sometimes facebook marketplace or thrift stores (or even ebay) have lots of yarn very cheap. great if you are just beginning crocheting and don't want too invest much. Loom knitting on a round loom is very easy to start with and you can make a hat pretty quickly.
I hadn’t even thought of marketplace or thrift stores. Thank you for those suggestions! I definitely don’t want to invest too much money since I’m hoping this will be a low cost hobby. I’ll check out the loom idea, it’d be fun to learn how to make a hat. 😃
Watching this on December 23, 2024, so 🎶"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Burnaby Girl, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU" 🎵 Hope you are enjoying your day.
@burnabygirl8541 Growing up, they generally alternated between birthday and Christmas being bigger. I think she was often disappointed that a lot of her birthday stuff came in basically Christmas wrap versus birthday wrap.
@terryhenderson424 I feel that. I often get birthday gifts in Christmas wrap or one gift to be for both Christmas and birthday. It's tricky because I'm grateful for any gift someone chooses to give me, but at the same time, if my birthday was in the summer there'd be one gift for each, but then I realize I'm being greedy. I think it's just the fate of those with birthdays close to Christmas. :)
Wjen i am hosting a holiday or other meal, i keep myneyesnopen for sales, coupons, and clearamce months out; one to a few items at a time. Sometime in August/ September i put together a rough menu while continuing to keep my eye open for good to great prices and slowly adding to my party stockpile and firming up the menu.
You must be a very organized human to be able to plan that far out from the holiday. :) I barely plan a week out lol It is a good idea though, shopping for the non perishables or things that can be frozen in advance. I do that with Christmas shopping usually. I didn't in 2024 but in years past I shop for presents year round so by the time November hits my shopping is done and I spread the cost over the whole year instead of doing all my shopping in one or two months. I just never thought to do it with food before, I don't know why...
@burnabygirl8541 It began with pumpkin puree 50% off and more after Thanksgiving one year while the number of people were growing. The basic menu was generally the same for Thanksgiving, Christmas was often pretty variable but I did try to not make it Turkey, and New Years has at least predictable snack type foods and soda pop. Then there are the assorted holiday potlucks. Traditionally by Christmas time, the condiments are abiut the highest price they are going to be for the year but the skus they are not going to carry foreward from the BBQ season go on sale; also for the longest time the smaller squeeze bottle types couldn't be found for the most part and they work better on a buffet table type event. Truth be told, I often looked over my pantry and the foods we didn't prefer, could/ should no longer eat for health reasons, were closer to dating out, or we had a lot of often worked thier way into potluck foods.
sometimes facebook marketplace or thrift stores (or even ebay) have lots of yarn very cheap. great if you are just beginning crocheting and don't want too invest much. Loom knitting on a round loom is very easy to start with and you can make a hat pretty quickly.
I hadn’t even thought of marketplace or thrift stores. Thank you for those suggestions! I definitely don’t want to invest too much money since I’m hoping this will be a low cost hobby. I’ll check out the loom idea, it’d be fun to learn how to make a hat. 😃
Watching this on December 23, 2024, so
🎶"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Burnaby Girl, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU" 🎵
Hope you are enjoying your day.
Thank you! 💜💜
My mother's birthday was the 23rd of December too.
Did she like it? I have a love / hate relationship about it lol
@burnabygirl8541 Growing up, they generally alternated between birthday and Christmas being bigger. I think she was often disappointed that a lot of her birthday stuff came in basically Christmas wrap versus birthday wrap.
@terryhenderson424 I feel that. I often get birthday gifts in Christmas wrap or one gift to be for both Christmas and birthday. It's tricky because I'm grateful for any gift someone chooses to give me, but at the same time, if my birthday was in the summer there'd be one gift for each, but then I realize I'm being greedy. I think it's just the fate of those with birthdays close to Christmas. :)
Wjen i am hosting a holiday or other meal, i keep myneyesnopen for sales, coupons, and clearamce months out; one to a few items at a time. Sometime in August/ September i put together a rough menu while continuing to keep my eye open for good to great prices and slowly adding to my party stockpile and firming up the menu.
You must be a very organized human to be able to plan that far out from the holiday. :) I barely plan a week out lol It is a good idea though, shopping for the non perishables or things that can be frozen in advance. I do that with Christmas shopping usually. I didn't in 2024 but in years past I shop for presents year round so by the time November hits my shopping is done and I spread the cost over the whole year instead of doing all my shopping in one or two months. I just never thought to do it with food before, I don't know why...
@burnabygirl8541 It began with pumpkin puree 50% off and more after Thanksgiving one year while the number of people were growing. The basic menu was generally the same for Thanksgiving, Christmas was often pretty variable but I did try to not make it Turkey, and New Years has at least predictable snack type foods and soda pop.
Then there are the assorted holiday potlucks. Traditionally by Christmas time, the condiments are abiut the highest price they are going to be for the year but the skus they are not going to carry foreward from the BBQ season go on sale; also for the longest time the smaller squeeze bottle types couldn't be found for the most part and they work better on a buffet table type event. Truth be told, I often looked over my pantry and the foods we didn't prefer, could/ should no longer eat for health reasons, were closer to dating out, or we had a lot of often worked thier way into potluck foods.