My goal is to provide dinner for my family for an average of $5 except on special occasions. We don’t have to eat beans and rice to accomplish this goal! I shop the grocery sales each week. Then I plan my menu based on the foods I have already at home (at a great price). I balance more expensive meals with less expensive ones. We typically only cook a main dish 4 or 5 times a week. Each main dish {Read More}
Simple Homemaking Plan Week 17 of 2012
April 23, 2012 by
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As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! This week I spent about an hour working on painting the trim in the kids/guest bathroom this week. I even managed to get everything on my homemaking lists {Read More}
Simple Homemaking Plan Week 16 of 2012
April 16, 2012 by
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As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! Last week I was not very motivated to finish painting the edges of the trim in the guest/kids’ bathroom. Instead I decided that I would organize our son’s {Read More}
Simple Homemaking Plan Week 15 of 2012
April 9, 2012 by
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As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! This week’s maintenance chores in addition to daily functioning cleaning chores: Mail state taxes (I don’t know why I can’t seem to remember this) Finish edge painting in {Read More}
Simple Homemaking Plan Week 14 of 2012
April 2, 2012 by
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As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! This week’s maintenance chores in addition to daily functioning cleaning chores: List 4 baby items on craigslist Dust air vents (I probably should have done this before the {Read More}
Simple Homemaking Plan Week 13 of 2012
March 26, 2012 by
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As I sit down to write the menu for the week, I’m writing out my 4 weekly “to do” lists (personal tasks, blogging tasks, cleaning chores, less common maintenance cleaning tasks). It’s helping me to accomplish things that easily get pushed aside otherwise, even if I don’t get them all checked off! I finally finished all the chores from last week-including cleaning all the blinds. Granted I just finished this very minute (I waited on writing this post so I {Read More}