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Frugal thing I did today: BYOB
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Minimalist thing I did today: Downsized my make up jar
Happy
Thanksgiving! The day of giving thanks. I am thankful that God Spoils me every
day! So for my frugal thing today, remember my poor planning? Well that will be
a theme for the next few days, as I have things planned for this long weekend. I
just didn’t plan my shopping list very well. But It is a holiday weekend so I
will let it slide. I am going to my niece’s home for dinner to be with my
brother’s family. I was almost going to spend some money to buy Perrier’s for
me to drink. BYOB, bring your own beverage. But instead, my SECOND most favorite
thing besides coffee is herbal teas! I collect them! That’s just a fancy word
for saying I buy too many boxes of herbal tea because they look different, cool
and interesting. So I have my purse packed with a ton o tea bags for today and
tomorrow when I visit! I only buy the organic good stuff. I found a list years
ago of the healthiest good teas to buy. The bag is also important. So I buy Yogi,
Stash, Traditional Medicinals and Numi.
I have a couple that are not on the list like Constant Comment and Sleepy
Time and Bigelow Spearmint because I just love them. So I think that was a
pretty good Frugal.
So
I woke up this morning and during my coffee time, I immediately re-tweaked my
budget 2 week menu and Budget shopping list. I felt last night that I needed to
be more healthy. So I substituted a big salad and greens instead of pasta’s and
breads. A few other items as well, but I think the tweaking will not be a big
change in dollars. Maybe up a tad but hey I need to be healthy. And that is
where the herbal tea also ties in. I am allowed to buy 1 new box a shopping trip.
As compared to my 2 or three. Because herbal tea is going to be my GO TO when I
want to munch on unhealthy snacks. No more caramel corn or Fritos. Swiss Rolls
are my downfall, my coworker Mike and I would buy them by the box on Amazon. I
have forgone my Milk duds and Swedish fish fetish a year ago. Yes I used to eat
all that crap. Baby steps.
My
minimalist thing I did today. I was getting ready to head out and putting on my
make up. I did downsize my make up a ton ages ago. Threw out so much stuff I
bought on a whim at TJ MAXX. Since I work from home I don’t wear a lot of make
up any more. Now that I am 60, even less, when I leave the house its just a few
things. So I have 3 places where I store make up right now. The stuff I downsized
but not ready to part with are in a big make up bag in the cupboard. New
eyeshadows and mascaras that I can use once the ones I have run out. Then I
have a bag of makeup I used to use every day lets say when I went into the
office, a lot of Bare Minerals stuff, eye shadows etc. That is in the medicine
cabinet. And then out on my bathroom counter I have the basic stuff I would wear
every day just to look normal. A base that I barely put on. Just sponge a hair
of it on to make my skin even, mascara, eye shadow, eyebrow stuff, lipstick
that I use as blush too. Well, I just noticed I told you ALL that just to tell
you what I did downsize – was a little
glass I have where I put my eyebrow pencils, brushes, lip liners. Well THAT is
what I downsized to 1 eye brow pencil, 1 lip liner. I had too many make up
brushes in there that I never used. And now as I write this it looks like I
have more makeup to minimize. But hey that’s all part of the game!
Happy Thanksgiving and don't you DARE go Black Friday shopping today. You don't need it!!!
