The Blessing of Unexpected Sales

The more I get into using coupons and watching sales the more I come to realize how much God is taking care of my husband and I though our food bill.  I've known some Christians when times are tight a mysterious small check shows up to get them though the month, and others a old car goes without needing repairs, and for us right now I think some of it is unexpected sales that help keep us within what we can afford.

Let me take this week as an example.  We are going camping this weekend for a couple days and thus this week needed to get things bought that will be easy to cook while camping.  I mostly kept with things that would be lower cost, but I also added bratwurst one day.  Now here is the thing with hot dogs type foods, I dislike normal cheaper hot dogs (unless they are in pigs in a blankets for some reason) and bratwurst is so expensive (and fattening) for what you get that we rarely have them.  I added them though to the camping menu cause it would be a easy thing and my husband really likes them so I thought they would be a treat.  When I went to the store to get them I discovered that they were on sale this week.  They were normally like $4 and they were on sale for $2.50!  Cheese was another thing that is normally a more expensive item that I buy, and it happened to be on sale for the best price I can normally get it at this week.  Still not cheap, but more manageable.

This is not something I planned the trip around obviously or bought early when on sale to keep until now, but God still blessed us by providing for us not just what we needed, but what we wanted.

Thank you God for things like this and so much more!    

Copper Bottoms

I like cleaning the bottoms of copper pots.  I know it may seem weird, but there is just something about scrubbing and working at it until its nice and shiny.  I like the fairly instant gratification of seeing something all dark tarnished emerge into something shiny and beautiful.  Yes, I do believe I just called a pan beautiful.  I think I'm either crazy or something.  I would normally blame it on becoming a homemaker and that messing with my mind, but my mom had copper bottoms on her pans and I loved doing it years ago.  (When I had the time that is, for some reason I never liked doing it so much when asked...)

I mostly have a set of stainless steal, but this past weekend my mother in law passed on an old copper bottom pan and so I started working on it this evening.  I just use a brillo pad for the whole process as it's what I have, but may see if there are any better ways to do it (...starts searching Pinterest...) cause I may not always have brillo pads around once these run out.  It's only about halfway done and my arms are starting to hurt, but it is nice to little by little see progress.