Freezer Inventory

Today I decided to attempt to tackle one of our deepfreezers. We have two, one we put all the prepared meals in, and the other is the dumping grounds.
I don't know about you, but going into my freezer is often a surprise, and a surprise that I actually have the items. Or worse, none of the items. A downfall of being a stockpiler is the assumption you always have items on hand. Today I discovered I was out of bread.
I threw everything out of the deepfreezer onto the floor. I brought over milk crates to help sort the items. 
I often grab veggies, fruit and ground beef from my deepfreezer. After I sorted the items, I grabbed large reusable bags and sorted on these 3 categories.  Then I put the randoms on top. As you can see, I have lots of treats. My daughter has a party this weekend, and icecream for the kids. I found a package of candycane bark from Costco that I had forgotten about that was a great surprise!
After taking inventory, I am now aware what I have in the house for food. There was more fruit then I realized which will help cut down on the upcoming weeks' food budget.
Now, get organizing the freezer and happy saving. Who else is cheap?
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CAA Discounts

I have realized that there are a lot of deals that I have been missing if I had used my CAA card.  I went through the list of all the deals posted on the CAA website that I would use. I hope that the list helps you out.

DINING
10% off Durty Nellys
10% off East Side Marios
10% off Hard Rock Cafe
10% off Jungle Jim
10% off Montanas
Free soft drink when you buy fries or poutine at New York Fries
15% off Ryan Duffys
2 can dine for $15.99 Swiss Chalet


ACCOMADATIONS
15% off Atlantica Resort Oak Island and Halifax
10% off Best Western
10% Cambridge Suites
5% off Delta
Hampton Inn has monthly specials
10% off regular rates at White Point
$20 off Sell Rate at Digby Pines
10% off Lord Nelson

ACTIVITIES
10% off Anne of Green Gables
$20 off Cirque Du Soleil
10% off Fisheries Museum entry and Gift Shop
$1 off Martimes Museum of Atlantic
Neptune Theatre random discounts
$3 off family pass Ross Farm
10% off Via Rail
$9 adult pass, $11 Kid Pack and kid pass$27.50 2 adult passes 2 drinks 1 popcorn for Cineplex, only available at a CAA office

Minimilist?

 This year I took on a HUGE endeavor, purging our house.  It took this long because I have touched every item we have, including all of the holiday boxes that are packed up.
As I touched each item, I asked myself if the item serves a purpose, or brings me joy.  If the answer to these questions was yes, it stayed, and if not, away it went. No item was safe. This is a great documentary I recommend if you are needing a little motivation. http://www.theminimalists.com/netflix/  
For those that have been following my blog for a while I sell a lot of items online. You can re-visit this here:
http://guesswhoscheap.blogspot.ca/2016/08/yard-sale-part-two.html
I posted a lot of my items on Facebook Buy and Sell Groups to sell.  It takes effort to take and post the picture, put on Facebook and answer questions but it helps out financially. It was a nice perk to earn some money as I was attempting to travel the road to being a minimalist. I have a goal to sell or save $5 a day.  By selling the items it helped a lot with making extra payments on our home mortgage.  Win Win.
I hate to admit this, but I have packed and priced up 21 boxes for a Yard Sale that I will be having this Spring.  Sadly, this doesn't include what I sold online. It has been a very lofty goal for me to be a minimalist and if you visit my house you may not notice that I have tried. But I see a difference and hey it is all about our own personal path.
I list things online to sell that is over $2 if I have similar items. Then if it doesn't sell it goes in a yard sale box, then lastly I take it to Value Village.  My girls are involved in Girl Guides, if they have their yard sale again this year all the unsold items will go there.
Good Luck to you if you choose this path, and if you have achieved this already I bow down in awe.   And the extra money, BONUS!
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