I need welcome to thrifty Thursday I know it's thrifty Thursday but I am a
scatterbrain mess today so you're gonna follow along with me because I got a net
the chickens out there coop and it is eight o'clock can you believe it I
cannot believe that I'm only now getting started but I can explain
I can explain
last night it was up later than usual I think it was up till 10 o'clock at night
working on some videos and getting some work done that means I slept in I slept
in till 6 o'clock but by the time I comment everybody that commented me
while I was sleeping well yeah you can see that my day is getting slow to start
you know I'm scatterbrained these days that's one thing that menopause seems to
do to you oh nobody ever explained to me about the hot flashes oh when it's 40
degrees outside and I still got hot flashes oh my goodness it's crazy but we
do the best we can now don't we it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood it's a
beautiful day to be my neighbor won't you be mine won't she be mine he
supposed to be sixty degrees today can we hear uh I am so excited for this
summer and the spring I know that I'll be complaining about the heat because we
don't have air condition other than our bedroom but through the years it's been
pretty good so what I just did is I let the chickens out and now we're gonna go
and I'm gonna show you what I got for thrifty Thursday and why in the world
did I buy a metal box what's that for oh my goodness the first thing I have to do
is I have my insta pot out because I want to cook a whole bunch of chicken I
was going to make chicken pot pie this I'm filming on Wednesday and you're
seeing it Thursday night but hobby was really hungry for the chicken and he ate
it but and I said that's okay I'll just make some more chicken so that's gonna
be a video coming up here real soon I hope you enjoy some of these videos
about my PA Dutch traditions and the food that we eat and my mom's recipes so
I'm gonna work on this chicken real quick and then we'll get to the thrifty
Thursday so what grandma would say I have a lot of bits and bobs of chicken
here so this comes from different places and I am gonna rinse my chicken I'm just
gonna open it up now on camera put it in this big kettle and I'm gonna
rinse it and put it in my insta pot I'm cleaning out my freezers because spring
is almost here and so I'm cleaning out my freezers and I'm going to have room
that way I have it for all my new vegetables and food that has been
harvested a lot of people talked about my chicken and my counter and how I use
all these all this for my chicken well let me show you what I do afterwards you
know so many times in a video I edit things out and so people don't really
see the full picture so I'm going to show you in a moment what I do
afterwards as you see I'm working with chicken and I'm kind of cross
contaminating things like people would say after I'm done working with chicken
this is 99% alcohol this is pie about as strong an alcohol as you can get just
about and I get this through Amazon and I put it in my bottle which you've seen
me do many times and I use essential oil so this essential oil I'm using is
eucalyptus which I am going to be doing a video on my sensual oils I promise I
promise you I just use them all throughout my videos so it's hard to
just sit down and make a video so there you go that's how I clean my surfaces
when I work with chicken and just daily cleaning but what I have in the insta
pot is I have some peppers and some celery that I got at the food pantry and
then I never ever ever buy chicken broth because I have my end but when the food
pantry has it to throw away I pick it up and I use this first because as you see
the cans are dented so I'm gonna add this whole can of chicken broth you're
supposed to add like 2 cups of liquid but I'm just adding the whole can and
now I'm just got throw my frozen chicken in here which I have it rinsed alright
so now I'm going to turn on insta pot and then we'll get showing you what I
got this week for the thrift store since the pot it's just so is easy you
don't have to do anything but just turn on the switch and I
put it for chicken there we go so I got that done now let's go in the let's go
sit at the table okay so 50 Thursday was a fun day and I think I went last Friday
I go one day a week but I don't go on Thursday of course because then I have
to make the video at the same day which is almost impossible so I will usually
have my videos a day behind so this is Wednesday hi and you're seeing it
Thursday night remember videos are 7 p.m. Eastern Time daily so here's what I
got
you're gonna wonder why in the world did I buy this okay so the price on it was
two dollars the price and it was two dollars but I only paid a dollar for it
because I had a 50% off coupon for any one item so for one dollar I got this
metal metal file cabinet or whatever you want to call it this is what looks like
stuff this is my nifty idea as you know I got all of those garden seeds well
every month I go through the garden seeds and I pulled out what I want to
plant that month because for me I don't just plant one month out of the year
I'll plant certain things in February I'll play it certain things in March
then in April then in May then June July so what I'm doing is I'm pulling out
everything I need for the month of March so I've been putting my seeds in this
basket well this way I can add some other things as well so we're gonna put
everything in here I'm gonna decorate the box I thought maybe I could put
something up here and decorate it my own little gardening box so for the month of
March I thought I'll share with you when I'm planting now March 12 is when I
plant my tomato seeds in the house it's always March 12
that's the day I do it and it works out perfect so johnny jump ups we're going
to be planting some more of them sweet peas sweet peas are my second favorite
flower we got to plant our sweet peas and that we plant outside sweet peas can
take it really cold in fact I plan at sweet peas already and it was Frost and
they still grew really nice sweet peas and then tomatoes so I have three
packages of tomatoes now in that big box of tomatoes there wasn't many tomatoes
but that's okay because I would I was gifted these tomatoes and there is a
really special story behind that that I'm working on a video to share with all
of you so we have Boni best Abe Lincoln and pink ox heart that's what we're
planning this year for my tomatoes and then the kind that was in that box was
long keeper so we're gonna plant some long keeper okay so now we're gonna
plant some and this was all from that box of seeds some chamomile some
lavender and then rosemary seeds I'm gonna really give this a try I'm gonna
try my hardest to see if I give them to grow because I've never grown rosemary
by seed and then sage I have another strawberry and I have two of the peppers
I'm gonna plant because the peppers that I did plant the seeds were really old so
I'm gonna try that a little more and then we have globe amaranth if you don't
know what that is I would advise you to look it up it is my favorite favorite
favorite flower to dry it's so beautiful it keeps its vibrant color so globe
amaranth and then I'm sweet peas and then it's time to do my wheatgrass so
what I will do is plant my wheatgrass and I cut it and I give it to my
chickens and plus we eat it okay so that is my seed
so that is my ratalie so that is my seed box okay the thing is noisy I know
and then for half off because it was yellow I got this for three dollars now
it does supposed to come with the kettle it didn't have a kettle that it goes to
but I have the kettle so this is to blanch things and I thought for three
dollars and half off a dollar fifty I thought this was a pretty good idea
because I do have another kettle that this fits in then I can always use
things like this I use this for all kinds of things have you ever tried
taking tea tea bags and hot water and then taking some linens and white linens
and you can actually t stain them to make them look really old-fashioned I
did a video on that hmm if I can find it I'll put at the end of this one but this
would be great for doing that you could put all your white linens in here and
then you have the tea water and it's just amazing it looks so old-fashioned
and it's just so homespun type look to it I like doing that and then I got the
books were half off I got the dollar Deva well I like the dollar part maybe
not so much the Deva part of it but the dollar Deva so there's some recipes in
here I think that's worth trying and then if you seen my Monday's video where
I showed the rolling pin covers it was yellow so it was half off so I got it
for 35 cents and I got another one of them I know I bet you can't figure out
why I hoard certain things but I love using them and I use them from all kinds
of projects so I got another one and it's vintage I know a lot of you would
not use vintage items but I do
so everyone that is my 50 Thursday and I'm really excited happy to get the
projects going really happy for spring and summer but I want to share with you
Danny's diary so I did this in the past but I keep forgetting to do it this is
Fanny's diary and a lot of people that are new to my channel don't understand
it and I'll share a little more about it but this is Fanny's diary
it's in really bad shape that's because I use it a lot because I do it for my
reading of my Diaries online but I will be once this is all done I will be
preserving this so this is Fanny's diary hopefully the camera can pick it up and
so let's read Fanny's diary March 5th and I'm going to show you how she has it
so you can see it's a little hard sometimes to decipher the different
years you know when Fanny wrote in her diary she didn't write it that she
thought people would read it and surely she didn't think people would be
listening to it so it's a 5-year diary and so 1944 brings me here right here is
1944 so from Fanny's Diary March 5th 1944 it was a nice and beautiful day we
had a lot of sunshine and all the snow melted bright rut and jr. were here in
the evening and so viennese diary is just that it's just her everyday life
this isn't a historical diary this isn't a diary work it she talks a lot about
the news extended news and this is her diary this is handwritten from her and
this is my husband's grandma but I took care of her she was my best friend as a
young married woman at age 17 grandma played a big role in my life because I
moved far away from home and so Fanny was there for me and I helped take care
of her until she passed away and I was there moments after she passed away and
so she didn't write about things you know with the government or things about
history she wrote about her history and that is
cleaning and cooking lot of visitors she talks about canning and growing her
garden she calls daddy is her husband Peter and he died when she was only in
her 50s and so Fanny talks about her life and so this is her diary and I
treasure it I also have a diary of Fanny's mother and it's not a complete
diary in fact it's only a few months I'm gonna be working on that as well
I also have a diary from the 1800s that's my husband's ancestors that would
be his I think his great-grandma and so I will
be sharing that as well but this is Danny's diary and those of you who wish
to see what it looked like it's nothing spectacular Danny was a wife and mother
and most of all she was a farm wife and so her world was the farm and I can
relate to a lot of that in those days the woman stayed at home it was a very
sheltered life and so that is the life they're dead and that's the life they
wrote about very interesting isn't it so much for spending the morning with me my
videos are always in the morning the first thing I do when I get up is I turn
on the camera and I share with you my morning in my day it's hard to film in
the evening especially in the winter time because it's pretty dark in here
but I'll share with you my evenings coming up here in this summer and what I
do in the evenings because it's really interesting because a lot of times I
would do my work in the early morning and then late in the evening when it's
cooler because it's simply very hot here I always tell people I live in a tin can
and it gets really hot here but I'm really thankful for all the amazing
trees my home is just surrounded by trees and so that really helps to keep
it so much cooler here in the hot summer months
take carry one we'll see you guys tomorrow