PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Accidental Bargains and A-Bone-to-Pick

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Accidental Bargains and A-Bone-to-Pick

$3.47
was about $12

This makes about $60 of cosmetics for much less. I might go figure it all up, maybe. Nope. I forgot to use the store card that has, money, a refund. Well, next time I will correct making that about $5 or less.. I hope the recipient likes all this. So, that is one gift completed. Or, make that two. Maybe there are more I finished with barely any money spent by me.

Okay, this is puzzling. No one has even entered the Giveaway. If I put nail polish in the box, will that be better? Will you enter then? Go on over and enter on THIS POST , Giveaway I. Now, I have four giveaways and will be so humiliated if no one even enters! You don't know anyone to give these items to for Christmas, a birthday, or even a birthday after Christmas? These items would make a great gift.

You need nail polish? Okay, you've got nail polish. However, I will not come over and apply it for you.

Come on. whine whine Be a sport! yay yay Get into the Christmas mood. I hear Jingle Bells. Okay, must I bribe you? Oh, yeah, I am trying to bribe you with a box full of stuff.

I found two gifts that I had paid twice as much for ($10) about three days ago. Sooo, I will take back the gifts bought at full price and keep the reduced ones. Guys, enter. Your wife will figure out who to gives these to, promise.

13 comments:

Elephant's ChildNovember 29, 2014 at 9:49 PM
I am not entering because postage to Australia is a) expensive, b) slow and c)unreliable.
I hope you do get entrys soon though.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Jason and MichelleNovember 30, 2014 at 6:45 AM
I can't believe no one has entered. We are in the middleman of moving to another state, I really haven't been on the internet much. Hope you have a good day today.
ReplyDelete
Replies
kristine barrNovember 30, 2014 at 7:44 AM
I don't want to give you ANY more expense, so I'm not entering. Sorry. BTW, you absolutely amaze me. With all your difficulties, you still think of others.
ReplyDelete
Replies
JMDNovember 30, 2014 at 3:07 PM
Maybe everyone is makeup free and don't wear nail polish.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The Cast

Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

Contact Me

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Accidental Bargains and A-Bone-to-Pick

13 comments: