{"id":355,"date":"2015-07-02T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T06:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2015-07-02T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T06:16:18","slug":"five-frugal-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Five Frugal Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve borrowed this idea from a blogger I follow religiously – Katy at The Non-Consumer Advocate<\/a>. She posts ‘Five Frugal Things’ pretty darn often, and I’d love to be able to do the same thing. So for this week:<\/p>\n

1. I sold another textbook from the discard stack someone had left in Eli’s old room with her parents. I met the girl at the train station, and made $5.<\/p>\n

2. Eli and I combined this trip with going to the opshop across the road. We dropped off a bag of things that were just sitting on our living room floor, including some picture frames I have picked up for free, but that they didn’t hang properly on our walls. Instead we bought some new picture frames for our loungeroom (3 for $5).<\/p>\n

3. I then saw a fish-tank for $5, and I snapped it up. I’m going to use it to grow plants and snails for when we set up our big tank. I had to promise to give our fish bowl to the opshop next time we visited though.When we went to the aquarium shop however, the plants we looked at were $28!! No way were they following me home. I’ll check the pet shop closer to my parents place, as they always have good fish supplies.<\/p>\n

4. I’d been idly looking for something to hang our toothbrushes and the hand-towel in our bathroom. In the $3 box, there was a towel rail that suctioned on, and a water saver shower head. We got both for $5. Once I got the towel rail home however, the suction bits were broken. I think I’m going to get some double sided tape and use that to attach it to the shower screen. Anyone have a better idea?<\/strong> We’re going to be able to see the suction cups inside the shower…<\/p>\n

5. We went to the other opshop and found some more picture frames (3 for $3). The bonus was that it was 50% off storewide, and we managed not to buy anything else.<\/p>\n

Anyone else doing some things that are frugal this weekend? Op-shopping, garage sales or markets, which takes your fancy?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve borrowed this idea from a blogger I follow religiously – Katy at The Non-Consumer Advocate. She posts ‘Five Frugal Things’ pretty darn often, and…<\/p>\n

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