Life in Tee Harbor, Alaska

Saturday is a Spend Day

To help me pay attention to how I'm spending my money, I have restricted myself to spending money on two days of the week - Wednesday and Saturday.  It has been working pretty well - this week I had to spend on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, but that's okay.

This system has really helped teach me not to buy impulsively, which I used to do ALOT.  Now that I do not use credit cards, only use cash, and have a spending plan, I really pay attention to how I'm spending my money.

So Today I bought cat food and pine & cedar shavings for cat litter.  We went garage sale-ing and I bought a few books, a #5 cast iron skillet, and a tortilla warmer.  The skillet had a bit of rust in it, so I cleaned that up and greased it - turned out great!  I'm thinking this one might go in the camper.  I've been making tortillas from scratch and had looked at a warmer at the kitchen store.  I passed it up because it was $15.  The one I got today was like new and only $1.  I can't wait to try it out!

I have a couple loaves of bread in the oven and they are starting to smell really good!  I need to start dinner now - making pan-fried halibut, homemade french fries, and scalloped corn.  I underestimated our butter usage this month and we are down to 1 stick - but I'm determined not to visit the store until next Saturday when I do our shopping for April.  So I pulled out an old cookbook I have from the 1950's - looking for cookie recipe that doesn't use butter - almost all of them were no-butter!  I'll let you know which one I end up trying...

Good Idea!

1:41 PM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 .. Posted by Pattisea

I wonder how I'd do if I only allowed myself two days a week to buy things.

I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for the idea.

Patti