From canceled streaming services to Indian meals to a smaller utility bill to library pickups, there was lots of frugality to be enjoyed this week. Plus: More found euros! Where are they coming from?
1. You’re not going to believe this, but … I found 50 more euros.
Lately, every time I declutter, I’m rewarded in the form of foreign currency! I have no idea why this is happening, but I’m not mad about it. This weekend I was doing the start of a deep declutter in our bedroom, and what was tucked under the bed in pristine condition? A 50-euro note! Now, it’s too late to use on our recent trip to Ireland, but no matter; it’ll spend just as well the next time we’re overseas!
2. I signed our household up for the Dominion Energy Peak Time Rebates Program.
I saw Katy over at The Non-Consumer Advocate sign up for her city’s Peak Time Rebates program the other day, and lo and behold, just this week I received a postcard from our utility company inviting me to do the same thing! Basically, how it works is: Dominion will text me during peak energy expenditures and I can choose to lower my energy consumption for a set amount of time. In exchange, they’ll give me a rebate on my bill, $1.25 per kilowatt hour. I’ll take it!
3. I canceled our Peacock streaming service.
We’d resubscribed to Peacock over the summer to enjoy the Tour de France, Olympics, Tour de Femme and Paralympics, but now that the latter is coming to a close, it’s time to cancel our subscription once more. We’ll have service through the Paralympics and that’s good enough for me! (And LeeLee now knows he has a deadline to watch all the old episodes of “Saturday Night Live” he can handle!)
4. We split the difference with a fast-casual meal for our movie date.
On Wednesday, we went to go see “My Neighbor Totoro” – one of the most beautiful movies ever made, in my estimation – and beforehand needed a bite to eat. While the very cheapest solution would have been to have something at home before we left for the theater, time was running short. So we decided to pop into Rasa, our favorite fast-casual Indian restaurant, for a couple of rice bowls before showtime. It saved us loads more than a sit-down restaurant would have cost and gave us a bit of date-night festivity besides!
5. It’s library pickup time again!
I feel like I write about this all the time, and maybe I do. But I cannot stress enough the sheer joy of having a well-stocked library system! On Tuesday I swung by my local branch to pick up a copy of “Bewilderment,” this month’s selection for one of the book clubs I’m a part of. From cookbooks to novels, memoirs to research tomes, the library is SUCH a great resource. And it even has a whole shelving unit dedicated to puzzle swaps, so sometimes I pop in and pick up a little treat to take home. I didn’t do that this week, but there’s still time!
:)