From the category archives:
School starts for 2 of my 3 children tomorrow (the 3rd starts pre-school next week) and school lunches are something that we have been talking about in our house quite a bit the past week. Then I saw this post at Musings of A Housewife and thought it would make a great topic of conversation [...]
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As of today, you have 141 days until Christmas
I’ll wait while you hurl your summer drink of choice at me for even mentioning Christmas before Labor Day
Done? ‘kay!
When this post popped up in my feedreader this morning, I got to thinking: “Christmas? It’s blasphemous to even think about Christmas shopping before Halloween” (despite what the department store decorating [...]
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First off – let me apologize for being so far behind on everything. The last few weeks were a whirlwind of “offline” celebrations and obligations. I took Saturday off and had a hard time “getting back in my groove” Sunday and yesterday. But I’m back!
Many times I post grocery deals and get comments or emails [...]
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I’ve written about Angel Food Ministries before, but wanted to give you a reminder in case you have yet to try them or you are new to this site and haven’t yet gone through every single word that I have ever written in all of that free time I hear that we moms have (especially [...]
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I mentioned before that I do like to grow some of our own vegetables & herbs in the summer. With this being Earth Day, it seems like a perfect day to encourage you to try it as well!
Mary at My New 30 has been building a Square Foot Garden, which is all about creating an [...]
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Tomorrow is Earth Day and it should be no secret that there are many ways that being frugal is also helping the world in which we live!
Here are some of the changes that we have made in the last year that were both frugal and good for the Earth
1. No bottled water: I will occasionally [...]
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Like many of you with children, I spend a large amount of time trying to get stains out of clothes (last night my middle child and his friends were literally rolling down a muddy hill for “fun”). Of course, there are also the times when I lose my ability to eat and have the spaghetti [...]
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I ended up performing a little experiment completely by accident, and I learned something:
I have to clip!
Couponers seem to be divided in to 2 “camps”…those who clip and those who don’t. There are the people who clip up every insert and file their coupons, and there are the people who file their inserts whole and only [...]
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I asked this question back in June when I had about 14 people reading this site. Now that there are about 4000 of you each day, I thought it would be fun to ask again!
I’ve also noticed that I’ve had 3 major changes in my limits to being frugal Keep reading to see what they are [...]
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Hulu.com and a laptop can be a very dangerous combination, but I found this clip from a 2006 SNL show.
Enjoy!
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It used to be that people who used coupons were given dirty looks or looks of pity in the stores. We were seen as “the po’ folk” (and some of us are and were) because they were under the impression that we were going to quite a bit of trouble to save “two or three dollars” (how little [...]
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Click here to read the first post in this series.
I know you were probably hoping that I would give you the magic cure for your grocery woes in this post, but there is something more important that needs to be discussed first.
(never fear – this is going to be a fast-moving series and should be [...]
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One of the drawbacks of what I do with this site is that I now seem to live in my own “frugal bubble”. I hear or read someone talking about a program or organization and just assume that everyone else in the world knows about it.
Today I was talking to a woman from the St. Vincent DePaul [...]
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I’ve been asked several times how I can possibly feed a family of five on only $50 per week ($57, if you include my weekly diaper budget). If you are like most people and spending $150 per week for a family of 4 (although from talking to people, I think that amount may be low), [...]
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Upromise, Ebates, SwagBucks, Mr. Rebates, FatWallet…there are so many online shopping “portals” where you can earn rebates from your online shopping! You hear about a deal and someone (maybe even me) tells you to remember to do the deal through one of these companies to make sure you get a little bit more back.
Next thing [...]
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Moms Need To Cook
