Gailete's Personal Finance Blog

Frugal Cooking

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:10:07 PST

I've spent the last couple weeks with my head buried in books looking for ideas on stretching the dollars, and cooking mass quantities of foods on my good days so that on days that I don't feel well, I have dinner already stashed in the freezer. I know about Once a Month Cooking, but...

Investment Dressing

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:01:26 PST

This afternoon I took a few minutes to sew a patch and a button on my $4 denim jumper. Now that I have had it for a few years, I have popped that bottom button off multiple times. This time I knew I needed a bit more fabric to reinforce the old fabric so the button would stay secure....

Prescription Prices! YOW!

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:17:25 PST

Saw my arthritis doctor on Friday and was prescribed a new medication as I just haven't had any pain relief or symptom control lately which means I've been barely functioning. Barely functioning also means you don't care about sticking to a budget, you don't care about budgets or anything...

Frugal Clothes

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:09:23 PST

Last night hubby and I went out on a rare date night. In the course of helping with our on-line sewing pattern store, www.MoonwishesStore.com, he has gotten very familiar with clothing, style and fit. So while we were people watching at the restaurant, we got especially interested...

2007 challenge

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:05:28 PST

Well I got lazy/busy and stopped blogging and stopped really thinking about the $5000 challenge that I had going. I ended 2005 with about $700 from the intitial challenge and now want to continue on. I need to think more frugally and figure out some new ways to save money and get money...

New Month

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:41:37 PST

I like the first day of the month when I can do all the end of the last month's figures. Hurt too much to keep sleeping this morning and so was up early totalling up our online book business total (and PROFIT!!!) calculated my $5000 challenge. Before hubby was even done with his morning...

Hubbies present

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:07:42 PST

Got sent an LL Bean catalog in the mail today. (actually it was sent to my ex who has never lived here). While looking through it I saw a great pair of slippers that I know my hubby would like. I've heard such great things about LL Bean and the quality of their products and their return...

Monday

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:32:26 PST

Before hubby left for work, I grabbed the truck and dropped a bunch of packages off at the post office then went to the grocery store for mil and some fresh fruit and popcorn. I had been using generic popcorn in my microwave popcorn maker, but lately got addicted to Orville Redebacher...

Getting better

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:16:20 PST

After another miserable day, it feels like the pain and miseries are lifting. The weather seems to be changing so that might have been part of it. Hoping to get up feeling good tomorrow so I can get back to my sewing projects, etc.

With barely being able to move today, I definitely...

BLEAH!

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:00:26 PST

Well after feeling really well for the last two weeks, I got up today feeling miserable. I'm tahnkful to have had such a long stretch of feeling good up to and including a holiday. Usually 1-2 decent days a week are the best I can usually hope for.

I've managed to make 2 Christmas...

Lovely Day

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:58:32 PST

Thanksgiving Day was so lovely for me. I paced myself. I did some baking on Wednesday, and then the turkey and other hot stuff yesterday. We didn't eat until 6PM so this gave me lots of time to get things done without getting worn out. This was the first big 'dinner' I have attempted...

Ready to sew

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:02:18 PST

Had a chance to go to Joann fabrics yesterday and picked up some thread on sale, and some that wasn't and several other things that I needed for the many sewing projects that I have listed in my head (way to many) but I'm really excited about having most of the next month to sew and...

New Sheets!

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:00:48 PST

Last night hubby stuck his had through our top sheet. The first time this happened, we tore off the whole top hem of the sheet and I resewed the hem. Well with this second time, the sheet was going to be way to short for him to be covered up and have it tucked in, so we decided we...

Met a Goal

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:29:06 PST

I'd been hoping and working towards a goal for what I do on ebay. I wanted at least 1000 items listed in my store before Christmas, and if I count duplicates of items I made it today. I even sold a craft pattern 12 minutes after listing it. I'm hoping for some good Christmas sales...

Christmas Shopping

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:51:45 PST

Yesterday, we had lovely weather so I paid the bills, took hubby to work and then ran errands and got my Christmas shopping done (such as it was). Unfortunately I went to a gorcery store to buy gift cards for my sons, who appreciate free food, and left my coupon envelope and my shopping...

agreeing with ender513

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:33:25 PST

I tried to post yesterday, and got an error message, so this is a bit of a combo. I just read Ender513 message about drugstor buys for food and I so agree. I have been pricing walnuts, not only for holiday baking, but baking year round. The price of them has just been going up. Anyhow,...

made some money

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:58:14 PST

I sell books and sewing patterns on line, mostly through ebay and Amazon and ended up selling almost $100 worth of books today! Yippee! On Tuesday ebay had a 10 cent fixed price listing day that I took advantage of and boy am I glad. Except for ebay and Paypal fees, most everything...

Grocery Shopping!

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:05:09 PST

The joy of grocery shopping at Walmart, is the cheaper prices. The other joy is that you can also pick up bits and bobs of things from other departments and then when the cashier totals things up you get to have a heart attack! Our total before coupons was $199. Then I remembered we...

Not much happening

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:37:04 PST

Slow day here. I made hubby's sandwich and wrapped it in some loose aluminum foil I had hanging around. When he saw it, he thought we must be getting really low on things in the house. I told him I was just being frugal-didn't want to throw out a perfectly good piece of foil.

Now...

catching up

gailete@hotmail.com (Gailete) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:11:11 PST

Wow I hadn't realized how long it had been since I posted! I've been sick a lot lately and then trying to play catchup before I'm down for the count again. Spending the most of my time listing things on ebay and have quite a feww sales from there. Being sick I haven't been out much,...