Don’t have little ones anymore? Here are more of my money saving tips and money making tips. Wonder how to save money on something I haven’t mentioned? Drop me an e-mail and I’ll do my best to help. You can get by with only using a large pea sized drop of shampoo for kids with short hair. The trick is to put it into your palms and rub them together before applying to your child’s hair. If you put {Read More}
Frugal Tips to Save on Products for Kid’s Bathtimes
May 12, 2011 by 2 Comments
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Save Up to 14% On Your Everyday Purchases!
April 28, 2011 by
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One of the quickest and easiest ways to save money on your everyday purchases is to buy gift cards from online gift card sites that discount gift card prices. These sites are a way for people to get $$ for gift cards they didn’t really want, or possibly rediscovered at the bottom of their purses. They sell the gift cards to the site at a discounted rate and part of that discount is passed on to us as the {Read More}
The Secret to Couponing Is Not the Coupons
April 14, 2011 by 3 Comments
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I know it’s hard to believe, but the secret to couponing is not the coupons, it’s knowing what price you should pay for an item. It’s very easy to get swept up in a sale, especially BOGO sales or 50-60% off sales. You need to know what price is the everyday price, a good price, and a great price. What I’m talking about is having a price list. A price list tells you when you’ve found a good price, even {Read More}
Texas Cheese Toast "Recipe"
April 12, 2011 by 9 Comments
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I love Texas Cheese Toast, but not it’s inflated price tag at the store. A box of premade cheese toast to serve 8 will cost $2 for brand name or about $1.70 for generic. Since the cost for an entire dinner at our house will usually run between $3 and $4, I’m not about to spend $.80 just for 4 pieces of bread with cheese! I’ve found it easy to make my own, without having to keep room for it {Read More}
How to Get Started with Couponing Without any Coupons
April 7, 2011 by 2 Comments
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If you are just getting started with couponing, don’t be frustrated with all the deals you see that include the use of a coupon you don’t have. You can print many manufacturer’s coupons right from your computer! Coupons.com, Smartsource.com, Redplum.com and couponnetwork.com are all reputable coupon sites. Kellogg’s, Campbell’s, and Target also regularly have coupons on their sites. Printable coupons have 2 limits-a limit for the # of prints from a computer (2) , and a limit for the # {Read More}
Marinades Made Easy
April 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Our family likes to eat baked apples. With the frequency that we let apples get wrinkled and “have” to make baked apples I’d be buying lots of brown sugar and cinnamon if we always made a new marinade. Instead of putting just enough brown sugar on, we make a sort of marinade with lots of brown sugar and cinnamon. The apples get baked in it and then then it gets drained off into a bowl to be frozen until the {Read More}
We’ve found an extra $300 a month!
March 31, 2011 by 2 Comments
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When our daughter was born last year (and I was still organized) I got my husband to fill out a new W-4 to reduce our federal withholding. He filled out the form and sent it in, so I checked it off my list. Fast forward to yesterday when the CPA I hired this year sends me the completed tax forms and I see a whopping huge, and I mean HUGE amount of $$ is coming back to us. How in {Read More}
Misc. Ways to Save Money
March 24, 2011 by 5 Comments
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This post is just a list of miscellaneous tips for saving money. Many of them our family has already been practicing. Others are new to us as we continue to pinch our pennies until our home back in NWA is rented out again and we aren’t covering 2 mortgages each month. Hopefully as you scan over this list you’ll find a few new things to try. Unscrew some of the lightbulbs from your fixtures to save on electricity. Leave {Read More}
What Do You Do With Food That is About to Go to Waste?
March 17, 2011 by 3 Comments
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We’ve all been guilty of letting food in our fridges go to ruin. Our family had to throw food out every week until I started doing a weekly meal plan this past summer. With a meal plan I found that I was better able to monitor the leftover food in the fridge since I was more consciously trying to use what we had on hand. Even though we still have waste, there is less of it than there was a {Read More}
Quick- Grab a Paper Towel!
March 8, 2011 by 2 Comments
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That is one phrase you will never hear in our house. (yes, I know never say never, so maybe in our house, but not said by us) I am not a paper towel nazi, but I don’t care for their use either. In a year’s time we go through maybe 3 rolls. By we, I mean dear hubby Instead, I keep a trash can close by the sink filled to the brim with rags to use for all sorts of {Read More}