***This post does have affiliate links that will support my family if you so decide to use them. Spring is here, and we are ready to have fun on a shoestring budget. If you are like us with multiple kids activities can get expensive. They don’t have to be this year! Trying something new to…
Family
Hiking on a Shoestring Budget with Kids
We love to go hiking. Hiking stays in the boundary of the frugal shoestring budget. it doesn’t cost anything but a park entry fee. Every year we used to go hiking with our kids. I have always taken my children to the woods. There is something so peaceful in nature. If I am stressed, a…
Winter Indoor Activities On A Shoestring Budget
Winter is a hard time for most kids. Use indoor winter activities on a shoestring budget to use up extra energy. Kids need indoor winter activities. Make a list of fun new ideas to try from the list below. Winter is hard on kids. They can’t go out and play, and when they do shoes,…
Frugal Family Sundae Bar Night
Our family loves ice cream and so this frugal family sundae bar night is perfect to try. The season does not even really matter, and can really add to the ambiance of the event. Fall sundae bar nights can be pumpkin related with different ice cream and toppings or winter would be subject to a…
Homeschooling
Letter C Activities for Homeschool Preschool
Homeschool preschool years are so much fun, and I am glad that I decided to keep my kids home to learn. As they begin to understand the alphabet and read it is very rewarding. Letter C activities are easy because the C is easy to make. In my years’ of homeschooling I found that I…
How To Set Up An Easy Homeschool Schedule
The Many, many attempts have been made over the past 7 years since I started homeschooling to get an easy schedule in place. Each time I thought that the homeschool schedule was mastered….along came another baby. Let me just be honest….in theory a schedule is great. Putting one together that works is practice. Flexibility. Patience….
10 Ways To Teach Appreciation To Teens
Does this generation even know what it is like to have nothing? That thought has crossed my mind a lot. As my children and I watch TV all I hear is “Mommy can I have that”? My first assumption was that as a mom I have missed something. Sometimes it seems that there is no…
Friday Homeschool Field Trip: Week 3
Homeschool field trip is a day during the week that we visit various areas to get hands on learning experiences. This week I had plans to take them somewhere unique but that did not work out. As I sat hurriedly on my phone trying to look up locations close to us to visit my options…
Homemaking
Frugal Homemaker Tips For Weekly Grocery Deals
Right now all of us are in the same frugal homemaker boat for grocery costs. Nothing is cheap and deals are hard to come by. All of the deals are still above what we paid a few years’ ago. The budget pinch is real and no one is escaping it. Grocery staples are so expensive…
5 Tips On Saving Money With A New Baby
Our family added our fourth baby ten years ago. Saving money was very important then as it is now. We are still a one income family. Having a baby does not have to be expensive. I think we MAKE it expensive with all of the new furniture, blankets, room decorations, etc. To me, it…
Frugal Home Menu Planning Tips
Frugal home menu plans are more important now than ever. Food prices are sky high and the amount that you get for what is in your budget hardly gets your family fed. I understand. For weeks, and months I have been trying to cut things out of our budget to keep it lowered. Starting at…
Frugal Home Management System for Moms
Frugal home management system for moms is imperative to help run the home smoothly. Routines, schedules, menu plans, cleaning days, office days and duties that go with each of those keep the household moving. Since I have had my second child my home management system has evolved. Each year it changes, and I adjust to…
Lifestyle
Ultimate Guide To A Frugal Homemaker Saving System
Setting up a frugal homemaker cleaning system is not expensive. None of the fancy gadgets are necessary and thousands do not have to be spent on a maid service. Some years’ ago I owned a residential cleaning service. From this experience derived the knowledge of a cleaning system. Expensive cleaners aren’t part of the program…
Easy Frugal Mom Budget Goals
Tips on why and how budget goals move frugal moms closer to financial independence.
Frugal Home Budget
Ten years ago I became a frugal stay at home mom. My husband started our home business the year before. Money was tight, and every penny counted. I had a good hold on how to save money from my grandparents. Living on a frugal home budget was not easy. It was not easy when friends…
A Guide to Affordable Organizing
Organizing is my second hobby next to saving money. Affordable organizing is what you do when you do want things to be accessible but not spend a lot of money on system. When I became a homeschool mom to four boys’ it was very important that I have things in places that I can get…