Grocery day!

Hello Thrifties,

Today was grocery day! Unfortunately I have not gone on a big grocery shop for a while, and this week I had run out of a lot of basics like honey and flour. So needless to say, the better part of our months cash was decimated! Of the $102 that we had, I spent just over $90! My hubby had done our bottle return this AM however, so we got just over $20 back from that. I am still quite nervous because this does not leave us with very much gas money AT ALL! Never mind running out of milk or fruit.

Excuse me while I count up what's really left........

Okay! We have $30 in real cash, a stash of quarters for when we're really scraping the barrel, and a check for $11 that I can cash. I need to fill up the car tomorrow morning, so if I spend $20 we will have just over $20 left to last the 11 days until the end of the month. Phew! Looks like I will be spending a lot of time at home!

Now, about my piggy-ness...

Here was my cleaning list from yesterday:

~ Sorting one bin of laundry from bedroom ~ wash & dry 1 load. (2 if there's enough. My hubby has volunteered to fold as his "chore") {I did 2!) ~ empty dishwasher ~ sweep & mop hallway and kitchen 

You will note that it is all done! Yay me, pat pat. Today is going to be more of a general cleaning. I did some pre-cooking of fish and chicken for other meals and so the kitchen is a bit of a disaster. Also my hubby started our tax return, so there are empty envelopes and papers scattered everywhere! (Also in the kitchen thankfully, two birds with one stone) I was also forced to clean out the fridge today in order to plan my meals and put away groceries, so that is going on the list and yes, it totally counts.

Follow along! :

~ clean fridge (and associated dishes)
~ tidy kitchen
~ clean up recycling (newspapers, boxes, etc.) and empty garbages

I am hoping to include in future, for the new and improved version of myself, a similar 15 minute approach to exercising. I'm already back on the healthy eating bandwagon but I have never really stuck with an exercise routine. I did 15 minutes of youtube yoga yesterday....Can navigating the grocery store count for today? How about running through the house with smelly pots of food to the toilet when I was cleaning the fridge?

Counting it.

Until next time :)