..you come back from breakfast with your mom, wearing your fleece scarf and wool jacket, and don’t realize until two hours later that you haven’t taken it off. Yeah. This 65 degrees thing is a little hard to adjust to and I honestly don’t know how some of my fellow bloggers manage to keep it colder than this. I’m pretty sure that 65 is my lower limit.
Anyways, this post is mostly about grocery spending and my menu and not so much about my cold house!
I spent $10 at a local grocery store.
I spent $54.32 at Weis.
and I spent $24.28 at Aldis(my first time there, which I will post about in the coming week).
That adds up to $88.60. This is kind of a bummer because I was hoping to have a low-spend week this week(I was over by $20 last week). I did manage to get under budget by $12 this week, though, so now I’m only $8 behind. I’m pretty sure I can make that up next week!
Here’s what we’re eating this Thanksgiving week.
Saturday
- Hibachi Chicken and Shrimp
- Cornmeal bread
Sunday(we’re having company, so we’re not having pancakes!)
- Baked Potato Soup
- Rolls
- green salad
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Monday
- Cilantro Panini
- grapes
Tuesday
- Calzones
- green salad
Wednesday
- Mandarin Chicken Roll-ups
- orange slices
Thursday
- Thanksgiving dinner is at my in-laws, and all I have to bring is a big basket of rolls. Yay! I love being the family baker. 😉
Friday(I’m bringing a meal to a family from church, so we’ll have pizza on Saturday instead of Friday)
- Shrimp Veiness
- French bread
- green salad
Lucy
Friday 20th of April 2012
my thermometer says 60 right now, i got home 2 hours ago and yes i still have my coat on! when im being sensible i change into thermals and a fleece gown, if i get ingrossed in the internet i sit for ages and freeze! our house just isnt well insulated. we got used to it very quickly. one night this winter it was 50 in the bedroom. i decided to sleep on the couch where it was warmer!! we have a lot of duvets and fleeces (fleece rocks!) on the bed which makes it so cosy i probably wont take them off until summer! once you get into a routine where you always wear warm clothes indoors and have blankets around on the chairs etc, you get used to living at a lower temperature pretty quickly. i do feel that elderly and immobile people will have a horrible time with it though, somewhat harder for them.
Jessica
Sunday 23rd of November 2008
We (me and my ex) tried one winter to keep our house at about 58 when the kids weren't around, but I had to bundle up so much I couldn't stand it. Our house leaked heat like crazy because it was old. We stuck to about 67 on average though or the heating cost was outrageous.
Kristen
Sunday 23rd of November 2008
Oh man...I don't think I could hang with 61. And I'm SURE that my husband would put his foot down if I tried that. lol
deepali
Sunday 23rd of November 2008
65 sounds nice. we never go above 61.
Tanya
Sunday 23rd of November 2008
My house is usually 64 during the day when we are not home. I turn it up to 68 sometimes to get the chill off. When my nose is cold, the heat is too low. Try to find a small room that can be closed off from rest of the house and use a low wattage electric heater once in a while. It can be cheaper than heating all of the house and warm you up before bedtime.