I just threw away a few $100 😩😩😩

Published: Sun, 05/07/23

I just learned a big, hard lesson.

After way too long of avoiding one of my cabinets, I took some time to clean it out last week. What did I find in there? Boxes and boxes of unused, brand new, EXPIRED contact lenses. I had bought them through the years for myself, for Justus, and for Elias and in true Laura fashion, I had bought in bulk and bought ahead. Yay me, right? Get ahead, save money, save time.

Um. Well. This is only works if you actually USE WHAT YOU BOUGHT. But in fact, we did not use what we had before we needed updated prescriptions. Therefore, the unused contacts formed a huge pile in the cabinet. I shuffled through the boxes to see what still worked for any of us. Not only did they not work, they had all expired - some of them way back in 2017! Wow.

The moral of this story is: If you're gonna buy it, you should actually use it.

This can happen with anything, but I think it can really happen in the kitchen with our stores of food if we aren't careful. It's really important to use what we have so that it won't get wasted. How do we do this?

Tiffany at Don't Waste the Crumbs has a really great Kitchen Sink Pantry Challenge starting tomorrow that walks us through creative ways to use what we buy to make great meals so that we get all the bang for our bucks. Join here - it's free!

Snacks for your weekend

Pick one or all of these for your people to snack on:

Pineapple Fluff

This is a perfect side dish for spring/summer meals: Pineapple Fluff Salad. <---made with real food ingredients

Still sniffing over the lost contacts,

Laura @ HeavenlyHomemakers.com

316 W. 11th St.
York NE 68467
USA

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