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Family
Ultimate Family Christmas Advent Bucket List: Festive and Fun
Every year for fifteen years now I have planned a fun advent for our family. As my children age though, they like to help plan it more and more. Now, we all sit down for a family meeting and hammer out the December bucket list. After that, I write it up on the calendar with…
The Frugal Homemaker Holiday Planning Guide
Well, Thanksgiving has come and went. Using our frugal homemaker holiday planning guide tips will be useful this season. “Why” you say? Four weeks to Christmas. Yikes! That is what I thought too. I just grabbed my holiday planner over the weekend to see what I needed to update, change, or take out. This year…
Shoestring Budget Thanksgiving Movie Night
Two years ago, we created our own movie room in the basement because we love home movie nights so much. Here’s some tips to make your home movie night more fun, on a shoestring budget. DIY Movie Theatre First, before anything is the actual movie night equipment. Nothing fancy or expensive like a projector is…
Homeschooling
Homeschool History: Ancient China and the First Kite
Our homeschool history lesson takes us to Ancient China this week and the first kite. We had a lot of fun with this activity. First, came the lesson. The time period we studied was 1000 B. C. and Qin Dynasty was the first dynasty of China. This country is rich with great history and stories….
Resourceful Homeschool History Ancient Wonders
Today we studied the seven wonders of the ancient world for homeschool history. As homeschoolers, history is a very important in our studies. So much of history from the ancient world has been destroyed. Diving into the history of the ancient seven wonders was fascinating. Of course we used what we had to make the…
Personal Finance for A Tween Homeschooler
****This is a sponsored post, but all opinions are my own, and we used this curriculum to give you the best information with a hands on experience. If you are like me, you want your tween homeschooler to understand money when they graduate. Math is great, learning to read is important, but money management is…
5 Ways To Homeschool When You Quit The Lesson Plan
Planning is great. Matter of fact I plan almost everything. Being prepared is very important, but so is being flexible. Sometimes as parents we have a vision, but our children do not have the same vision. They quickly go a different direction and off the course of the plan. For a mom like me that…
Homemaking
How to Cut Grocery Costs Without Changing What You Cook
Grocery costs have risen significantly in the past few years. They have caused many American households to rethink what they are buying and cooking. I know for our family prior to inflation I would say “sure, we can try that new recipe”. Now my response is “I don’t know, we will have to price it…
Frugal Homeschool Meal Planning: Lunch on a Budget
Lunch on a budget that is simple, easy, and repetitive to the point it is on autopilot is a stress reliever. There are so many things that are on a homeschool mom’s plate that she has to think about and plan. Lunch should be easy, automatic and good. Homeschool kids are always ready to eat…
Inexpensive One Dish Baked Spaghetti
Monday night was my one dish meal night and I decided to make baked spaghetti. I had some sauce that I needed to use up and extra spaghetti in my pantry. Regular spaghetti I have made a million times. but this was my first time making baked spaghetti. It really wasn’t that hard and was…
Frugal Home Benefits of Utilizing Natural Sunlight
Each day as I do my morning routine, I am always happy to pick up our home with beautiful sunlight beaming in the windows. I see the cat laying on the top of the couch basking in the warmth of the sunlight, and envy her lazy day. My goal as a frugal home mom is…
Lifestyle
Basic Laundry Tips for Frugal Homemakers
Frugal home laundry tips is a stepping stone to ways that laundry saves us money. Laundry is a chore, but if done well the savings adds up. Everyone has laundry everyday. We have more laundry than mother’s of the past. We are blessed as a nation in many ways with the ability to go buy…
Frugal Cloth Diaper Care: Simple Homemade Recipe
Frugal home cloth diaper cleaners are better for baby because of the all natural recipe. I have made our laundry detergent for almost 12 years now. Prior to that I used a store bought laundry soap. When I became an informed consumer and found out all of the chemicals they were placing in our…
Frugal Home Winter Heat Hacks to Stay Warm
Frugal home heat hacks opens the door to additional ways to heat in the winter. Saving on energy bills is important as other costs rise. If your frugal home seems to be under attack from rising costs, no worries, there is hope. My hope is to share ways with you that will help you keep…
Frugal Gardening Made Simple: Green Beans
Beans are easy to grow. In the ten years’ that I have been working on frugal gardening, my beans have always been plentiful. Now they are a garden staple for our quaint frugal garden. I don’t plant what we do not eat. That would be silly. We eat a lot of green beans so that…