Monday Message

"Our Heavenly Father created this beautiful earth, with all its abundance, for our benefit and use. His purpose is to provide for our needs as we walk in faith and obedience. He has lovingly commanded us to ‘prepare every needful thing’ (see D&C 109:8) so that, should adversity come, we may care for ourselves and our neighbors, and support bishops as they care for others." (All is Safely Gathered In pamphlet)

I hope this finds you all well.

With more of everything going up in price we need to find ways to do for less.

My husband had a doctor appointment on a Tuesday and Goodwill was right by there as they share a parking lot. So I went there while he went to the doctor.

I found two rolls of fabric for $1.90 each after senior discount and I found a jumbo ball winder. You use it to turn your skeins of yarn into a cake of yarn as I show here with a small ball winder.

https://frugalmeasures.blogspot.com/2017/07/monday-message_24.html 

I have wanted a jumbo winder for a while but they are so costly

Here is the one i found at goodwill $4.92 after senior discount.  Mind you it just happened to be their senior discount day what a blessing.

It wasn't totally assembled, that took me an hour and a half as all I had to go by was a picture on the internet, no directions. I needed to put that wooden cone in place and attach the part at the bottom left corner. It was the cone that I had issues getting it in place, it went together like a puzzle. I needed to lift the post part which then let me slide it on. So this picture is of it all in place. That baggie in the pic has another belt and extra two of the screw things in the bottom left corner. I am guessing it came to be at Goodwill because they couldn't figure out how it went either. I thank them all for keeping the parts together. I NEVER EVER thought I would see one at Goodwill.

You just never can tell what you will find, so keep looking at thrift stores for items you need, this is a big way to do with less.

But you need to know your prices, different people price these things. For example, they had yarn acrylic for $4.80 a skein. This is not a good price. It was the same price the two rolls of fabric cost before senior discount.

I washed up the fabric and cut two dresses pictured here with my four-legged pattern weight.

I also had enough to cut two bodices and sleeves to be made into two peplum tops. Also sleeves I will put on an opposite-colored bodice. I have printed fabric to use for the peplum.

The camera could not get an accurate color of the fabric, but if you look at the close-up of the two flowers, that is the true color of the fabrics.

One skein of the yarn they had priced equaled the two dresses and two tops. So watch your prices.

One time I saw umbrellas, they were asking more money than the dollar store right next door. We need to be wise stewards of our money because things will be worse before they get better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLoeipbn7FY - worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlD4QqCouk - this is helpful. I used to yard sale all summer, getting school clothes and winter clothes and Christmas gifts for the kids. Getting school supplies was always a huge expense so picking up parts of the list all summer helps a lot.

Time to be learning those skills or brushing up on ones you have. The kids will be home for the summer, have them learn with you.

I was always so impressed with a family who adopted lots of kids - she taught each of them to make bread by hand and they each took turns baking the bread and did the best job I ever saw. Those kids now have kids and I am sure that skill helped them so much in their lives.

So make these skills a fun thing and not only will you learn but so will they.

Life is so very hard, these skills will help them so much more than handing them some money to throw at a problem. It will help them to look at problems in different ways, to figure it out, which is the best of gifts.

We are all going to have to look at things differently to solve what we are facing.

Missy says nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse so we need to be ready for whatever comes.

Tippy Longstockings says do the best you can, we will all get through this!