It's Fugal Friday!

My first frugal friday post!! How exciting!! Thanks for taking the time to visit my little place on the web...

This is a picture of my ceiling fan that my dad installed for me yesterday and I helped!(like shake n bake without the promise of good food to eat later!!)
Since Sunday just happens to be father's day I thought I would share with you a project with a dad theme to it...I should've took pictures of my dad in the process of putting it up.
How I acquired it is like this...My mom and dad were in the process of packing up all their stuff in Florida and moving it to Arkansas to live with family here. My dad was talking about how he didn't know what they would do with some of the stuff they had in their house...I batted my big brown eyes and said..."Do you have any ceiling fans? I need one for my dining room!" He told me that he could get me one....

Fast forward to yesterday...my dad calls me and says he's in town(the rest of the family lives out in the country...I live "in town" because I am close to the stores and stuff...it's a small town) and asks if I would be okay with him coming over and installing the fan(which I had completely forgotten about) I told him to come on over...but ignore the piles of piles...and he did...he said that it doesn't matter to him how the house looks...which made me feel good...I helped him install the fan(like 10%) and he left with toolbox in hand.

My Frugal Friday tip is this: Ask around if you have a need. Someone is bound to have it or can point you in the direction of someone who does.

I can't tell you how many things that I have gotten just because I asked...a fridge, a bath bench(when hubby was in the accident), potty seat(accident) and the list goes on and on....

clothes on the line....

Is there anything that feels and smells better than clothes on the line?? I don't think so...

See the yellow shirts on the line?? Those are our VBS shirts--it's kinda sad that today is the last day...but it's kinda good too...we can rest!!

thrifty thursday

This was all found in the free bin at my local church run thrift store...some great old books, an awesome thermos, a cute little basket, some red velvet ribbon, some play silver medals, a soap dish holder, a metal tin, a crock, an old avon perfume bottle shaped like a football helmet, some gold fabric, a ribbon curler with some ribbon--a book about reaching your child's heart, and a glass votive and two jello molds...which might make cool molds for sand.


Close up of the books...a couple of Dale Carnegie books along with a book of Abraham Lincoln's writings...book 5 of I think ten? But don't quote me on that!

Isn't this picture just awesome?? I love it! I have already looked at some of his writings...and the whole set of books is available to download...but there is just something about holding them in your hand.


The same store had this on their free bin! I love these kind of plates for my kiddos!
I already have some of the large rectangular divided plates...and another cutting board? It just needed a trip through my dishwasher and it was as good as new!

I also scored three of those pink flat plates! They are always good to put a lunch for sissy on...but bubba will not eat on pink plates...something about masculinity!!

I also got this from the free bin! I have no idea what you are supposed to do with it...I joked that it's a friendly kung fu practice thingy....but really think that I will canabalize and do something FAB-U-LUSSSS!(Or just throw it in the trash...)


I bought this at a yard sale for $1 for sissy's room...she has a pink and black thing going on in her room...I think it looks like a funeral parlor decoration but she told me DO NOT TOUCH IT ANYMORE MOMMA!! So I obliged...even though I think the inside needs more black...

I bought this little beauty for 50 cents at my favorite thrift store. I think that a coat of paint might help it...I am almost tempted to paint it white...I wonder what it would look like?