Frugal Fall Decor

I love Fall! I love the colors and the cool, crisp weather. And I love to decorate my home at this time of year almost as much as I do at Christmas. While at the local farmer's market this past Saturday, I stumbled upon a lady selling all of her veggies 6 for $1. Along with yummy fresh tomatoes and bell peppers she had two bins of fall veggies just perfect for decorating. As I was picking what I wanted, she kindly told me to go ahead and get 7 of each item. So, I got 7 tomatoes, 7 bell peppers and 7 various fall veggies for $3. Six of the fall veggies/gourds? now reside in a hand-carved wooden bowl on our sofa table while 1 little pumpkin sits upon my mantle with some fall items I already had. Fall decor for $1. That's my kind of decorating.

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Menu Plan Monday 10/5/08-10/11/08

I never got around to planning it all out last week but we did well with planning a couple of days in advance through the week. Not how I like to do it but sometimes that happens and you just have to deal Here is what I have for this week. A super busy week so we're going for fast and easy most days.

Monday: Sandwiches & Chips/Crackers*update* we added veggie soup

Tuesday: Meat Loaf, Mashed Potatoes & Salad

Wednesday: Chicken Quesadillas with fixins

Thursday: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, AppleSauce & Raw Veggies

Friday: Souvlaki with pita bread and some sort of rice

Saturday: Grilled Steaks, Salad and some sort of veggie(still working on this one as well)

Sunday: Leftovers

For more menu planning ideas, check out I'm an Organizing Junkie's Menu Plan Monday.

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CVS Deals of the Week 9/28/08-10/4/08

Just one trip to CVS for me this week. I wasn't sure I was going to go but I just couldn't pass up a deal on my kids' favorite toothpaste and the razor for my dear husband.



What I bought:

2 Colgate Kids Toothpaste $5
1 Gillette Fusion Power Razor $9.99
3 Johnson's Buddies Soap $3.57


Qs Used:
2 75 cents off Colgate Toothpaste
1$3/3 Johnson's Buddies
1 $4 off any Gilette Fusion Razor
$7 ECBs


Total OOP: $3.75
Earned: $9.50 ECBs which includes my Summer quarterly earnings.


For more great savings be sure to check out Money Saving Mom's Super Savings Saturday and The "Cents"ible Sawyer's CVS Superstars.

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