Regardless, I did take advantage of the weather to go on two mid-length day hikes!
So, how did we save money and work toward our goals this week?
- All meals prepared at home from inexpensive ingredients.
- I have maintained my new vegan diet, which has resulted in both money savings and pounds lost. The family has maintained a vegetarian at home diet.
- I made lunches and took snacks for both hikes. One hike/adventure took the place of the weekly cafe date I have with DS2, thus saving me about $10. (It did cost about $2 in gas, yay for owning a Prius!)
- Did a combined 13 miles of hiking at two different state parks this week. It was effectively free because we buy the annual pass - which pays for itself after 10 visits. We visit a state park area at least 50 times a year, so the pass is long paid for!
- Picked up three "free Friday" items at Fred Meyer before they expired. Not items we normally buy, but nice for treats!
- Hosted a board game night with friends. We supplied home-cooked pizza and chips, they brought a stack of board games! (Our entertainment spending is crazy low this month. We may finally have a handle on this problem category.)
- Cheap date night listening to live music at the hippie store deli and eating cheap tofu wraps, followed by darts at home. Also enjoyed a long walk downtown along the river.
- Filed our taxes for free via Credit Karma (most so-called free filing services charge ridiculous fees for self employed peeps.)
- Turned in a (huge) scholarship application, plus one smaller app!
- Family movie night at home, watching a free movie via my student Prime membership (a necessity for renting cheap textbooks.)
- Been saving up items for an Amazon purchase. These are household things we need and can get cheaper on Amazon -- toilet paper, cat food, etc. Many of the items are add-on items, so I have to spend at least $25 to get the really cheap add-on price. Waited until we had $25 of necessary items instead of adding on fluff to hit the minimum.
- Received two checks in the mail for a total of $26, and put them right into savings. These were for some class action lawsuit against the company that issues our mortgage and them making calls at odd hours to the wrong mortgage holders, or something weird like that. Oh well, free money!
- Went to a meeting for a board I sit on -- free coffee!
- Solved a problem for free -- we used to dry the water bladders for our hiking packs with paper towels, which we no longer use. The cloth towels leave lint in the bladders, yuck. Instead of buying the expensive plastic bag drying system, I made two bag dryers from old wire hangers we no longer use -- free
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