30 Day o’ Nuthin’ is chuggin’ along without too many difficulties.
I haven’t made a single purchase besides groceries and gasoline.
Plenty of “spending opportunities” have come along. And by “spending opportunities” I mean items I would have purchased without giving it a second thought, before this experience.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please take a minute and read my post explaining the plan Mary at Owlhaven came up with.
I told y’all before, we have lots of super-frugal habits already in place. This last week, I had the opportunity to have one of those habits reaffirmed as really, really worthwhile.
Several weeks ago, when my good friend, Faith, was here, she attempted to teach me how to shop at CVS. And in so doing, I scored a healthy stash of smaller bottles of Dawn dishwashing liquid. If I paid any money for these it was very minute. But still, I don’t intend to waste what I have.
For years and years I have used a pump bottle for my dishwashing liquid. I have enormous portion control using the pump bottle. I only need to refill my 8 oz pump bottle about once every two weeks or so. And that’s using it 3 times a day, every day.
Just last week, my Very Dear Hubby and The Cap’n were in the driveway engaging in the super-frugal activity of replacing the brake pads on our van.
As they always do, they shanghied my pump bottle of Dawn from the kitchen sink to take out by the hose to wash up, because that Dawn really does cut the grease. Even the car grunge on their hands. Then Hubby took it to the shower. He was really dirty! So, I was without my pump bottle for a good while.
No worries, I have like a million bottles of Dawn under my sink. So I just grabbed one of them and went about the business of cleaning a mountain of dishes, applying the Dawn, straight from the bottle it came in, to my scrubby-sponge. By the time I was done cleaning up my kitchen (one time) I had used HALF of an 11 oz. bottle of Dawn! Wow! What a difference!
Well, never again. I rummaged up a spare pump bottle for just such situations. Next time they repair the van, I’m ready!
To learn more ways to save a bundle fo money in our daily lives, go visit Biblical Womanhood to check out Frugal Friday.
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