It's been quite a hectic day. MD packaged up all the gifts to be shipped, and 7 large packages, priority, went for $100. Quite a bit to me, but they were heavy, oversized, and it certainly beats the $1500 we spent on shipping three years ago (we still aren't talking about that one!). It was really neat, MD loves putting shipping off to the last minute, getting that holiday feeling going, and we often end up FED EXing things I purchased months earlier. So, we actually purchased, wrapped, and shipped gifts for 27 people, and it's DONE!!! I'll total up the spending and savings later.

We did buy the insulation, this week's challenge, and as I posted earlier we went a different way, layering insulation of lower quality to achieve the higher insulation value, and saved $700! We got the role we needed FREE! My kudos to Home Depot for telling people how to do this.