I can’t believe it is already time for another Kitchen Tip Tuesday. My weeks are flying by. This week I have some banana tips. Bananas are cheap, healthy, and most kids like them. They are also versatile. You can eat them plain, put them on cereal, use them in desserts, smoothies, and of course banana [...]
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For my second part of closet clean-up I decided to tackle our school area.
I purchased these cubbies at A.C. Moore last year for about $25 a piece on sale. IKEA also sells a similar system for around $125. Anyway, the kids were supposed to have their own cubby, but [...]
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Today is Closet Clean-Up at Making Your Home a Haven Monday. I think closets are a blessing and a curse. A closet, when organized, is an excellent storage area for clothes, crafts, food, toys, books, appliances, and almost anything else you need to keep in your home. A messy closet is a black [...]
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This is another weird week for us as we are still eating from the pantry. We also have a birthday, our homeschool evaluation, and two dinners out with friends. My pantry plan has also had a bit of a set back since we have had company the past two weekends and I needed to supplement [...]
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Even though the deals at CVS were a little sparse this week I managed to
pull off an awesome deal. You just can’t tell anyone who knows me what I purchased.
Garnier hair color is on sale for 2 for $10. If you spend $10 you get
$5 in ECBs. So I bought 4 boxes of Garnier. Here [...]
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I am reading The Tightwad Gazette, by Amy Dacyczyn, for the second time. This is a must have book for anyone trying to live a frugal lifestyle. The book is over 900 pages of frugal fun.
In the book, Dacyczyn writes about passive frugality. I have always thought about this but didn’t really have a [...]
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If you haven’t picked up a card for that special someone it’s not too late to make one. Write the person’s name vertically on a piece of paper and then for each letter of their name write a quality about them you admire. Cut out and glue to a colorful piece of card stock (or [...]
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Here is a tip for keeping your home made cookies nice and moist, even when they are three or four days old. Store them in an airtight container or ziploc with a piece of bread. The bread absorbs all the excess air in the container and the cookies stay soft. This also [...]
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Cutting back on your budget does not mean you have to cut out your date nights, you just need to get creative. Here are some things we did when we were getting out of debt and had little money leftover for date night.
Check out a movie from the library. Put the kids to bed. Pop [...]
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