I love convenience, after all saving time is a big part of frugality. What I don’t like is the cost of convenience. I mean come on- is it worth $3 bucks for an 8 pack of instant oatmeal? You still have to measure out the water. You can get twice as much oatmeal from an instant canister that costs $1. (here is my post on how to flavor the whole canister with cinnamon and sugar so you can just do {Read More}
Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies Every Day
July 21, 2011 by 6 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links.
Back to School Shopping Tips
July 5, 2011 by 3 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links.
Last Thursday I posted a price list for school supplies. You may have already noticed that I’ve been adding to it, showing you where you can get those prices or beat those prices for the current week. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do this all summer long so you’ll know the best prices for the major retailers across the country. I also promised you some tips for shopping for school supplies, so here they are: Buy extras. It {Read More}
Treat Your Family Out to FREE Ice Cream
June 28, 2011 by 2 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links.
By now, most of you have learned that having a modest stockpile is a great way to save your family money. Stockpiling ice cream just isn’t going to work too well unless you don’t mind the taste of freezer burn. You certainly can’t stockpile ice cream that you eat out, or can you? I’ve figured out a couple of ways to treat my family to ice cream out without paying a penny. Dairy Queen and Chick-fil-A are now two of {Read More}
Money in Your Tummy
June 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links.
People often ask me how in the world we can have a budget of $400 that covers almost everything. (groceries, household. health/beauty, diapers, newspapers, gifts, misc.) I have several answers- careful spending, buying a lot of grocery items at the drugstores, not giving in to the “gimmes” or “keeping up with the Jones’”, and giving a value to a category of items rather than to a specific item. Today’s Tip for Tuesday is all about not getting stuck in the {Read More}
Trash Talk
June 14, 2011 by 4 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links.
A frugal tip you will read a lot is to use plastic sacks from local stores to line your trash can instead of buying trash bags. This may not be a practical option for your family though. Think about how often you take out the trash-daily or only when full? Is it full when trash day comes or when it smells so bad it has to be taken out? If it is full then I think buying trash bags (on {Read More}
How to Teach Your Teens About Money
June 7, 2011 by 7 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links.
A friend was telling me how much it frustrated her that her youngest teenager didn’t understand the need to be frugal. It reminded me of an online activity called “reality check” for teens. If you have teens who think they have to have it all and think they can have it all, I think you’ll find this a useful tool. Remember the old Cosby episode where Theo came home one day to find he had to pay (with monopoly money) {Read More}
Setting and Moving Your Gadgets in Blogger
May 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links.
If you’re like me, you don’t like having your pictures and buttons over in your sidebar labeled. It just seems silly to label the button for Pary Moppins with “Pary Moppins” or the button for Coupon Dede with “Coupon Dede” The problem with this is that if you’re trying to add a picture or html box without labeling it, you have a hard time moving it around because it looks like all the other pictures or html boxes. Make sense? {Read More}
Money in Your Tummy
May 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links.
How much money is in your tummy? Not literally of course, but how much money have you invested in what goes in your tummy? When you’re trying to pinch pennies, it’s not enough to buy a product at extreme discounts. You need to consider how far that product will go for you. Retail price of a bag of Doritos: $2.99 at Walmart or $3.99 at the grocery and drugstores. Weight of a bag of Doritos: 12.5 oz. Retail price of {Read More}
Easy Cinnamon Sugar Oatmeal Recipe
May 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links.
I hate to do the same things over, and over, and over again. This is why we do so much cooking in large batches for the freezer. Our little Turkey is on a gluten limited diet and eats mainly oatmeal for breakfast. Up until about a month ago, almost every day I would: get out the measuring spoon and scoop his oatmeal out of the canister, put two scoops of water in, put scoop in sink, microwave, get sugar out, {Read More}
My Favorite Item in My Kitchen (excluding my chocolate stash!)
May 3, 2011 by 2 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links.
My favorite kitchen tool is small, simple and cheap. It saves me lots of time and headaches, thus reducing stress in my life. This my friends, is a tool no kitchen should be without (and at such a cheap cost why doesn’t every kitchen have one already?!?) Perhaps you’ve never realized just how much one small object can do for you. For a mere $1.97 I have : reduced the amount of time I have to clean up messes at {Read More}