Monday, December 31, 2012

Free Kindle Garden Books!

Starting Seeds (The Proverbs 31 Woman Guide to)
 
Essential Vegetables Box Set (4 Books in 1 Package): Organic Gardening with Tomatoes, Potatoes, Peppers, Eggplants, Broccoli, Cabbage, and More
 

Deals at CVS this Week! December 30- Jan 5th

Plan CVS Run

  When I plan to go to CVS today I prepped like I normal do. I look though the circular, the match the coupons I have and write down the way the run should go.

For this week I only fund a little that I wanted.
  Dawn Soap was $.99 - I had a coupon for $1 off two but it had to be the hand care one
  Candy Bar $.75- you get that back in store money
  Sudden Sleep $2.87 - You get that back in store money

I had $6 off the store from a previous trip, which was over next Sunday.

Here was the plan;
8 Dawn soaps $8.00
1 Sudden Sleep $2.87
1 Candy Bar $0.75
Total $11.62
Coupons -$4.00
Store Money -$6.00
Out of Pocket $1.62
Store money gotten back $3.62

   Plan work great! The store had everything I wanted and everything went through perfectly! I only paid $1.59 for everything and saved $18.56. Plus now I have $3.62 to the store!

My CVS buy 12/31/12
 List of other Deals CVS go to money saving mom!
 What did you get this week and how much did you save? I maked back 1/2 my newspaper money!

Coupon Monday ~ 12/31/12

Coupon I got on Sunday

Last coupons for the year! The Newspapers weren't every good. Gaint did give me there free book of coupons! Hoping to recope the $8 spent on the paper. I did have to buy all four papers this week.Oh well you can't always get everything for free.

Monday December 31, 2012 - Daily Goals


Today is the last day of the year; I love knowing a new year is coming with new goals coming! I can say to you, I have my last load of wash in the dryer for the year! I love New Year’s because it’s a new being for so many things. This year was one for the books, I have an amazing job were I got prepaid so I could buy my new car! I found out the court system suck and don't care about the past, only the present, when I was fighting for custody of my daughter (10 year of her live I was the primary parent, but dad decide he want to be a father and gets 50/50 ugh). I watch my daughter start to figure out who she is and what she stands for. Hubby and I have gotten closer, and enjoy our time alone (never had it before). I got my chicks! Worked in my garden and made a wonderful new friend, who has become one of my best. I got to say hi to my newest nephew. I started blogging and a Facebook page on garden. Meet back up withhold an old friend and decided I can’t figure out why we stop talking and love that we have so much in common. I can look at this year and say I broke even. Hoping that next year treats us a little better, and letting this year go the good and the bad moving on to next year with wishful eyes and an open heart! I know God has a plan and everything happens for a reason. Having the best people in my life that back me up, so here is to the New Year!!
Onion trick did not work, Cass ended up with the stomach bug that her friend had this weekend! It seems to have a 3 day period. Therefore I’m looking to get sick on Thursday night. At least I’m off on Friday. Anyone have any ideas how to get rid of it fast?

Today Goals!

1. Clean the Living-room, and stick to the cleaning routine for the week. (I will post more about this in another post!)

2. Pay bills- Ugh I hate this one you see your money come in and then see it go out!!

3. Run errands- Go to the gym, Cvs, Rite Aid and post office.

4. Read 50 pg of Family Feast for $75 a month.

5. Set Goals for 2013.

 

How did you do on you goals from yesterday? I got 4/5 done today! Making goals means setting a limited for what you want to get done and working toward it. I did finish the basement and start to take inventory of my stock pile. I also did all my running plus we picked up a pellet gun for my daughter to start to learn on. Cass did want to play outside yesterday, and her and her stepfather had a blast on the quads! We did finish our project. Came out quit good, for the first sewing project either of us have done. Worked on my books, and tried to be organized about that. What are your goals for the day? Anything fun?

 

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Free Kindle Garden books! ~ 12/30/12

I just downloaded these garden books for free to my kindle!! Hope you fined some you enjoy :)
4-Book Bundle Special Edition: Simplify & Beautify Your Life with Coconut Oil, The Home Spa Book, BodyMorphosis Mind & Body Curriculum, and Naked Sweets: Reforming Dessert for Blissful Nutritio
 
Weekend Homesteader: June
 
Growing a Home Garden


Sunday, December 30, 2012- Daily Goals


Onion trick seem to work for my daughter. She felt a lot better around one. Hubby asked me to take it out of our bedroom; he would rather get sick then smell, like a hoagie. He had a point. I don’t think Cass could smell so it didn’t get to her. Nothing special today just hang out and clan the house today!

Today Goals!

1. Clean the Office is today project! It is a mess hubby leaves him military stuff on the guest bed.

2. Work on clean the basement – I want to clean in fount of the washer, take out the trash, and wipe down washer and dryer.

3. Run errands- I have to run to giant and grab 4 newspapers. I might stop and see my brother today too. Oh return Red Box movies!

4. Then maybe time allowing we might make the craft. She might decide to spend her time playing on the quad with her stepfather, which is fine it is her weekend. I have everything we need, but if she doesn’t want to; we can hold off.

5. Work on Business books- Close one customer’s account for the year.

 

How did you do on you goals from yesterday? I got 3/5 done. I got the house clean; it took longer than I wanted. I bought everything that belonged in the basement back down and start to clean it up. Cass decided she want was feeling better and wanted to play in the snow, she spent most of her time at her friend’s house and outside. I did help hubby with the quad, and he got them both up and running. Neighbors most have loved it at 8:30-9:30pm they both were final up and working so both my daughter and hubby took a ride. I end up just watching movie and then off to bed. Working for 5/5 today! What are your goals for the day? Anything fun?

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Yesterday's Hardwork :)


Garden Box 3
Yesterday my goal was to work on my garden box 3. As you can see my garden box need some TLC! We  a branch fall in the garden during Hurricane Sandy. Hubby cut it up for me.
 After picking up the branches and there was only a little grass in the bed! In to the compost bin with it.
Compost bin
We will use our compost bin, until spring and then close it up for a year. That way everything had time to decompose. I have one bin composing for the spring that have been sitting for spring!
Garden Box 3
Now my garden box is clean and ready for spring of this year! I could not have done it without my little helpers! The chicks ran around eating stuff, and Skipper decided he would help weed by eating the grass!

Skipper and Chicks -Houdini, Feathers
Did you get out into the garden before the storm? Do you work on weeding your garden before spring or do you wait until spring?

Follow the other Weeks Before Last Frost Weekly goals with the links below.
Gardening 20 Weeks Before My Last Frost- Weekly Goals
Gardening 19 Weeks Before My Last Frost- Weekly Goals 
Gardening 18-week before my last frost

Free Kindle books!



Indoor Gardening: How To Grow Gorgeous Gardens Indoors With Ease (Container Gardening, Aeroponics, Hydroponics, Vertical Tower Gardens, Window Gardens and House Plants) (Gardening Guidebooks)
Indoor Gardening: How To Grow Gorgeous Gardens Indoors With Ease (Container Gardening, Aeroponics, Hydroponics, Vertical Tower Gardens, Window Gardens and House Plants)
Why Garden Organically: Organic Gardening for Beginners
Why Garden Organically: Organic Gardening for Beginners
Homeopathic Remedies: Natural Cures for the Most Common Skin Diseases
Homeopathic Remedies: Natural Cures for the Most Common Skin Diseases

New Home Study Course in Homeopathy with Materia Medica
New Home Study Course in Homeopathy with Materia Medica
Feeding Wildbirds with Garden Plants (Specialty Garden Series)
Feeding Wildbirds with Garden Plants (Specialty Garden Series)
How to Grow Squash: Planting and Growing Pumpkins, Zucchini, Summer and Winter Squash, Gourds, and Chayote
How to Grow Squash: Planting and Growing Pumpkins, Zucchini, Summer and Winter Squash, Gourds, and Chayote
 
Thanks to Homestead Survival!

Saturday, December 29, 2013 - Daily goals


It is snowing! I love looking at snow, but I don’t like anything else about it! Cass isn’t feeling well, so it is herbal tea, with honey, cinnamon and Echinacea. Hoping we can stop the cold fast and she doesn’t have to have drug store medicine. If she needs it, yes I will give it to her, but she has no fever or anything other than a stuffy nose. We are also trying the onion trick; it is where you cut open an onion and leave it in the house or next to the sick person. It is believe to suck up all the cold germs in the house. This is my first time trying it. I have only read about it. My daughter came home and asked for it because it is what her stepmother does. I will to try anything to keep the medicine she takes low. Here to trying.

Today Goals!

1. Clean the house, and spray it down with tea tree oil. ~ Tea tree only is oil that can be mixed with water and used like Lysol. I like this better, because it doesn’t have the strong smell Lysol has and doesn’t have the chemicals in it. It is all natural. Now I only use this when people are sick in the home. I believe some germs are good for our bodies and make us stronger and healthier. I stand by this belief because my family get about 1-2 colds a year.

2. Work on clean the basement – Our basement got trashes these last few months, between taking out Holiday stuff and clean up all the kitchen extras (popcorn maker, bread machine, etc. – you name it and I have it in my basement and use it). Hubby and I want to work on picking it up.

3. Run errands- We want to go to kohl’s, I need meat bags and have $10 off coupon, with15 percent off too. We also need to grab a battery for my daughter quad, her and hubby want to play on them in the snow. Then The Dollar Tree, for healthy junk food snacks- crackers and pretzels for the week.

4. Then maybe time allowing and Cass feeling better, we might make the craft. I have everything we need, but if she not feeling well we can hold off.

5. Work on Business books- Close one customer’s account for the year.

 
How did you do on you goals from yesterday? I got 4/5 done. Working for 5/5 today! What are your goals for the day? Anything fun?

Friday, December 28, 2012

Movie Night- Edible City



We couldn't watch any of our movies out of the Redbox, because they didn't have what we wanted. Therefore I found a document online. (thanks to One Hundred Dollars a Month)

This movie make you think about all the good gardening in communities can do. We garden to cut our grocery bill down. Can you imagine not having a grocery store more than 20 minutes away, and not have any access to fresh fruits and vegetables. This movement is awesome!! There is so much information in here, think about if our communities had this, how much better it would be!

Free Kindle Garden Books!

How To Compost: Everything You Need To Know To Start Composting, And Nothing You Don't!
How To Compost: Everything You Need To Know To Start Composting, And Nothing You Don't!
Vinegar Home Health Remedies: Natural Alternative Remedies
Vinegar Home Health Remedies: Natural Alternative Remedies
Hope you enjoy them!

Friday~ December 28, 2012 Goals


Today I slept in. Hubby is off tonight and I want to be able to spend some time with him! He did bring me home a nice cup of Wawa Coffee! MMMmmm I'm so blessed to have an amazing man! It is 39* out but feels nice! Maybe get outside and get some outside work done before the snow comes tonight.
Today Goals!

1. Get my little one form her father's house at 4pm. I can't wait to have her home!!! It has been a long week without her!

2. Work on household chores - Dishes, bathroom

3. Weed -Garden Box 3 leave chicken out while I'm outside

4. Run errands- We want to go to Zerns and have to look at a generator Hubby found for only $75. (We have decide that with the meat we have in the house we want a generator, therefore if we lose power we won't lose our meats)

5. Family Movie night! I'm thinking we hit the Red box and grab a movie to watch with the little one and a grown up movie for us! I'm going to grab the popcorn maker out of the basement and make some popcorn too!

 

What are your goals for the day? Anything fun?

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

17 Weeks before My Last Frost Weekly goals

According to my book Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook, we are on 17 weeks before last frost. This week is shared was 18 in the book too. Therefore, I broke up the books into two weeks. Here was 18 Weeks Before My Last Frost - Weekly Goals from last week. This week is also very little to do, because of the Christmas.

17 Weeks before My Last Frost
1. Place seed order
2. Grow Sprouts indoor- broccoli, mung bean, alfalfa
3. Prepare new and used containers

This is an easy week because Christmas, I hope you enjoyed your Holiday. Have fun in your garden this week!

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Follow the other Weeks Before Last Frost Weekly goals with the links below.
Gardening 20 Weeks Before My Last Frost- Weekly Goals
Gardening 19 Weeks Before My Last Frost- Weekly Goals 
http://missy-lifeofaworkingmom.blogspot.com/2012/12/gardening-18-weeks-before-my-last-frost.html 

Free Kindle Books to help you in you Garden!

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Letters of a Woman Homesteader


Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them
Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them

Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
How to Sprout Raw Food: Grow an Indoor Organic Garden with Wheatgrass, Bean Sprouts, Grain Sprouts, Microgreens, and More
How to Sprout Raw Food: Grow an Indoor Organic Garden with Wheat-grass, Bean Sprouts, Grain Sprouts, Micro- greens, and More 

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Gardening~ 18 Weeks Before My Last Frost - Weekly Goals Wrap up


This week I can say I did most of my goals this week! 

 
 
My extra peat pellet


                               1. Make your own germinating mix- This one I'm working on. I'm not in a rush because I have 42 peat pellet seeds. I do though already start to get what I need for my mix. I have water storing Crystals, my friends picking up 2 bags of peat mix, and I also price Organic Miracle Grow potting mix. It is going to cost me like $25, for everything, but should give me more than enough to do most of my transplants. (I'll post about it when I do it)


        
 
2. Order Asparagus, and rhubarb crowns- I bought my asparagus roots, and I saw some wonderful bulbs and I couldn't help but by them! I got daffodils because they are my favorite. My whole driveway box is filled with daffodil bulbs; I thinking for the military boxes. I got the Tulips bulbs for my hubby in memory of his grand mom. Hubby loved the iris so he grabbed them, but don't know where we are going to put them.
                                                      
 

                       
                             3. Plant Herbs - Parsley and thyme- I was so excite to start this goal! It was the first thing I did on the goal list. This was the funniest goal. I planted 24 seeds of each plant but I'm not expecting them all to grow, because the seeds are between 1-2 years old. Exciting news is that the  Thyme started to grow already!

   
4. Plant - Leek and sweet Spanish onion seeds- I planted 24 of each seed, hoping that at least on comes up in each pellet. Happy to say they did start to come up! I also worked on adding them to my Seed Journal on the computer. It is get having a journal to go back and see what I have going on.

How did you do with your weekly Goals? Did you get them done? Did you have fun planting your first seed for the 2013 garden?

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Follow the 18 Weeks Before Last Frost Weekly goals with the links below.
Gardening ~ 18 Weeks Before My Last Frost - Weekly Goals