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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
Summer and Winter Ideas for Homeschool Goals
Have Goals for The Summer. At the end of school, summer routines help to accomplish summer goals. With the routines, Goals set are more likely to be finished. when goals get finished there is a shorter to do list. Summer can be your most productive time with less responsibilities. Maybe one of the items on…
Teach Your Child Self Control During The Homeschool Day
As a homeschool mom of four boys I definitely know how hard it is to get them to show self control. They are natural born fidget machines. Anything in their reach is open for twirling, dropping (continuously) and molding into new shapes. Thank heavens for genius people who come up with toys like the fidget…
What Homeschooling Really Looks Like with Boys
Planning, organizing, pretty pictures and nice neat homeschool rooms are not realistic when teaching boys. Take the chairs out of your homeschool room because they like to stand. Don’t label and organize each book on the shelf. They don’t care how it goes back. Don’t plan out the day minute by minute, have a general…
How to Teach Homeschoolers the Constitution with Games
Using games to teach homeschoolers the Constitution helps to solidify the information to them. It is not easy to understand, but an important document to learn. Each year I attempt to read through the Bible and our Constitution. Even though the information is difficult to understand, knowing our Rights as American Citizens is important. In…
Homemaking
How to Lower Laundry Costs Without Fewer Loads
In America, almost every family is trying to figure out how to lower laundry costs. Nobody thinks of doing fewer loads because that would cause a buildup. Laundry is a daily chore just like doing the dishes. Each chore has its time during the day to complete. If you do one load of dishes a…
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…
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…