Dollar Tree to the rescue...

I'm mentally celebrating a kind of 'first' for Beloved Hubby and me. He's been off for most of the week, but today it was back to the old grind. We had to pick up lumber for the job, and I wanted to visit Dollar Tree, so we combined our errands and went together.

In a real 'first' for us, we managed to get it done without stopping off for lunch or even a soda, even though we left at prime lunch time ! It's so easy for us to spoil each other with a big soda or coffee at 7-11 when we go out together - and half the time, we add lunch to the treat. Not today. It was kind of hard to put aside the expectation, but once done, it was easy - and it'll be easier next time. We're pretty frugal on most things, but eating out is a weakness of ours !

We got the wood and a strip for the bottom edge of the front door. We can't see daylight there anymore ! We've been pushing a towel against the door these last few cold weeks. The place we went to (coughLowescoff) had several sizes and types of strips, and Beloved was upset at the $8 to $12. price on most. I found one for $3.92, and as it turned out, that worked. I love my bargain-hunting eye !

I had a minor score, too. Found some garage door cards. They're  designed for prospective buyers to hold in front of their current garage doors, to help determine what style to buy. We're not replacing our garage door (we rent), but the cards will work great for some doll windows I'm making ! Yeah, I can print out something similar with our great Brother printer/scanner/fax, but this way, I don't use up our ink !

I hadn't planned on going to Dollar Tree, but I had to, and it ended up saving me a couple bucks. I'd volunteered to provide cookies and pencils for Dearest Son's Friday school holiday party. I'd intended to buy a pack of Disney Princess and a pack of Cars holiday themed ones, even though they were $2. each for just ten pencils. But Mal-Wart was sold out of both. So DTree to the rescue ! I got 24 iridescent ones, in a wide mix of colors, for $2. I have to confess, I kept a green and a silver one. His class is only 18 kids, so it's not depriving anyone... but I still feel a bit mischievous.

I also bought a bag of generic Fritos, which we ate half of with our chili lunch. There's enough for lunch tomorrow, too. Dinner was chicken pasta salad, with garden rotini, and there was a serving of leftovers on that, too. We buy these huge boneless frozen chicken breasts at Sam's, and just one will provide three chicken pasta salad meals. I'll cook one, use a third of it fresh, and freeze the rest, so dinner's super-fast two out of three times !

The only other thing we bought is an experiment that has to wait 'til tomorrow. About two Christmases ago, my BIL bought Dearest Son an Easy Bake oven. Why, I'm still not sure. Anyway, long story short, the little round pans are AWOL. And just now, Dearest is interested in the thing. DTree had small silicone baking pans in various fun shapes... so I got a star one, in hopes it'll fit in the opening. At least we found the paddle-thingie to put stuff in/get stuff out. I'll try tomorrow, while Dearest's at school. I'd hate to have him get excited and then let down this close to the holidays.

Finally got the last of the lace from Saturday's yard sale bagged up. I swear, by the time I was done, having it all was more punishment than present. Used every recycled baggie in the house, too. I already know there is no way it'll cram into the storage tote I use for that... and I already dumped about 30 yards of the stuff into the donations box !

In other frugal news, I recycled two large Mal-Wart sacks and the bag the lace came home in - in our home trash cans. Jack and DC love their new dry cat food. Mal-wart was sold out of their usual Special Kitty, in all flavors, and the same size and weight of Kit and Kaboodle brand was the same price. So they're feasting on that. We enjoyed re-watching Wall-E tonight with dinner, so I doubt we'll think about cable again any time soon. We turned off our TV back in '04 - Dearest was acting out everything he saw, so we didn't have much of a choice. Every so often, we think of getting TV again (it's all DVDs now), but we end up not doing so. I hope we just keep it as idle thinking.

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