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One Hundred Dollars a Month

I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.


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Today I’m Thankful For Free Produce

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When I started this whole “Do you have any scraps I could take home to my chickens” journey, on a whim back in April of 2012, I couldn’t have possibly known that after 7 months, I would have been able to reclaim all of this produce.  By just looking at these pictures alone, I’d say we’ve been able to save a few thousand pounds of edible goods from going into the trash.  Wheather we were eating it or the chickens, I know we’ve been blessed.

Food is an amazing thing.  Some of us have too much of it, and others not enough.  So just remember, don’t let it go to waste.  If you can’t eat it all, find someone who will.

Peace Out Girl Scouts, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

~Mavis

Head on over HERE to read all the past stories and to see all the pictures.

14,000 Things to be Happy About ~ Available from Amazon.com

Hmmm. I wonder if chicken scraps are in there?

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Mornings with Mavis – Free Christmas Music, Win a Trip to NYC, Bamboo Spoons, Messenger Bags + More

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Holy canolies.  Last night the wind was howling like CRAZY, and as soon as it’s light out I’m going out to see if anything exciting happened in the backyard.  Hopefully the greenhouse and chickens are okay.  I’ll report back if there are any interesting findings.

But for right now, here are some sweet deals I spotted this morning while drinking my morning cup of tea.

Mornings with Mavis

Amazon has a set of Totally Bamboo Spoons on sale for $4.99 right now.

  • Quality built bamboo kitchen utensil set
  • Constructed of high quality Moso bamboo; 16 percent harder and more durable than maple
  • Bamboo is an ecologically green alternative to wood; strong, dense and versatile
  • Set includes a Turner, Slotted Spatula, Spoon, Slotted Spoon and a Single Hole Mixing Spoon
  • By Totally Bamboo – totally good for the environment and totally good for you

Go HERE to see this deal.

Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is 50% off select Melissa and Doug Toys.  This is a great deal and will likely sell out before the end of the day, so head on over here to take a peek.

 

Adobe Elements 11 is available on Amazon right now for only $49.99 Shipped!  This is 50% off the regular price of $99.  Wahoo! Go HERE to get this awesome deal.

Right now you can download Green Hill Christmas Music SamplerBy Beggie Adair for FREE!  There are 12 tracks and they all sound great.  Yee-Haw, what a great way to get some free Christmas tunes.  Go HERE to get this deal.

6pm is having an “In the Bag” and offering all sorts of name brand messenger bags, wallets, backpacks, totes and carry on bags for up to 65% off today.  Here are a few deals I found.
Roxy – Lets Begin Messenger {Army Green}$23 Shipped.
OGIO – Manhattan Messenger {Sunset}$39 Shipped.
Timbuk2 – Hidden Messenger {Flint}$15 Shipped.
Roxy – Equinox Carry On Bag {Midnight Blue} $25 Shipped.

It looks like Tosty is having quite the sale on winter coats today. Check out these styles for Woman and Children.

Totsy – Winter Coats $20 and Under

Have you signed up for Ebates yet?  Well head on over HERE to sign up before Black Friday because Ebates will be offering DOUBLE CASH BACK to a boatload of stores!  Ebates is a great way to earn cash back on your online purchase {the HH and I use it all the time}.

If you are new to Ebates, you can score a FREE $10 gift card to Target, Home Depot, Barnes & Noble, Magazines.com or Ebates.

Go HERE to sign up for Ebates

Then simply order $25 or more worth of products and you’ll score a $10 gift card just for signing up for Ebates.

It’s that Easy!

Today only Discount Mags is offering a 1 year subscription to Readers Digest Magazine for only $3.99 a year when you use code 8569 at checkout.  This deals expires tonight 11/20/12 at midnight {EST}.

Want to win a trip to NYC to see the Rockettes in Radio City Music Hall?  I know I sure do! Head on over to HERE to enter.

Alright, I’m off to go find something to eat for breakfast.

Peace Out Girl Scouts, see you back in a bit for my reclaimed produce story.

♥ Mavis

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Video – Bartering Babies?

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I think they’re bartering, what do you think?

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Mavis Garden Blog – Indoor Gardening

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It has been raining like cats and dogs all day long. I heard a huge tree fall behind our house this afternoon, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the power goes out at some point too. In fact according to the forecast, there is suppose to be rain the next 7 days.  Yikes!

So instead of heading outside today, I stayed inside and baked a pie, washed laundry and watered my indoor plants. The basil I planted 3 weeks ago under grow lights are doing great, and so is the amaryllis bulb I planted for my mother.

Besides watering the plants today, I also planted a flat of Buttercrunch lettuce.  I plan on gifting some of it to Mrs. Hillbilly for Christmas because it’s her favorite.  I hope she likes it.

I’m not sure what’s going on with the paperwhites though.  The bulbs on the right side of both glass vases, appear to be a bit stunted.  What’s up with that?  Does anyone know why this is happening?  At first I thought it was because the bulbs on the right were planted a bit higher than the ones on the left.  But if you look at vase on the left, the bulb really isn’t much higher.

So what do you think?  Why are the bulbs not the same height?

~Mavis

 

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