Happy Birthday to Me!

Today is my birthday and while we celebrated a bit differently than usual, it was still enjoyable. 

Hubby made me a nice birthday card as usual...

My friend surprised me this morning by leaving a gift on my doorstep and ringing our doorbell then by the time I could answer the door, she was already back in her car (I guess this is the new social distancing way to visit people?) which was really sweet...

Hubby and I walked over to pick up a free birthday ice cream cone at Baskin Robbins...

And our usual birthday dinner out will be put on hold until our restaurants open back up but we did pick up a pizza to take home and eat...

Overall, it was a really nice birthday!

A Frugal Birthday and Five Other Things

It's my 51st birthday today so we spent it as frugally as ever.  Hubby made me a birthday card (as he has done for the past 30+ years) which is really the only thing I want for my birthday.  Then we went and had lunch at our favorite Indian buffet (a splurge because I really can't eat $15 worth of food but once in a while it is a nice treat).  We then wandered around at a couple of stores (and didn't buy anything) and that was about it.  We don't really do anything for our birthdays as anything we want we buy when we want it and after all of these years we don't hit the nightclub/party circuit either which is just fine by me so overall it was a nice quiet day!

And five other things that have come across my feed reader:

1. Students are being prepared for jobs that no longer exist.  That can't be good.
2. The Ultimate List of Educational Websites.  This is good...and useful.
3. Plant-based diets can reverse chronic diseases.  Someone please tell this to all of the hospital dietitians out there.
4. Some funny memes for all the nurses out there.  
5. Finally, be part of the Free Seed Project and get some free garden seeds here.

The Birthday List

My birthday is coming up next month and while I am not so thrilled about growing older--who is?--there is one part of having a birthday that frugal me enjoys and that is birthday freebies.  As I was perusing one of my news feeds today, this article came up and it was a good reminder that it is time to make sure I am signed up to as many birthday freebies as possible. 

About a week before my birthday, my email inbox becomes flooded with freebie offers and coupons from the many places that offer these just for giving them your email address.  Of course we don't hit up all of the freebies (a dozen restaurants offering everything from milkshakes to donuts to other junk food is a nice thought but not something you would want to eat all in one day) but it is a fun way to celebrate frugally by picking up a free treat here and there.

Celebrating My Birthday

My birthday was a few days ago and I just got done celebrating  it with free stuff!  A couple of years ago when we first moved here and we had very little money, I was looking for ways to celebrate our birthdays on the cheap.  I went online and found a website similar to this one and promptly signed up for a bunch of birthday freebies at local restaurants.

A week or so ago my email box was flooded with coupons for free stuff!  While there were a few we couldn't use (like Dennys where you get a free meal only on your birthday and we were traveling at the time with nary a Dennys in sight) or didn't want to use (buy one get one free deals are kind of meh), we did end up sharing the following free (yummy) items from some great restaurants:

...a pizza from Grimaldies

...a scoop of ice cream from Baskin Robbins

...a milkshake from Del Taco

...and a breakfast from IHop

What a wonderful way to celebrate a birthday!