"Fancy Nancy" Calendar Frame

Good Morning Thrifty Folks!

I hope you all are safe and warm with plenty of food during this snow season. While I have seen lots of photos with people sledding and making snowmen we are watching from afar. But since this has been going on for too many days my mind is ready to create something. LOL. 

While I was sitting at my computer I looked up to the calendar on the wall and I thought... gee that could use some improvement. Most of us will either get a free calendar at the beginning of the year or we may buy a cheap one. 

As I looked around the room I spied a gold picture frame. Immediately I wondered if I could cut that free bank calendar and make it fit into that picture frame. Well, it worked after a few cuts with the scissors. 

I removed the front and back of the calendar. Then I took the cardboard back from the frame and used it to draw around the calendar. I cut it and and placed it inside the frame. Yeah... the new "fancy nancy" calendar frame. You are probably thinking I will have to take that frame down and change out the month. But don't we have to take the calendar down to fold it over to the next month anyway?? 

But for the entire month we will have a cute calendar to look at instead of just a plain one!! The best thing for this Thrifty Sissy is the cost....zero and about 10 minutes of my day!! 

Ya'll stay warm and safe. But most of all stay "Thrifty." By the way thanks to Wilson Bank and Trust for the calendar!!!

Hints for Dry Sheets

 Good Morning Thrifties!!

I hope this finds you all well, up and at 'em this morning. Since I have been diagnosed with Covid I have had too much time on my hands so I have been on the iPad looking at first one thing and then the other. 

While snooping around on Pinterest I found this list of the things dry sheets can be used for besides just making you laundry smell good. I was amazed at all the uses somebody found for them. While I haven't used them in a while after reading this list I have decided to get some and try these hints out. When I did use them I simply threw them in the trash after the load of clothes was finished. But now there are multiple uses for even the old ones. This is definitely a "thrifty" idea!!

You may already know a lot of them but maybe there will be a few you haven't heard of on this list. Y'all have a great week and stay "Thrifty."

"Put Back" Bucket

 Good January Monday Morning to you all...

Here we are moving quickly through the first month of the year. Most of the store, blogs and Instagram posts are touting organization for this first month. We know how things have accumulated or been replaced by new gifts or purchases during December. 

So now we have to go through the old things and get ourself set up for the rest of the year. But things have a way of getting scattered and misplaced as the days go by. Things that we brought from the bedroom into the living room never made it back to their place. Things we needed from the garage ended up in the kitchen. We forgot to put them back where we got them. 

Oh dear! This forgetting to put things back where they belong after a while can take on a life of its own. Besides that we have a hard time finding what we need when we need it. Then those misplaced things start to pile up and get in the way of our normal life. 

So here's a suggestion. Most of us have a laundry basket or some sort of large tote we can use to gather up all those things and take them back to their home. Think about it. Quick as a wink you could grab your "take back" basket and make a stroll through your home corralling those misplaced things. What a good idea. 

Now you don't have to do it everyday but once a week you could take back things that have wandered away and recoup spaces that were lost. This is really a thrifty idea... No money spend and only a little time and you take back missing items and space. 

I hope you all have a really good week and practice being "thrifty" too.