Second Frugal Friday of November 2025

 

Welcome to Frugal Friday
My Frugal Week
Last Friday was the bag sale at People Helping People, which they have once per month. They let you fill a large white kitchen bag for $15, so we both went. It’s such a great sale and isn’t just limited to clothes, but hard goods as well. I picked up several items for the treasure box for students I tutor, some kitchen gadgets, artificial flowers, body wash and clothing items. 
On Saturday I measured and packaged over fifty items for Bailey’s online shops. Between that and cleaning up outside, I was able to get over 10,000 steps in each day. 
On Tuesday I had errands to run and went to Bealls as I had a rewards member coupon for $5.00 and $2.50 off, so I bought a couple of Christmas presents. One of them was free after the coupons. 
I also went to the thrift store and noticed the prices were a little bit higher. I didn’t find anything we needed so left empty handed. I did go to the Dollar Tree and bought several Christmas presents. They have the best prices on calendars for 2026 if you are gifting any this year. 
The Great Cleanup
Last Friday I worked outside cleaning up more items around here. I took three trunkloads of stuff to the convenience center and threw into the dumpster. I also took three tires and put them in the tire trailer. I am so grateful to have a place to take these items and they don't charge me for disposing of them. Of course we do pay our share of property taxes to support this.  
Dad had a glass window in this shed, which fell and broke, so I used my grabber stick and picked up the glass and disposed of it. I also emptied out a garbage can, which was too heavy to lift, full of nails, other broken glass, old parts, and metal tin. To have this garbage can emptied after so long gave me an extremely satisfying feeling of accomplishment. 
On Monday the weather was cold at thirty-two degrees and it was snowing! The ground was warm, so it melted as soon as it hit the ground. I did take two five gallon buckets and some other trash to the convenience center and drop off though. Afterwards I headed indoors to work on laundry as it was too cold to work outside. 
Christmas

On Sunday I made a large casserole hot pad, which I will be gifting at Christmas time along with a Pyrex deep dish 9x13 casserole pan, some spices and Christmas pot holders. 
On Wednesday I finished my Christmas shopping for one side of the family. And I did have the other side done, but something came up and I ended up needing that present myself. So, I need to finish up that one present and then I’ll just have Bailey to finish. 
Freebies
I stopped in at the electric company on Monday and picked up two free calendars for 2026, one for me and one tor Bailey. 
Saving on Electric
Top Tens Ways to Extreme Save on Electricity ~ A video from Prepper Princess on some free and cheap ways to save money on electricity. 
Photo & Savings of the Week

Walmart had their Silk unsweetened almond milk on clearance this week for $1.25 down from $4.67. It's sell by date is not until late January 2026, so I'm not sure why it was marked down, but I bought two half gallons. 

Saving Money YouTube Videos
I multitasked and listened to a Prepper Princess video while I was processing clothes for Bailey the other day. This video is a fictional tale of what a day in her life would look like during the next Great Depression. At first the video seemed rather doomsday, but I listened and gleaned some useful information. Like that old saying, “take what you can and leave the rest” fit here. 
How was your week?

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Belinda 🫶 💕 Homemaker at Heart 💕 ~ Living within our Means ~My Linktree
~ She looketh well to the ways of her household ~Proverbs 31:27