My Abundant Life: This Week's Frugal Tasks

Being frugal can be a challenge when life gets really busy. This week we started bathroom renovations so the house is in disarray. Darren and I have been sharing a bathroom with the girls ( lots of fun ). On Tuesday I was sent away to do a tv story and flew back Thursday afternoon. In all the craziness we managed to do a few frugal things.

* Baked four loaves of wholemeal bread.

* Saved some bread bags and reused them as bin liners.

* Made four batches of Anzac biscuit dough for the freezer. Some of this will be baked to go with a few Christmas presents.

* Started picking a handful of strawberries each day.

* Darren picked the first few beans on Friday.

* Saved water in the washing machine and showers.

* Had the heater off for most of the week. With good weather and tradies in and out of our house, it wasn't worth having it on for long.

* Our Christmas tree is a little low to the ground. It can be a bit hard to put many presents under it so Darren solved the problem. He built a timber box to lift the tree up. He used timber off cuts he already had.

* I went shopping early this week to find something nice to wear for the tv story. I couldn't find anything I liked. Nothing fitted right or it looked too fancy. So I spent zero dollars and wore something from my wardrobe.

* The family ate freezer meals one night while I was away.

* Sold a few freezer meals to a cleaning client.

* When I was away I ordered breakfast each morning. The toast basket came with four cute little jars of assorted jams and honey. I bought home all the jas ( used and unused ) These will be used to put homemade lip balm in. Cath from Cheapskates put a recipe on her blog a while ago and Jessica wants to make some during the school holidays.