Third Frugal Friday of June 2024

                                                     

Welcome to Frugal Friday! 
My Frugal Week
I ordered a new shirt in my smaller size and when it came I realized how much I liked it, so I ordered one in each color. Lucky me they were having a 50% off sale, so each shirt shirt was $20 off, so I saved $60 when I ordered them. 
I went through all of my clothes again and got rid of the ones that were too big for me and gave them to Bailey to sell in her online shops. 
We went to the pool on Friday night and I swam laps for a little over an hour. Bailey did the weight room, walked the walking path, and then got into the pool. My insurance pays for my membership to the YMCA, so I definitely want to use it. 
Our electric bill is so much lower than this same time last year. In June of 2023 we used an average of 83.03 kWh per day while this year it was down to an average of 49.59 kWh per day. That is a savings of $110.51 from the same time last year. 
On Monday I went to the retina specialist for injections in my eyes as it's been six weeks already. He had good news for me, there was no swelling in my left eye and just a tiny bit in the right eye, so now I can move to injections every eight weeks instead of four or six weeks. It made me a happy camper. 
Bailey left out bright and early on Tuesday for her trip to Georgia to visit with a friend for a few days and made it safely back home on Thursday evening. The laundry had piled up while she was washing her clothes for the trip, so I had the washer going before she even got out of the driveway. LOL
It has been a LONG time since I've had the house all to myself for a few days. I'm not only caught up on the laundry, but I rearranged the office area of my bedroom, decluttered a little, cleaned out and organized the hallway closet along with my bedroom closet, and tackled several projects that needed doing. 
I also dealt with several phone calls concerning my Dad and his business. I will be glad when the majority of this is behind us. 
Freebies & Pollinator Week
June 17th through the 23rd is National Pollinator Week. 
Pollinators are a diverse group of species that includes birds, bees, butterflies, bats and beetles. They are critically important to life and their numbers are in steady decline as a result of habitat loss, pests, pathogens, pesticides and other stressors.
 The TDOT is doing their part to protect the Monarch butterflies. As a result they are offering free milkweed seeds to all Tennessee residents. 
Here is a link:
Free Milkweed Seeds
Also free this week, a friend of mine had a spaghetti squash that she wasn't going to use, so she gifted it to me. 
Cat Update
I fear that something has happened to our outdoor cats. We have seven outdoor cats and some of them have not been around for well over a week. I have seen very little of four of them in the last few days, but three of them are definitely missing. I hope it's just hot and they are in the woods staying cool and are not gone for good.
Savings of the Week
Have you read the story of Rachel Veitch? In 1964 she purchased a brand new Mercury Comet Caliente and paid $3,300 for it. She kept that car well maintained for over 50 years and drove it 567,000 miles. 
One of her secrets was regular maintenance, and she would buy lifetime guarantees’ whenever possible. As a result, she only paid once for three sets of shocks, eight mufflers and eighteen batteries.  She was smart and wise when it came to car ownership.
How was your week?

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BelindaHomemaker at HeartMortgage & Debt Free~ Living within our Means ~My Linktree
~ She looketh well to the ways of her household ~Proverbs 31:27