Not Buying It: Week Two
Clothing
Didn’t do too much in this area. I am lucky just to keep up with the laundry this time of year. ETA: Darian and I did pick up a couple of things at Goodwill. I got a fun new shirt for going out.
Food and Garden
I think we are doing a fairly good job of sticking to the menu given the fact that it is week one of husband’s stinky ole’ business trip. I tend to lose energy right around dinner time. I haven’t made anything fancy but we are eating at home.
The seedlings have all been transplanted into larger pots and are now just hanging out and waiting until I feel safe planting them. We actually had sleety/slushy/snow type stuff on Monday so I am going to wait a good long time, I think.
I planted the greens’ bed and continued work making room for more raspberries in back.
I started work on digging up the front corner of the yard around the grape arbor. I am trying very hard NOT to resort to the tiller for this task but double digging the area with my pitchfork may be more than I can take. On the upside, we had a lot of dandelion greens to enjoy in a baked root vegetable dish for Tuesday’s dinner.
I scored some windows on Freecycle and a friend graciously found a water barrel for me so it looks like I will have some building projects to work on soon.
Household
The shampoo bars are cut and curing along with a batch of gardener’s soap.
I started some oil infusing for my healing salve. I forgot how hard gardening is on your hand.
Utilities
I brought the drying rack up from the basement so that I can dry the laundry on the deck.I got some power strips and have everything in the family room set up so it can be turned off at night. I still have to do the upstairs but it is a start.
Gifts
Exercise/self improvement
English Country Dancing lessons again this week although with my husband gone that is about all the time I had for self improvement.
I am trying to make arrangements for a sitter so the girls and I can take a basketmaking class but that is not looking promising right now.
Education
I put together a short story unit using Internet resources for the girls.
Purging
Weaknesses
I spent a bit of money this week on new stuff but in my defense, it was for the greater good. I bought power strips, a paper shredder (for composting efforts) and another shop light for my seedlings.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I have been doing well with ‘the compact’-not perfect but good. My problems is now my children are growing like weeds and needing everything at once-I will have to make the time for a swing through the consignment shops. We have more money than time at this point in our life and it is soo much easier to just stop at Target. Plus my 11 yr old is beginning to get fashion conscious –Uggh Kris
April 18th, 2009 at 5:13 am
I wonder if I will ever get to the point where I have more money than time. I am guessing it won’t happen anytime soon. LOL
My girls are 13 and 16. We manage to find clothes that they like at the thrift shops. Of course, it helps that we have lots of those in this town and lots of college kids dumping off their stuff.