My Abundant Life: This Week's Frugal Tasks Saturday 16th April 2016

I've had a mixed bag of experiences this week. I helped my sister move, spent a day recovering, had two days of cleaning work, did my usual housework, decluttered and had an outing with Darren ( the highlight of the week ). Here's what else I got up to this week -.

* Gratefully received two bags of jam jars from my sister. I give lots of jam as presents so I'm always needing more jars. I also received a bag of jars from a cleaning client.

* Did the usual water saving tasks in the laundry and dried the washing on the line.

* Made chicken curry with two chicken fillets and it fed us for two meals.

* Cleaned the kettle.

* Jessica went through her make up and gave me a blusher and brush she doesn't want.

* Did an extra day of cleaning work.

* Bought a $7.90 cooked chicken and got 14 serves from it. We had some in rolls for lunch x 4, I made chunky chicken and veg soup that gave us 6 serves and enough meat for the freezer that will be made into a pasta bake or chop chicken ( like chop suey ) x 4 serves. I also used all the bones to make chicken stock in the slow cooker.

* Darren and I had an outing to Mornington on Wednesday. We took our own lunch ( chicken in rolls )and bottles of water to save some money. We did treat ourselves to morning tea.

* Fed the compost bin with kitchen scraps.

* Made a batch of Miracle Spray and sold it to a cleaning client.

* Dug down to the bottom of my lipstick to get every last bit out. Avon has decided to discontinue my favourite color ( yet again ). Thankfully I have a few spare tubes and I'll be making them last as long as possible.

* Over the last couple of weeks I've stayed home as much as possible. I've only used 1/2 a tank of petrol since the day before Good Friday.

* Gratefully received some stamps for card making and a set of craft drawers from my Mum.

* Made a bottle of air freshener for the ensuite.

* Used the watering can to water my veggie seedlings. This is more water wise than using a hose.

* Mended a hole in a pair of socks.

* We had our movie night at home on Thursday. We watched " The Help " and even our girls ventured out of their rooms to watch most of it with us.