One Hundred Dollars a Month - I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Mavis’ Favorite Things Giveaway – Day 2

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 3, 2020 · 834 Comments

As a way of giving back and thanking you for showing up here on this crazy little blog of mine, whether it’s everyday or every week or just when you need to pop by for a recipe, I thought it would be fun to give away 6 unique gifts this holiday season that have brought us a bit of happiness over the past year.

Some of the giveaways will be locally made products we’ve discovered since moving to New England, some will be handmade, and few will be something I discovered long ago but still find myself using year after year. These 6 giveaways are my way of saying thank you. I love getting up everyday to write this blog! So thank you for being a part of this blog, and for being here to keep the conversation going.

Mavis’ Favorite Things Giveaway – Day 2 – Pie, Glorious Pie!

I think it’s been pretty well documented here on the blog how much I love pie. Especially fruit pies. And so when I came across Kate McDermott’s The Art of Pie a few years ago, I pretty much fell in love with the book after trying a few of her recipes. So it should be no surprise to anyone that one of my giveaways this holiday season involves something to do with pie.

But not only do I love a good pie, I also love a good quality dishtowel and I’ve been using the Utopia brand of dishtowels for about 6 years now and so I’m including a pack of 12 of those in today’s giveaway as well.

Also, you can’t really bake a pie without some sort of pie pan and if I’m not using one of my antique tin pie plates, then I’m using one of the many ceramic pie dishes I’ve collected over the years and well, this beautiful blue KOOV ceramic pie dish matched the dishtowels and the pie book and so I’m tossing that into the giveaway too. 🙂

A slice of fresh pie, it’s pretty much the best thing on earth if you ask me. 😉

All you have to do to enter this giveaway is leave a comment below and let me know what your favorite pie is and if it’s homemade, from a bakery or somewhere else. We all want to know! 🙂

Rules

Comment must be left on the blog to count as an entry. 1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified. This giveaway is open to anyone on the planet earth.

This giveaway ends Monday, December 14th, 2020 @8 pm EST and all the winners of the Mavis’s Favorite Things Giveaway Series will be announced on December 15th, 2020. Winners will be notified via email and have 24 hours to claim their prize. If the prize is not claimed within 24 hours, the prize will be forfeited.

Good Luck! I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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Mavis’ Favorite Things Giveaway – Day – 1 Hand-forged Garden Tool Gift Set by Fisher Blacksmithing in Bozeman, Montana

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Mavis’ Favorite Things Giveaway – Day 1

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 2, 2020 · 768 Comments

Hello and Happy Wednesday!

These 6 giveaways are my way of saying thank you. I love getting up everyday to write this blog! So thank you for being a part of this blog, and for being here to keep the conversation going.

Mavis’ Favorite Things Giveaway – Day – 1 Hand-forged Garden Tool Gift Set by Fisher Blacksmithing in Bozeman, Montana

I first discovered Tuli Fisher and his insanely beautiful garden tools at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle back in 2014. I remember weaving my way down the aisles of all the wonderful vendor booths and then stopping in my tracks when I spied his tools. I simply had never seen a garden tool as beautiful as the ones he had on display, and picked one up immediately to see how it felt in my hand.

I went home that day with one of his Garden Rakes and when my husband came home that night I showed it to him and even he was impressed with not only the quality of the garden rake, but also agreeing it was worth every penny I had spent on it.

“Each tool is individually built using traditional blacksmithing techniques. Steel is heated to a red glow in the forge and then shaped over the anvil with a hammer. All joinery is done using solid steel rivets. And, each tool is set into its own hand turned handle creating a long-lasting garden tool with no welds. Black Walnut is used for handles. The tight grain of this strong hardwood makes it very durable. Best of all, it just feels good in your hand.”

6 years later… and with a few more of Tuli’s tools in my garden tote, I am still convinced he makes the best garden hand tools on the planet. Genuine quality products handmade by real humans… How cool is that?

All you have to do to enter this giveaway is leave a comment below and let me know what your favorite thing to grow in your garden is. We want to know. 🙂

Rules

Comment must be left on the blog to count as an entry. 1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified. This giveaway is open to anyone on the planet earth.

Good Luck! I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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Life in Maine – Port Clyde Village, The Marshall Point Lighthouse and a Glass Greenhouse

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 1, 2020 · 9 Comments

Yesterday, after baking about 10 dozen cookies and before the big storm hit {rain and winds up to 50+mph} The Girl headed home. It was a good visit, and I don’t think we could have squeezed another thing in even if we had tried.

We didn’t get to finish the jammie pants we started {hopefully I’ll finish them this week}, but we did have a boatload of fun hanging out and driving around Mid Coast Maine while she was here.

Have you ever been to the village of Port Clyde? No? Well if you ever come to Maine, you might want to put it on your list of places to see. Especially during the summer months when the art galleries and other shops that are scattered about the tiny town are open.

Winter time is my favorite though because all the tourists have gone home and the only people left in town are the year rounders. It’s so quiet, and peaceful and one of my favorite spots in Maine.

But my favorite place to visit when I’m in Port Clyde is the Marshall Point Lighthouse. Not only are the views amazing, but climbing around on the rocks is pretty fun too.

Bean Boots. A Maine staple.

And then of course there’s the house that you drive by on your way to the lighthouse with the insanely AWESOME garden. Complete with raised garden beds {I LOVE the stone borders} and glass greenhouse.

If we get another glass greenhouse again, I want one just like the people by the lighthouse have. Seriously, isn’t it gorgeous? There isn’t a fence around the veg patch though {well, not that I could spot from the road} so I’m not sure how they keep the critters out. But still, it makes me swoon every time I drive by it.

Here we are December 1st. And I’m already thinking about next year’s garden. 😉 It’s hard to imagine snow will be on the ground soon, and I won’t be able to get a shovel in the ground until late April. But still it’s never too early to start dreaming, right?

Wishing you all the best on this wet and blustery Tuesday morning,

~Mavis

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Monthly Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping Trips – Week 48 of 52

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By Mavis Butterfield on November 30, 2020 · 30 Comments

Big Purchase of the Week $5.11

Surprisingly, bananas are a little hard to come by at the General store. I’m always putting them on my list for my personal shopper and the HH only finds them about 25% of the time. Also, that little bin of lettuce, it’s the perfect amount for my 2 big salads a week.

General Store – Large salami and cheese sub to share $8.5o

Crazy good! And there’s even a little capicola in there for an extra kick.

Butternut squash ravioli from Costco. HOLY COW MAN… it was excellent {and we still have another container of the stuff!}.

The blue box. Why mess with childhood?

The HH cooks!

And I ate leftover potatoes for lunch the next day.

The HH also made the Copycat Panera tomato bisque soup recipe. It was soooooo good, I told him he should make it again this week. Have you tried it yet? Seriously, it takes just like Panera’s.

The Girl came with exotic gifts from afar…

Fuji Apples – You can’t find them in these parts
Giant Potatoes – See above
Meyer Lemons – Seriously? See above

When The Girl makes dinner.

The HH had a special request for his famous meatballs {in Rao’s sauce of course}.

And last but not least, our turkey dinner from last night. I was planning on making a cranberry pineapple marshmallow salad, but totally forgot I needed to soak the cranberries overnight so we had to use the cranberry sauce out of a can and I immediately regretted it. Blech.

Also, I asked The Girl if she wanted any of the extra turkey or scalloped potatoes to take home and she was like, sure, I can take it all. 😉

Oh well. We’ve got another turkey breast in the freezer, and honestly, it makes me happy I’m sending her home with containers of food {she wanted the meatballs from the night before too!}.

Comfort food. It’s the best thing on earth.

How about YOU? Did you end up with many leftovers this Thanksgiving? Curious minds want to know.

Have a good one,

~Mavis

Total Spent This Past Week on Groceries, Bakery Treats We Brought Home $13.61

Total Spent in November on Groceries and Bakery Treats $174.71
Total Spent in October on Groceries and Bakery Treats $871.38
Total Spent in September on Groceries and Bakery Treats $71.47
Total Spent in August on Groceries and Bakery Treats $426.99
Total Spent in July on Groceries and Bakery Treats $222.60
Total Spent in June on Groceries and Bakery Treats $194.12
Total Spent in May on Groceries and Bakery Treats $256.47
Total Spent in April on Groceries and Bakery Treats $1083.55 WOWZA
Total Spent in March on Groceries and Bakery Treats $446.03 {includes a $50 gift card}
Total Spent in February on Groceries and Bakery Treats $416.98
Total Spent in January on Groceries and Bakery Treats $346.47
Total Spent on Groceries and Bakery Treats in 2020 $4544.93

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