Ericka, I agree with Redcardinalbird about the water heater, when we moved to our trailer 3 years ago. The calcium build up was so bad that we did not even have hot water running to one of our bathtubs. The water eventually got so slow that we did not have hot water anywhere in the trailer. DH and my dad had to take the water heater outside and dump the water heater and spray it out with a hose and then "blow" the water lines. Problem completely fixed. With just a neighbors hose, and an air compressor.
We even had hot water in the bathtub that did not have hot water.
Try to take care of that now, so the buildup does not get in the rest of your water lines!!!!
I never knew the history of Columbus either, but, hey I don't recognize it as a holiday per se. The only one's that I feel really need to have the history known is Thanksgiving, Easter, Independence day, and most of all Christmas. I do like my kids to know the meaning of Labor day, and Memorial day, the ones like presidents day are not important, sorry.
Frugal not much here, it is supposed to rain later today, so I will not even attempt to hang wash out. We will be having leftovers for supper tonight, I guess that is frugal.