It is going to be a year of focusing on what brings happiness, comfort or good health to us or our family - and thriftiness on the everyday stuff plus making home maintenance easier! You already heard about our family New Year’s Day and the other couple of days were catch up and starting a couple of small projects.
Happiness, Comfort and Health
School is out this week so we invited our son and older granddaughter for lunch and a visit tomorrow.
My older son turned 53 yesterday so we caught up by phone.
Having my last (for now) myofascial release chiropractor treatment this morning.
Everyday Thriftiness
- returned an item I decided not to use to organize the garage as I am trying not to spend money on that project
- exchanged a new jar of peanut butter that had a broken seal and was leaking
- put a chunk of money from our savings into a 1% higher interest rate 12 month CD
- put a few Christmas ribbons and gift tags made from cards into a drawer to use for future
- no food waste so far
Easier Home Upkeep
Put sand bags on the patio where it drains towards the house to prevent or at least reduce water intrusion into the crawl space during rainy season plus a couple in front of the sealed garage door
Started weeding out the office file cabinet. The file cabinet needs to be replaced as the top drawer mechanism is breaking but I do try to go through many of the files once a year. The bottom drawer though is genealogy mostly and just sits there pretty packed.
Decided that two 5 gallon paint containers left by the sellers in the garage laundry/storage room are unusable and will go to the hazardous waste disposal next week along with some pesticide containers. Still need to assess the smaller paint cans.
Love the title of your post Juhli. Just goes to show that a person can thrive while being thrifty.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.