Frugal Confessions Friday!!!!

Posted on | January 8, 2010 | 6 Comments

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers!

I apologize for my lack of articles this week; can we say holiday hangover? Anyway, I am very excited about a weekend at home working on our laundry room renovation and fleshing out some great thoughts and ideas I’ve had over the past several weeks into articles.

Here’s my Frugal Confession of the week:

Over the holidays we had a surprise 50th anniversary party for my grandparents–it was one of the most precious moments I have been privileged to be apart of in someone else’s life! My sister and I were in charge of decorations and favors. We knew that our grandmother really thought that the Hershey’s bars with printed labels of photos and such were really neat, so we decided to splurge and buy these for her favor. I say ’splurge’ because they typically cost $2.00 a piece!!! With over 120 guests, that was simply not an option.

By shopping around online, I was able to find the labels for $0.70 (this included the gold wrapper; gold=50th wedding anniversary)  at Favors Today. Then, my sister bought the Hershey’s chocolate bars in bulk, and assembled them all herself. All in all, we got the final cost down to $1.10 per bar (still high for a favor, but our grandmother loved them!), and saved ourselves $108. Yay!!!

What is your frugal confession of the week? I’d love to hear from you all!

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6 Responses to “Frugal Confessions Friday!!!!”

  1. Crystal
    January 8th, 2010 @ 10:26 am

    I’m glad your grandmother loved the favors…that was really sweet of you two.

    My frugal confession for the week is using a feed store. I was able to get a 50 pound bag of cracked corn to feed the ducks in our subdivision for $8. That definitely beats the $1.60 per visit that I was spending on bread, which I found out isn’t good for the ducks anyway. Yay internet!

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  2. Amanda L Grossman
    January 8th, 2010 @ 10:41 am

    Crystal: Great job. And by the way–I LOVE feeding ducks!

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  3. Aurora
    January 8th, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

    we just found out about a website that has all kinds of free documentaries that you can view online, freedocumentaries.org. we’re going to get one of those cables that hooks your computer to your TV so we can watch them on the TV, woohoo!

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  4. Amanda L Grossman
    January 8th, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    Aurora–that’s great!!! Especially if they start charging for network t.v….thanks for sharing:)

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  5. BluSky
    January 8th, 2010 @ 2:21 pm

    Instead of spending $60-$70 on good beer this week I spent $5.15 on a liter of vodka. That’s what the label says it is anyway but I’m convinced it’s rubbing alcohol.

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  6. Amanda L Grossman
    January 8th, 2010 @ 2:42 pm

    Blusky: Hahahahaha. Thanks for sharing!

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