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Hi all,
I have a fun idea for a 'challenge' of sorts. It is related to frugality and not wasting.
Do you maybe have a stash of something somewhere that you have half forgotten about?
To give you an example: I was sorting through my undies drawer and found 7, yes 7, bars of soap. Think that's enough for two people?!! We'd buy a pack of soap, or someone would give us some as a present and we'd stash the extra there to make our clothes smell nice. Half the time I'd forget it was there and I KNOW hubby never remembers it is there when he's hollering for fresh soap. So I grabbed up those bad boys and put them in the bathroom and made sure hubby knew where they were too. We are going to use them up! I joked we have a lifetime suppy!
Another example is some fertilizers I have for my aquarium. I don't seem to remember to put them in regularly. Well, now they are parked right next to the water changing stuff so the tanks get a dose at least once a week, which is better than nothing and means I'm using it up! We also never need to buy dog treats ever again. How did we end up with so many?
The other day I cleaned out the freezer and found half a bag of frozen croissants from Christmas. Seems we buy them for the holidays and special occations, bake half of them and then the other half languishes in the freezer until the next Christmas, when they are usually too old to eat. I defrosted those yummy treats and we had Christmas morning in July, yum!
Maybe you have a little pile of sample-sized toiletries that need using up? Or makeup that you always forget? Or a shirt you bought and always forget to take the tags off of and wear? Or a box of brownie mix you keep meaning to bake? Or something you keep saving for a special occation?Let's all find something to use up! Enjoying and using what we have is almost the same as saving money!
Of course, if you have something that is serious clutter you should just declutter it, but some things you can use (like soap) if you just know it is there and maybe make it more convenient. Anyone with me on this?
-TinyFish
I have a fun idea for a 'challenge' of sorts. It is related to frugality and not wasting.
Do you maybe have a stash of something somewhere that you have half forgotten about?
To give you an example: I was sorting through my undies drawer and found 7, yes 7, bars of soap. Think that's enough for two people?!! We'd buy a pack of soap, or someone would give us some as a present and we'd stash the extra there to make our clothes smell nice. Half the time I'd forget it was there and I KNOW hubby never remembers it is there when he's hollering for fresh soap. So I grabbed up those bad boys and put them in the bathroom and made sure hubby knew where they were too. We are going to use them up! I joked we have a lifetime suppy!
Another example is some fertilizers I have for my aquarium. I don't seem to remember to put them in regularly. Well, now they are parked right next to the water changing stuff so the tanks get a dose at least once a week, which is better than nothing and means I'm using it up! We also never need to buy dog treats ever again. How did we end up with so many?
The other day I cleaned out the freezer and found half a bag of frozen croissants from Christmas. Seems we buy them for the holidays and special occations, bake half of them and then the other half languishes in the freezer until the next Christmas, when they are usually too old to eat. I defrosted those yummy treats and we had Christmas morning in July, yum!
Maybe you have a little pile of sample-sized toiletries that need using up? Or makeup that you always forget? Or a shirt you bought and always forget to take the tags off of and wear? Or a box of brownie mix you keep meaning to bake? Or something you keep saving for a special occation?Let's all find something to use up! Enjoying and using what we have is almost the same as saving money!
Of course, if you have something that is serious clutter you should just declutter it, but some things you can use (like soap) if you just know it is there and maybe make it more convenient. Anyone with me on this?
-TinyFish
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