Successes/Blessings:
- I made hot process soap (oh yes I did!! Pictured above) for the first time. I made it using the lard from the 1/2 pig we ordered this Spring.
- All laundry was hung outside to dry this week.
- We had leftovers 2 times.
- We had a chilly day this past week (low 50’s), so I cooked up one of the hams that I bought around Easter time on sale. We had 3 dinners and 1 lunch from that one ham. I put the bone in the freezer to make stock with.
- I ground flour in my grain mill (I have this hand mill
and this electric mill
) to make bread.
- I purchased 40lbs of soft white wheat from a local farm/feed store for $8.25. (Note: Before you buy grains from a feed store to eat, double check with the farmer that the grain is suitable for human consumption. This is important as some animal feed grains are either sprayed heavily with chemicals and/or are not cleaned properly).
- My mom brought lunch over one day when she came to visit and help me in the garden.
- Cloth diapers. Huge savings.
- Our utility bill has gone way down the last 2 months because the weather has been so mild. `
- We used our family membership to go to our favorite 19th Century living museum (since we had the membership, it cost us nothing). Our family is large enough that we easily pay for our membership within 2 visits, and we go much more than that! It’s educational, fun, inexpensive, and seeing how things were done back then totally makes us pine for a country homesteading life even more!
Cultivating:
They grow their own hops for beer making:
The kids learning how newspapers were printed in the 1840’s!
And the tinsmsith! I love their lanterns that they make here. They sell for almost $100 in the giftshop (yeesh)…maybe I can convince the tinsmith to teach me how to make my own sometime. 
How did you save money this week?
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We love that same 19th Century living museum. My favorite is the octagon house.
If you haven’t already, check out the nature trails. We like to pick up rocks there & find salamanders.
What a great deal on the wheat! And congratulations on making soap!!! That is on my to-do list for a long time now… I did make candles from our tallow this week
Hooray for the soap! I would love to do that one day. We have a wonderful living museum like that near us and the metal worker makes the most amazing candlesticks and lanterns. Except ours are really reasonably priced, so I always pick up some little item for the house when we go.