I've tried many frugal adventures in the past few years. While I've never purposely taken showers without hot water, I have glued shoes (it didn't hold), made laundry soap (so much fun!), and sewn fleece jammies (better to leave that to the experts for now). However, pitting and peeling 95 overly-ripe avocados has to rank up there on my "unusual frugal finds" list!
When a limb from Jon's parents' avocado tree came down just before Christmas, it showered down over 300 avocados in the process. A hundred were too bruised to be salvaged; Jon's brother kept a hundred; and we were blessed with the last 95 (yes, I counted them all).
The above photo does not do justice to the situation, since there were only about 45 left in the box by the time I decided to photograph the endeavor. It took hours of sitting on the floor of the kitchen, getting covered in guacamole-esk avocado guts, to get through the pit-and-peel process. Although I was tired and sore after doing it, Jon figured out that since avocados on sale are 2 for $3 and I was pitting them at a rate of one avocado every 2 minutes, I was getting paid a handsome hourly wage!
We all love guacamole around here, but we're not often willing to pay the price for avocados. So, even though it took a little elbow work and a few hours of my time, this was definitely one miserly attempt that went well and produced good results.
I'm currently saving up the money I don't have to spend on avocados to buy a tree next year. :)
How fun! That is great...avocado was Jocelyn's first non-mommy milk food. They're usually too expensive around here, though even with super bowl sales.
ReplyDeleteI love avocados! I didn't know you could freeze them. I am sure that was worth the work!
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