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It's been awhile since I was able to post. My mother finally passed the veil on Friday Nov. 21 2008, after two years of illness. We have been dealing with the arrangements for several weeks now, and finally finished up this week. I'm getting back into work and research, will post more next week sometime. Thank you for all those who gave their love and support during this stressful time.
So, I'm cruising the Net reading other ppl's frugal ideas, and I finally run across one that uses waste paper in a good way. Now, I've already got several uses for waste paper (junk mail, phone books, sale papers), such as hand made paper (fun, but really only usable for crafty stuff), worm bedding (White paper only), compost, filling in holes in the yard or putting in the bottoms of potted plants to keep the dirt from getting out of the holes. Still, we have bags and bags of paper lying around. Enter home made kitty litter! I ran across a website that uses waste paper to make kitty litter. So you are asking about now, "What's the deal, kitty litter isn't THAT expensive!" It is, when you have 11 cats. And with any luck, it won't track all over the place from the 3 cat boxes. I'm trying it today, I'll post more once it's done.
For those of you who are looking confusedly at the date right now, It's Samhain, the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one. If you really want to know more about it, here's the Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SamhainNovember is our second frugal month. Until December 1, we will not spend any money except for bills, food, gas and medical needs. This one's gonna be a bit tighter than the previous one, since our food stockpile is running low. The chickens are cutting back on egg deliverys due to the shorter days, the fall garden's barely got a start, and no more freebie produce from the local natural foods store, as they've been bought out by a corporation in CA, and corporate policy is all culled produce must go into the dumpster to be taken to the landfill. They throw out at least 50-100 pounds of perfectly edible produce every DAY. Staggering to think of how many people that could feed. So, it probably won't be till tax refund time until the food stockpile is totally restocked. At least gas prices are dropping, thank the Goddess!
