3 meals from $33
The current score of the game: $9,500 debt left to pay off- 4.5K car loan, 5K surgery bill. Now I'm down to 4 digits!
I made a $500 car payment this morning.
Yesterday my organizing client and I were going through her "command center" in her kitchen, and we found 4 Southwest Airlines drink coupons. She's pregnant/not drinking, and she offered them to me! I'm flying Southwest in the fall down to my high school bestie's wedding in Jamaica, so these coupons can help me get into the trip spirit.
I've made good on my promise to do one thing every day to pay off this debt. Even on days when I can't make payments, I am doing little things to help- yesterday in addition to scoring the free coupons, I also spent nothing- not even on Needs. Didn't need to buy groceries or fill my tank with gas.
For groceries I've been shopping at Sprouts since they have inexpensive healthy foods. I start in the meat section- they have neon orange stickers on everything that's on sale, and their sales are half off- it's food that's expiring in the next 2 days. So I buy it and immediately go home and throw it in the slow cookers, on the stove, or in the freezer. The other day I spent $33 at Sprouts, and have made 3 meals from that: Oven baked Pacific rockfish (the marinade used herbs that had been in my freezer since last month), Lamb curry soup in the slow cooker, and spaghetti bolognese- plus 2 more lbs of minced Italian chicken sausage in the freezer for a rainy day, and a cart of Almond milk for my morning shakes. That's like 6-7 days worth of food for $33. I did have some ingredients for these things already (like the brown rice pasta, and the homemade broth for the lamb soup) but that's still pretty epic.
Here's a thing I made the first week of the Spending Freeze- I have broccoli stems, brown rice, diced tomatoes, black beans, bacon and hot sauce, so I made a random dish. Kept me fed for 6 meals, and I didn't spend a cent!
I made a $500 car payment this morning.
Yesterday my organizing client and I were going through her "command center" in her kitchen, and we found 4 Southwest Airlines drink coupons. She's pregnant/not drinking, and she offered them to me! I'm flying Southwest in the fall down to my high school bestie's wedding in Jamaica, so these coupons can help me get into the trip spirit.
I've made good on my promise to do one thing every day to pay off this debt. Even on days when I can't make payments, I am doing little things to help- yesterday in addition to scoring the free coupons, I also spent nothing- not even on Needs. Didn't need to buy groceries or fill my tank with gas.
For groceries I've been shopping at Sprouts since they have inexpensive healthy foods. I start in the meat section- they have neon orange stickers on everything that's on sale, and their sales are half off- it's food that's expiring in the next 2 days. So I buy it and immediately go home and throw it in the slow cookers, on the stove, or in the freezer. The other day I spent $33 at Sprouts, and have made 3 meals from that: Oven baked Pacific rockfish (the marinade used herbs that had been in my freezer since last month), Lamb curry soup in the slow cooker, and spaghetti bolognese- plus 2 more lbs of minced Italian chicken sausage in the freezer for a rainy day, and a cart of Almond milk for my morning shakes. That's like 6-7 days worth of food for $33. I did have some ingredients for these things already (like the brown rice pasta, and the homemade broth for the lamb soup) but that's still pretty epic.
Here's a thing I made the first week of the Spending Freeze- I have broccoli stems, brown rice, diced tomatoes, black beans, bacon and hot sauce, so I made a random dish. Kept me fed for 6 meals, and I didn't spend a cent!
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