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Frugal Fun in the Fruitlands: Floating Cardboard Edition
Posted by Lise on 01 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: frugality, lunenblog
Lunenburg Public Library, which owns my heart as well as my soul, has some great plans to entertain us in August:
- The annual Great Cardboard Boat Race sets sail this Saturday, August 4th, at 5pm at the town beach on Lake Whalom. Having seen the entry forms, which specify such things as “crew must be reasonably warm-blooded,” I am hoping I can connive my father into attending. Even if the event is less than stellar… hey, at least we’re at the beach.
- Annual Block Party - Farewell to Harry Potter, on Thursday, August 9th at 6pm. The last time I was in the library, I noticed a copy of Deathly Hallows go out on the new books shelf and disappear within seconds. Apparently the library has eight copies and still accommodates a waiting list.
And let us not forget Lunenburg’s Summer ArtsFest, happening August 10th-11th, at various locations. (Flier at the link above).
Frugal Fun in the Fruitlands: Week of 7/23/07
Posted by Lise on 23 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: frugality, lunenblog
* Lanni Orchards on Rte 13 in Lunenburg is offering pick-your-own raspberries and blueberries through the month of August. Raspberries are $2.50/lb and blueberries are $1.75/lb. My mom is coming to visit this weekend, and I fully intend to drag her there.
* The Yankee Brass Band will be playing “a selection of quicksteps, gallops, polkas, waltzes, overtures and medleys once popular in the mid-1800s” at Lunenburg High School on Thursday, July 26th at 7pm. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. See the Sentinel & Enterprise article here.
* Lunenburg Public Library is offering a free showing of the Russian film The Island (Ostrov) this Friday, July 27th at 8pm. IMDb describes it thus: “Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future,” and one reviewer describes it as “a movie that has the power to save souls.” Russian with English subtitles.
This does not, strictly speaking, have to do with local events, but I had to draw your attention to this Sentinel & Enterprise article: Finding the Perfect Yard Sale… Online. Apparently a Leominster resident had many of the same ideas I did about using the Internet to aid your yard sale search, and started up a yard sale database. Admittedly, there are lot of such databases out there these days, but I will add Yard-Sale-Search.com to my list, if only because it has a local focus. Go Mark!
Building a Garage Sale Route with Google Maps
Posted by Lise on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: frugality, lunenblog
Welcome, readers brought in by one of my most popular search terms! If you like this article, you might also like Coupons vs. Generics: Contact Solution, Ten (Other) Ways to Make Your College Education Pay Dividends, or my Spendthrift Sunday series.
Garage sales, yard sales, rummage sales, tag sales, estate sales - whatever they’re called, my husband and I love them. When we lived in Watertown we used to hit all the sales within walking distance. Our set of pilsener glasses came from a rummage sale ($2), as did our queen-sized mattress ($40, and the seller helped us carry it up the hill to our apartment) and a few rare board games (Tales of the Arabian Nights for 50 cents). Altogether, it was a thrifty, healthy way for us to spend couple time together and get out some of the shopping urges.
Alas, Lunenburg is not so pedestrian-friendly, and that, combined with the price of gas, has kept us away from the garage sale finds this year. Recently, however, I was inspired by “Garage sales hunts: using the net to make your hunt more effective” on The Dollar Stretcher, and decided to plan my own gas- and time-saving garage sale route for this weekend. In the process I discovered a wealth of web resources for planning a garage sale hunt.