Not Buying It

I've decided to do this in 2-week updates instead of weekly. Feel free to play along!

Clothing: Did another Goodwill trip and wound up with a skirt (gasp!) and two tops for around $10. I’m still trying to fill out my summer wardrobe since the 20lb drop.

Food: Eating salad from the garden for lunch, along with homemade oil and vinegar dressing, so I’m not buying any lunch fixings for the foreseeable future. Making bread. Dried a batch of pineapple, OMG it is good, and 4 lemons worth of lemon peel for baking or zesting later. Had breakfast with some strawberries from the patch over the weekend, too.

Household: Still working on using use & wash containers instead of ziploc bags.

Utilities: A/C still not installed. Shocked as to how cool it has been.

Gifts: Took dad to lunch on Friday (for father’s day). Found a freebie lavender for my neighbor.

Home and Garden: Visit the garden blog for more info. Cherry tomatoes are slowly coming in. Peas in abundance, freezing those. Hugemongous radishes coming in (look for a garden blog post about those tonight). Pumpkin and beans blooming. A few of the regular tomatoes have green babies on them, including the hanging baskets. Also, we removed the sod, tilled up, raked and put straw down on 2/3 of the new flower bed, and did some minor prep on the teeny new flower bed (pictures this week in the garden blog).

Also, we went an bought a pickup truck-load of mushroom soil this weekend ($20, a steal). I could describe the stink to you, but you wouldn’t understand. We also scored a large trashbag of pheasant poo and hay from our neighbors, which got layered in the auxiliary back up compost bin with the weeds from the blueberry bush, so yay that. Both compost bins are in ‘cook’ mode.

Weaknesses: Went out to eat a few times these past two weeks, but this week we will not be doing so. I have meals planned out. Also, signed up for Netflix.

Purging: Took a box of stuff and bag of clothes to Goodwill.