When Turkey was born, my mother-in-law bought him this tall giraffe bank. We started putting our change in and it wasn’t long after his 1st birthday that he enjoyed “feeding” the giraffe coins. I wanted Little One to have a similar bank and had my heart set on a flower. We looked at several online and the cheapest price we found including shipping and tax was almost $55! I couldn’t do it. My mother-in-law wanted to buy it for her, {Read More}
Don’t Like a Price? See if You Can Make It Instead
September 27, 2011 by 3 Comments
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Have You Read Make a Change Monday?
September 24, 2011 by
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One of my favorite frugal blogs is Family Friendly Frugality. I found Heather’s blog last fall and love to read her articles on living a frugal life. She’s such a motivating author. Part of what makes her encouraging is that she realizes that becoming frugal isn’t an overnight change, and that it can be overwhelming if you try to change all your non frugal habits at once. My favorite series of posts over at Family Friendly Frugality is her Make {Read More}
Do You Get Your Money’s Worth From Dryer Sheets?
August 30, 2011 by 4 Comments
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I haven’t spent more than $4 total in the past 10 years on dryer sheets. That’s including tax. Part of the reason is because I’ve been able to get them cheap or free by combining coupons and sales, and part of the reason is because I am intentional about making them last. If you want to stretch your dollars here are a few suggestions: Instead of using 2 sheets, cut your sheets in half and use 2 halves. They will {Read More}
My Office is Complete and My Big To Do List is Almost Checked Off!
August 11, 2011 by 6 Comments
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Several months back I asked you guys for some encouragement. At the time I had been blogging from the couch and coffee table for months. This means that Little One had easy access to my backspace key and constantly would erase my posts. Meanwhile Turkey would climb all over me and the couch and inevitably would kick the computer. I couldn’t leave my pen and notebook out for fear that either one of them would take the pen and draw {Read More}
Goodwill Finds 8/2
August 6, 2011 by 4 Comments
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I’ve mentioned several times that I like to shop at Goodwill. Back home we would shop at Salvation Army until their raised their prices and I could do better with clearance sales. Turkey did get his very own set of pots for Easter from Salvation Army though. Here in Tyler there is a massive Goodwill store that’s in an old home improvement store and I like to stop in whenever I’m over that direction. Sometimes I leave empty handed and {Read More}
Video- How to Give a Boy a Haircut
August 4, 2011 by 4 Comments
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This is a picture of our little Turkey about a month after his first hair cut. (sorry for the closed eyes but due to his glaucoma his eyes were still extremely sensitive to light) He was only 8 months old at the time of this picture and he already needed another cut! It pained me to think of paying $12+ every month for the next 18 years to have his hair cut. Especially because there was always a spot or {Read More}
My $13. Couch
June 6, 2011 by 3 Comments
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Yes, 13 dollars! Our house has a family room and a living room. We only had one couch, and having a second was a want, not a need. Before we moved I had been watching craigslist for an old couch for the family room, but a week after we moved in, we lost the renters on our house back in Arkansas. We certainly didn’t have money for even a used couch then, but I happened across this listing on Freecycle: {Read More}
Now That’s Thrifty #2
October 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
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I was just over at OrgJunkie linking up my Monday meal plan. (Yes I know it is now Wednesday- I’ll probably stay 2 days behind for another week too) Anyway I happened to notice a picture of a great mudroom organizer she has up. I don’t want to post a sneak peek picture because I really think you’ll want to see the entire transformation from start to finish. I am truly amazed once again at how thrifty people can {Read More}