden’s love of Dr. Pepper.  Liv doesn’t drink any of it.  Water is her drink of choice.  Milk was $2.99 which is typical for us.  How much do you normally spend on a gallon of milk?

On Saturday, we quickly ran into Food Lion to grab some things we were running low on.  You can see what we bought above.  Sixty bucks.  Isn’t that crazy.  It was essentially two bags and it was almost sixty dollars.  Of course I spent half of that amount on Dr Pepper and apples, so really what’s crazy about it?

So how did the grocery shopping go at your house last week?  What did you buy?


Kroger $30.92 on 09.13.19 |  Food Lion $59.56 on 09.14.19


Total spent for the last week: $90.48

January $740.71

February $631.00

March $689.00

April $405.44

May $1,047.02  Yikes

June $361.33

July $704.96

August $760.65

September $186.94

How is the grocery shopping going at your house?

Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:

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