Five Frugal Things | a bit sparse

As you know, my semester is done now, and I know that’s going to allow for more in the way of frugal activities for me.

But I am only a few days into my break, so I feel like I don’t have a lot to share with you at this point!

1. I canceled a trial membership on time

I said yes to a trial membership to take advantage of a free delivery, and as we all know, this is a bit risky.

It’s so so easy to lose track of a free trial and then boom, you are charged for a year!

I put a reminder in on my phone as soon as I started the free trial, though, and so I cancelled it with plenty of time left. Whew.

2.  I moved all my savings to a CIT bank account

I opened a CIT Platinum savings account, on the advice of Matt and Joel from How to Money….because I want to take advantage of these interest rates that are around 5%!

3.  I planted my store-bought basil in a pot

I had bought one of those little basil plants (the kind in a little plastic bag), and once I had used what I needed for cooking, I stuck the remaining plants into a pot of dirt.

Some of the plants didn’t make it, but two have survived, and hopefully no squirrels will dig them up before they get strong.

Speaking of which: is there a way to prevent squirrels from doing this? They love to dig in my pots and it is a little annoying because they keep destroying my plants.

Also, as you can see in the picture, something is eating the leaves. What do I do about that?

(I am not close to being a gardening expert, as you can tell. 😉 )

4. Umm…I passed all my classes?

I told you it’s a little sparse over here on the frugal front! Heh.

But as we have discussed many times before, passing classes is most definitely a financial win.

This is particularly true in nursing school; we are allowed to fail one class in the entire program, and then it has to be repeated, which puts the student a semester behind.

But worse than that, any fails after that get you immediately booted from the program. So then not only have you had to pay for a class that you didn’t pass, but also all the money you paid for your classes previously is wasted.

5. I did the usuals…

Like:

• eating down my fridge
• making my coffee at home
• making yogurt
• drinking water from my metal bottle instead of buying bottles of water
• washing my clothes in cold water

And so on.

But probably by next week, I will have some slightly more interesting things to share! 🙂

Your turn! What frugal things have you been up to?