No.542: A List of July’s Frugal Accomplishments

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – J.R.R. Tolkien

+ We’ve been interested in solar generators as another piece of our power outage solution plan, but always thought it was out of our price range. Thankfully, I stumbled on a Youtube video with an affordable solution! The generator is a GoPower Plus and while there were rumblings that you could find them on clearance at Walmart, I ended up finding mine on ebay. (Amazon has the same one, but it’s more than I paid.)  The solar charger was also on clearance at Harbor Freight.  (P.S. This one system will obviously not be able to power much, but it’s a start!)

+ I gave my hair a trim.

+ We had an ant infestation in the garage, so I whipped up some simple homemade ant killer: equal parts baking soda and powdered sugar in the cap of an empty pasta sauce jar.  I also sprinkled cinnamon to deter any more from entering.

+ A handful of apples were bruised and starting to go bad, so the kids and I made cinnamon sugar apple chips in the dehydrator.  Here’s the recipe:

Cinnamon Sugar Apple Chips 4 apples a big squirt of lemon juice 2 Tbsp. sugar 2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Peel and core the apples, then cut into thin slices.

Mix together the remaining ingredients and then toss in the sliced apples, coating evenly.
Place on the dehydrator trays and dry at 145° for 6 hours.