It’s been awhile since ere I wrote that phrase! Mr. Frugalwoods and I had so many factors we had been bursting to share with you at first of the mannequin new 12 months that the ol’ Weekly Woot & Grumble hasn’t been very weekly of late. Under no circumstances ye concepts, mateys, we’re correct proper right here immediately with certainly one of many important rambling of my rambly Woot & Grumbles!
Pancakes!
Mr. FW made selfmade blueberry pancakes final weekend they usually had been delicious! And thrifty as heck! Can’t beat created from scratch. Am I appropriate, frugal peeps?
Mr. and Mrs. FW all through the Picture voltaic
We’re headed out to balmy San Diego tomorrow to spend the week visiting with my mother and father, my sister and brother-in-law, my brother and sister-in-law, my nieces, nephew, and regardless of the equal is of nieces and nephews who occur to be canines.
As I discussed final month, we make this trek to the west coast each January. Why January? On account of it’s fully the least pricey time to fly. None of those dear Christmas week flights for us, we’d pretty have pleasant on the frugal weirdo schedule.
I’ve divulged quite a few our deepest, darkest frugal journey hacks beforehand, so I’ll merely give the quick-n-dirty rundown of the best way by which we’re saving cash on this journey:
- Firstly: these low worth flights! $216/explicit individual round-trip from Boston to San Diego. BAM.
- No checked baggage. That’s $100 saved appropriate there for one checked bag per explicit individual round-trip.
- We’ll ship our non-public meals to the airport, thus avoiding the outrageously priced vittles vended all through the terminal. I’d wager that’s $50 saved, when you be mindful each legs of the journey.
- Dearest Frugal Hound is staying fully free at our unimaginable greyhound buddies’ residence. Boarding her all by means of our journey would value a whopping $400 (the kennel close to us, which we’ve in no way truly used, is $50/evening time time), so we’re deeply grateful to our buddies!
- For everybody retaining rating, that’s $550 saved, with out even accounting for the financial monetary financial savings we reaped on the flights, which we calculated is $693.60 over a Christmas-week flights, thus bringing our full quantity saved to: $1,243.60!
Advance planning is what really yields frugal journey. All of those parts require us to think about forward and put collectively, nonetheless it’s a worthy trade-off for the cash we’ll save. I favor a transparent and arranged sojourn myself, so the prep work of growing our meals, packing fastidiously, and reserving flights strategically is all merely a part of the technique for me.
Subsequent Week On Frugalwoods
Under no circumstances concern, we gained’t go away you all through the lurch subsequent week whereas we’re off gallivanting! I’m delighted to share that we’ll be net web internet hosting an excellent buyer submit from Mr. 1500 of 1500 Days to Freedom and a extraordinarily particular Frugal Hound Sniffs from Kassandra of Additional Than Merely Cash. Ensure you affirm them out subsequent week on Frugalwoods!
Relatedly, earlier this week, I shared our extreme 11 most excessive frugal weirdo actions in a submit I wrote over at Debt.com. Go strive it out and, giant because of Debt.com for net web internet hosting Frugalwoods!
Let’s Get Social
I took the prospect all by means of my idyllic few days off over the vacations to mess up ramp up our social media exploits. Thus, I formally invite you to look at me on Twitterlike me on Fbpin me (?) on Pinterestand insta me (?) on Instagram.
Please inform me there aren’t one different retailers I must create an account for… Frugal Hound shouldn’t be residing as lots as her duties as assigned as our social media supervisor.
Your full expertise was a bonanza of Frugal Hound footage and me clomping my methodology by way of how one can use all of those social, native, vegan, free differ, cellular, gluten-free, new-fangled platforms, nonetheless now you’ll watch a video of Frugal Hound on Instagram. So, we’re going to all leisure assured that the world is a bigger place. And, actuality be instructed, I’m having a lot of fulfilling posting slightly extra footage! Although I’m undoubtedly nearly actually going to be banned from Instagram for spamming the world with greyhound footage.
Greetings, Canadians!
I wish to take a second all through the midst of this considerably incongruous Woot & Grumble to supply a hearty shout out to all of our new Canadian readers (together with the unimaginable Canadian readers who’ve been with us from the start). This week, a plethora of oldsters hailing from that good nation signed up for our Frugalwoods electronic mail pointers and we’re merely thrilled–thanks!
I think about this surge is on account of stage out Frugalwoods obtained in The Globe and Mail earlier this week, nonetheless most likely it’s truly a product of the truth that Canadians have impeccable sort. Mr. FW may be very enthusiatic about Canada as a whole and proclaimed this evening time, “if i am going to very successfully be born in any nation aside from the US, it might very nicely be Canada!” I’ll add that to his to-do pointers for him…
Our Completely completely different Readers Are Superior Too!
It’s not merely Canadians who’re fabulous, everybody who reads Frugalwoods is fabulous! How do I do know this? Since you all have left some astoundingly useful, insightful, and considerate recommendations over these last few weeks.
We’ve been blown away by the response to my submit about not on the lookout for garments, our 2014 financial monetary financial savings value, and our future homestead funds. It’s terribly rewarding to amass such astute (and hilarious) options and I acknowledge that you just simply take the time not solely to be taught, nonetheless to share your ideas as correctly. Should you’ve in no way commented on a submit before, I invite you to take movement immediately!
Principally primarily essentially the most humorous remark award of the week (this may occasionally often develop right into a mannequin new Woot & Grumble function) goes to reader Tarynkay who, after very kindly giving me detailed recommendation on how one can lower my very private hair, listed the final phrase step all through the hair-cutting course of as “Should you hate it [the home haircut]drink a glass of wine and skim one issue inspiring about feminism. Do not forget that it’s winter so you may positioned on a lot of hats for awhile.” Sage information, my buddies.
Thanks in your emails too! I truly like getting emails from readers (considerably after they embody cute pet footage, as I obtained this week) and I encourage you to get in contact (mrsfrugalwoods@gmail.com) anytime you’d have a query, suggestion, or simply wish to say whats up (or ship me cute pet footage…).
We’ve bought a muffler down! The exhaust system fell off our costly outdated Frugalwoods-mobile (who not too method again turned 19-years-old). It was a form of moments as quickly as we took profound consolation in the truth that our mechanic is a mere few blocks from our residence.
I sloowwwwwly inched Frugalwoods-mobile over there final week and, that they’d been in a position to match her out with a model new exhaust system from the catalytic converter as soon as extra (muffler, flex pipe, mounting brackets–the works) for a mere $380, which included a used–nonetheless good state of affairs–catalytic converter. One in all many bummers of our present metropolis house is that we now have now no driveway and no storage and subsequently, nowhere to work on the automotive ourselves.
Everybody is aware of the FW-mobile gained’t run ceaselessly, nonetheless we’d positively favor to eek out just a few additional good years if we’re going to. This explicit conventional of Honda Odyssey (the 1996) seems to be the right 12 months for the Odyssey. We see fully completely different ’96s on the freeway with additional frequency that you just simply would possibly anticipate, given their superior age. She’s now purring like Frugal Hound everytime you rub her ears, so I’d say disaster averted. The Frugalwoods-mobile lives on into 2015!
