Originally Posted by
PurpleBunny89
Ugh definitely need to have a frugal March. I haven't been able to do my month totals for February because we moved on Tuesday and stuff is still in disarray. I have to admit that we got Mc Donalds sometime this week (I can't even remember the day its been so crazy here!!!) because we were just starved and making a meal at home consists of "where is the strainer?" "Where is the pan?" etc. It just seemed like the easiest option so DH and I did it cheaply and it came to just under $7 for both of us.
So with $10,000 on rent last month, $1200 for movers, car insurance going up this month its definitely a buckle down month. As if it wasn't obvious we had more money going out then coming in.
We're going to try and do things as frugaly as possible for the new house. We now have two bathrooms so we need a second toilet scrubber ($1 at WM!), plus we no longer have a gigantic medicine cabinet or vanity in the bathroom so I'm taking back my shelving thingie that goes over the toilet that I had previously given to my mom when we moved into the last place. She said it just collects dust at her place so thats awsome. I stole DH's snow shovel that he was using for work - hopefully he won't need it until the snow is gone :). We also need two standing lamps ASAP as there are no ceiling lights in the rooms and my office is getting darker and darker as I type. Will try to hunt the free pages on kijiji for those. Just small things that you don't realise you will need.
We had to cave and order blinds as well for our GIGANTIC sliding door because of course it couldn't be average size. That was $160 or so at blinds to go. Otherwise we are making the old blinds fit as best as possible for these windows. Some windows will have small gaps and other windows will have two sets of blinds for one window. LOL. Silly looking but FREE!
Will also keep an eye out for a dining room table for free so that when we go to move again we don't necessarily have to take it with us as we didn't spend anything on it.
But I will be buying some more stockpile shelves at CT this week for $19.99 as I most certainly need them. Maybe 2 of them.