My Frugal Week

My daughter picked up two of these trial size bottles of Head and Shoulders for free using coupon overage and she gave them to me to use. 
The first bottle lasted me through nine shampoos since I wash my hair every other day the bottle lasted me for a little over two weeks. 

We went to several yard sales today.  As usual we brought drinks and sandwiches with us and did not eat out. 
This must have been a day for cookbooks because that is what I found before the rain set in for the day. 
I found a Woman's Day magazine from October 1965 for 25¢. It has multiple money saving recipes in it and the ads are fun to look at from way back then. 

I found Cook's Country magazines for 10¢ each, so I bought ten of them and paid $1.00. These normally sell for $4.95 each, so this was a good deal. 

I found a Holiday Inn cookbook for 25¢ from the 1970's. It has recipes from Holiday Inns all across the country including the one in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  :)

I found two Ziploc bags filled with smaller type cookbooks from an older lady who was cleaning out her house. 

I love these kind of cookbooks and going through these made me think of the cookbooks I received from my grandmother when we were cleaning out her house. 

Best thing of all? She only charged me 25¢ per bag. I will spend many hours going through and enjoying these very much. 

I also found a Southern Living Inflation cookbook from 1972 for 25¢. 

We went to several yard sales on Saturday too, I found a nice bookshelf for my bedroom for only $3.00. 

I also found a set of 68 brand new CDs of the bible. They seller had then marked for $1.00, but living in the Bible Belt I knew they were worth much more money than that. 

We came home and checked them online and they are currently selling well for around $65 for the set. My daughter will be sending them to Amazon for use in their fulfillment program. 

With my help, she finds new items like this all summer long and sends a package to Amazon at the end of the yard sale season and then she earns money all winter long when Amazon sells her items. This is another source of passive income we utilize. 

Recently we went through one of the free boxes located outside a bookstore in Chattanooga and found several Beth Moore CD sets, so we picked them up thinking they would be worth something to someone. 

Today I went online and found out how much they were worth. There are seven sets of CDs on the book of Romans and they retail for $30 each while the other set we found retails for $39.95. 

I am shocked that someone would just put these in a free box thinking they were not worth anything. I plan on listing these on E-bay to see if I can find any takers. I will keep you updated on if they sell or not.

- We saved money on gas this week, which you can read about in this blog post.  
- My daughter received a free chicken biscuit from Chick-Fil-A on Tuesday. I wrote about about that in this blog post. This coming Tuesday, April 25, will be the last day this free breakfast item is offered. 
I'll close this blog post for now as I think it is long enough, but I'll be back soon with another post on how we save money at the Frugal Workshop. 
I hope you have a great week.  :) Belinda ~ Living within our Means ~

Tuesday's Frugal Finds

Good morning! 
I wanted to mention two frugal things we've done this week so far. 
The first one is my daughter went to Aldi for me and picked up carrots (2 lb. bag) for 49¢ and potatoes (5 lb. bag) for $1.49. 
She also picked up a deal at CVS for paper towels and toilet paper. Scott paper towels were on sale for $5.49 for a 6 pack and Scott toilet paper was on sale for $6.99. 
When you spend $20 you earn a $5 extra bucks reward. She also rolled $8.00 worth of extra bucks she had from last week. 
We also printed off coupons from the ScottBrand.com website for both. There was also a $2 rebate at Checkout51, which makes each item only $1.53 each in the end.  
Here is a 45 second video that my daughter made about this deal:

Hope you are having a frugal week so far.  Belinda ~ Living within our Means ~

Saving Money on Soap

Soap savers are a good way to save money in your home. They have raised nubs that lift soap bars off the dish and allow air to flow freely around the soap, which helps it to drain and dry completely. This will make your soap last long thus saving you money in the long run. 

Above is a photo of my old soap saver. I originally bought this one from the Dollar Tree. At the time I could get two of them, which I did, for $1.00 or buy the larger one from $1.00. I opted to get the smaller ones, so I could have two of them, which turned out to be a mistake on my part. 

From this and the photo below you can see that it was too small to get the job done. The soap was always sliding off the soap holder an sitting in the liquid under the soap anyway, so it did not serve its purpose very well. 

So, while I was at Lowe's last week I spotted this nice big one: 

As you can see from this photo, it fits the bar of soap much nicer. 

Now my soap fits well in the dish and won't be sitting in the liquid, which will make it last longer thus saving us money. 


Belinda
Live simply by not spending money you don't have.

Saving Money on Garbage Bags

Pictured above is a package of toilet paper that we normally purchase. The package holds 36 double rolls, so the outer package is rather large. Here is what it looks like empty:

This is large enough to line our garbage can in the bathroom, so naturally I use these to save money on real garbage bags. 

I also use plastic bags from the grocery store, provided they are the large ones, to line our garbage can with. I usually only get those around the holidays like Christmas. 

This is another small way we save money here. 

Do you have any ideas to share on how you save on garbage bags?

Belinda
Live simply by not spending money you don't have.
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