5 Not Frugal Things

My friend Katy does Five Frugal Things posts a lot, and occasionally I write ’em here too.

But this morning I was thinking that a Five Not Frugal Things post is in order because I’ve had a little string of such happenings lately.

One

Due to a combination of multiple factors (time change, temporary change in Mr. FG’s work schedule, etc.), I was exhausted yesterday and I did not cook dinner.   Instead, we shamelessly bought subs and ate them for dinner.

The upside is that I can bump last night’s meal to tonight, and the meat previously planned for tonight can just stay in the freezer.

So at least our subs won’t beget food waste.

BY THE WAY!!

Speaking of menu plans, I’ve been instagramming a photo of my menu board [written on my rehabbed chalkboard menu board] most weeks.

I know this isn’t as awesome for some of you as an actual menu plan post, but until I get my rear in gear [or in case I never do!], this will tide some of you over.

I usually try to send the menu board photo over to Twitter too, so you could follow me there if you don’t have instagram.

(Also. If you have a smartphone and are not on instagram, what is wrong with you?? 😉 Instagram is the fabulous-est social media platform ever, because pictures.   and pictures.   and pictures.   It is my favorite.)

Two

We sold a piece of musical equipment on eBay and didn’t charge enough for shipping, kind of by a mile (we charged a third of what we should have).

Fortunately, we were far from being upside down in the transaction, but still.

Oof.

Three

This morning I packed a lovely salad for Mr. FG’s lunch, which included organic lettuce and organic tomatoes (from Aldi, obviously), and leftover shrimp from when I made these shrimp lettuce wraps.

The only problem?

I, uh, forgot to include dressing.

He’s gonna put it in the fridge at work, but he’ll likely go grab a bite to eat today and I do not blame him.

Salad without dressing is awfully sad.

Four

I got a $10 coupon in my email from Eddie Bauer so I found a shirt on clearance and ordered it.   After the coupon, I think the shirt was only $6, but then once you added in shipping, it was more like $14.

That still didn’t seem all that bad for an Eddie Bauer shirt, though I did waffle a bit before ordering it.

Unfortunately, even though I ordered a small, the shirt seems to be cut on the large side and I’m kind of swimming in it.

(Which is weird because I have a small tank top from them and it is borderline too small for me.   Whyyyy is clothing not more standardized?? Especially when it’s from the same company??)

Swimming in shirts is kind of not attractive.   So I’m not keeping the shirt.

I think they do have free exchange shipping, so I’m hoping that maybe I can find something else that will fit me.   I’m thinking maybe this…

Five

One of my girls spilled a lot of water on a library book and on her Bible and I didn’t notice this until the water had had ample time to soak pages.

I was able to salvage her Bible pages (with the help of a blow dryer, actually), but the library book was done.

In fact, I’d called it sogged.

(Sogged: an adjective use to describe something that’s sopping wet. Origin: toddler Sonia, I believe. Sample sentence: That deck is sogged.)

Thinking I was being brilliant, I ordered a gently used replacement copy on half.com and brought it back to the library.

Sadly, there was a pen mark inside that I didn’t see, so the library deemed it unacceptable, so I still had to pay the full replacement charge, plus the amount I paid for the book on half.com

Not gonna lie: I’m a little annoyed that the library felt the copy I bought wasn’t acceptable because honestly, despite the small pen mark inside the cover, it was a perfectly good book to replace the (gently used, imperfect) copy that we damaged with water.

But in the spirit of trying not to be an obnoxious money-saver, I paid the fee and did not argue.

Also: I am remembering how many zillions of dollars the library saves me every year, and in light of that, the book replacement fee is small.

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Well.

That wasn’t quite as fun as writing a real Five Frugal Things post.   But it’s life…you win some, you lose some.

Normally I invited you all to chime in by sharing your five frugal things in the comments.   However, I totally understand if you don’t feel like sharing five not-frugal things.   😉

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Funny coincidence: I see that Katy has included a very unfrugal thing in her latest Five Frugal Things post.   Great minds think alike, because I did not see that before I thought of writing this post!