Recent and necessary evils (purchases).

Good Bye Fridge!

In a previous post I mentioned that I was hoping to find a new home for my fridge, well the fridge is gone, and I am living out of an electric cooler. I have found a large sized bar fridge that uses the same amount of energy in one year as my old one used in 2 months. It is small, but I think it will be sufficient. I won’t have the new one until later this week, but I can already picture how open the kitchen will look with out the old Hulk. And a family than was needing a fridge now has one. I hope that this is not off loading, but I guess a free fridge is not a burden to a family with no fridge.

In preparation for the arrival of the new smaller fridge I have painted the previously hidden microwave stand and a little table that the new fridge will go on to put it at a convenient height with left-over paint from the trim in my house, so everything is all very match-y now.

I have started on a wedding gift for a friend, a sewing project, so far I am quite pleased. It did require the minimal capital purchase of a few sewing supplies, though they are all raw materials.

Last week I also bought materials for Halloween decorations. I guess this is a bit of a cheat, but most of the materials I already had. Cheese cloth for making ghosts for the yard ($3.40 per ghost). Rit dye for colouring it ($1.50 per pack) There are currently 2 in my yard I a white wispy one and a red demonic one. I also made ghosts with my friend Amy’s Step kids on Saturday night. They all turned out great. Very spooky.

The decorating of the yard turned out great. I made a coffin out of the old fence we took down this summer. It is all holes and cracks so the lights I put in it shine out in a eerie way. I also made a bunch of grave markers out of the fence boards, and other wood that has been salvaged, found under the deck, etc etc. There are creepy eyes peering out of the leaves made out of a cracked painted tennis ball left-over from an over-zealous dog named Jessie, and a Styrofoam ball that some how ended up in the bushes after a wind storm. I painted scary eyes on the old toilet that I replaced with a low flow, and added teeth and a long red tongue from the scraps of a long ago sewing project.

I really hope I get lots of kids on Halloween! Which brings me to my next purchase. I will need to buy Halloween candy. I can’t give away home-made stuff (safety issues). I am currently trying to see if there is such a thing as fair-trade candy, or organic or organic fair trade candy… so far no luck… sugar sugar everywhere, and not a fair-trade treat to eat!