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Friday, May 23, 2025

2025 Frugal Friday File, May 23...

 

1.  While Carey was helping out his sister and b-i-l, among other things he helped out with, he harvested what was ripe from their garden for them.  They made him bring home chard and kale.  The kale was so young and tender.  I made a big salad with kale, chard, and a lot of stuff I found in the fridge: apple, red onion, carrot, celery, cherry tomatoes, chicken, and homemade honey-mustard dressing.

2.  Spent a lovely couple of hours (sarcasm) trying to track down our tax refund.  Jumped through their hoops.  Proved who we were.  And as per the finish notice, we should see it within the next NINE WEEKS!  Grrrrr.  Can't help it; feels like DOGE trouble to me.

3.  Social Security checks (his & mine) were deposited.  Every month now I hold my breath fearing that something will go wrong with it.

4.  Waited till my volunteer day at the library, to pick up a book that I reserved.  No special trip.

5.  Adjusted my subscription for laundry detergent sheets.  It was set at one box every two months, but we ran out.  Setting it for every six weeks was not an option, so I bought an individual box to get us by, then set subscription for 2 boxes every 3 months.  


On the menu this week--     

Saturday:  out for breakfast for dinner at IHOP (Carey's choice)

Sunday:  Big Salad

Monday:  me: leftovers,  C: frozen pot pie

Tuesday:  shared a takeout sandwich

Wednesday:  Quiche w/ Garlic Green Beans

Thursday:  Chicken Burgers (frozen chicken patties)

Friday:  leftovers

**designates meatless meal

4 comments:

  1. Breakfast for dinner sounds delicious, and even better if you aren't the one cooking. (: Your salad sounds so good!

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    1. I'm not really an IHOP fan, but when he said he wanted to go, I was IN, because I didn't want to cook. LOL

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  2. Wow, your salad sounds marvelous and so very healthy. I really like laundry detergent sheets and am thinking about trying the toilet cleaner ones. I too am holding my breath to see our SS and Hub's Federal Pension deposited each month. Our health insurance is also Federal Retiree subsidized so we would really be up a creek if it all is messed up.

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    1. It is just so alarming to think about something happening just when they've decimated the Iof employees, and thus made help so much more difficult.

      RE: sheets for the toilet. I mostly follow FlyLady's advice that soap is soap. She always said that if you didn't like a shampoo or a body wash, don't waste it, just use a dab of it for the toilet. Made sense to me, so that's what I do, unless it needs a really throrough de scaling or something.

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