My Abundant Life: This Week's Frugal Tasks Saturday 10th December 2016

I've had a productive week this week. I had an order for two sets of aqua / silver angel decorations. So I spent a couple of hours relaxing in the family room crafting away. Darren and I spent a few hours making Christmas cards together. I'm proud to say that Darren made the star for the card, stamped the front and cut out the ribbons. I did the assembling, gluing and stamping on the inside.

I've made a few trips to the shops for presents and a few trips to the post office to send off a couple of Etsy orders. Here's what else I've been up to this week -

* Bought six legs of lamb at $6.99 kg. Each leg feeds the four of us for two meals. This means we get roast lamb once a month for the next year. Now I'm waiting for lamb chops to come on sale.

* Picked up lots and lots of paint sample cards from Masters Hardware store. As most of you know they will be closing down in the next week or two. I asked at the service counter and the lady said I could take 5 - 6 cards of each color. I only picked colors I could use in card making.

* Netted our feijoa tree with some netting I found in my shed. Suddenly the birds have taken a liking to the tree this year. I don't know what they are doing in the tree but I don't want the flowers disturbed ( I want the fruit to grow ).

* Sold two school text books.

* Sold four Christmas angel decoration sets to friends.

* Dried all the washing on the line and clotheshorses.

* Sold a couple of items in my Etsy shop.

* Saved the washing machine and shower water as per usual

* Sold four dozen eggs to the neighbours.

* Picked a small handful of raspberries each day.

* Darren picked two bowls of strawberries from our patch in one day. About four days later I picked another bowlful..

* Kept the heater off for most of the week.

* Jessica used a few recycled gift bags to put her friend's presents in.

* Refilled the shampoo and conditioner bottles and added some water. I also found a few almost empty shampoo bottles in the girl's shower. I added the contents to the nearly full bottle. My girls won't notice a difference.

* Cooked all meals from scratch.

* Took water bottles and muesli bars with me when I went Christmas shopping.

* Made up a bottle of diluted Dynamo laundry liquid. I also bought a big bottle at half price and diluted it straight away.