Thankful for Savings - October 2014 Frugal chatter thread

[Frugalbigmama]

Dinner done and kitchen almost clean. Taco meat simmering on the stove. Yippee. Dinner will be easy to get on table tomorrow night. I will make taco salad so no wraps/ bread for me. Lazy night tonight. ( I give this night to be lazy since up at 5am for ds's hockey this morning. I get stuff done when we get home in morning so can be tired on couch tonight.

[jasperandchar]

Well the butcher called back and apparently dh's bull moose had pneumonia (only us) anyways they need to throw out 1 of the front quarters which is fine they sent me pictures so I could see as I couldn't drive down but very grateful that the rest of the moose is fine....when she told me I thought she meant the whole thing was garbage my heart was *****ing and flopping.

Had to change my meal plan as my chicken breast were only the carcass for soup (need to pay more attention when labelling). So we had fried ham which was a nice change, then made 2 apple crisp pies as I was still thinking about the leftovers as MIL's , I will freeze 1 for another day when we are craving sweets and don't feel like cooking.

Tomorrow I really should make some cookies, going to take the butter out just incase as a little nudge.

Looking forward to watching Survivor tonight.

Someone is coming to see our trailer on Sunday (fingers crossed) as we could really use that $ these days.

Mrs. S. I have an upright freezer and a chest my meat variety is in my upright and my chest is for excess like the 3 turkeys (lol) and a ton of French fries (I got for free) and also onion (again free) BUT my upright is my go to favorite, HOWEVER, I do rotate both my freezers frequently so things don't get missed or wasted and it's working for us. I'm going to ask the butcher once wrapped to put in their freezer as there is no way I could spread our share out in the 2 freezers and have it freeze in a reasonable time

Wising everyone a relaxing evening.

[jasperandchar]

FBM I need to wake up at 5am tomorrow and Friday and all of next week....so I'll think of you when I'm telling my coffee maker to hurry up,

[Crochetlady]

Yesterday morning hubby was cleaning up the flowerbed and cut the cable so we were without TV and internet til noon today. Forgot to ask when I called if there will be a charge for that.

This morning we went to renew our mortgage. They`re letting us renew 6 months early without a penalty in order to take advantage of lower interest rates.

This afternoon I got my eyes checked and ordered my new glasses. Thank goodness they do 2 for 1. I always get reading glasses too because I like to read in bed and progressives just don`t work for that. So $598 later... I took a chance and got them at Zehrs...anyone I`ve talked to that got glasses there seemed happy with them.
@Andi will remember your friend in my prayers.
@nancy Sounds like you`ll have lots of meat. Kudos to DH for kicking that guy out.

[bobbiegirl2010]

FBM I need to wake up at 5am tomorrow and Friday and all of next week....so I'll think of you when I'm telling my coffee maker to hurry up,

I'm up at 5am every weekday so I'll be up with you both drinking my instant coffee (since I don't have patience for my coffee maker lol).

[bobbiegirl2010]

Yesterday morning hubby was cleaning up the flowerbed and cut the cable so we were without TV and internet til noon today. Forgot to ask when I called if there will be a charge for that.

This morning we went to renew our mortgage. They`re letting us renew 6 months early without a penalty in order to take advantage of lower interest rates.

This afternoon I got my eyes checked and ordered my new glasses. Thank goodness they do 2 for 1. I always get reading glasses too because I like to read in bed and progressives just don`t work for that. So $598 later... I took a chance and got them at Zehrs...anyone I`ve talked to that got glasses there seemed happy with them.
@Andi will remember your friend in my prayers.
@nancy Sounds like you`ll have lots of meat. Kudos to DH for kicking that guy out.

Crochetlady what bank are you with? I'd love to renew our mortgage early but was worried about paying the penalty. We have 1 year left but hoping to renew 6 months early too. That would be awesome if our bank would do the same! (We're with Scotiabank).

[jasperandchar]

I'm up at 5am every weekday so I'll be up with you both drinking my instant coffee (since I don't have patience for my coffee maker lol).

5am everyday you and Ashley are up with the chickens (lol) I guess I'll be thinking of you as well tomorrow am.

[jasperandchar]

Yesterday morning hubby was cleaning up the flowerbed and cut the cable so we were without TV and internet til noon today. Forgot to ask when I called if there will be a charge for that.

This morning we went to renew our mortgage. They`re letting us renew 6 months early without a penalty in order to take advantage of lower interest rates.

This afternoon I got my eyes checked and ordered my new glasses. Thank goodness they do 2 for 1. I always get reading glasses too because I like to read in bed and progressives just don`t work for that. So $598 later... I took a chance and got them at Zehrs...anyone I`ve talked to that got glasses there seemed happy with them.
@Andi will remember your friend in my prayers.
@nancy Sounds like you`ll have lots of meat. Kudos to DH for kicking that guy out.

Fingers crossed you don't get charged by the cable company.

great job with early renewal on your mortgage, do you mind me asking what the rate was you got?

Enjoy your new glasses our eyes are so important

[coupon girl]

-hi girls -I am exhausted-wow got there at 7.30and dughr-in-law came home at 5.30
-feed her breakfast-put her down for a nap -she slept 2 and a half hours -I read a bit of my book made a tea-did 2 loads of laundry for them-
-played puppet show ,read her 2 book-showed her mommy and daddys wedding album-crawled around wth her -danced with her-now I get to do it all over again on Thursday-only this time I am getting out of he house for a walk-then hubby and I take her to mommy's workat 4.30o she can go out for supper with girls from work
-how do you young mom's do it ????

[MrsSunshine]

i'll be thinkin of ya'll when im snoring in bed at 5 am

[Frugalbigmama]

FBM I need to wake up at 5am tomorrow and Friday and all of next week....so I'll think of you when I'm telling my coffee maker to hurry up,

oh yOu poor girl. I try and be positive about it and get things done when I get back home. And let myself have a lazy night. I'm suppose to walk with one of the moms so hopefully she comes next week so we can.

[coupon girl]

jasper hang in there i am up at 6.00 everyday -up next week earlier like 4.45 to shower and watch "ashlyn" she has early shifts next week-oww-55 and babysitting a one year old -talk to you ladies later today I really want to get her out today -but chance of thunderstorm in afternoon -we will see

[jasperandchar]

sounds like you had delightful day coupon girl

[Andit]

Good morning, everyone.

Have to go to the eye specialist today and get zapped (when they did the surgery for the detached retina back in the spring, the eye got a wee bit jostled and now needs to have a bit of scar tissue cleaned up before I can have a cataract removed). Fun times. On the plus side, since I'm not allowed to go home alone from the hospital (even more fun - minor zap is done in hospital, more complex surgery will be done at a clinic ), my Mom & bff will be coming to get me and have dinner with me (my Mom is bringing me schnitzel). If I vanish for a day or so, it's because I'm blind as a bat or too stuffed from eating to move, so not to worry.

Brats are waiting patiently for breakfast, so better get going.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

[Natalka]

Good luck, Andi - hoping all goes well!

Good morning, everyone!