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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
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…
10 Quick Games To Play With Your Kids
Kids thrive on attention, attention, and attention. Playing quick games with them helps them to get this attention. No, it does not make them spoiled, but in essence gives them a greater grasp on adult interaction, increases their vocabulary and creates a bond that cannot be replaced. Kids learn so much from games and puzzles….
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….
Homeschool Convention and Curriculum Organization Ideas
Our homeschool convention this year is in April for the Midwest, and that is where we go to get our homeschool curriculum for the next year. Every year, I say that I will be organized and prepared for this important weekend. Then, I am not. This time I am going to be prepared with a…
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…