Five Tiny Frugal Things | fast furniture fix

1. I used a furniture marker on my bedframe

I was rearranging my bedroom furniture recently, and I noticed my bedframe had some scratches on the footboard.

So, I got out my furniture markers and did a little furniture coloring. 🙂

This is not a perfect fix by any stretch of the imagination, but there is not a single part of me that wants to try a legit fix with stain and polyurethane.

Done is most certainly better than perfect here. 

 

I bought this set of furniture markers at Home Depot several years ago and I love them because there are shades that sufficiently match almost any stained furniture I happen to have. 

Aldi has occasionally sold furniture markers in their Special Buys aisle too, so keep an eye out when they do a home improvement themed week. 

2. I printed out another free calendar page

I use my very simple 321Done planner pad for my weekly planning, but I also like to have a monthly view. 

So, I always keep two months’ worth of calendar pages on my bulletin board above my desk. I like the free ones from Home Printables; they’ve got lots of different designs you can download and print. 

I own a seriously ink-saving Canon printer*, so it costs me almost nothing to print these each month. 

*This is the current model that is similar to mine; it has ink tanks that you refill with big bottles of ink. SO much more affordable than those stupid little cartridges. This one also looks similar, and ooh, it’s wireless! 

3. I transferred money from my WF account to my CIT account

Last summer, I opened a Wells Fargo account so that I could get an account-opening bonus.

(It was my first time having direct deposit, so I was excited to be able to take advantage of these kinds of offers!)

I got my bonus with no problems, and I’m way past the minimum-account-holding period, so I transferred all the money in there over to my CIT savings account, where it will work way harder for me. 

My hospital paychecks are about to get a lot bigger once my nurse pay rate kicks in, so I will keep an eye out for another good bonus offer to take advantage of. 

Also: my hospital recently made it way, way easier to change where your direct deposit goes, so doing bonus offers will be far simpler now. 

(The interest rate changes on the CIT Platinum account regularly, so just click here to see the current offering. The rate is always very competitive!)

4. I put a shirt out in the sun

My white American Giant shirt had a small stain on it, and given that it was probably a food stain, I decided to put it out in the sun to bleach the spot out.

Easy peasy and it worked great. 

This is the boxy tee from the end of this post about American Giant tees but I don’t think they sell this style anymore. 

5. I rescued a black-eyed Susan from my yard

Before I mowed my yard, I noticed that a black-eyed Susan had popped up in my yard. I most definitely did not plant it, so I guess it was just a volunteer.

I dug it up and stuck it in a pot just to save it from being mowed. 

Should I plant it in the ground somewhere? Or leave it in the pot? 

Interestingly, I also noticed two irises (with no flowers) in a spot in my yard where I’d never seen any before, and I dug those up too. I don’t know how they appeared because I have lived here for three years and never seen them!

But I will move them to a safe spot so they can maybe bloom in the future. 

Your turn! What frugal things have you been up to lately?