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uld spend a week or more cleaning every single room in the house from top to bottom inside to out and then collapse in exhaustion convinced that housekeeping was hard work and it is at times and too much trouble to bother with continue at september 30 2012 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homemaking weekly menu plan i m working under a handicap at present nothing sounds really good to me but meal plans are necessary whether the mood is right or not i m looking for all kinds of inspiration in all kinds of places and feel sure i will manage a week of menus recipes abound around this house in magazines online in cookbooks etc continue at september 30 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest our frugal week not a new lamp though it looks brand new john spray painted this lamp this week formerly a navy blue with a 90 s gold and white design on the front this lamp is now a lovely oil rubbed bronze and looks like a modern lamp instead of a leftover from another era continue at september 29 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest weekly menu plan a little late with my planning i m having a bout of allergies and don t feel good my appetite is decreased not necessarily a bad thing which means that the idea of food in general is uninspiring however this evening i went through all those magazines i ve let stack up over the past month and found about as much inspiration as i need for this week at least sometimes i just need a shot of someone else creative thinking and a husband who decides he simply must go out for a cheeseburger cheeseburger and fries soda ice cream cone now and then it s nice to go out for an old fashioned drive in meal john and i enjoy the brown bag special at sonic our burgers had onions lettuce tomatoes and pickles and they really piled on the vegetables lol i counted the fries as veggie too and offered to buy john an ice cream cone on our way home after running the last errands continue at september 25 2012 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest my frugal week a diy project we tackled this month in our home i think we ve spent about 120 total for kilz paint and supplies needed in our home thankfully the whole house program of cleaning means i don t have to do a heavy pre fall cleaning and i am grateful for that today i changed out the quilt on our bed the summer quilt in pastels went into the washer and onto the line to blow dry i have a small cold allergy thing going on lots of vitamin c zinc and water items we always have on hand and vapor rub for my chest has helped a good bit i was happy to find i d stocked a few boxes of kleenex over the summer when there were good sales i ll definitely be getting more to restock for the fall and winter seasons continue at september 23 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest button button i love the comments button best angela asked to see the quilt i d started i had it out on the bed in the craft guest room trying to determine how i wanted the next blocks to be pieced this is what i ve done so far it is my intent to continue stepping the striped blocks down from the center square i played with it a teeny bit the other day and think i found what i would like but forgot to take a photo guess i ll be going back to the bed and spreading it out all over again continue at september 19 2012 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest budget stretcher leftover makeovers not very good photos today i did another budget stretcher meal and wanted to share with you all what i had leftover roast beef in wine reduction sauce 1 3 of a jar of fruit cocktail 1 2 apple and 1 asian pear cooked broccoli i had just about enough of everything for one or two folks and three to feed so i put my imagination to work first i made up a beef pot pie i chopped the leftover roast and dumped it and the wine reduction sauce into a casserole i took advantage of the canned foods in my pantry and added a portion of each of these to the casserole green peas whole kernel corn carrots potatoes green beans i only used about 1 3 of a can of each and put the rest into a zippered freezer bag for soup making later on i grated some onion more flavor less product a dash of worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper to season continue at september 19 2012 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels recipes weekly menus first i want to address a question posed to me by kellyjo she wrote i envy your organization in the kitchen i really need to get more organized do you always stick to your menu one of my biggest struggles is lack of good planning well for her benefit i m going to do something a little different i m going to copy and paste last week s menus here and then i m going to tell you what we really ate continue at september 17 2012 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest my frugal week in my kitchen in the interest of saving time i spent all day friday prepping food for our company dinner friday night and then went right on and prepped as much as i could for our meal on saturday as well it certainly was nice to walk into the kitchen spend five minutes tops putting things together sliding them into the oven and serving later made a pan of homemade brownies i can t tell you this is frugal in the sense that i could easily buy a boxed mix far far cheaper than i can make brownies from scratch but it s frugal in that i had all ingredients on hand bought on sale and i didn t run into town to pick up something ready made i can mix up this recipe with one hand behind my back and one eye closed i ve used it so many times over the years continue at september 16 2012 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest celebrating womanhood i m linking up with dee today to celebrate women of a certain age today at 53 i certainly qualify here i am menopausal a grandmother six times over and quite happy to be right where i am recently i watched a commercial a woman of 69 had a facelift in the after picture three years later she looked perhaps 40 do you know what i felt looking at that woman exhaustion just pure exhaustion i thought how difficult it must be to keep up the facade of acting as young as she looked can you imagine trying to act 40 when you re 72 not to mention the burden of looking for signs of aging that must be eradicated and the effort of continually monitoring your actions so you act as though you re half your age because what s the point of looking 40 and acting 72 mind you i have no problem whatsoever with a little judiciously applied makeup or hair color i want to look my best i just don t want to live a lie so to speak i want to enjoy the season of life i m in continue at september 16 2012 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest coffee chat i ve been busy as can be for the past few days we had to buy groceries and then we had a weekend filled with company and then john began painting our master bath which discombobulated the bedroom and bath and then the work week began whew i feel tired all over again just thinking of it all and i haven t even had time to pay full attention to my home it s about this time of year oh dear i didn t even ask you to sit down and enjoy the coffee did i please do have some and there s chocolate in the candy jar i haven t had time yet this week to bake now then it s about this time of year that i begin to really think of cleaning more deeply sprucing up the porch and deck and cozying up the house for me it really starts in august and i did begin doing some extra tasks then but i ve done enough deep cleaning all through the spring and summer and so aside from airing a few quilts there s not much to do in the deep cleaning area continue at september 13 2012 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest weekly menu breakfast and dinner i finally was able to get the postings done to the other two blogs for a solid week my copy and paste option has fought me hard and won but not today lol for those of you on the pennyannpoundwise or chronicles of a thrifty homemaker pages i m sorry that you ve gotten a glut of postings at once do i appear a day late today well i am we ve pushed hard all week long ever since john got off last wednesday we ve had errands and shopping and company galore and then we started painting our master bath yesterday this morning after we awoke at 9am we realized that we might just be tired and the day is unfolding in a very leisurely way we talked and chatted until 10 in bed then had coffee showers a light breakfast of bagels for john and poptarts for me i put a frozen homemade entree in the crock pot for our dinner listened to john rock the house with praise music did my bible study we re calling this our week end quite literally and treating it as such because tomorrow we re right back to work as usual continue at september 11 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest my frugal week i decided to change up my thrifty thursday and re package it from now on i ll split the week between my home and my kitchen frugal home the weather has been less hot but not less humid instead of moving the ac temperature up and down for day and night i just leave it alone john sleeps best in a slightly cooler house and i don t care to have it any colder at night so one temperature does it all should we leave home for an overnight visit to the kids i d certainly plan to turn it up to about 80f or so i washed two full loads of clothes myself this week john generally does the clothing but i take care of most of the household laundry i washed the mattress pad that was on our bed as well as all the dishcloths ants blast em were being particularly bothersome and got all over the cloths in my handy sink side bowl and towels made one load the next load was our sheets and a few pieces of lingerie continue at september 07 2012 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest budget stretcher eating seasonal produce in my home the kitchen is seasonal what we eat in summer we don t eat in autumn nor do we eat in winter what we might eat in spring that is because we tend to lean on seasonal foods what s in season now according to my seasonal chart these foods fall september october november apples broccoli brussels sprouts cabbage chinese cabbage cauliflower celery root chicory cranberries cucumbers dates fennel grapes greens head or iceberg lettuce leaf lettuce mushrooms nuts okra mandarin oranges pears chile peppers sweet peppers persimmons pomegranates quince shallots spinach winter squash star fruit sweet potatoes as you can see there are a variety of fruits and vegetables enough to allow plenty of variety in any diet remember that seasonal foods are usually locally grown and provided by growers in nearby surrounding areas and are always the better priced foods because they are available in quantity at september 03 2012 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels budgeting weekly menu plan the week stretches ahead of me and it s breakfast on my mind not dinner before john began working nights i had every other week off as far as breakfast was concerned there were just one or two things he wanted to eat during a work week and he was quite happy i on the other hand could eat or not as i chose i usually did choose to eat because i like breakfast i d often make something for myself that i knew john might not like so well boiled eggs with hot buttered toast and orange marmalade breakfast burritos pop tart smoothie now i am making breakfast nearly every single morning that comes along i think we ve eaten out twice in the past six weeks for this meal and it s grown stale truly it has i need to add some oomph to that morning meal so this week i m not going to share dinner menus i m sharing breakfast menus continue at september 03 2012 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest budget stretcher leftover makeovers leftover makeover beef enchiladas i made a simple pot roast the other day and had a small portion of it left after our meal i d made roast beef sandwiches and a shepherd s pie and hash in the past month and i just didn t want any of those things from this piece of roast i thought and thought about what to do with it and i finally decided upon beef enchiladas continue at september 03 2012 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels recipes newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom finish line contact form name email message search this blog blog archive 2026 14 june 4 may 2 april 1 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